Gohan the Prince
Beaner-Bop
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A/N: No net…for what seems…like months - someone, pinch me, is this really real?
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Chapter Twenty-One: Enter Chichi
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Chichi sent out a small noise of discomfort as she landed in an old room. Mirrors, dust, cobwebs, just as she last remembered, except there was one difference, one she noticed very quickly.
"Gohan's whole class…" She whispered, kneeling down by the footprints, many of them were stepped on top of the other, but she could tell that over at least ten people went down this way. She straightened up and headed for the direction they went, knowing that everyone was stuck there now. A few more steps and she began to notice something new about the room.
It looks sort of…oily…the metallic rainbow colors…she thought to herself, looking around. Magic has been done. I knew it. She began to look around more and noticed that there was another door - not the ones the kids went into, but another sort of ghostly one. She stared at it for a moment before deciding to go over to it. As she did, the door got more and more solid until she was finally straight in front of it. She reached for the knob, opened the door, and began to walk through, hoping her gut was telling her right and that this door would lead her to Gohan and the rest of his class, that, and praying that she knew what she was doing.
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Lenora had started dancing again and Gohan was getting ignored again. Not that he minded. This gave him time to think about the weird looks on her face that warned him if something was going to happen. Sort of open look, 'Miles' is coming, dreamy look, she's thinking about him and will probably dance, angry look, watch out… Gohan turned to her when he noticed that she had stopped dancing. She still looked human, so Gohan had an easier time figuring things out now then when she looked like a skeleton. He noticed her mouth was moving and began to read them as best he could to figure out what she was saying but it turned out that he didn't need to. She began talking normally after a few moments.
"You're with me, aren't you, Miles? You're with me…you're with me…you'll sing, and you'll dance, and you'll play with me. You're sure you're with me Miles?" She asked the wind, looking upwards. Gohan looked at her. Apparently Miles was talking to her. He wondered for a moment how the heck Lenora could figure out all of this out. From the way things were looking now, whatever was being 'told' to her was new. Nothing she remembered from years ago.
She began to dance around again, and pointing in directions muttering 'are you there?' over and over again. She kept pointing at things and apparently the thing that was talking to her kept saying 'no'.
Gohan was actually feeling sorry for her at this point, the thing, her mind, whatever it was, was confusing her and not giving her a straight answer to where her 'Miles' was. He watched her for a minute longer, shaking his head sadly in pity. What's playing with her? He thought to himself sadly. Gohan was about to think more when Lenora turned all the way around and pointed straight at him.
"Are you there?" She asked clearly, her eyes boring directly into Gohan's. He felt even worse when she began to smile at him slowly, happily. Uh oh. Gohan thought to himself.
Apparently the 'thing' told her 'yes'.
"Hello Miles."
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Videl looked upwards quickly, along with ghost. They were looking around the castle, wondering if anyone was around. They heard a large crash from somewhere in the lower levels, it was sort of distant and far off but it didn't take the two of them long to look at each other and nod before they began speeding for it.
If we're lucky, its someone who can help us. Videl thought. And if we're not…it's Lenora. She thought bitterly. She hated the skeleton more and more as time went on. She wndered how Gohan was dealing with her for a moment until she noticed that Audrey's mother, they settled on that for now because for some reason the ghost couldn't remember her name and Videl couldn't think of it either, was standing in front of her and motioning for her to stop.
"This is where the noise came from?" She asked the ghost silently. She nodded her head quickly, her eyes darting around everywhere, nervous. Videl felt better knowing that she wasn't the only one.
She looked at the seven doors that were in this hallway before taking in a deep breath and nodding so that she could settle herself a little more.
"Okay." She said silently, nodding her head, "Lets… let's do this." And with that they split up to check the different doors.
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Chichi winced more at the noise than the pain when she fell through the doorway. Looking around, she recognized it as their old basement as it was when she was a girl, though there was less stuff in it then she remembered. She shook her head, getting her mind back onto the task at hand. Got to help Gohan and those kids… she thought to herself, standing up, dusting her clothes off. It wasn't long till she heard footsteps in the hallway.
She waited for the person to talk, only hearing one person's footsteps. She was slightly surprised when one person began to speak as though another person was right there with them.
"This is where the noise came from?" The voice asked. No answer but Chichi wouldn't have noticed anyway. She knew that voice, it was one of the students. The one that Gohan talked to, the one that-
She smiled lightly, happy about which of the students she got to meet first. and whoever is with them… She remembered how the other person was talking. She heard the opening of one door at a time an wondered if there was only one person there. After a while she was positive that there was. Wondering if the girl had asked the rhetorical question to herself, she got slightly confused before she chided herself again on the fact that she was here for a reason, and everything that she was thinking about wasn't it. She began to go up the stairs slowly, and quietly, positive that the girl hadn't seen her.
Opening the door just as quietly and closing it without the girl noticing, she watched her for a moment before clearing her throat, causing the girl to look at her quickly.
"Looking for me?"
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A/N: Ow, ow, ow…hands HURT…