Gohan the Prince
Beaner-Bop
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A/N: My fingers are loose and ready to type - my mind is ready to pour the ideas, whether or not this is temporary or not, HERE I COME!
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NOTE - READ OR YOU WILL NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE FIC!!!
I'm changing the legend of Frying Pan Mountain slightly. I'm going to have the fire ALWAYS around the mountain. It was there for years and years, GOT THAT?! Lol. Now you can read the fic.
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Disclaimer: I hate these things
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"Videl, I want you to look through the flames alright, and then I want you to tell me where you think we are, just take a random guess, okay?" Videl nodded her head slowly, but Gohan didn't take his hand off her mouth until he made her promise that she wouldn't scream if he let go.
Videl did as he told her to, thinking he was nuts the entire time. Her eyes caught a flash of the road and something clicked.
"Gohan… are we at your house?" he nodded.
"Well, not exactly my house but that's close enough. We're at the location for it anyway." Videl nodded and asked him another question.
"Why the hell exactly are we here?"
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Chapter Fifteen: Voices in the Dark
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Gohan shrugged at her question, not really knowing himself. He really wished that Baba was easier to get information from, even when you did her fee for information it was still hard to understand. She always spoke in riddles it seemed. Sadly, she didn't even give them a 'riddle' to at least give them a hint at whatever was going on. He looked back at the fire silently, not really thinking of anything. Videl's slap to the face brought him back to the real world however.
"Earth to Gohan - the guy who knows his way around here better than me! I'm getting cold and it's getting dark, come on…I want to stop somewhere and SLEEP!" Gohan nodded and grinned. He was just about to pick Videl up and fly when he remembered that she didn't know that he COULD fly… Not gonna be the most pleasant experience having her find out either…
While Gohan was having the inner struggle of showing Videl he could fly, said girl was looking at the flames, a safe distance away of course. Now that she knew it was 'safe' of sorts, looking at it and watching it didn't seem to be a problem. She was shocked to see that there was no smoke coming from the fire(1). She turned to Gohan and asked him.
"Gohan?"
"I canf- What?" Videl looked at him strangely but shrugged it off and pointed to the flames.
"Where's the smoke?" Gohan looked at the fire, never really thinking about that before but got the answer quickly enough.
"Nothing for the fire to burn. It's more of a security system than anything. See the grass under the fire? There shouldn't BE grass there, after all, this fire has been burning since the beginning of my family's rule…I think. I don't know that much about my family's history…a lot of it was lost when the first castle burne-" Gohan and Videl both looked up at the castle when a loud shriek went through the air. Both felt their 'hero' instincts kick and ran into the castle, not really aware of the other.
They ran in, straight to an empty hall. The silence and the coldness of the building unnerved Gohan but Videl didn't seem fazed. She wasn't really aware of anything that had been happening to her lately. To her, all it was, was a dream, which happens to her a lot after drinking three high content caffeine colas and playing a video game or two. She nodded her head while thinking that. That's all this is, just my mind changing my usual everyday life to fit it more like a video game… Though why is Gohan my ally? She didn't stay on that thought very long. She was pretty sure that to get out of this 'game' all she needed to do was end it. Of course she had known idea what the end WAS, but she was sure that if she just went with the flow, she'd get there.
Gohan however knew for a fact that what was going wasn't a game, and was more cautious, though, for the two, that's actually quite normal. He knew that the scream came from upstairs so he immediately started to look for a staircase. When he found one, he grabbed Videl's arm gently to get her attention and pointed to the stairs. She nodded and the two of them began to run over to them.
They climbed the stairs, Gohan leading because he had a pretty good idea of where the person was generally supposed to be. They got to the top of the staircase and doors littered the huge hallway. They were in the middle of it and they could go either forward, left, or right. Gohan pointed to the right, pretty positive that that was where he heard the scream from.
As they ran another scream cut through the air making them run faster. Gohan knew which room the person was screaming from and passed Videl so he could get to it first. Turning to his left, he opened the door.
Inside, there was no one. When Videl caught up to him and looked over his shoulder he heard her silent whisper of 'What the hell…?' He couldn't have agreed with what she said more. Inside was nothing except paintings on the wall and a window that was open with the curtain lightly fluttering in front of them from the light wind outside. Gohan looked at all the portraits, wondering silently if any of them had a clue or something on them. That's when Gohan's eyes fell onto a familiar painting. It was the portrait where he found the letters. He didn't know why but he felt compelled to see if the letters were still there. He walked over to it and started to remove the painting from the frame, leaving Videl to wonder what the hell it was that he was doing.
He couldn't find them and he felt foolish at trying to look. He looked back to Videl who was looking at him oddly. I don't blame her… He thought to himself silently. Videl cocked an eyebrow at him, asking him silently why the hell he just did that. Gohan shrugged.
