Author's Note: This chapter is definitely destined to be crazy. I just had chili for
dinner! ;
Z Basket
By Pikachu Hunter
Chapter Two: The Madness Begins
"Oh, Goku, you're back!" Chi-Chi pointed a sauce-covered spoon at her
husband, who had just walked into the house. "Gohan and Goten are upstairs. Will
you call them for dinner?" She asked, putting the spoon back into a large pot and
stirring one last time before turning a knob to shut off the burner the pot sat on.
"Sure thing, Chi-Chi!" Goku walked over to the staircase. "HEY BOYS, COME
DOWN TO EAT!" Goku yelled loudly.
"I could have done that, Goku! I meant go GET them!" Chi-Chi yelled,
putting the pot on a potholder on the counter, leaving the spoon inside. She put a
bowl at each place at the four-seated dinner table.
"Oh. Too late now." Goku said, sitting down at the table and seeing
seventeen-year-old Gohan race seven-year-old Goten for 'the good spot' at the
table. 'The good spot' was the place beside Goku, where he sat at the end of the
table, then chi-Chi on the corner beside him, leaving a space at the end and a spot
by Goku. The two always wanted to sit by their father and hear what he'd done that
day. He usually had funny stories about how Vegeta had embarassed Bulma in the
grocery store, or how Mr. Popo had tripped over Piccolo's extended leg again.
Goten rushed ahead of Gohan, and slid into the good spot quickly, trying not
to tip over the table. Gohan slowed his pace, havnig already lost to his younger
brother, and sat at the end seat. "Hiya, Gohan, Goten!" Goku waved. Chi-Chi placed
the pot in the middle of the table, dipping the large spoon in and dumping the
contents into Goku's bowl first.
"Mm, chili!" Goku licked his lips, then started to gobble down the meal as
fast as it was physically possible for him to do. After Chi-Chi had filled Gohan's
bowl, the teenager followed in his father's footsteps and gorged the bowlful just as
fast. Goten did so as well, wanting to be just like his big brother and his dad.
"I see you have all brought your appetites to the table." Chi-Chi said, filling
her own bowl. "You can help yourselves, now, everyone's had firsts." She sat down
and began to eat slowly. Goku, Gohan, and Goten's hands all reached for the spoon
at once, and left three hands with a tight grip on it, none willing to let the other
have the spoon first. Goku tugged his way, and Goten had to let go.
It was between Goku and Gohan now, both on either end of the table.
"Gohan, let your father have the sponn, you know he won't let go of it." Chi-
Chi said, putting her bowl on the counter. She'd finished, and wasn't planning on
taking more. There was no way they'd let her, they were too hungry themselves.
"Aw, okay..." Gohan let go.
"Good boy." Chi-Chi hugged him.
"Hm? QUAAAAACK!" Chi-Chi and Gohan were the victims of a curse they
didn't know they had on them. Gohan was a duck. Chi-Chi, being the hugger and
not the hugged, had not changed. Goku coughed out a mouthful of chili.
"WHOA, GOHAN!" He yelled, seeing the duck flapping his wings in the air,
and squacking in shock. Goku ran to the sink with his lemonade, dumped the liquid,
and exchanged it for hot water from the tap. He splashed it over the excited duck's
head, and left a screaming boy in it's place.
"Yah, what's wrong with me?!" Gohan asked, still flapping his arms in the air.
"Ha, I forgot about the curse." Goku said.
"Curse?" Chi-Chi asked.
Meanwhile, at the Breifs manor...
"Vegeta, you're back! You've been gone for days, and--AHHH!" Bulma
screamed, finding Vegeta, who had just stepped in the doorway from a week of
training away from home without notice, had transformed into a dark blue cat. It
meowed loudly.
"AHH, YOU'RE A CAT!" Bulma screamed and pointed. Vegeta hadn't noticed it
until she'd said that, then looked at his hands, or, rather, paws. The cat let out a
loud howl. He ran in circles, then noticed his tail and found that somewhat
interesting, letting out an evil grin. Bulma noticed his obvious thoughts.
"Oh, no, you don't! I am NOT letting you test that thing out in a full moon!"
She yelled. Vegeta, in his new cat form, slumped. "Mrow..." he complained.
"Oh, just--" the phone in the living room rang. "STAY THERE!" Bulma said.
She ventured into the living room, following the sound of the cordless phone.
