Chapter 4: Flying
"Hey, what about our tea party?" wined Bra.
"We'll finish it a bit later, I promise ok?" said Jurori. Bra nodded happily at the promise of continuing later.
"So mind if we come with you two?" Ann directed at Trunks and Goten.
Once outside, Ann and Jurori sat with their backs against the Capsule Corp. wall, just watching the boys spar. As the two boys sparred, they talked about Jurori and Ann.
"Hey Goten?" asked Trunks, dodging one of Goten's punches.
"Yeah?" Goten replied, throwing a series of punches and ki blasts at his friend.
"What do you say we teach the girls everything we know? You know, like flying and fighting." Trunks charged a large blast and sent it flying at Goten.
"I guess. Who will teach who what?"
"How about we let them decide?" asked Trunks, dodging a ki blast from Goten.
"When will we ask them?"
"Hmm, let's ask after our sparring session."
"Ok."
Trunks rolled his eyes, exploded into super sayain, and flew Goten. Smirking, Goten powered up to super sayain as well and prepared for Trunks's attack.
Ann and Jurori made sure they staid out of the boys' way by staying next to Capsule Corp. They had trouble watching the boys spar, especially when the two of them were moving faster than the naked eye could see. Eventually Trunks and Goten called the match to a halt. They were both breathing heavily, and they were covered in bruises and singe marks. Trunks and Goten powered down and sank back down to the ground. The two of them went back inside to take quick showers.
Jurori got up and walked back to the building. She turned to talk to Ann, and realized her friend wasn't following her indoors. She walked back out and stood in the door frame, watching her friend.
Ann on the other hand had got up and walked to the middle of the yard. She really wanted to fly like the boys, so she decided to try to teach herself. She sat on the grass cross legged and raked her memory for any information that would prove useful. She remembered the episode when Gohan began to teach Videl to fly. First, he said something like 'listen and feel your way through your self until you feel a pull in your stomach. Then bring it out.'
Ann placed her hands in her lap and relaxed. A few minutes later, a fair sized energy ball appeared in between her hands. To her it looked to be about the same size Videl's was in the beginning. Ann decided she could learn to fly if she put her mind to it. She stood and concentrated. At the same time, she watched her feet. Then, oh so slowly, she began to rise shakily into the air a dozen feet.
"How did you do that?" cried Jurori from the door frame. Ann looked over at her best friend, falling back to the ground.
"Ow! That hurt! Why did you go and break my concentration like that?" Ann complained, standing up.
"You started floating in the air! How did you do that?"
"I just tried. That's all."
"Show me!" Jurori pleaded.
"Ok," Ann agreed. She motioned for Jurori to come over. "Sit on the ground," she requested. The two girls sat facing each other, their legs crossed.
"All right now. Do you remember the episode where Gohan taught Videl to fly?" Ann asked placing her hands on her knees.
"Of course! That episode was so funny watching Goten hop around trying to fly!" Jurori said, her eyes misting over.
"Alright. Then you know how he taught Videl," Ann said. Jurori nodded. "Think about concentrating a ki ball in your hands," Ann instructed. Before Jurori could start, Ann called her energy ball back as demonstration. Jurori looked down at her own hands and concentrated. After a moment, a ki ball appeared, just the same size as Ann's ki ball.
"Good," exclaimed Ann letting her ki ball dissipate. She stood up, and then helped Jurori up as well. "Now, hovering in the air. Just imagine you're high above the ground. Concentrate on getting up there, "Ann continued.
Jurori closed her eyes and tilted her head up a little. She concentrated on flying, feeling her body become lighter. Opening her eyes, Jurori focused on the ceiling.
Ann watched as her best friend lifted off the ground and slowly drifted upward. Smiling, Ann followed Jurori into the air, her flight not as shaky as before.
"Awesome! You did it, Jurori," Ann said when she reached her friend's height. Jurori looked over at her friend and almost lost her concentration, dropping a couple of feet. Ann laughed and began to move towards the wall of Capsule Corp.
After a few minutes of perfecting their flying, Jurori and Ann landed, slightly worn out from the use of energy. Not long after they had landed and caught their breath, Trunks and Goten walked outside and over to the two girls. Jurori and Ann stood as the boys got closer to them.
"Ann, Jurori, do you want to come with me and Trunks back to my house?" asked Goten. Jurori glanced over at her friend, who smirked back at her. Ann shrugged her shoulders and turned to face the two guys.
"We'd love to," replied Ann. Trunks grabbed Ann's waist from behind while Goten grabbed Jurori's waist from behind as well and they blasted off towards the Son house. Sure, the two girls were just learning how to fly themselves, but they knew there was no way they could match Trunks and Goten's speeds quite yet.
The four of them silently flew to Goten's house. As soon as they landed had, Chi-chi came running out to scold Goten about leaving without her permission. Ann, Jurori, and Trunks just stood in the background, watching as their friend cowered before Chi-Chi. After what seemed to be forever, she turned to the other three and calmly said hello.
"I'm glad you're safe, Ann. You had me worried these past few days!" Chi-chi exclaimed.
"Sorry, I didn't realize that," muttered Ann.
Chi-chi then realized there was a strange girl standing by Trunks and Ann.
Pointing, Chi-chi asked, "Who's that?" Goten gave a small laugh, placing his hand behind his head.
"That's Jurori, Kasaan," Goten replied chuckling a little.
Rounding on her second some, Chi-chi demanded, "Is she your girlfriend?" Before Goten could answer, Chi-chi broke down sobbing. Burying her face in her hands, she muttered, "Why don't you tell me these things? Doesn't a mother deserve to know if her little boy has a girlfriend?"
"Kasaan! She's not my girlfriend! Jurori just showed up at Capsule Corp. earlier! She's friends with Ann!" Goten said, his voice rising uncontrollably. His ki rose with it. Sensing Goten's temper was about to blow, Ann butted into the conversation.
"It's true, Chi-chi-san. Neither Goten nor Trunks knew Jurori until she got to Capsule Corp.," Ann said. She walked up to Chi-chi and placed a reassuring hand on the older woman's shoulder. Chi-chi looked up at Ann.
"All right," Chi-chi sighed. She turned and walked back to the house.
"Well, that went well," Jurori said. An anime-style sweat drop appeared on the side of her head.
"How would you like to learn to fly and fight like us?" asked Trunks, looking over at the two girls.
"Ok," said Ann suppressing a smile. Jurori just blinked in response.
'Those two are going to be so surprised to learn that we can fly and fight. Not on their level though,' Jurori thought, smiling inwardly.
"All right. Let's go to a large field that's near by," suggested Goten. The other three nodded.
"Good idea. We're going to need all the space we can get," Trunks commented. He and Goten led the way through the long grass and a forest.
"This'll be fun, ne?" asked Jurori quietly in Ann's ear. Ann grinned and nodded.
"Sure will be!" Ann whispered back.
Once they got to the field, Jurori asked, "Are you both going to teach us, or are we to have separate teachers?" Both she and Ann looked curiously at the boys.
"Good question," replied Goten, scratching his head.
"It's up to you guys," Trunks told them. Grinning, Jurori grabbed Ann's wrist and hauled her off a few dozen feet. They conversed quietly together.
"What do you think they'll choose? Group or separate?" Goten asked, gazing at the two girls in the distance.
"I dunno. We'll have to be ready for either decision. If they do choose separate, they'll have to decide who gets who as a teacher," Trunks said, crossing his arms. He cocked his head and waited for Jurori and Ann to return.
After much discussing the matter, Ann and Jurori walked back to where Trunks and Goten stood waiting. The girls stopped three feet from the two guys. Ann crossed her arms while Jurori placed her fists on her hips.
"We've decided. We want separate teachers," Jurori announced. Trunks and Goten looked mildly surprised.
"Have you decided who will be with who?" Goten asked.
"Yup. I'll be with you, Goten, and Ann will go with Trunks," Jurori said walking over to stand next to Goten.
"Ok then," Trunks said. He stepped up to Ann. "We'll go to the other side of the field," he added.
"Why?" Ann asked.
"So the enemy won't see what I'm teaching you," Trunks replied. He grabbed Ann's waist and leapt into the air.
"But, Trunks, Jurori and Goten aren't the enemy. They're our friends," Ann said when they had landed a couple moments later. She scanned the land; she could just barely see Jurori and Goten from there.
"What ever. We'll start with the basics," Trunks said. He held up a hand, palm up, and called up a ki ball the size of a softball. "Try to create a ki ball this size, Ann," he added, looking over at her.
"That's easy," Ann replied, conjuring a ki ball of her own in her left hand. She looked at Trunks; he had a surprised look on his face.
"When did you learn to do that?" he asked, letting his ki ball dissipate.
"At Capsule Corp. You and Goten were getting showers at the time."
"O-oh. In that case, I'll teach you to fly." Ann smirked as she listened to Trunks explain the basics to flying.
On the other side of the field...
Jurori watched Trunks carry Ann to the other side of the field. She smiled then looked at Goten expectantly.
"Care to learn to fly first?" Goten asked.
"Sure," Jurori replied, her hands still on her hips.
"Ok. The first thing you need to know how to do is to control your ki. Let me see you create a ki ball." Jurori brought her hands together in front of her, about chest high, and concentrated on her hands. Shortly a ball appeared growing in size until it was about the size of a small beach ball. Jurori looked back up at Goten and laughed when she saw the look on Goten's face. His jaw hung open a few inches and his eyes wide in surprise.
"Ok. Next step is to visualize your self hovering in the air," Goten explained, hovering in the air a few feet off the ground in demonstration.
Meanwhile...
"Ok Ann, see if you can fly up here," called Trunks, hovering ten feet above her.
"All fight." Ann barely had to concentrate when she flew up past him at incredible speeds. She stopped only when she had reached the clouds high in the sky.
"Hey, where'd she go?" Trunks yelled as he looked around.
"Looking for me?" Ann yelled down at him. Trunks looked up with a look of surprise plastered on his face. He flew up towards Ann who only flew higher. As he got closer, she zipped away from him. She spotted Jurori a few yards from her. Ann flew over and the two girls led Trunks and Goten on a wild goose chase. The boys didn't bother to go faster and over take Ann and Jurori, because they were having fun just chasing them all over the place. Eventually Ann and Jurori stopped in mid air and the boys caught up with them.
"You got the hang of that pretty fast, Ann," Trunks commented.
"You too Jurori," Goten added.
"Thanks. We actually taught ourselves the basics while you two took showers earlier," explained Jurori. Goten and Trunks almost fell out of the air in surprise.
"Did you want to learn how to fight?" asked Goten, one eyebrow raising an inch.
"Already know how." Both Trunks' and Goten's jaws dropped.
"I'm a black belt in karate," Ann quickly explained.
"I'm only a brown belt though, but proud of it!" