Chi-Chi called Bulma shortly after she put Usagi to bed. She wanted to find out if she had found out anything new and also wanted to see if Vejita was any better. Goku and Gohan had just mysteriously become better out of no where. She called around 8:30. She knew better then to call when Usagi was awake. She would have asked her mother all sorts of questions that she couldn't answer. She waited for Bulma to pick up the phone. "Goku!" Chi-Chi shouted for Goku to come in. She wanted him on the other phone so they could both talk to Bulma at the same time.
Bulma picked up her phone. "Hello"
Chi-Chi stopped yelling for her husband and paid attention to Bulma. "Oh, hi, Bulma, we need to talk."
Bulma was happy that Chi-Chi had called for she was just about to call the Son residence. "Oh, hi Chi-Chi. I was just about to call you. How is Goku doing today?"
"Just a minute Bulma." Chi-Chi pulled the receiver away from her face and covered it with her hand. "Go…" She stopped when she saw her husband walk in the room. He had already gotten himself dressed for bed. 'Getting sick must have drained a lot of energy if he's already tired. Of course I'm a little tired myself. It's been a long week.'
"Chi-Chi, Usagi is trying to sleep. Keep it down." He crossed his arms over his chest. "What do you want?"
Chi-Chi frowned. She had forgotten that Usagi's room wasn't too far away from theirs. "Get the other phone. Bulma is on the line."
Goku smiled. "Ok." He disappeared and then reappeared in the same spot. He returned with the cordless phone in his hand. He pressed a button to turn it on and put it up to his ear. Chi-Chi put her phone back up to her ear. "Hey Bulma."
Bulma smiled. She was still laughing. She always found it funny when Goku corrected Chi-Chi. It was something new that he had just started around the time when they first found out that Usagi was born. "Hey Goku. Chi-Chi, are you still there?"
"Yes, I'm still here. Now, we have something to tell you." Chi-Chi leaned back against the headrest of her bed.
"Wait, is Goku feeling any better?" Bulma needed to know. It was strange enough that Vejita had gotten over his sickness already, but if Goku did too, it would be even more of a confusing situation then it already was.
"Well, actually, to tell the truth, he seems to be totally over his illness. Gohan too."
"What? Gohan too? Oh god, this is too strange." All three of them had mysteriously become normal again out of nowhere.
"Bulma, what about Vejita." Goku was getting a bad feeling about this whole situation. He already had a bad feeling, now it was just getting worse.
Bulma hesitated with her reply. "Well, you see, Vejita has also recovered from being sick. With out even being on medication. Yeah, he rested a lot yesterday, but that doesn't matter. A normal cold doesn't take only one day of rest to get over. And, well, Trunks has gotten sick now."
Chi-Chi nearly freaked out when she heard Bulma tell her this. "Bulma, so has Goten. I called him to make sure he was still all right. It seems as though he had to stay home from work he was so sick. Bulma, you have to find out what's going on, and fast before I have a heart attack."
"And she would too." Goku smiled at his wife as she just glared at him. "What, I was just trying to take some pressure off the situation."
Chi-Chi frowned. "Well it's not working so give it up. You're just making things worse Goku."
"Goku, Chi-Chi is right. This is not something to joke about. It could come back and bite you in the ass. You may be fine now, but that's all now is. Now. It's not the future. Who knows what the future holds. This could just be the eye of the storm. You should watch yourself for any more abnormalities. And watch Usagi very closely. She is the only one of your kids who hasn't gotten sick and we haven't gotten to the bottom of this yet. She could very well be the next one in line. So please Goku. Take this seriously. If not for you, then for your family and friends."
Goku listened to Bulma's speech. It was as if a light had been turned on in his head. She was entirely right. "I'm sorry Bulma. I will try to be more serious about this." Goku didn't want to think of Usagi getting sick. He didn't want to think of Gohan or Goten getting any more sick then they already were. He didn't care what happened to him. Just as long as his children were safe.
Chi-Chi could see the worried look in her husband's face and decided that she should probably stop this conversation right then and there. "Bulma, it's getting late. I think we should call it a night. You should get some sleep. I should too. It's been a long three days for all of us."
"You're right Chi-Chi. I didn't sleep a wink last night." Bulma had been up all night trying to contemplate what was going on with her friends.
"I guess I'll talk to you tomorrow. We should keep in touch until this thing plays out."
"Good bye Bulma."
"Good bye Chi-Chi, good bye Goku." Bulma hung up the phone and stretched. She had had the longest day of them all and she was totally ready for bed.
Chi-Chi looked to Goku. He looked like he was deep in thought. That speech Bulma gave him really put some sense into him. "Goku, I think we too should go to bed." She stood up. "I'm going to check on Usagi and make sure she is ok. I don't know why but I have a bad feeling that something is wrong." She began to walk to the door.
Goku put his hand out in front of her to stop her. "Let me. You go on to bed. I'll be back in just a few minutes."
Chi-Chi looked up at her husband. He was acting strange. "Goku…"
Goku put his finger to her lips. "Don't worry. I just want to be the one to check on her. Just go to bed and I will be back in a while."
Chi-Chi watched as he husband walked out of the room. "He must be really worried about her." She smiled. "At least I know he won't ever let anything bad happen to her. It was silly of me to ever think he would push her." She smiled to herself as she turned and crawled into her bed.
~*~*~
Goku slightly cracked the door to his daughter's room open so he could peer in on her. He opened the door further to allow himself to walk in when he saw that she was still asleep, although he didn't know how anyone could sleep in the position that she had herself in. Half of her body wasn't even on the bed. She lay on her stomach with her head, along with a good portion of her upper body, strung over her bed. He laughed as he walked over to her. He covers were a total mess, with half of them fully lying on the floor.
Goku picked up his sleeping daughter and placed her back on her bed. He bent over to pick up the blankets that lay on the floor, and covered her back up with them. Usagi started to stir. She looked like she was having a bad dream. She was squinting a lot. Goku watched her as she slept. 'I wonder what she is dreaming about.'