Finding it, she picked up on the third ring. "Hullo?" She picked up the phone.
"Hi, Bulma, it's Chi-Chi!" Chi-Chi said into the phone with a concerned tone
in her voice. Bulma started to burst into tears. "Oh, Chi-Chi, it's awful! Vegeta just
went POOF when I hugged him, and...and...he's a BLUE CAT!" Bulma was starting to
go on about nonsense words, and wasn't making much sense, if any at all.
"BULMA! Calm down, Goku knows whats going on. We're all gonna meet at
your house, okay?" Chi-Chi would have grabbed her friend by the shoulders if it
wern't for the fact that they were talking on the telephone.
"Okay..." Bulma said. "Will Vegeta be normal again? Is he a cat forever?"
"No, there's a way to fix it. In a half-hour, when we're all there, though,
okay?" Chi-Chi answered.
"Uh-huh." Bulma nodded.
"Okay, see you then. Bye."
"Bye." Bulma hung up the phone by pressing 'end call'. Then she smiled
wickedly at Vegeta. He didn't like the look in her eyes.
"Haha, I'm going to have some fun with you while you're in cat form..." she
picked him up by the fur on the back of the neck, and walked into the bathroom.
"Mrow? Meeeee-ooooooow!" Vegeta wriggled in protest, seeing Bulma begin
to fill the bathtub. "Oh yes, Vegeta, you are finally going to TAKE A BATH!" Bulma
said. She filled the tub with bubbles and warm water, then dropped Vegeta in. He
let out a loud meow before re-emerging in his usual form. "HA!" He pointed. The he
looked down. "I'm wearing my clothes in the bathtub?"
"Guess so--but while you're in there, SCRUB UP!" Bulma said, angry her fun
was over so soon. She tossed a bottle of shampoo, a bar of soap, conditioner, and a
long scrub brush at him.
"Darn it...I know that kniving little sneak Yamcha is behind this..." he
grumbled as he began to lather up soap in his palms.
DING-DONG. The doorbell rang. Bulma ran to the door and threw it open.
"Master Roshi? Pu'ar? Oolong? TURTLE?" She said, surprised to see the group on her
doorstep. "Well, come on in, I guess..." she led them into the front room. Roshi
seated himself on the couch. Pu'ar and Oolong began to argue over the television
set remote, and Turtle shook his head at them, shamed to know such idiodic
animals.
The doorbell rang again. "Yamcha? What are you doing here?" She was even
more confused at the appearance of her ex-boyfriend. "I got a call from Goku," he
shrugged, stepping inside and sitting down beside Master Roshi.
"Okay..." Bulma hadn't time to ask what the call was about, for the doorbell
rang three more times when she stood to hesitate the strange visits.
"C'mon in, Piccolo, Choutzu, Tein, Mr. Popo, Dende, Icarus, K--KING KAI?!"
Bulma looked at the simple being, standing on the crowded doorstep in his
traditional clothing.
"Don't forget Bubbles and Gregory!" King Kai wagged his finger at her.
"Of course," she showed them the way in. Then, rushing to the door, she let
in Majin Buu, Bee, Hercule, Videl, KibitoKai, Old Kai, and--
"TRUNKS BREIFS!" Bulma grabbed the eight-year-old by the ear.
"Ow, ow, ow, Mom, that hurts!" Trunks attempted to free himslef, but only
caused her to pinch harder.
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?! I'VE BEEN WORRIED SICK ALL WEEK,
WONDERING WHERE YOU WERE!" Bulma dragged him into the bathroom. "WAS HE
TRAINING WITH YOU?!" Bulma demanded the answer from Vegeta, who screamed in
a high voice and pulled the curtain around the tub, surprised by the bathroom
intrusion.
"Oh...no?" Vegeta lied.
"You tell me the truth, or I'll tell Goku where Goten's blues clues tapes
REALLY went!" Bulma referred to the time Goten had had a sleepover with Trunks
the year before, and brought some blues clues VHS's. When he packed his bag the
next morning, he'd reported to his friend's mother to be on the lookout for the
tapes. A week later she'd caught Vegeta watching and singing along with them in
the basement's t.v. room.
"YES, YES, HE WAS TRAINING WITH ME!" Vegeta admitted.
"Aha, the truth comes out! So why didn't you come home with your father,
Trunks?" Bulma asked suspiciously.
