For the Love of ChiChi
Part Five
Goku and ChiChi continued to scream as they fell several feet in the hole Mara created for them. Goku could see no end to the trap he and ChiChi had fallen into. Goku flew down pass ChiChi and caught himself in mid-flight. He held his hands out and ChiChi fell into his arms. Goku then flew them out of the hole. When they reached the surface, they were no longer in the foyer.
"Wh-where are we?" ChiChi asked looking around.
"How did we get here?" Goku asked.
They were in a hot, dry desert. Above them was the hot sun, sweltering down on them. It had to be over 100 degrees. Mara's laughter could be heard above them.
"I put you here. You're still in my castle but right now it's a maze where you must find your way out together. There is a door that will lead you out of one room to the next where the challenges can be easy or tough depending on which room you enter."
"We don't have time for this!" ChiChi yelled in the sky. "My father's life is at risk!"
"Then you better get a move on then and pass my tests," Mara said coldly.
"Come on, ChiChi. We better find that door," Goku said.
They walked through the desert under the hot sun, sweating and out of breath in search of water and some freedom from the sun beating down on them for the next hour but there was no hope in site.
"No trees, no cactus, no oasis, no nothing," ChiChi said as looked at nothing but sand for miles and miles ahead. "If we don't find water soon, we're going go dehydrate."
"Don't talk, ChiChi," Goku said out of breath as well. He was breathing hard with sweat pouring down his body and his clothes like skin to his body. "Conserve your strength."
ChiChi nodded. She paused for a moment to catch her breath. The sun was beating down on her body, sweat poured from her face and arms and her clothes were tightening on her skin. Her hair was matted on her skin as well. She was about to move again when she felt something grab her ankle. ChiChi looked down and saw a skeleton hand around her ankle. ChiChi let out a startled scream that caught Goku's attention.
Goku saw ChiChi pulling on her ankle as if she was stuck on something. Goku went to ChiChi to help her. "What's the matter?"
"This skeleton hand is on my ankle!" ChiChi screamed as she tried to pull it out.
Goku grabbed ChiChi's ankle in an attempt to free her. Even he was finding trouble freeing ChiChi. This wasn't good. "What are you stuck to?" Goku strained and pulled ChiChi free knocking him on his back and knocking ChiChi on top of him.
ChiChi got up and looked back at her ankle. "It's free. Thanks." When she looked in Goku's direction, her eyes widen as she saw skeletons rising from the sand. "Goku, look!"
The two both stood and looked to see skeletons holding swords and shields rising from the sand. From what they could add up, they were surrounded by twenty of them. The skeletons walked in as if closing in on Goku and ChiChi and then let out a battle cry as they screamed running towards Goku and ChiChi.
Goku and ChiChi were back to back with each other as they prepared themselves for battle. When the skeletons got closer, the two defended themselves and attacked. Goku was quick to dodged, jump and avoid getting slice with the skeletons swords. He sent a karate kick into the one and it fell apart into several pieces.
"That was easy," Goku thought. The skeleton reformed but instead of one, there were two skeleton warriors. "Uh-oh." Goku looked back at ChiChi to see how she was doing and he saw her pick one warrior up and threw him towards two other skeleton warriors. The three broken warriors soon rose and became six. "ChiChi!" Goku called out and ran to her side.
ChiChi stepped closer to Goku. "They're multiplying, Goku."
"Yeah. We're gonna have to go about this another way," Goku said. "Stay close beside me, ChiChi.
"Okay," ChiChi said and got behind Goku.
Goku prepared himself for the Kamehameha Wave. "Ka… me… ha… me… HA!!!" Goku fired the wave on all warriors coming in his and ChiChi's direction. All the skeletons turned to dust under the hot fire of the Kamehameha Wave. Goku and ChiChi waited a minute before relaxing.
ChiChi smiled relieved the ordeal was over. "You did it!" ChiChi said and threw her arms around Goku in a hug.
Goku frowned but he didn't let her hug bother him. He was starting to see a pattern with ChiChi and her hugs. "That's that. Let's go and find that door, ChiChi."
Goku and ChiChi only got a few more steps in when they heard something behind them. They looked back and saw the skeleton warriors reforming again, doubling their size once more.
"I…didn't expect that," Goku said seeing now there were over forty warriors. "I thought the Kamehameha would melt them into sand and they wouldn't come back."
"There's only one thing to do in a situation like this," ChiChi said.
"What's that?" Goku asked looking for ideas himself.
"Run for your life!" ChiChi grabbed Goku's arm and begin pulling him away from the skeleton warriors that were now chasing them.
"Wait! ChiChi! I don't want to run! I want to fight!" Goku yelled.
"You can't fight against that!" ChiChi yelled back. "They keep growing and growing if you attack them!" ChiChi then screamed as she felt the ground falling in under her.
Goku almost misstep and fell in with ChiChi. Goku didn't understand it but he saw ChiChi falling in further and further until she was stuck to her waist in the sand. He grabbed her hand and struggled to pull her out but the force pulling on ChiChi was much stronger than his.
"What's the deal?" Goku asked as he strained to pull ChiChi out.
"It's quicksand!" ChiChi said as she held on to Goku as tight as she could.
"Quicksand? What's that?" Goku asked puzzled.
"It's sand that's pulling me into the ground!" ChiChi tried to climb higher on Goku but she was getting pulled deeper and deeper into the quicksand. Now she was covered up to her breasts. "Goku, help me!"
"I'm trying!" Goku looked back to see if the skeleton warriors had caught up to them, but they were gone as if they vanished. "They're gone."
"Goku!" ChiChi screamed now she was covered up to her neck in quicksand.
"ChiChi, don't let go!" Goku said and strained to pull her out, but his grip was loosening on her.
"Goku!" ChiChi screamed as her gripped loosen and she was swallowed by the quicksand.
"ChiChi!" Goku called out. He dug in the sand pulling the quicksand apart so he could grab onto ChiChi. Suddenly, he was latched onto something and felt himself being pulled in the quicksand. When Goku fell through he didn't see more sand but he found himself falling down a cave and at the bottom was a large body of water where he made a loud splash.
The cool water was refreshing since he was in that hot desert for so long. He swam to the surface and looked around for his fiancée. If he fell in here, ChiChi must have too. "ChiChi? ChiChi!" Goku called out.
"Goku!" Goku turned around and saw ChiChi swimming to him with a smile on her face. "Goku, I figured it out! This was the door we were looking for."
"The door? But I thought we were looking for a real door."
"No, I think she just meant that door could be any opening like a door opens to anyplace. We were traveling in that desert for over an hour going no where and where would we find a door in a desert?"
"I see what you mean," Goku said catching on. "So how will get out of here?"
"I don't know," ChiChi said as she looked around but we're gonna have to swim.
Goku and ChiChi swam around the area going around each corner they saw four times until they realized they were back where they started.
"Didn't we start here?" Goku asked.
"Uh, yeah. We're going no where again," ChiChi said looking around for a way out.
"Um, ChiChi, we did fall in through here. Do you think it's possible we would have to swim below the water to find the next door?"
ChiChi looked down in the waters. "But how will we swim under the water that long?"
"We're gonna have to try. I'll go first." Goku dived in the water. He swam deep in the waters looking around for a way out of there or a place to gather some air.
Goku was starting to run out of air when he saw an opening. He swam upwards to an opening. When he reached the top, he let out the breath of air he was holding. He looked up and smiled. He found a way out.
ChiChi was getting worried. Goku was gone for five minutes now. She didn't know he could last that long underwater. She started to go in after him when Goku resurfaced.
"Goku, I was so worried. You were gone for a while."
"I found a way out, ChiChi. It's pretty deep so you need to hold your breath for a while."
"Okay," ChiChi agreed.
Goku and ChiChi took a deep breath and dived in the water. ChiChi followed Goku. He was a faster swimmer than her. ChiChi swam faster to keep up but that was causing her to use her energy and run of breath. ChiChi tug on Goku's pants. He looked back and saw ChiChi was looking as if she was struggling to breathe. Goku flew to ChiChi's side and put an arm around her waist. He swam for the both of them faster and faster until he found the place that would let them out. He got them to the surface and ChiChi breathed in the air.
ChiChi leaned against the rock panting heavily. "How…long… can… you… hold your… breath?"
"Um, about a couple of minutes or something. I never timed myself."
"A couple of minutes?!" ChiChi shrieked.
"That's not long."
ChiChi couldn't believe he said that. "How will we get out?"
Goku pointed upward. "We climb. There's a light at the top."
ChiChi looked up and saw how high they would have to climb up the jagged rocks and crevasse of the cave. "It's so high."
"Well, I could fly us. It'll get us to the top a lot faster," Goku said. "Climb on my back, ChiChi." ChiChi did as she was told, wrapping her arms around Goku's neck.
Goku flew easily to the top of the cave. As they did so, Mara watched them. 'Hmm, so they are working together.' When Goku passed through the light, Goku and ChiChi found themselves in a forest.
"Now, we're in a forest? In snow?" ChiChi asked as she and Goku walked around.
The forest was covered in light snow of about five inches. All the leaves were long gone and the trees were decorated in a lovely mix of ice and snow with icicles on the ends of trees and snow on branches and lightly falling to the ground as gentle winter breeze filled the air. The scene would be beautiful to ChiChi if she wasn't getting cold.
"OOh!" ChiChi said rubbing her arms as a breeze blew by. "It's a bit chilly." She looked ahead and saw a snow capped mountain not too far ahead of them. "And it's going to get cooler if we hike that mountain."
"It looks like it," Goku said. "Are you cold?" he asked ChiChi.
"Yeah. Aren't you?"
"No, it's not that bad." Goku said and wrapped an arm around ChiChi before they walked ahead in the forest. Goku smiled as they continued on in the forest. "Aside from the weather, this almost reminds me of home."
"Really?" ChiChi said now taking interest in the surroundings around her and liking how Goku's arm felt around her. "Is it really like your home?"
"Yeah. The trees are similar and the feelings are similar to home. I hadn't been there in a long time."
"How come?"
"I was always on an adventure. The last time I was home it was six years ago and I gathered some stuff to go to Master Roshi's house for training and I haven't been back. After I trained with him, I went to find my Grandpa's dragon ball, got in a fight with the Red Ribbon Army and then I began training for the next tournament. I was going to take a break then but Krillin was killed and I had to avenge his death and that's how I got in the fight with King Piccolo and after that, Kami had me trained under him to fight Piccolo at the 23rd tournament. I just didn't have any time to go home."
"So, it was one big adventure after another for you." ChiChi guessed. "I can't say my life was like that."
"What did you do over the years?" Goku asked.
"Normal things a girl does I imagine. I learned how to knit and sew. I learned how to cook, to be a good wife. My father also taught me how to fight. He taught me all that he knows."
"So, the Ox King hasn't mastered the Kamehameha Wave yet, huh?"
"No. It took Master Roshi fifty years to create that attack, but," ChiChi paused looking at Goku, "you were able to. Well, make a small one as a kid. I'm sure you can make a bigger one now."
"Oh, that's right. You missed out on the tournament and the rest of my fights. You never saw the Kamehameha Wave I made."
ChiChi shook her head. "No, I didn't."
"Want to see it now?" Goku asked.
"Sure."
ChiChi stepped back as Goku prepared the Kamehameha Wave. Goku showed ChiChi the mega Kamehameha Wave he gave to Piccolo in the tournament. ChiChi was in awe of the wave. She had never seen anything like it in her life. It really impressed ChiChi. The wave shot in the sky over the lake, creating a loud explosion.
"Oh, wow. It's like falling tiny stars," ChiChi said in awe as the remains of the Kamehameha Wave falling onto the lake thinly covered in ice. "Goku, that was amazing. You're so strong!" ChiChi exclaimed and grabbed his arm excited.