~~Usagi's dream world~~
Usagi stood behind the girl with the fire again. She listened to her talk with the fire. This time she talked to it as if it had a life of it's own. This time, she could actually understand what she was saying.
The girl sat on her knees, praying to the fire again. "Please oh great god of fire. Help us."
'Us? Who is us' Usagi thought to herself. She looked around and couldn't see anything but two crows that flew over the girl.
"Please. Help us in our time of need. Help us find the way." She closed her eyes and stood up. She began to chant to the fire like she had the night before. The fire roared back to the chants. Growing with every word. "We know something. Please, guide us to the answer we are looking for."
Usagi looked around her a little bit. She was in an open field. 'What's happening?' She looked up to the fire. It had grown taller. All of a sudden a picture appeared in the fire. She couldn't quite make it out but it looked kind of like a circle. 'What is that?'
The girl brought her hands down to her side. "I can not help any further. They great roaring fire has no answers now." She disappeared as did the fire and crows.
Usagi ran for the girl. "Wait! Who are you?" No good. They were gone by the time she reached where they had been. She now stood in an all black room with no lighting. She was alone and scared. "Where's daddy?" She looked around. She saw something running towards her. It looked like a man in an all black suit. The only things that she could make out were his hands because they were the only things that weren't black. She began to run away. She looked over her shoulder. About seven more people or beings, whatever they were, were now chasing after her.
~~Back to Reality~~
"DADDY!" Usagi yelled as she kicked her legs. In her dream she was running, looking for her father, trying to get away from the people who chased her. "DADDY WHERE ARE YOU!?"
Goku stopped watching her and quickly ran to her side. He grabbed her and gently shook her to wake her up. "Usagi. It's all right. I'm right here."
Usagi opened her eyes. Goku stopped shaking her when he saw her eyes open. She looked up at him and wrapped her arms around his neck, tightly. She closed her eyes again. "Daddy!"
Goku hugged back. He didn't know what kind of dream would make her yell out for him like that, but he knew it had to be something bad. "Usagi…" He said as he rubbed her back with his hands. "It's all right. I'm here. There's no need to be scared." He could feel her heart beating faster then normal.
Usagi hugged her father as tightly as she could. She didn't understand what kind of dream she had just had. But she did know that it had scared her. The dream from the night before was strange, but this one was just down right frightening for her. "Daddy, it was scary." She dug her head into the side of his neck. She wanted to be as close to him as possible at that moment. She knew that he would protect her.
Goku hated to see her like this. She didn't normally have many nightmares, but when she did, they were horrible. They would just scare her straight out of her mind. "Usagi, don't worry. I'm not going to leave you. Why don't you tell daddy what made you so scared?"
Usagi didn't exactly want to tell him. She didn't want to think about the dream anymore. "I had the dream about the girl with they fire again. This time she actually talked to it. She said that it needed to help us. That it needed to give us answers. Then a picture appeared in the fire."
Goku ran his fingers through his daughter's long silky blonde hair as he held her. She would always relaxed a bit whenever he would do this. "Do you know what it was a picture of?"
She dug her fingers into his bare back as she thought about the rest of the dream. "No. It was a circle that's all I know. Then the girl said that the fire had no more answers and left. The fire left too."
Goku didn't mind her digging into his back like she had. If it helped her, he would endure it. "Is that all?"
"No." She tightened her grip on her father when she thought of what happened next. "I was all alone in a black room. Then a man started chasing me so I ran. I looked back and seven more people followed me. I couldn't see where I was going or anything. I could only see their hands because they had their faces covered up. Daddy I was so scared." Se began to cry softly as she moved her head from his neck down to his chest.
Goku looked down at his daughter. 'What the hell kind of dream was that? I have never heard of such a dream. It's probably all the stress she has had lately. But what does all this mean?' "Usagi, you should go back to sleep."
She looked up at her father as he started to pull away and lay her back in her bed. She grabbed onto his arm. "Don't leave me daddy! Please! I'm scared. What if I have another dream?"
Goku didn't want her to be upset so he did the only thing that he could think of. He was too was tired and wanted to go to sleep and it was the only way to satisfy her. He picked her up and carried her to the door. "You can sleep with us then."
Usagi smiled. Now if she had another bad dream, she would be with her parents. "Thank you daddy." She wrapped her tail around his wrist as he walked across the living room into his room.
Goku didn't think Chi-Chi would mind if Usagi were to sleep with them given the circumstances. She usually never did mind. He looked in the room to see if Chi-Chi was asleep yet. He wasn't surprised to see that she was not. After Usagi and her screaming, he was a little surprised that she had not ran into the room trying to see what was wrong with 'her baby'. He smiled as he looked at her. He held Usagi in his arms. She rested her head on his shoulder and had her arms wrapped around his neck. "Usagi had a bad dream. She wants to sleep with us tonight."
Chi-Chi climbed under the covers as Goku put Usagi on the bed. "That's fine with me." Usagi was already showing signs of drifting off to sleep. Chi-Chi looked up to her husband. "What was the dream about? I heard her yelling for you."
Goku lifted the covers up and climbed under them. Her pulled Usagi under with him. "I'll tell you later." Usagi cuddled into her father as they all three lay in bed. She closed her eyes and yawned. Goku wrapped his arm around her to pull her in closer to him and smiled. With his other arm he turned off the last remaining light that was on in the room. He then scooted down further to get more comfortable. "Good night ladies."
"Night daddy."
"Good night Goku." Chi-Chi leaned over to kiss her husband. "Good night Usagi."
"Night mommy." Usagi was completely happy now. She wouldn't have to worry about being alone again for the rest of the night.