"I stopped at the collectible cards store on the way home, and Dad just kept
on going! I made a few...purchases!" Trunks held out a bag of booster packs for Yu-
Gi-Oh! cards.
"Ooh..." Bulma took the offering.
"We can play later, Mom, I want to hang out with Goten now!" Trunks tried
to get away, but it was too late. He'd been hugged.
"Urrrr?" Trunks looked around the room from a particularly low point of veiw.
He'd become an armadillo.
"Trunks?" Bulma blinked at the creature now rolling about in his curled up
shell. The armadillo stopped. "Urrrrr?" He answered.
"Oh, Trunks. Get in the bath. You could use one too. Catch your son,
Vegeta!" Bulma tossed the rolled up boy to the man in the tub. He missed, and
Trunks the armadillo plunged into the tub, returning to his normal half-Saiyan state.
"Hiya, Dad! That was weird!" He said, peeking out of the shower curtain, his head
below Vegeta's. "GET OUT!" They screamed girlsihly, like a boy had just run into the
girls locker room, pelting Bulma with rubber ducks and handfuls of bubbles.
"Eeek!" Bulma fled the attack, shutting the door beihnd herself.
"Hello." Android Eighteen, Marron in arms, said, face to face with Bulma.
Krillin was at her side. "Hiya," he waved.
"Hi. Make yourselves at home in the living room, that's where everyone is
meeting. I'll be right over, as soon as I get Trunks and Vegeta out of the bath."
Bulma said.
"You guys are really traditional with the Japanese culture, eh?" Krillin said.
"Huh?"
"The father-son bath thingy?" Krillin explained to confused Bulma.
"Oh...yeah..." she shrugged. Walking back into the bathroom, she dismissed
Krillin and his family. "GET OUT OF THE TUB, EVERYONE BUT GOKU IS HERE!" She
screamed at them.
"Crud...how do we get past them all?" Vegeta said, wrapping a white towel
around his waist, then another around his son's waist.
"That's your problem. If you two had have taken a bath on a regular basis, I
wouldn't have thrown you in the tub!" Bulma walked off.
"Think we can run really fast up the stairs without losing our towels, Dad?"
Truknks asked, taking hold of the doorknob nervously.
"Not a chance, son." Vegeta said.
"Let's go."
"CHARGE!" Vegeta shouted, and the two rushed out of the bathroom, up the
stairs, through the entire main floor, where a roomful of stunned people watched
the two Saiyans race up the stairs and listened to their feet batter the ground,
heading into different rooms to change into dry clothes upstairs.
"Ahem..." Roshi coughed. The room stayed quiet after experiencing stuck up
prince and son run up the stairs stark naked. They'd lost their towels going up the
stairs from the basement, nobody knowing they were ever in towels.
"Er...I'll go talk to them..." Bulma was about to make her way up the flight of
stairs leading to the top floor when the doorbell rang a final time. She flung it
opewn, finding Goku, Gohan, Goten, and Chi-Chi present and accounted for on the
doorstep. "Hi, make yourselves at home. I'll be right back."
"Okay..." Goku watched his friend run up the stairs, and heard her yelling at
the top of her lungs. Everyone in the living room listened to every word Bulma said,
still speechless at the events following Krillin's appearance at the gathering.
"WHAT THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING, YOU TWO JUST EMBARASSED ME
LIKE NEVER BEFORE! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?!" Bulma screeched.
"But Bulma, we--"
"SHUT UP AND LET ME FINISH, VEGETA!"
"Just as long as--"
"SHUT UP!"
"..."
"YOU TWO BETTER SHOW UP DOWNSTAIRS WEARING MORE THAN ENOUGH
CLOTHES TO COVER YOURSELVES, AND I'D BETTER NOT SEE AN INCH OF SKIN,
NOT ONE BIT!" Bulma ordered.
"What about--"
"JUST DO IT, TRUNKS!" Bulma yelled. She stomped back down the stairs. As
all was STILL quiet, everyone heard Vegeta let out a releived "touchy...".
"WHAT WAS THAT?!" Bulma ran up the stairs.
"I didn't mean it, Bulma, really!"
"SURE YOU DIDN'T!"
"I didn't! OW OW OW!" Vegeta cried in pain. Bulma, now content, walked
happily down the stairs on the couch. She was followed by Trunks and Vegeta, who
took Bulma's words literally--they were wearing burka's(as advertised in middle-
eastern countries and religions)that covered them from head to toe, the only visible
parts of them being the eyes, where there was a slot to see.
