Gohan the Prince
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Chapter Eighteen: Split Up
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Videl swallowed, looking around the room. The skeleton was still in front of them, staring at them as though it were expecting some miracle, she thought, maybe… Videl never really knew how often she looked at expressions on a human's face to see how they were feeling. When one was put face to face with a skeleton, however, whose faces movement is very little, you learn just how much you truly depend on small things like that. Videl took in a breath with her eyes closed. When she opened them again, Lenora was on the other side of the room and Gohan was beginning to stand and to follow her out. Not before giving his hand to Videl however.
"Ready?" He asked her. Videl looked at him like he was nuts.
"Ready for what?" She asked. Gohan just shrugged his shoulders and pointed over to Lenora who she guessed was staring at them lazily. How could the skeleton see without eyeballs.
"How should I know?" The two began to follow the skeleton who just left the room. Videl was about to make a comment about running into people when she began to listen a little bit more closely to her surroundings.
"Where did everyone go? There aren't anymore…people…music…everything's gone…" She whispered to Gohan. All he could do himself. He leaned back down though and whispered into her ear.
"I think it's some sort of pattern." Videl looked at him confused so Gohan extended his explanation.
"I think with every room we go into, time changes while we're inside, so that when we come back out-"
"-we're in a completely different setting…sorta." Gohan looked at Videl in surprise, but covered it up before she noticed.
"Yeah - that's just about it. It's kind of a loose idea, but its one of the very few that we have." Videl nodded.
"No kidding." The two of them looked back to Lenora who was standing on top of the stairs, ready to descend.
"Quiet…quiet. I won't…be able…to h-hear my Miles if you speak. Miles, Miles… I lo-love you Miles…" The skeleton said to the air as she began to walk down the staircase, not noticing the strange look that Gohan and Videl gave each other before once again, following her.
Videl's fears of following the skeleton seemed to come back to her ten fold for some reason when the 'woman' began to dance in the ball room. She seemed as though she had a partner, and the other two didn't really want to see if there was a chance that there really was somewhere three. Luckily, Lenora stopped dancing at the other side of the ballroom and was once again standing by the door to the outside, waiting for Gohan and Videl to hurry up.
"We-we must leave soon-soon. Quickly, quickly, I love you Miles, I lo-love you Miles…" Videl and Gohan looked at each other again, both trying to make sure that the other one was calm because there was no way in hell that they were.
What the hell am I doing? Gohan thought to himself. He watched as Lenora's bony hand wrapped around the golden doorknob on the main door, beginning to push it open. I'm following a-a freaking SKELETON around. This can't be happening…
"The forest will let us hide… trees are tents, and branches let us h-hide…" Lenora told them silently, heading over to the forest. Videl began to wonder why Lenora was planning on stopping already, when they just got out of the castle, when her question was answered for her.
The rain began to beat down in seconds, just soaking her to the bone. Videl was positive that when she stopped getting wet, she'd be sneezing a mile a minute. She began to rub her arms, trying to get feeling back into them. 'I hate nightmares…' She thought to herself, trying to stay close to Gohan who was also getting quite soaked, right along with her.
When the two of them finally reached the cover of the forest, it took a while to actually have less rain pounding on them, all the rain having been able to get through the beginning bits of the branches in the front of the forest. Lenora stopped moving and began to curl up her body on a rock that they were about to pass, making her look a little like those skeletons in movies that were ready to jump out at you. Videl berated herself and began to find a spot far away from 'Lenora', so that she wouldn't BE able to jump out at her. She's had enough surprises for today.
"Sleep babies, sleep. Wakey in the morn'in…" Lenora whispered to them, before drifting off, the two of them guessed. Videl began to get comfortable in the position she was in, ready to go to sleep - maybe it would wake her up from this dream, when Gohan walked over and sat beside her.
"Kind of weird, isn't it?" She nodded her head as she brought her hand up to her mouth and yawned into it.
"'Night, Gohan." Gohan nodded to her.
"G'Night Videl."
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Videl's eyes snapped open when she felt something curl around her neck. She looked around for Gohan, trying to find out why he wasn't helping her when she saw that it was Lenora who was holding her to the tree.
"Nasty g-girl… Mean, mean, mean. Don't think I deserve the help. Mean, mean, mean. What a nasty little girl you are." Videl's mouth widened in shock and her hands immidiately raised and tried to get Lenora's bony hands from her throat, but it seemed that no matter what she did, the bones wouldn't leave.
She had a feeling that from the slight movement in Lenora's jaw, she was beginning to smirk, she did not think that that was a good thing.
"Nasty girl, nasty girl, but so pretty. Shan't travel with me, no, shan't travel with me…" Videl was about to pass out from lack of oxygen when Lenora picked her up and threw her the way that they came into the forest. Videl took in a few deep breaths, trying not to pass out, but without anyone there to help her she felt herself slightly dip into the soft ground beneath her, wondering how come she wasn't waking up yet, and where was Gohan anyway?
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When Videl opened her eyes again, she didn't see an outdoor scenery or anything that she thought she would, had she stayed alive. She looked around the room and began to bring her hands up to rub her shoulders when a small draft entered the room she was in. She was pretty sure she was in another room in the castle, however, how she got here was an entirely different matter.
Videl looked down at her attire when she felt the sleeve. The dress she was wearing was made out of rough, worn material, but it was warm and it was currently keeping her dry so she didn't complain. It looked slight a very worn dark green dress and she knew that it suited her better now than it would have, had it just come off the rack. After playing with the material for a bit, trying to calm her nerves she began to look around.
"Um…uh…th-THANK YOU…" She yelled, trying to see if whoever brought her inside could hear her. She saw a mirror on the other side of the room and began to walk over to it - anything to distract her from what was going on right now. When she got there the first thing that she noticed were the marks all over her neck. She grimaced when she touched one lightly, a bit of pain beginning to run through her.
"This is so not good…" she whispered to herself as she trailed a finger around all the marks. It seemed that enough time had passed that really the only parts you could see were exactly where the fingers were placed on her throat. Not that that makes this any easier… She thought to herself nastily, flinching and closing her eyes as once again some pain came through at the light touch.
When Videl opened her eyes again, she screamed and turned around.
There behind her was a woman, whose hair was silently floating on the non-existent wind that was in the room. She opened her mouth and silently moved her lips, Videl saw the movement often enough to know what she just said and silently nodded her head back to the woman, unsure of what else to do.
"H-Hello to you…too." She whispered silently.
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A/N: My hands…are going…to fall…off. Bye.
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