~*~*~
Usagi woke up around 8:00 the next morning. Normally, on Saturdays, she wouldn't wake up until later, but she had a hard time sleeping on this morning. Her dream had kept her awake, thinking about what it meant. She had maybe slept a maximum of five hours. She had spent around an hour and a half listening to her parents talk about everything that had been going on. They had thought that she was asleep, but actually, she just had her eyes closed, trying to fall asleep when they started. She decided to just listen to them. They talked about their conversation with Bulma. That's how she found out that Trunks was sick now.
She sat up and rubbed her eyes. She looked to her left and then her right. Both of her parents were still asleep. She slid out from under the covers and slowly crawled to the end of the bed so she wouldn't wake them. When she jumped down off the bed, her feet made a small thump on the floor. She turned around, she had not waken her parents. She turned back around and quietly ran out of the room.
Usagi closed the door behind her. The living room was cold. The heat had not been on at all since the day before. She grabbed a blanket that sat on the back of the sofa. She could feel her stomach rumbling inside her and realized that she was hungry. She walked down the hallway. Just as she entered the family room, the phone began to ring. She ran to it and picked it up. "Hello?"
"Hello, Usagi, is that you?"
Usagi couldn't tell who it was. "Yes, who is this?" The voice was somewhat muffled. All she could tell was that it was a female.
"Usagi, this is Pan. Is grandma or grandpa there?" Pan was having a little bit of trouble speaking.
"Uh-huh. Just a sec." Usagi placed her hand over the receiver and ran back to her parents' room, leaving her blanket behind. "Mommy, daddy!" She yelled as she busted into their room.
Chi-Chi shot up from bed and franticly looked around the room. "What!? What's wrong?" She stopped when her eyes met with her daughter's. "Usagi…"
Usagi jumped on the bed and held the phone out to her mother. "Here, it's Pan. She wants to talk to you."
Chi-Chi grabbed the phone from her daughter. The phone in their room had not rang because they usually turn off the ringer when they go to bed. "Thank you dear." She put the phone up to her ear. "Hello? Pan?"
Usagi looked over to her father as her mother spoke to Pan on the phone. He didn't seem to be awake. 'Daddy can sleep through anything.' She laid her body over his and looked up at his face. She smiled as she began to poke at him.
Goku opened his eyes, startling Usagi. "What are you doing?" She had awakened him with her yelling, he just hadn't showed it when she first came in.
Usagi continued to poke at him as she began to giggle. "Nothing."
Goku smiled as he grabbed her by the arms and held her in the air as high as his arms would extend. "Oh really?" He kept her arms pinned against the rest of her body as she dangled over him.
Usagi looked down at her father. "Yup, not doing anything. Just hanging around." She tried to wiggle free of his hold.
Goku flipped her around in the air so her back was facing him and then quickly brought her back so she was lying on his stomach. At this point, he wrapped his arms around her so she couldn't get up. "Well, now you have something to do. You can try to get away from me."
Usagi giggled some more. That wouldn't be an easy task. He was, after all, the strongest man in the world. She tired to pull her body up away from his. The harder she pulled, the tighter his grip became. She couldn't use her hands either. Goku had her arms curled up on top of her chest underneath his arms. "Daddy, I will do this."
Goku laughed. "Maybe in a few years you will."
Usagi planted her feet as far down the bed as she could. She then proceeded to try to pull her way down from his arms with her legs. "Gees." She soon stopped when she realized that it was impossible to break free. There was only one more way that she knew of that could work. She picked up her head and put it over her father's arms as she opened her mouth. "Hehe." She bit down into his skin.
Goku jerked a bit when he felt the teeth of his daughter clamping around his skin. "Usagi, do you think you can hurt me by doing that?" Goku didn't feel all that much.
Usagi sighed. "This isn't fair. I can't win with you can I?" She gave up. Now she was just going to go all out. She began to kick her feet against his legs. "Let me go." She kicked as fast and as hard as she could. She got a little carried away with her kicking, though, and accidentally hit her mother with her foot.
Chi-Chi turned around from her conversation with Pan. She looked rather angry. "Would you two cool it for once? I am trying to have serious conversation here. If you two really want to play, go outside and do it."
Goku released his grip on his daughter, allowing her to get up. "Sorry Chi-Chi."
Usagi rolled over off of her father. "Yeah, sorry mamma."
Chi-Chi turned back around. "Anyways Pan, I guess I'll meet you there later." Chi-Chi stood up. "I love you too. Good bye." She sat down the phone and looked back at the two Saiyans who stared back up at her. "That was Pan."
Goku sat up. "Yeah Chi-Chi, we know that."
Chi-Chi frowned. "If you would let me finish maybe I would tell you what she wanted instead of just stating who she was." Goku back away. He wasn't in a mood to argue this morning so he would just let Chi-Chi have her way. "Anyways, it seems as though she too has gotten sick. My poor little Pan. Almost everyone is sick now."
"Mamma, why didn't she just call Gohan? He is her daddy and all." Usagi lay on her stomach with her head rested in her hands. She had her feet dangling over her father.
"She tried to, but when she called this morning, neither of her parents were there. She doesn't know where they could be, so I told her to meet us at Capsule Corp. I'm going to call Goten to have him meet us there too. I want Bulma to run another test so we can find out what's wrong with you guys."
Goku groaned. "I don't want to do another test. It's boring."
Chi-Chi put her hands on her waist. "What's more important? Being entertained, or staying alive. You pick. I'll know your answer if you come or not." With that she walked into their bathroom. "I'm getting ready to leave!"
Goku looked at Usagi, as she did the same. They both shrugged at each other went to get themselves ready to leave.
~*~*~
Once at Capsule Corp., Chi-Chi led her family to Bulma's lab. Before she opened the door she turned around to look at Goku and Usagi. "You two behave. We aren't here to play games. If you feel the need to play around in there, I'm going to send you out Usagi."
Usagi opened her mouth to protest. "That's not fair!"
Chi-Chi frowned. "It's not fair that you distract your father. He is always too tempted to play around with you."
Usagi was a little disappointed. "Well, if I distract him so much, maybe I shouldn't go in at all." She crossed her arms and turned around.