"Change cultures, Vegeta?" Goku laughed.
"Shut up, Kakkarot. You'd be wearing the same after just being accused of
streaking through a living room full of close friends." Vegeta crossed his arms under
the burka, the shape not coming out on the outside of the complete shawl.
"Streaking? And did you say friends? You admit it? We're your friends?" Goku
said. Vegeta ripped off the burka and punched Goku in the gut.
"I never said that, Kakkarot! And no--I wasn't streaking!"
"But you just said--"
"I said I was ACCUSED of streaking! There's a difference! We lost our
towels!" Vegeta pointed at Goku, making sure the information got through his think
skull.
"Ohh...well, anyways, let's go ahead and explain this curse." Goku said.
"WHAT curse, Kakkarot?"
"The one where me and my family and my friends and their families all have
this curse on them how when they're hugged by someone of the opposite gender
they turn into animals..."
"WHAT?!" The whole room stared at Goku.
"So that's why I changed into a cat..." Vegeta pondered aloud.
"A cat?! You turned into a widdle kitty cat, Veggie?" Goku teased.
"SHUT UP, KAKKAROT!"
"Well, yes, that's the curse. And the only way to reverse it is to come in
contact with warm or hot water!" Goku went on.
"So, what, this is on ALL of us?" Roshi looked around the room.
Yup! You're all my friends! Oh, and you'd best explain this to your distant
relatives." Goku nodded.
"Oh, great. What am I, mom? I have no idea what that was I turned into
there!" Trunks tugged on the sleeve of his mother's shirt.
"You're an armadillo, Trunks." Bulma patted his head. Everyone laughed.
"Hey, I bet everyone else's animals are even more stupid!" Trunks yelled at
all the laughing people.
"What're we waitnig for? Let's see who's what!" Goku said. "Hug away!"
---
What are the others going to transform into? What about Pu'ar, Oolong, and Turtle?
Since they're animals already, will the curse effect them? What about Goku?
Everyone will be especially excited to see his animal--it's bound to be something
loyal, majestic, and strong--right? What about Trunks? is his animal really the
stupidest, or is there going to be something more pathetic?
Find out next chapter!
dinner! ;
Z Basket
By Pikachu Hunter
Chapter Two: The Madness Begins
"Oh, Goku, you're back!" Chi-Chi pointed a sauce-covered spoon at her
husband, who had just walked into the house. "Gohan and Goten are upstairs. Will
you call them for dinner?" She asked, putting the spoon back into a large pot and
stirring one last time before turning a knob to shut off the burner the pot sat on.
"Sure thing, Chi-Chi!" Goku walked over to the staircase. "HEY BOYS, COME
DOWN TO EAT!" Goku yelled loudly.
"I could have done that, Goku! I meant go GET them!" Chi-Chi yelled,
putting the pot on a potholder on the counter, leaving the spoon inside. She put a
bowl at each place at the four-seated dinner table.
"Oh. Too late now." Goku said, sitting down at the table and seeing
seventeen-year-old Gohan race seven-year-old Goten for 'the good spot' at the
table. 'The good spot' was the place beside Goku, where he sat at the end of the
table, then chi-Chi on the corner beside him, leaving a space at the end and a spot
by Goku. The two always wanted to sit by their father and hear what he'd done that
day. He usually had funny stories about how Vegeta had embarassed Bulma in the
grocery store, or how Mr. Popo had tripped over Piccolo's extended leg again.
Goten rushed ahead of Gohan, and slid into the good spot quickly, trying not
to tip over the table. Gohan slowed his pace, havnig already lost to his younger
brother, and sat at the end seat. "Hiya, Gohan, Goten!" Goku waved. Chi-Chi placed
the pot in the middle of the table, dipping the large spoon in and dumping the
contents into Goku's bowl first.
"Mm, chili!" Goku licked his lips, then started to gobble down the meal as
fast as it was physically possible for him to do. After Chi-Chi had filled Gohan's
bowl, the teenager followed in his father's footsteps and gorged the bowlful just as
fast. Goten did so as well, wanting to be just like his big brother and his dad.
"I see you have all brought your appetites to the table." Chi-Chi said, filling
her own bowl. "You can help yourselves, now, everyone's had firsts." She sat down
and began to eat slowly. Goku, Gohan, and Goten's hands all reached for the spoon
at once, and left three hands with a tight grip on it, none willing to let the other
have the spoon first. Goku tugged his way, and Goten had to let go.