Goku looked down at ChiChi. He didn't think that she would be that impressed by his Kamehameha Wave but Krillin did tell him that women like strong men. Maybe this was what Krillin meant. The thought of marriage reminded Goku of what Mara said.
"Um, ChiChi, when Mara was talking about you and me getting married. What did she mean about me not courting you?"
"She means you never tried to pursue me. You never took me out on dates or gave me things or say nice things to me, but I didn't need all that. I just wanted you. You seemed so sweet and innocent. There's something about you that gets my heart beating fast, gets me excited to be near you. I guess I felt that way ever since I thought you wanted to marry me when you touched me. I thought it was your way of you showing your feelings for me, but it wasn't, was it?" ChiChi asked. "Is it true what Mara said--that you only touched me because you were trying to learn if I was a boy or girl?"
"Yeah. I didn't know. The only human I grew around was my grandpa. What was the big deal that I touch you that made you thought I wanted to marry you?"
"Because you're not supposed to touch anyone there unless they are your husband or wife."
"Then how was I to tell if you were a boy or girl?" Goku asked.
"Couldn't you tell by looking?" ChiChi asked.
"No. I only realized the difference between boys and girls when I saw Bulma without her underwear."
"What?!" ChiChi screamed. "What were you doing looking at her naked?!"
Goku stepped back startled at ChiChi's reaction. Why was she so angry? "Bulma was the first person I met since grandpa died and when I slept with grandpa I slept on his lap on his balls and I thought I could do the same with Bulma but she felt flat so I pulled off her underwear to see what happened to her balls and saw she didn't have any balls. That's when I learned the difference between boys and girls."
Goku wasn't sure how ChiChi would react but he didn't expect her to laugh. ChiChi clutched her side laughing so loud and out of control. Tears began to fall from her eyes. "I can't believe you did that!" she said in between laughs. "Oh, my," ChiChi said wiping the last tear from her eye. "You're something else, Goku. That was the only time you did that right--feeling on girls and looking at them naked?"
"Well, I did touch a little girl and an old lady before you to find out who they were," Goku said innocently. "They just stood there confused and Bulma hit me."
"You deserved it," ChiChi scolded Goku. "You shouldn't be doing that. You don't do that now do you?"
"No, I learned the difference between them a long time ago, but I don't understand the big deal of touching to find out if they were a boy or girl."
"Because it's not proper!" ChiChi yelled. "And it's hurting to know that you didn't touch me because you want me or like me but only to learn if I was a boy or girl."
"If you want to get even, you can touch me," Goku said taking ChiChi's hand suddenly and put it on his crotch.
"Goku!" ChiChi yelled shocked Goku would do that. Her face turned red as she realized she was touching Goku in such an intimate area of his. She pulled her hand out of his arms. "I shouldn't do that… not now."
"You're not making any sense," Goku said. "What do you mean not now?
"When we're married, we do things only married people do. Come on. Let's continue and find a way out of here."
"All right," Goku said and followed ChiChi.
As they walked away, they didn't notice the waters in the lake bubbling, but they did hear the roar of something behind them.
Goku and ChiChi looked back to see a giant snow monster emerging from the water.
"It's an abominable snowman!" ChiChi cried.
"An abominable what?" Goku asked.
"That!" ChiChi yelled at the monster.
The snow monster blew cool breath out of his mouth towards Goku and ChiChi. Goku grabbed ChiChi and pulled her out of the way. They two looked back to see that the breath from the monster had frozen a tree in solid ice.
"Did you see that, Goku?" ChiChi asked.
"Yeah. Get back, ChiChi," Goku warned his fiancée.ChiChi stepped back and watch as Goku challenged the monster and lured him away from ChiChi. Goku flew up in the sky and prepared to melt the snow monster with a Kamehameha Wave but the snow monster extended his arms which grew like tree limbs and grabbed Goku by his legs.
ChiChi screamed. "Goku!"