"Fine! It will be less time consuming. We won't have to stop to kick you out for getting in the way." Chi-Chi absolutely did not take any lip from her daughter. She didn't mean what she was saying, but it kept Usagi in line. She turned around and opened the door.
Usagi was a bit surprised that her mother would agree with her. She had actually half expected her to say that she could come in but just be quiet. "No, I want to come in." Usagi turned around and tried to follow her mother and father in.
Goku turned around and put his hand out. "Usagi, just let your mother have her way. She isn't in a mood to be played around with. And she is right. We do distract each other a lot." Goku turned around and closed the door behind him, leaving his daughter standing alone in the dark hallway.
Usagi began to pout. "More like I distract you and you don't get anything done. I'm just always I the way aren't I!?" She frowned. "Well fine then. I'll leave! I don't need you anyways!" She turned around and stomped away as hard as she could, making sure her feet made loud sounds as they beat against the tile floor.
Chi-Chi rolled her eyes as she watched Bulma get herself ready. "I hope she doesn't think she is going to come in here with that attitude."
Goku sat down in a chair that was set up for him. "You have to admit Chi-Chi, she is going through a rough time with this too."
~*~*~
Usagi stormed down the hallway. She was going to leave and find somewhere where she could have some fun and not be a distraction. She didn't see that she was about to hit Vejita and smashed right into him. She fell backwards. Vejita looked down at her with cold eyes. "Why don't you watch where you are going brat?!"
Usagi looked up. "Sorry Vejita." She smiled to herself. Maybe he could entertain her. "Where are you going?"
"The woman wants to put me through that stupid test again. I don't know what she plans to find." Vejita walked around Usagi, who was pushing herself up. "By the way, I saw your stupid brother, Gohan and his wife. He looked horrible."
"What!?" Usagi turned her head away from Vejita and ran down the hall. 'Vejita said he looked horrible. No. Something bad has happened to him again.' She ran faster in the direction that Vejita had come from, hoping that she would find her big brother. "Gohan! Videl!" She looked in every direction for them until she found them in the living room. Her brother was lying on the sofa. He was making many quiet moans. He was definitely in pain. "Gohan!" She ran up to him.
Videl had put a moist cloth on his forehead. "Usagi. You shouldn't be here. Your brother is burning up with a fever. You could get sick."
Usagi looked up at Videl. "What? Videl, what happened."
Videl didn't know what to tell the little girl in front of her. For she herself had no idea what had happened. "Well, he woke early this morning in major pain. I took his temperature and he had a fever of 102 degrees. So I brought him here. Any idea where Bulma is?"
Usagi stared down at her brother. She had never seen him in so much pain in her life. It was like he had just been in a fight against someone and he lost big time. "Yeah. She is in her lab."
Videl put Gohan's arm around her neck and helped him to his feet. "Thanks. You should stay out here though. I don't think your parents would appreciate me getting you sick." She turned her head to Gohan. "Come on. Let's get you some help."
Gohan rolled his eyes into his head. "Uuuuuh."
Usagi watched Videl carry her brother down the hall. "Videl, Pan should be here. She is sick too."
Videl stopped. "Oh no…"
Usagi turned around and began to walk to the front door. "See ya." She opened the door and walked out of the house.
~*~*~
Usagi didn't know where she was going. She had been wandering the city for about twenty minutes. She didn't exactly care where she was going. All she knew was that she needed to get away from everything. She needed time alone. There was a part of her that wanted to know what was happening, but then there was another part of her who wanted to just run away from everything.
She stopped walking when she came up to a skate park. She put her hands on the fence as she leaned into it to get a closer look at all the kids in it. There had to be at least fifteen kids there, if not more. Usagi had always been fascinated by skating. She had always wanted to be a part of a group of skaters. She often found herself thinking about how much fun it would be. There had been a group of skaters at her school that always showed off at recess. They were part of a skating organization and always went to competitions. Usagi would have joined, but she was too young at the time. She had just turned six about 5 months before and you had to be at least eight to join. She watched everyone, wishing that she could be a part of the fun.
"Hey look. Its monkey girl…oh wait, I mean Usagi."
Usagi slowly turned around, not wanting to know who was even behind her. She thought that her nickname days were long gone. "Haruka?!" She was a little surprised that Haruka was brave enough to talk to her. She had avoided her all year up until now.
Haruka smiled. "Yep. So what have you been up to lately? I see you still have that tail of yours."
Usagi wasn't sure if she was trying to be nice, or rude. She looked to the two people behind her. Michiru was there and the boy that she had seen them with just the day before. "What do you want? If it's a fight you want," Usagi grinned, "Then I'll just beat you like I did last year."
Haruka smirked. "Actually, we are here to skate, but, my friend here, wants to know if he could have the pleasure of sparring you." She stepped out of the way so she could reveal a somewhat muscular boy with short black hair. He wore a sleeveless black T-shirt and baggy black pants. On his feet he wore pure black roller blades. "I told him about you and he is positive that he can beat you."
Usagi smiled. "Oh he does, does he? Well, how much skill do you have?"
The boy grinned. "Look little girl, I have been training since I was about five years old. That means that I have been fighting for about seven years because I am twelve now. My sensei is my father. He is strong. I can beat you with no problem what so ever."
"Oh really? And who is your father?" Usagi was up for the spar. She was bored anyways and needed to blow off some steam.
"I have been advised by my father not to tell anyone." The boy took off his skates and helmet and threw them to Michiru. "How well do you know how to fight girl?"
Usagi smirked. "Good enough to beat the likes of you." She began to stretch. "Might I ask who you are? Or is that a secret too?"
"Do you need to know my name for me to kick you butt?" He also began to stretch.
"I guess not, in that case, I won't tell you my name either." Usagi laughed to herself. 'This is going to be too simple. I can't believe it. I am so going to make him wish he never thought of challenging me.' She smirked. "Shall we start?"
