Part 3: More Then Friendship
Chapter 14: 16th Birthday (Part 1)
Between the - is the movie.
I do not own Dragonball Z.
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The sound of someone furiously pounding on the door and ringing the bell filled the Satan mansion as a butler hurried to answer it.
"What's wrOh. It's you." The man said upon seeing the blonde girl standing on the porch
"Is Vi-"
"In her r-" The butler responded before she could finish only to have her run off to Videl's room before he could finish.
"VIDEEEL! ARE YOU READY!" The blonde yelled as she ran down the hallway and through open the girls bedroom door.
"Jeez Erasa, what's up with you? Did ya eat a bag of sugar for breakfast or something?" Videl asked.
"I'm just excited! Ben goes shirtless during several parts of the movie! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? SHIRTLESS!"
Videl cringed at the volume of her friend's voice as she finished tying her shoes. "So what?"
Erasa looked at her friend like she had just turned neon blue and grew three more arms and six additional legs. "So what? He's only THE HOTTEST actor EVER!"
"Yea, sure Erasa." Videl replied while thinking, 'My Gohan,' she was practically drooling just thinking about him without a shirt, 'is MUCH hotter then that moron.'
"God, you're impossible Videl." Erasa replied as she dragged her friend out of the house and to the theater.
As they stood in line for tickets Videl realized something. 'This is MY birthday. Why am I seeing a movie ERASA wants to see?' But she pushed the thoughts aside. There weren't any movies out that she wanted to see anyway. And besides, her friend was too excited about this to change the plans now.
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Gohan cracked his knuckles as he stretched in the gravity room at Capsule Corp. He was ready to burn off some of the extra large birthday breakfast his mom had fixed that morning. Across from him his father and Vegeta stood as they too prepared for the spar.
"You're going down brat." Vegeta said as he and Goku dropped into their fighting stances.
"I don't think so." Gohan replied before clasping his hands before him like he is praying. Suddenly there were two additional Gohans, one standing on either side of the original.
The former prince smirked at Gohan. 'The brat's being careless. Each one of them only has a third of his power.'
Goku smiled at his son. He knew that Gohan wouldn't be using such a technique without reason.
All three Gohans smiled at the two older warriors. "Your move." The center Gohan said calmly.
With a smirk firmly entrenched on his face, Vegeta charge for one of the copies. His smirk only grew when the other two apparently retreated. But that quickly changed when his fist impacted the copy. Suddenly he found himself on the other side of the gravity room. Just as unconsciousness claimed him, he looked back to were the copy had been and could only see smoke.
"Hey, not bad." Goku replied. In truth he was shocked. A self destructing double was the last thing he had expected. And from the feel of things the copy's energy had gone back to Gohan once it was destroyed. "Where'd you learn that?"
"Videl. I was showing her how to do split form and multi form techniques and shecame up with that variation."
"Oh?" Goku replied. "So that's how she beat you."
Gohan laughed, he never could fool his father. "I guess you could say that." He replied before charging at him. His double stood off to the side of the chamber.
"There's just," Goku blocked a punch towards his head, "one problem with that," he lashed out with a kick to his son's midsection only to have it blocked, "technique."
Gohan jumped back, disengaging from the fight for a moment. "And what would that be?"
"Once you use it on an opponent, or your opponent sees you use it on someone else, they'll expect it and defend against it."
Gohan smirked. "Oh really?"
But before Goku could respond, Gohan's hands snapped up to his face and he yelled, "Solar flare!" The bright light blinded the unsuspecting Saiya-jin. When his eye sight returned he saw Gohan standing before him and the double standing off to the side of the room. Neither appeared to have moved. Quickly his mind put together what he should do next.
"Trying to confuse me?" He asked. The Gohans smiled in reply. "Well you'd think that I'd think that you'd change places with your double. Which is why you wouldn't. So" He charged, with a ki shield raised just in case, at the Gohan standing off to the side. And when his hand struck the smirking Gohan he was answered with a big explosion. 'I should have known.' The man thought as he picked himself up from the floor. "You're the real Gohan!" He yelled as he charged the one remaining Gohan. He struck out with a jab at Gohan's midsection only to feel his fist go through the boy. Goku stood there in disbelief as he looked at his arm. 'There's no blood. That mea-" He didn't get to finish the thought as the Gohan suddenly exploded, sending him careening into the gravity room wall much like Vegeta had.
The Saiya-jin's head pounded and his ears rang. "No wonder Vegeta passed out." Goku muttered as he sat up and leaned his head against the chamber wall.
From above him he heard amused laughter. "Good fight. Even if I didn't get to throw many punches.