Goku's legs began freezing up into solid ice thanks to the snow monsters hands on them. The snowy being threw Goku into the lake the monster itself emerge from. The monster roared and extended powers from his hands that caused the lake to freeze up with Goku trapped in it.
"Goku!" ChiChi cried. She looked around frantically. There must be something she could do.
Goku with two frozen legs swam to the surface difficult as it was to his situation. He pounded on the ice but it wouldn't crack. Goku could feel his body freezing in the subfreezing temperatures of the water. Goku fell deeper in the waters, being dragged down by the weight of his legs. However, Goku was able to summon enough energy to swim to the surface with a lot of power behind him and broke through the ice. Goku was able to heat his body up to form a Kamehameha Wave and blast the snow monster. The heat of the wave was able to completely destroy the monster and melt the ice on Goku's legs but he was still freezing having being trapped in a frozen lake. He was exhausted during the ordeal and fell back in the water but was able to swim out before he got any colder.
When Goku emerge from the freezing waters, he collapsed on the cold snow as his whole body shivered. ChiChi raced to his side. Goku looked at ChiChi with blue lips. "I-I-it's c-c-cold, ChiChi. S-s-so c-cold."
"And these wet clothes aren't making it any better for you," ChiChi said helping him up. Things started to get worse for them as the wind blew violently; snow began to fall heavily and the temperature dropping faster than normal. "This must be Mara's doing," ChiChi said. "We've got to get you out of the cold. I saw a cave near by." ChiChi threw an arm over Goku's shoulder and walked him to the cave that was nearby. ChiChi could feel the coldness that was going through Goku's body. He stumbled a few times having trouble to walk. "Just a bit further. We're almost there." ChiChi told Goku.
"M-my fingers are s-so c-cold. I c-can't f-feel my f-feet," Goku said with his teeth chattering.
ChiChi walked Goku into the cave and stop when they were deep enough so the cold weather wouldn't bother them. ChiChi laid Goku down. Since it was dark, ChiChi could only feel around the cave for sticks. She was certain she stepped on some when she and Goku arrived in the cave. When gathered enough in her hands, ChiChi put them together to make a fire. As the fire slowly grew and warmed up, ChiChi turned her attention to Goku. He was rubbing his arms with his teeth chattering. ChiChi was extremely worried since Goku looked a little blue.
ChiChi didn't waste anymore time pulling on his wet shirt. "Hurry. We must get this off so you don't suffer from hypothermia."
"W-what's hypothermia?" Goku asked.
ChiChi tossed the light shirt aside and began pulling on Goku's heavy blue shirt, but the heavy, wet weighted shirt was harder to pull off than the other shirt. "It means your body temperature drops below normal. You're freezing up faster than you can warm up and the longer you stay in these cold clothes, the longer you stay cold and won't heat up."
"O-oh, I see."
Goku helped ChiChi get his heavy shirt off. "How much does this weigh?" ChiChi grunted as she was able to pull the heavy blue shirt over his head and put it next to the light shirt.
"A h-hundred pounds," Goku said still shivering. He rubbed his arms together to keep warm.
ChiChi pulled off his boots next. "Oh, my. How much does these weigh? I can't believe you ran in all of this."
"F-fifty p-pounds," Goku groaned. "I'm so cold, ChiChi."
"I know, Goku. I have to get these wet clothes off you," ChiChi said. She loosened the obi around Goku's waist and pulled his pants down. She only pulled it down a few inches before she screamed and pushed his pants back up.
"C-chiChi, what's…wrong?" Goku asked.
"Goku, you're not wearing underwear!" ChiChi shrieked.
"S-so?"
"I thought you were!"
"D-does it matter? M-my clothes are wet and you said I have to get them off so I won't get h-hypothermia."
"No, it doesn't, it shouldn't. We're going to be married anyway. I'm going to see you naked on our wedding night." ChiChi reasoned with herself and kept her eyes clothes and removed his pants. She felt it would be improper for her to look at him until they were married.