(K! That's it for this part! What do ya think? Is it good or bad? Please review. Don't you just love how I set everything up and then make you wait to find out what's going on? ^_^ Oh yeah, over all what do you think of chapter two so far? Buh bye for now Minna san!)
Bulma picked up her phone. "Hello"
Chi-Chi stopped yelling for her husband and paid attention to Bulma. "Oh, hi, Bulma, we need to talk."
Bulma was happy that Chi-Chi had called for she was just about to call the Son residence. "Oh, hi Chi-Chi. I was just about to call you. How is Goku doing today?"
"Just a minute Bulma." Chi-Chi pulled the receiver away from her face and covered it with her hand. "Go…" She stopped when she saw her husband walk in the room. He had already gotten himself dressed for bed. 'Getting sick must have drained a lot of energy if he's already tired. Of course I'm a little tired myself. It's been a long week.'
"Chi-Chi, Usagi is trying to sleep. Keep it down." He crossed his arms over his chest. "What do you want?"
Chi-Chi frowned. She had forgotten that Usagi's room wasn't too far away from theirs. "Get the other phone. Bulma is on the line."
Goku smiled. "Ok." He disappeared and then reappeared in the same spot. He returned with the cordless phone in his hand. He pressed a button to turn it on and put it up to his ear. Chi-Chi put her phone back up to her ear. "Hey Bulma."
Bulma smiled. She was still laughing. She always found it funny when Goku corrected Chi-Chi. It was something new that he had just started around the time when they first found out that Usagi was born. "Hey Goku. Chi-Chi, are you still there?"
"Yes, I'm still here. Now, we have something to tell you." Chi-Chi leaned back against the headrest of her bed.
"Wait, is Goku feeling any better?" Bulma needed to know. It was strange enough that Vejita had gotten over his sickness already, but if Goku did too, it would be even more of a confusing situation then it already was.
"Well, actually, to tell the truth, he seems to be totally over his illness. Gohan too."
"What? Gohan too? Oh god, this is too strange." All three of them had mysteriously become normal again out of nowhere.
"Bulma, what about Vejita." Goku was getting a bad feeling about this whole situation. He already had a bad feeling, now it was just getting worse.
Bulma hesitated with her reply. "Well, you see, Vejita has also recovered from being sick. With out even being on medication. Yeah, he rested a lot yesterday, but that doesn't matter. A normal cold doesn't take only one day of rest to get over. And, well, Trunks has gotten sick now."
Chi-Chi nearly freaked out when she heard Bulma tell her this. "Bulma, so has Goten. I called him to make sure he was still all right. It seems as though he had to stay home from work he was so sick. Bulma, you have to find out what's going on, and fast before I have a heart attack."
"And she would too." Goku smiled at his wife as she just glared at him. "What, I was just trying to take some pressure off the situation."
Chi-Chi frowned. "Well it's not working so give it up. You're just making things worse Goku."
"Goku, Chi-Chi is right. This is not something to joke about. It could come back and bite you in the ass. You may be fine now, but that's all now is. Now. It's not the future. Who knows what the future holds. This could just be the eye of the storm. You should watch yourself for any more abnormalities. And watch Usagi very closely. She is the only one of your kids who hasn't gotten sick and we haven't gotten to the bottom of this yet. She could very well be the next one in line. So please Goku. Take this seriously. If not for you, then for your family and friends."
Goku listened to Bulma's speech. It was as if a light had been turned on in his head. She was entirely right. "I'm sorry Bulma. I will try to be more serious about this." Goku didn't want to think of Usagi getting sick. He didn't want to think of Gohan or Goten getting any more sick then they already were. He didn't care what happened to him. Just as long as his children were safe.
Chi-Chi could see the worried look in her husband's face and decided that she should probably stop this conversation right then and there. "Bulma, it's getting late. I think we should call it a night. You should get some sleep. I should too. It's been a long three days for all of us."
"You're right Chi-Chi. I didn't sleep a wink last night." Bulma had been up all night trying to contemplate what was going on with her friends.
"I guess I'll talk to you tomorrow. We should keep in touch until this thing plays out."
"Good bye Bulma."
"Good bye Chi-Chi, good bye Goku." Bulma hung up the phone and stretched. She had had the longest day of them all and she was totally ready for bed.
Chi-Chi looked to Goku. He looked like he was deep in thought. That speech Bulma gave him really put some sense into him. "Goku, I think we too should go to bed." She stood up. "I'm going to check on Usagi and make sure she is ok. I don't know why but I have a bad feeling that something is wrong." She began to walk to the door.
Goku put his hand out in front of her to stop her. "Let me. You go on to bed. I'll be back in just a few minutes."
Chi-Chi looked up at her husband. He was acting strange. "Goku…"
Goku put his finger to her lips. "Don't worry. I just want to be the one to check on her. Just go to bed and I will be back in a while."
Chi-Chi watched as he husband walked out of the room. "He must be really worried about her." She smiled. "At least I know he won't ever let anything bad happen to her. It was silly of me to ever think he would push her." She smiled to herself as she turned and crawled into her bed.
~*~*~
Goku slightly cracked the door to his daughter's room open so he could peer in on her. He opened the door further to allow himself to walk in when he saw that she was still asleep, although he didn't know how anyone could sleep in the position that she had herself in. Half of her body wasn't even on the bed. She lay on her stomach with her head, along with a good portion of her upper body, strung over her bed. He laughed as he walked over to her. He covers were a total mess, with half of them fully lying on the floor.
Goku picked up his sleeping daughter and placed her back on her bed. He bent over to pick up the blankets that lay on the floor, and covered her back up with them. Usagi started to stir. She looked like she was having a bad dream. She was squinting a lot. Goku watched her as she slept. 'I wonder what she is dreaming about.'
~~Usagi's dream world~~
Usagi stood behind the girl with the fire again. She listened to her talk with the fire. This time she talked to it as if it had a life of it's own. This time, she could actually understand what she was saying.