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A yawn escaped Videl's mouth. Only ten minutes into the movie and already she was bored. If something exciting didn't happen soon then she might fall asleep. She thought about going and getting a refill of popcorn, but dismissed it. The tub she had already had wasn't fresh and judging by the mound of popcorn that was in the machines the refill was likely to be just as bad.
Suddenly the tempo of the music kicked up and took a turn for the ominous. Beside her she could hear Erasa stop eating. Turning her attention to the screen instead of the heads of the people in front of her she saw that Ben's character was sitting next to a crackling fire in the middle of the woods. It took her a second to remember that the previous scenes had been about him, his girlfriend, and two of their friends preparing for a camping trip.
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Slowly the camera panned to show an old woman with ratty white hair holding an ancient and demonic looking knife while sneaking up behind Erasa's beloved Ben.
'Hmm. Maybe this movie isn't so bad after all.' Videl thought as sat back.
In the light provided by the fire one could see something drip from the blade. With each step the woman took she came closer to the unsuspecting man. But she froze suddenly as someone from inside the tent unzipped it and stepped out. The person that emerged from the tent was a woman with long flowing brown hair. She too froze upon seeing the old woman.
"What is it dear?" The man asked when he saw his girlfriend just standing there. "Afraid the big bad boogie" He trailed off at the look of terror on her face. Slowly he turned around and came face to face with the woman. "Who are you? What do you want?"
His voice seemed to snap her back to reality or at least her distorted view of it, and she lunged at him.
The glint of metal in her hand caused him to instinctively grab her wrist. Stopping the blade mere inches from his chest.
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Videl was on the edge of her seat. She had come here expecting some girlie movie. Turning to her friend she saw that Erasa no longer seemed interested in eating so she took her popcorn and munched on it happily as she watched the drama unfold on the screen.
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"BEN!" The woman yelled as she ran to help her boyfriend.
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Videl blinked while thinking, 'So Ben is the name of the character and that actor. At least the writers as good at action scenes.'
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A struggle ensued that showed that the old lady is a lot stronger then she looks. The fight ended when the man's girlfriend knocked the old lady out with a piece of firewood.
"Thanks Angie." Ben replied before noticing that his hands are covered in blood. Looking at the old lady he sees that she too is covered in red liquid of life.
"Oh my God! Where'd she stab you?"
"She didn't." He responded with unease in his voice and features as he realized where the woman had come from. Quickly, he took off at a run down the path that the old lady had come from. His girlfriend right behind him. He stopped suddenly at the edge of the woods and caught his Angie before she could run out onto the small beach.
The moonlight seemed to accentuate the paleness of their faces as they looked upon the small beach. At an agonizingly slow pace that made Videl want to yell for them to hurry up the camera panned to show two bodies lying on the beach. The sand beneath them is dark from spilled blood.
"Oh god no!" Angie yelled as she broke into tears.
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"You really know how to pick a movie Erasa." Videl commented as she watched Ben lead Angie back to their car and drive to the park ranger station to report the incident.
"Y-yeah." Erasa's face was a pale as that of the two characters on the screen.
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Gohan, a few droplets of sweat rolling down his forehead, emerged from the gravity room with a towel around his neck. His mother greeted him with a large glass of lemonade.
"Where's your father and Vegeta? I thought they were in there with you." Chi-Chi said.
"They are. They're just too tired to move." Gohan responded with a smile. "Either that or too sore."
"I hope you didn't beat your father up too badly."
"Of course not. All he and Vegeta need is a Senzu bean and they'll be as good as new."
"Alright. But you better hurry and get cleaned up. Videl will be here any minute."
"Is it that time already? Jeez, I gotta hurry!" The demi-Saiya-jin exclaimed as he set the glass back on the tray and ran off to the shower.
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"Wow, that was a great movie Erasa." Videl said as she and her friend walked out of the theater.
"I uhguess so." The blonde was green. Sure the latest teen heartthrob had gone without his shirt several times during the movie. But that didn't make up for all the blood and guts.
"Who would have thought that the old woman that attacked them was one of the girls that went to school with that guy's girlfriend."
"Y-yeah." Erasa was glad that she hadn't eaten any more of the popcorn then she had.
"Well I'll see you later! Bye!" Videl said as she decapsulated her copter and took off.
"Yeah, later." The blonde didn't notice her friend's happier then usual attitude. She was too busy worrying about whether or not she would make it home without throwing up.
Once outside of the city, Videl landed and put her copter back into it's capsule before taking off into the sky again. It's much faster for her to fly using her ki then it is using the copter.
I named the actor in the movie Ben because someone I know is obsessed with that name. And as for the movieI couldn't make Videl sit through some snoozer. ^_^ And no, the actor is not me nor did I name or model him after myself.
I hope you enjoyed it and please review.