ChiChi then removed the sash around her waist and unbuttoned the two pink clips and opened her blue dress top. ChiChi pressed her body to Goku's wrapping him as close she could around her blue top. ChiChi put her legs between his so they could be as close as possible and she could transfer as much as her own body heat to his. ChiChi ran her hands up and down Goku's arms in quick motions to warm him up. Her hands were quick to move around his back, chest and her legs moved around tangled in his.
"How do you feel now?" ChiChi asked.
"I'm warming up some, but I'm still kinda cold," Goku said. "I feel sleepy."
"Don't go to sleep yet," ChiChi told him. "Wait until you warm up a bit more." She saw Goku's lips were still blue. She thought carefully before speaking. "I think I know of a way to warm you up."
"Really? How?" Goku asked.
ChiChi covered her mouth with Goku's. She kissed him as hard as she could. Her tongue licked his lips trying to get in. Goku felt warmth spread through his body with ChiChi kissing him so he opened his mouth and felt heat spread through his body further as ChiChi deepened the kiss. Goku pulled ChiChi closer to him which was nearly impossible since ChiChi was already close to him. He wanted to continue the kiss as it warmed his body even more.
Beside the fact, his body was warming up, he was starting to like this kissing. He was liking the way his heart race, the warm tingles up and down his spine. ChiChi moved her hands up and down his chest to his stomach in gentle massages spreading the heat even further and causing a moan to come from Goku's mouth. That never happened to him before. When they broke the kiss, they were both a little out of breath.
"Did you know your lips taste sweet?" Goku asked innocently.
ChiChi blushed. "No, I didn't but thank you, Goku. Yours are back to normal. How do you feel now? Are you warmer?"
"Yeah. I'm a lot warmer now," Goku said.
ChiChi laughed. "I was hoping that would work."
Goku wasn't sure if ChiChi was aware of this but the way ChiChi lazily dragged her fingers across his chest slowly up and down was making his face flush. He could feel the heat and feeling she was invoking wasn't that bad at all.
ChiChi noticed that she was still stroking Goku's chest. She suddenly blushed at what she was doing and stopped.
"Why did you do that?" Goku asked. "I liked that."
ChiChi's blush deepened. "Y-you did? I-I was just trying to keep you warm."
"It did, but it was also something else. I don't know how to describe it but I never felt it before."
"Oh," ChiChi blushed shyly. "It's call pleasure, but there's no reason for that tonight. How's your feet? Are they still cold?"
"A little. I think the feeling is coming back to it."
ChiChi pulled herself out of her dress completely, leaving Goku covered in it as she examined his feet. "There aren't any frostbites," ChiChi said. She put his feet in her hands and massaged them, bringing circulation and warmth to his feet. Goku wiggled his toes around when ChiChi was done.
ChiChi laid beside him. "We should go to sleep and wait the storm out. I am tired after all we've been through today." She gave him a quick kiss. "Go to sleep now."
"Okay," Goku said, "but don't you want to sleep with you clothes?" Goku asked seeing ChiChi only had a bra on now and her pants. "Won't you get cold?"
"This fire will warm me up."
"We can keep each other warm together," Goku said pulling ChiChi closer to him and draping part of her dress on him. "You did say we sleep closer as a married couple and we slept close on Nimbus."
"You have a point." ChiChi agreed and pressed her flesh and body close to Goku as she did earlier. She could feel the heat spread through her. She couldn't believe she was sleeping next to Goku naked. ChiChi shook the thoughts out of her head and watched Goku's eyes slowly droop into sleep.
ChiChi caressed his cheek as Goku started to fall asleep. She was so worried over him when he fought that ice monster and nearly freezing to death. 'Why is Mara doing this to us? What is it that we've done to make her put us through this test and what kind of test is it? No matter what. I won't let her harm you, Goku. I won't,' ChiChi promised as she rest against him and fell asleep.
Mara watch the two in her mirror. A bitter smile on her face. "Well it seems this ChiChi does have growing feelings of love for Goku, but I'll put him to the test and see if there are any feelings Goku has for her. I'll see how far I'll have to go to push him."
To Be Continued