The girl sat on her knees, praying to the fire again. "Please oh great god of fire. Help us."
'Us? Who is us' Usagi thought to herself. She looked around and couldn't see anything but two crows that flew over the girl.
"Please. Help us in our time of need. Help us find the way." She closed her eyes and stood up. She began to chant to the fire like she had the night before. The fire roared back to the chants. Growing with every word. "We know something. Please, guide us to the answer we are looking for."
Usagi looked around her a little bit. She was in an open field. 'What's happening?' She looked up to the fire. It had grown taller. All of a sudden a picture appeared in the fire. She couldn't quite make it out but it looked kind of like a circle. 'What is that?'
The girl brought her hands down to her side. "I can not help any further. They great roaring fire has no answers now." She disappeared as did the fire and crows.
Usagi ran for the girl. "Wait! Who are you?" No good. They were gone by the time she reached where they had been. She now stood in an all black room with no lighting. She was alone and scared. "Where's daddy?" She looked around. She saw something running towards her. It looked like a man in an all black suit. The only things that she could make out were his hands because they were the only things that weren't black. She began to run away. She looked over her shoulder. About seven more people or beings, whatever they were, were now chasing after her.
~~Back to Reality~~
"DADDY!" Usagi yelled as she kicked her legs. In her dream she was running, looking for her father, trying to get away from the people who chased her. "DADDY WHERE ARE YOU!?"
Goku stopped watching her and quickly ran to her side. He grabbed her and gently shook her to wake her up. "Usagi. It's all right. I'm right here."
Usagi opened her eyes. Goku stopped shaking her when he saw her eyes open. She looked up at him and wrapped her arms around his neck, tightly. She closed her eyes again. "Daddy!"
Goku hugged back. He didn't know what kind of dream would make her yell out for him like that, but he knew it had to be something bad. "Usagi…" He said as he rubbed her back with his hands. "It's all right. I'm here. There's no need to be scared." He could feel her heart beating faster then normal.
Usagi hugged her father as tightly as she could. She didn't understand what kind of dream she had just had. But she did know that it had scared her. The dream from the night before was strange, but this one was just down right frightening for her. "Daddy, it was scary." She dug her head into the side of his neck. She wanted to be as close to him as possible at that moment. She knew that he would protect her.
Goku hated to see her like this. She didn't normally have many nightmares, but when she did, they were horrible. They would just scare her straight out of her mind. "Usagi, don't worry. I'm not going to leave you. Why don't you tell daddy what made you so scared?"
Usagi didn't exactly want to tell him. She didn't want to think about the dream anymore. "I had the dream about the girl with they fire again. This time she actually talked to it. She said that it needed to help us. That it needed to give us answers. Then a picture appeared in the fire."
Goku ran his fingers through his daughter's long silky blonde hair as he held her. She would always relaxed a bit whenever he would do this. "Do you know what it was a picture of?"
She dug her fingers into his bare back as she thought about the rest of the dream. "No. It was a circle that's all I know. Then the girl said that the fire had no more answers and left. The fire left too."
Goku didn't mind her digging into his back like she had. If it helped her, he would endure it. "Is that all?"
"No." She tightened her grip on her father when she thought of what happened next. "I was all alone in a black room. Then a man started chasing me so I ran. I looked back and seven more people followed me. I couldn't see where I was going or anything. I could only see their hands because they had their faces covered up. Daddy I was so scared." Se began to cry softly as she moved her head from his neck down to his chest.
Goku looked down at his daughter. 'What the hell kind of dream was that? I have never heard of such a dream. It's probably all the stress she has had lately. But what does all this mean?' "Usagi, you should go back to sleep."
She looked up at her father as he started to pull away and lay her back in her bed. She grabbed onto his arm. "Don't leave me daddy! Please! I'm scared. What if I have another dream?"
Goku didn't want her to be upset so he did the only thing that he could think of. He was too was tired and wanted to go to sleep and it was the only way to satisfy her. He picked her up and carried her to the door. "You can sleep with us then."
Usagi smiled. Now if she had another bad dream, she would be with her parents. "Thank you daddy." She wrapped her tail around his wrist as he walked across the living room into his room.
Goku didn't think Chi-Chi would mind if Usagi were to sleep with them given the circumstances. She usually never did mind. He looked in the room to see if Chi-Chi was asleep yet. He wasn't surprised to see that she was not. After Usagi and her screaming, he was a little surprised that she had not ran into the room trying to see what was wrong with 'her baby'. He smiled as he looked at her. He held Usagi in his arms. She rested her head on his shoulder and had her arms wrapped around his neck. "Usagi had a bad dream. She wants to sleep with us tonight."
Chi-Chi climbed under the covers as Goku put Usagi on the bed. "That's fine with me." Usagi was already showing signs of drifting off to sleep. Chi-Chi looked up to her husband. "What was the dream about? I heard her yelling for you."
Goku lifted the covers up and climbed under them. Her pulled Usagi under with him. "I'll tell you later." Usagi cuddled into her father as they all three lay in bed. She closed her eyes and yawned. Goku wrapped his arm around her to pull her in closer to him and smiled. With his other arm he turned off the last remaining light that was on in the room. He then scooted down further to get more comfortable. "Good night ladies."
"Night daddy."
"Good night Goku." Chi-Chi leaned over to kiss her husband. "Good night Usagi."
"Night mommy." Usagi was completely happy now. She wouldn't have to worry about being alone again for the rest of the night.
~*~*~
Usagi woke up around 8:00 the next morning. Normally, on Saturdays, she wouldn't wake up until later, but she had a hard time sleeping on this morning. Her dream had kept her awake, thinking about what it meant. She had maybe slept a maximum of five hours. She had spent around an hour and a half listening to her parents talk about everything that had been going on. They had thought that she was asleep, but actually, she just had her eyes closed, trying to fall asleep when they started. She decided to just listen to them. They talked about their conversation with Bulma. That's how she found out that Trunks was sick now.