"I saw this painting at the castle, the one we were all at before. The letters that I handed to Baba, you know? I found those in it. I was wondering if maybe they were there…" He realized that he probably sounded insane to Videl, he just said he was trying to find something that he already had, maybe she was thinking that he needed a cat scan…
To Gohan's shock Videl nodded her head.
"Gotcha." Gohan looked at her strangely and Videl shrugged. "This is a dream, right? I was wondering why it took me so long to figure it out. It makes perfect sense! The games I played before going to sleep was that one for the Budokai, which is where the tournament came in and that one haunted house one. Though the whole thing with you being a prince doesn't make much sense…" Gohan finally saw a way to get Videl to listen to him throughout this and he was not going to lose it because she figured out that this isn't a dream.
"What does in a dream? Heh heh heh…" Videl nodded at his answer, not noticing his nervousness or was so used to ignoring it that it wasn't strange.
"Yeah, I guess you're right…so how come there's nothing going on here? I mean, I'm pretty sure I heard that scream twice…" Gohan thought a little bit about this one, wondering how to explain it to her.
"I'm your…uh…guardian through all of this. Basically that means that I look out for you, keep you safe, and answer your questions as well as I can. Kay?" Videl nodded and Gohan gave out a sigh of relief. Maybe all of this would be easier than he thought… Especially if he could get Videl thinking that this was a dream for the entire time, though that could prove difficult, because from he was standing, it looked like they were going to be here for a while, wherever here is anyway…
Videl took her attention off Gohan and looked at the other portraits in the room, not knowing what else to do. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Gohan leaving the room and turned around to follow him with a 'Hey, wait up!'
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"Who are the contenders for the tournament on this side?" Baba asked. If you were there you'd think she were speaking at her normal speed, but if Gohan and Videl were there, they would have probably aged about five years. The time they were in was going much faster than the time with everyone entering the match.
Of course, the only person who knew this at the time was Baba.
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Videl was wondering why Gohan left the room in such a hurry when she heard it.
Music.
"G-Gohan?" He turned to her and put his finger in front of his mouth, showing her to be quiet. She nodded slightly before the two of them went down the stairs. Her eyes widened as they walked into the ballroom that they walked through before. Of course when they walked through it, it didn't look like it did now.
Richly decorated with couples moving across the floor as one, Videl looked to see where the music was coming from but before she had the chance she felt Gohan's hand on her arm and pulling her down the final stairs.
She looked from him and then to the couples. She looked at Gohan angrily.
"Gohan! What the hell are you doing? In case you haven't noticed, we don't exactly fit in with the rest of the people here." Gohan shook his head at her.
"Nobody here can see us." Videl looked at him to see if he was joking and saw that his face was serious. She looked back to the couples on the floor and for the first time in a while she began to feel sort of alone. Though why she wasn't quite sure.
She was wondering what the two of them were supposed to do now when the question was answered for her.
Her sight went dark, she was unable to do anything. She could still hear the music and the couples, and the music, and could still feel Gohan beside her.
On what was happening though, she was a complete loss. She felt Gohan's hand tighten on hers slightly and winced, wondering if Gohan knew that he was strong enough to do that in the first place.
"You need to," a voice said, Videl stiffened but she felt Gohan come closer to her. She wasn't sure however if that relieved her or not. "You need to…to…save me... Where is my Miles? Where is my Miles? Where is he…?"
The ballroom came back to Videl and she looked up to see Gohan looking nervous.
"Did you hear that too Gohan?" She asked him. The boy looked down at her and nodded his head slightly.
"Yea…I think I know what may be going on Videl." She cocked her head to the side, waiting for him to elaborate. He looked around the room nervously and shook his head 'no'. "Not here…" Videl looked at him confused.
"Why not? It's not like anyone could hear us." Gohan shrugged.
"True, but whether or not they hear us isn't the point, the fact that it might be easier to discuss this in a quiet place though…" Videl nodded at that and pointed to the stairs.
"Back up I'm guessing?" Gohan nodded.
"Yeah, it's probably the best." As the two of them were walking up the stairs, Gohan looked at the people on the floor nervously. He had the oddest feeling that someone was watching them, that someone in the crowd really was able to see them.
The thought unnerved him but he made sure not to let Videl know any of this. The safest thing for her at the moment was for her to keep believing it was a game.
Gohan hoped that they didn't get into any situations though that would force him to make her see that none of this was a game.
He shook his head dejectedly, trying to clear his thoughts. All he really need to pay attention to was what he said around Videl.
Now how to explain something… he thought to himself, that even I don't know a damn thing about?
A true problem.
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A/N: *whew* man, my head hurts *pouts* I had to pull ideas from it when my writer's block wasn't fully gone - don't you hate doing that? Let me tell you something- IT SUCKS!!!!
Lol - now that that's over please review and LATERZ!
Beaner-Bop