It was between Goku and Gohan now, both on either end of the table.
"Gohan, let your father have the sponn, you know he won't let go of it." Chi-
Chi said, putting her bowl on the counter. She'd finished, and wasn't planning on
taking more. There was no way they'd let her, they were too hungry themselves.
"Aw, okay..." Gohan let go.
"Good boy." Chi-Chi hugged him.
"Hm? QUAAAAACK!" Chi-Chi and Gohan were the victims of a curse they
didn't know they had on them. Gohan was a duck. Chi-Chi, being the hugger and
not the hugged, had not changed. Goku coughed out a mouthful of chili.
"WHOA, GOHAN!" He yelled, seeing the duck flapping his wings in the air,
and squacking in shock. Goku ran to the sink with his lemonade, dumped the liquid,
and exchanged it for hot water from the tap. He splashed it over the excited duck's
head, and left a screaming boy in it's place.
"Yah, what's wrong with me?!" Gohan asked, still flapping his arms in the air.
"Ha, I forgot about the curse." Goku said.
"Curse?" Chi-Chi asked.
Meanwhile, at the Breifs manor...
"Vegeta, you're back! You've been gone for days, and--AHHH!" Bulma
screamed, finding Vegeta, who had just stepped in the doorway from a week of
training away from home without notice, had transformed into a dark blue cat. It
meowed loudly.
"AHH, YOU'RE A CAT!" Bulma screamed and pointed. Vegeta hadn't noticed it
until she'd said that, then looked at his hands, or, rather, paws. The cat let out a
loud howl. He ran in circles, then noticed his tail and found that somewhat
interesting, letting out an evil grin. Bulma noticed his obvious thoughts.
"Oh, no, you don't! I am NOT letting you test that thing out in a full moon!"
She yelled. Vegeta, in his new cat form, slumped. "Mrow..." he complained.
"Oh, just--" the phone in the living room rang. "STAY THERE!" Bulma said.
She ventured into the living room, following the sound of the cordless phone.
Finding it, she picked up on the third ring. "Hullo?" She picked up the phone.
"Hi, Bulma, it's Chi-Chi!" Chi-Chi said into the phone with a concerned tone
in her voice. Bulma started to burst into tears. "Oh, Chi-Chi, it's awful! Vegeta just
went POOF when I hugged him, and...and...he's a BLUE CAT!" Bulma was starting to
go on about nonsense words, and wasn't making much sense, if any at all.
"BULMA! Calm down, Goku knows whats going on. We're all gonna meet at
your house, okay?" Chi-Chi would have grabbed her friend by the shoulders if it
wern't for the fact that they were talking on the telephone.
"Okay..." Bulma said. "Will Vegeta be normal again? Is he a cat forever?"
"No, there's a way to fix it. In a half-hour, when we're all there, though,
okay?" Chi-Chi answered.
"Uh-huh." Bulma nodded.
"Okay, see you then. Bye."
"Bye." Bulma hung up the phone by pressing 'end call'. Then she smiled
wickedly at Vegeta. He didn't like the look in her eyes.
"Haha, I'm going to have some fun with you while you're in cat form..." she
picked him up by the fur on the back of the neck, and walked into the bathroom.
"Mrow? Meeeee-ooooooow!" Vegeta wriggled in protest, seeing Bulma begin
to fill the bathtub. "Oh yes, Vegeta, you are finally going to TAKE A BATH!" Bulma
said. She filled the tub with bubbles and warm water, then dropped Vegeta in. He
let out a loud meow before re-emerging in his usual form. "HA!" He pointed. The he
looked down. "I'm wearing my clothes in the bathtub?"
"Guess so--but while you're in there, SCRUB UP!" Bulma said, angry her fun
was over so soon. She tossed a bottle of shampoo, a bar of soap, conditioner, and a
long scrub brush at him.
"Darn it...I know that kniving little sneak Yamcha is behind this..." he
grumbled as he began to lather up soap in his palms.
DING-DONG. The doorbell rang. Bulma ran to the door and threw it open.
"Master Roshi? Pu'ar? Oolong? TURTLE?" She said, surprised to see the group on her
doorstep. "Well, come on in, I guess..." she led them into the front room. Roshi
seated himself on the couch. Pu'ar and Oolong began to argue over the television
set remote, and Turtle shook his head at them, shamed to know such idiodic
animals.