She sat up and rubbed her eyes. She looked to her left and then her right. Both of her parents were still asleep. She slid out from under the covers and slowly crawled to the end of the bed so she wouldn't wake them. When she jumped down off the bed, her feet made a small thump on the floor. She turned around, she had not waken her parents. She turned back around and quietly ran out of the room.
Usagi closed the door behind her. The living room was cold. The heat had not been on at all since the day before. She grabbed a blanket that sat on the back of the sofa. She could feel her stomach rumbling inside her and realized that she was hungry. She walked down the hallway. Just as she entered the family room, the phone began to ring. She ran to it and picked it up. "Hello?"
"Hello, Usagi, is that you?"
Usagi couldn't tell who it was. "Yes, who is this?" The voice was somewhat muffled. All she could tell was that it was a female.
"Usagi, this is Pan. Is grandma or grandpa there?" Pan was having a little bit of trouble speaking.
"Uh-huh. Just a sec." Usagi placed her hand over the receiver and ran back to her parents' room, leaving her blanket behind. "Mommy, daddy!" She yelled as she busted into their room.
Chi-Chi shot up from bed and franticly looked around the room. "What!? What's wrong?" She stopped when her eyes met with her daughter's. "Usagi…"
Usagi jumped on the bed and held the phone out to her mother. "Here, it's Pan. She wants to talk to you."
Chi-Chi grabbed the phone from her daughter. The phone in their room had not rang because they usually turn off the ringer when they go to bed. "Thank you dear." She put the phone up to her ear. "Hello? Pan?"
Usagi looked over to her father as her mother spoke to Pan on the phone. He didn't seem to be awake. 'Daddy can sleep through anything.' She laid her body over his and looked up at his face. She smiled as she began to poke at him.
Goku opened his eyes, startling Usagi. "What are you doing?" She had awakened him with her yelling, he just hadn't showed it when she first came in.
Usagi continued to poke at him as she began to giggle. "Nothing."
Goku smiled as he grabbed her by the arms and held her in the air as high as his arms would extend. "Oh really?" He kept her arms pinned against the rest of her body as she dangled over him.
Usagi looked down at her father. "Yup, not doing anything. Just hanging around." She tried to wiggle free of his hold.
Goku flipped her around in the air so her back was facing him and then quickly brought her back so she was lying on his stomach. At this point, he wrapped his arms around her so she couldn't get up. "Well, now you have something to do. You can try to get away from me."
Usagi giggled some more. That wouldn't be an easy task. He was, after all, the strongest man in the world. She tired to pull her body up away from his. The harder she pulled, the tighter his grip became. She couldn't use her hands either. Goku had her arms curled up on top of her chest underneath his arms. "Daddy, I will do this."
Goku laughed. "Maybe in a few years you will."
Usagi planted her feet as far down the bed as she could. She then proceeded to try to pull her way down from his arms with her legs. "Gees." She soon stopped when she realized that it was impossible to break free. There was only one more way that she knew of that could work. She picked up her head and put it over her father's arms as she opened her mouth. "Hehe." She bit down into his skin.
Goku jerked a bit when he felt the teeth of his daughter clamping around his skin. "Usagi, do you think you can hurt me by doing that?" Goku didn't feel all that much.
Usagi sighed. "This isn't fair. I can't win with you can I?" She gave up. Now she was just going to go all out. She began to kick her feet against his legs. "Let me go." She kicked as fast and as hard as she could. She got a little carried away with her kicking, though, and accidentally hit her mother with her foot.
Chi-Chi turned around from her conversation with Pan. She looked rather angry. "Would you two cool it for once? I am trying to have serious conversation here. If you two really want to play, go outside and do it."
Goku released his grip on his daughter, allowing her to get up. "Sorry Chi-Chi."
Usagi rolled over off of her father. "Yeah, sorry mamma."
Chi-Chi turned back around. "Anyways Pan, I guess I'll meet you there later." Chi-Chi stood up. "I love you too. Good bye." She sat down the phone and looked back at the two Saiyans who stared back up at her. "That was Pan."
Goku sat up. "Yeah Chi-Chi, we know that."
Chi-Chi frowned. "If you would let me finish maybe I would tell you what she wanted instead of just stating who she was." Goku back away. He wasn't in a mood to argue this morning so he would just let Chi-Chi have her way. "Anyways, it seems as though she too has gotten sick. My poor little Pan. Almost everyone is sick now."
"Mamma, why didn't she just call Gohan? He is her daddy and all." Usagi lay on her stomach with her head rested in her hands. She had her feet dangling over her father.
"She tried to, but when she called this morning, neither of her parents were there. She doesn't know where they could be, so I told her to meet us at Capsule Corp. I'm going to call Goten to have him meet us there too. I want Bulma to run another test so we can find out what's wrong with you guys."
Goku groaned. "I don't want to do another test. It's boring."
Chi-Chi put her hands on her waist. "What's more important? Being entertained, or staying alive. You pick. I'll know your answer if you come or not." With that she walked into their bathroom. "I'm getting ready to leave!"
Goku looked at Usagi, as she did the same. They both shrugged at each other went to get themselves ready to leave.
~*~*~
Once at Capsule Corp., Chi-Chi led her family to Bulma's lab. Before she opened the door she turned around to look at Goku and Usagi. "You two behave. We aren't here to play games. If you feel the need to play around in there, I'm going to send you out Usagi."
Usagi opened her mouth to protest. "That's not fair!"
Chi-Chi frowned. "It's not fair that you distract your father. He is always too tempted to play around with you."
Usagi was a little disappointed. "Well, if I distract him so much, maybe I shouldn't go in at all." She crossed her arms and turned around.
"Fine! It will be less time consuming. We won't have to stop to kick you out for getting in the way." Chi-Chi absolutely did not take any lip from her daughter. She didn't mean what she was saying, but it kept Usagi in line. She turned around and opened the door.
