Gohan the Prince

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Chapter Sixteen: Lights Off

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Gohan and Videl were headed into one of the rooms, it wasn't going to be the same one as the portrait, having heard noises from it before. Gohan rolled his eyes. It's occupants were of two people, both already married, and wondering how they can get rid of their spouses so they can live together, forever.

A bad soap opera.

Only real.

Videl of course didn't know this and was wondering why Gohan just didn't take them there.

"Come one Gohan, I hardly like that room and the ball room!" She said, struggling in his grasp. Now I know it's just a dream! No way can Gohan still be holding me after all of that! …How come he's beating me in my dream though? Is this a nightmare? A moment after she thought that, a bolt of lightning flashed through one of the windows they by and loud and groaning bit of thunder followed it making Videl close her eyes tightly. That wasn't funny…

Gohan looked back at her confused, wondering why she had an irritated look on her face but decided not to question it; the safer idea… for both of them.

"Think about how much I'll like the rest of the rooms in this place!" Gohan rolled his eyes but kept on walking. Sometimes Videl really could be a spoiled brat, growing up as she did.

Of course Gohan would NEVER say this to her.

Talk about a way to end a life…

And for some reason he kept on walking…

He didn't know why he kept on walking but none of the other doors he guessed seemed very 'exciting', if that was the right word for it. It was like an invisible hand was gently tugging him to some door that he couldn't see. Whatever presence was doing this to him, he let it. He was pretty sure that it was 'someone' in the state of the word. He thought that once he saw the face of a young woman, transparent, her coloring was slightly on the white side. However, if he turned his head fully he couldn't see anyone. Something real, or a trick of the light?

He decided not to mention any of these findings to Videl until he found a way to make it sound all fantasy like… Either that or just do it normally and hope she doesn't pick out any facts of the happening that way…

I'm REALLY going out on a limb… he thought to himself miserably.

After a while more of walking, Gohan finally began to turn. He heard Videl's sigh of relief and tried to not roll his eyes, it was a strong temptation.

The inside was sort of plain, there was white wallpaper, but it looked old, turning a slight yellowish tint and beginning to peel from the corners. The floor was just wood that seemed to have a thin coat of dust on it, enough that when he walked in he could see a slight bit of his footprint in it.

There wasn't a window but there were candles burning so Gohan could see all of this. Gohan thought that something seemed out of place, but didn't say anything in case of worrying Videl. However, Videl noticed what was wrong.

She thought that if she put her hand over the flame of the candle, nothing would happen and her hand would feel normal even if she just put it straight into the flame. That wasn't the case.

"Ow…" She whimpered slightly, as she brought her finger up to her mouth. The thought that she felt the burn of the flame cued her in on something that Gohan didn't want her to know. How did I feel that? Is this thing real? She looked to her left and saw Gohan hovering in the air for some reason. "Naaaah…"

Gohan looked at her when she said that wondering why she did. "Everything okay Videl?" She nodded.

"Just peachy."

"Great, umm… maybe we should sit down…" Videl did as he said and Gohan followed suit. "Alright, I think I figured out what our…eh… quest is…" Videl nodded once.

"Yeah? What is it? Get a move on Gohan…" He glared at her slightly but did as she asked.

"We're…in the past. I think we were sent here to help a girl, by the name of Lenora or something." Videl nodded again.

"So…what is she or who depending…?" Gohan shrugged.

"I think she's the wife of this one guy that began to cheat on her." He heard Videl's sounds of disgust.

"Ugh, some quest. Why are my dreams always so weird?" Gohan chuckled nervously and shrugged.

"Heh heh… yeah."

"Hmm… so now what do we do?" Gohan thought about that one for a second when all the candles were blown out. "Why do I have a feeling that that was NOT good?" Gohan heard Videl ask herself. He looked around the room immediately, trying to see why all the candles went out. The heard a slight wind and the door blew shut making both of the teenagers tense.

"G-Gohan?" Videl asked for him silently. Gohan scooted over to where she was and grabbed her hand.

"Right here Videl."
"Good." There was a slight sound of footsteps on the floor making Videl and Gohan both nervous. The room they were in was quite large, just a little smaller than the ball room downstairs and the footsteps were on the other side of the room… and walking straight toward them.

Videl didn't know whether to stay or bolt but decided on staying because that seemed to be what Gohan was doing. He had better not have fainted on me while some nut job is walking around… She thought to herself.

When the foot steps were about five feet in front of them, the lights all snapped on and Videl was ready to scream.

In front of them was a skeleton, just a plain skeleton, and it was looking at them with no eyeballs, and it was creeping the teenagers out.

Before either of them could scream or bolt, the skeleton began to speak to them in a soft women's voice.

"My name…is…Lenora. I-I-I need y-your help…"

The two teens looked at each other before looking back at the skeleton, or Lenora, and both slowly began to stand.

"W-What do you need help with?" Gohan asked her, Videl was to busy gaping at her and slowly bringing her arm up and pointing wildly at Lenora. Both skeleton and boy just ignored her.

"I need you to help me find my Miles… I-I miss him." Gohan nodded, remembering the letters he read.

"Um…we'll…see what we can do…" The feeling this skeleton gave him scared him for some reason. He didn't know why though. It was the feeling he got in the ball room. Was she the one I felt watching us? The skeleton cocked her head to the side, watching Gohan think. It was weird watching a skeleton walking around by itself and just staring at you with it's lifeless...eye sockets.

Gohan shook his head quickly and brought his hand up to his head. He was thinking a wee bit to hard…

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A/N: Short chapter, I know, but that's as much as I could write and still get out on time - I'm trying to see what schedule I can actually pull off at the moment. If none of this made sense, sorry, I'm up to early for me at the moment -.-;;

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