The doorbell rang again. "Yamcha? What are you doing here?" She was even
more confused at the appearance of her ex-boyfriend. "I got a call from Goku," he
shrugged, stepping inside and sitting down beside Master Roshi.
"Okay..." Bulma hadn't time to ask what the call was about, for the doorbell
rang three more times when she stood to hesitate the strange visits.
"C'mon in, Piccolo, Choutzu, Tein, Mr. Popo, Dende, Icarus, K--KING KAI?!"
Bulma looked at the simple being, standing on the crowded doorstep in his
traditional clothing.
"Don't forget Bubbles and Gregory!" King Kai wagged his finger at her.
"Of course," she showed them the way in. Then, rushing to the door, she let
in Majin Buu, Bee, Hercule, Videl, KibitoKai, Old Kai, and--
"TRUNKS BREIFS!" Bulma grabbed the eight-year-old by the ear.
"Ow, ow, ow, Mom, that hurts!" Trunks attempted to free himslef, but only
caused her to pinch harder.
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?! I'VE BEEN WORRIED SICK ALL WEEK,
WONDERING WHERE YOU WERE!" Bulma dragged him into the bathroom. "WAS HE
TRAINING WITH YOU?!" Bulma demanded the answer from Vegeta, who screamed in
a high voice and pulled the curtain around the tub, surprised by the bathroom
intrusion.
"Oh...no?" Vegeta lied.
"You tell me the truth, or I'll tell Goku where Goten's blues clues tapes
REALLY went!" Bulma referred to the time Goten had had a sleepover with Trunks
the year before, and brought some blues clues VHS's. When he packed his bag the
next morning, he'd reported to his friend's mother to be on the lookout for the
tapes. A week later she'd caught Vegeta watching and singing along with them in
the basement's t.v. room.
"YES, YES, HE WAS TRAINING WITH ME!" Vegeta admitted.
"Aha, the truth comes out! So why didn't you come home with your father,
Trunks?" Bulma asked suspiciously.
"I stopped at the collectible cards store on the way home, and Dad just kept
on going! I made a few...purchases!" Trunks held out a bag of booster packs for Yu-
Gi-Oh! cards.
"Ooh..." Bulma took the offering.
"We can play later, Mom, I want to hang out with Goten now!" Trunks tried
to get away, but it was too late. He'd been hugged.
"Urrrr?" Trunks looked around the room from a particularly low point of veiw.
He'd become an armadillo.
"Trunks?" Bulma blinked at the creature now rolling about in his curled up
shell. The armadillo stopped. "Urrrrr?" He answered.
"Oh, Trunks. Get in the bath. You could use one too. Catch your son,
Vegeta!" Bulma tossed the rolled up boy to the man in the tub. He missed, and
Trunks the armadillo plunged into the tub, returning to his normal half-Saiyan state.
"Hiya, Dad! That was weird!" He said, peeking out of the shower curtain, his head
below Vegeta's. "GET OUT!" They screamed girlsihly, like a boy had just run into the
girls locker room, pelting Bulma with rubber ducks and handfuls of bubbles.
"Eeek!" Bulma fled the attack, shutting the door beihnd herself.
"Hello." Android Eighteen, Marron in arms, said, face to face with Bulma.
Krillin was at her side. "Hiya," he waved.
"Hi. Make yourselves at home in the living room, that's where everyone is
meeting. I'll be right over, as soon as I get Trunks and Vegeta out of the bath."
Bulma said.
"You guys are really traditional with the Japanese culture, eh?" Krillin said.
"Huh?"
"The father-son bath thingy?" Krillin explained to confused Bulma.
"Oh...yeah..." she shrugged. Walking back into the bathroom, she dismissed
Krillin and his family. "GET OUT OF THE TUB, EVERYONE BUT GOKU IS HERE!" She
screamed at them.
"Crud...how do we get past them all?" Vegeta said, wrapping a white towel
around his waist, then another around his son's waist.
"That's your problem. If you two had have taken a bath on a regular basis, I
wouldn't have thrown you in the tub!" Bulma walked off.
"Think we can run really fast up the stairs without losing our towels, Dad?"
Truknks asked, taking hold of the doorknob nervously.
"Not a chance, son." Vegeta said.
"Let's go."