Usagi was a bit surprised that her mother would agree with her. She had actually half expected her to say that she could come in but just be quiet. "No, I want to come in." Usagi turned around and tried to follow her mother and father in.
Goku turned around and put his hand out. "Usagi, just let your mother have her way. She isn't in a mood to be played around with. And she is right. We do distract each other a lot." Goku turned around and closed the door behind him, leaving his daughter standing alone in the dark hallway.
Usagi began to pout. "More like I distract you and you don't get anything done. I'm just always I the way aren't I!?" She frowned. "Well fine then. I'll leave! I don't need you anyways!" She turned around and stomped away as hard as she could, making sure her feet made loud sounds as they beat against the tile floor.
Chi-Chi rolled her eyes as she watched Bulma get herself ready. "I hope she doesn't think she is going to come in here with that attitude."
Goku sat down in a chair that was set up for him. "You have to admit Chi-Chi, she is going through a rough time with this too."
~*~*~
Usagi stormed down the hallway. She was going to leave and find somewhere where she could have some fun and not be a distraction. She didn't see that she was about to hit Vejita and smashed right into him. She fell backwards. Vejita looked down at her with cold eyes. "Why don't you watch where you are going brat?!"
Usagi looked up. "Sorry Vejita." She smiled to herself. Maybe he could entertain her. "Where are you going?"
"The woman wants to put me through that stupid test again. I don't know what she plans to find." Vejita walked around Usagi, who was pushing herself up. "By the way, I saw your stupid brother, Gohan and his wife. He looked horrible."
"What!?" Usagi turned her head away from Vejita and ran down the hall. 'Vejita said he looked horrible. No. Something bad has happened to him again.' She ran faster in the direction that Vejita had come from, hoping that she would find her big brother. "Gohan! Videl!" She looked in every direction for them until she found them in the living room. Her brother was lying on the sofa. He was making many quiet moans. He was definitely in pain. "Gohan!" She ran up to him.
Videl had put a moist cloth on his forehead. "Usagi. You shouldn't be here. Your brother is burning up with a fever. You could get sick."
Usagi looked up at Videl. "What? Videl, what happened."
Videl didn't know what to tell the little girl in front of her. For she herself had no idea what had happened. "Well, he woke early this morning in major pain. I took his temperature and he had a fever of 102 degrees. So I brought him here. Any idea where Bulma is?"
Usagi stared down at her brother. She had never seen him in so much pain in her life. It was like he had just been in a fight against someone and he lost big time. "Yeah. She is in her lab."
Videl put Gohan's arm around her neck and helped him to his feet. "Thanks. You should stay out here though. I don't think your parents would appreciate me getting you sick." She turned her head to Gohan. "Come on. Let's get you some help."
Gohan rolled his eyes into his head. "Uuuuuh."
Usagi watched Videl carry her brother down the hall. "Videl, Pan should be here. She is sick too."
Videl stopped. "Oh no…"
Usagi turned around and began to walk to the front door. "See ya." She opened the door and walked out of the house.
~*~*~
Usagi didn't know where she was going. She had been wandering the city for about twenty minutes. She didn't exactly care where she was going. All she knew was that she needed to get away from everything. She needed time alone. There was a part of her that wanted to know what was happening, but then there was another part of her who wanted to just run away from everything.
She stopped walking when she came up to a skate park. She put her hands on the fence as she leaned into it to get a closer look at all the kids in it. There had to be at least fifteen kids there, if not more. Usagi had always been fascinated by skating. She had always wanted to be a part of a group of skaters. She often found herself thinking about how much fun it would be. There had been a group of skaters at her school that always showed off at recess. They were part of a skating organization and always went to competitions. Usagi would have joined, but she was too young at the time. She had just turned six about 5 months before and you had to be at least eight to join. She watched everyone, wishing that she could be a part of the fun.
"Hey look. Its monkey girl…oh wait, I mean Usagi."
Usagi slowly turned around, not wanting to know who was even behind her. She thought that her nickname days were long gone. "Haruka?!" She was a little surprised that Haruka was brave enough to talk to her. She had avoided her all year up until now.
Haruka smiled. "Yep. So what have you been up to lately? I see you still have that tail of yours."
Usagi wasn't sure if she was trying to be nice, or rude. She looked to the two people behind her. Michiru was there and the boy that she had seen them with just the day before. "What do you want? If it's a fight you want," Usagi grinned, "Then I'll just beat you like I did last year."
Haruka smirked. "Actually, we are here to skate, but, my friend here, wants to know if he could have the pleasure of sparring you." She stepped out of the way so she could reveal a somewhat muscular boy with short black hair. He wore a sleeveless black T-shirt and baggy black pants. On his feet he wore pure black roller blades. "I told him about you and he is positive that he can beat you."
Usagi smiled. "Oh he does, does he? Well, how much skill do you have?"
The boy grinned. "Look little girl, I have been training since I was about five years old. That means that I have been fighting for about seven years because I am twelve now. My sensei is my father. He is strong. I can beat you with no problem what so ever."
"Oh really? And who is your father?" Usagi was up for the spar. She was bored anyways and needed to blow off some steam.
"I have been advised by my father not to tell anyone." The boy took off his skates and helmet and threw them to Michiru. "How well do you know how to fight girl?"
Usagi smirked. "Good enough to beat the likes of you." She began to stretch. "Might I ask who you are? Or is that a secret too?"
"Do you need to know my name for me to kick you butt?" He also began to stretch.
"I guess not, in that case, I won't tell you my name either." Usagi laughed to herself. 'This is going to be too simple. I can't believe it. I am so going to make him wish he never thought of challenging me.' She smirked. "Shall we start?"
(K! That's it for this part! What do ya think? Is it good or bad? Please review. Don't you just love how I set everything up and then make you wait to find out what's going on? ^_^ Oh yeah, over all what do you think of chapter two so far? Buh bye for now Minna san!)