"CHARGE!" Vegeta shouted, and the two rushed out of the bathroom, up the
stairs, through the entire main floor, where a roomful of stunned people watched
the two Saiyans race up the stairs and listened to their feet batter the ground,
heading into different rooms to change into dry clothes upstairs.
"Ahem..." Roshi coughed. The room stayed quiet after experiencing stuck up
prince and son run up the stairs stark naked. They'd lost their towels going up the
stairs from the basement, nobody knowing they were ever in towels.
"Er...I'll go talk to them..." Bulma was about to make her way up the flight of
stairs leading to the top floor when the doorbell rang a final time. She flung it
opewn, finding Goku, Gohan, Goten, and Chi-Chi present and accounted for on the
doorstep. "Hi, make yourselves at home. I'll be right back."
"Okay..." Goku watched his friend run up the stairs, and heard her yelling at
the top of her lungs. Everyone in the living room listened to every word Bulma said,
still speechless at the events following Krillin's appearance at the gathering.
"WHAT THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING, YOU TWO JUST EMBARASSED ME
LIKE NEVER BEFORE! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?!" Bulma screeched.
"But Bulma, we--"
"SHUT UP AND LET ME FINISH, VEGETA!"
"Just as long as--"
"SHUT UP!"
"..."
"YOU TWO BETTER SHOW UP DOWNSTAIRS WEARING MORE THAN ENOUGH
CLOTHES TO COVER YOURSELVES, AND I'D BETTER NOT SEE AN INCH OF SKIN,
NOT ONE BIT!" Bulma ordered.
"What about--"
"JUST DO IT, TRUNKS!" Bulma yelled. She stomped back down the stairs. As
all was STILL quiet, everyone heard Vegeta let out a releived "touchy...".
"WHAT WAS THAT?!" Bulma ran up the stairs.
"I didn't mean it, Bulma, really!"
"SURE YOU DIDN'T!"
"I didn't! OW OW OW!" Vegeta cried in pain. Bulma, now content, walked
happily down the stairs on the couch. She was followed by Trunks and Vegeta, who
took Bulma's words literally--they were wearing burka's(as advertised in middle-
eastern countries and religions)that covered them from head to toe, the only visible
parts of them being the eyes, where there was a slot to see.
"Change cultures, Vegeta?" Goku laughed.
"Shut up, Kakkarot. You'd be wearing the same after just being accused of
streaking through a living room full of close friends." Vegeta crossed his arms under
the burka, the shape not coming out on the outside of the complete shawl.
"Streaking? And did you say friends? You admit it? We're your friends?" Goku
said. Vegeta ripped off the burka and punched Goku in the gut.
"I never said that, Kakkarot! And no--I wasn't streaking!"
"But you just said--"
"I said I was ACCUSED of streaking! There's a difference! We lost our
towels!" Vegeta pointed at Goku, making sure the information got through his think
skull.
"Ohh...well, anyways, let's go ahead and explain this curse." Goku said.
"WHAT curse, Kakkarot?"
"The one where me and my family and my friends and their families all have
this curse on them how when they're hugged by someone of the opposite gender
they turn into animals..."
"WHAT?!" The whole room stared at Goku.
"So that's why I changed into a cat..." Vegeta pondered aloud.
"A cat?! You turned into a widdle kitty cat, Veggie?" Goku teased.
"SHUT UP, KAKKAROT!"
"Well, yes, that's the curse. And the only way to reverse it is to come in
contact with warm or hot water!" Goku went on.
"So, what, this is on ALL of us?" Roshi looked around the room.
Yup! You're all my friends! Oh, and you'd best explain this to your distant
relatives." Goku nodded.
"Oh, great. What am I, mom? I have no idea what that was I turned into
there!" Trunks tugged on the sleeve of his mother's shirt.
"You're an armadillo, Trunks." Bulma patted his head. Everyone laughed.
"Hey, I bet everyone else's animals are even more stupid!" Trunks yelled at
all the laughing people.
"What're we waitnig for? Let's see who's what!" Goku said. "Hug away!"
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What are the others going to transform into? What about Pu'ar, Oolong, and Turtle?
Since they're animals already, will the curse effect them? What about Goku?
Everyone will be especially excited to see his animal--it's bound to be something
loyal, majestic, and strong--right? What about Trunks? is his animal really the
stupidest, or is there going to be something more pathetic?
Find out next chapter!
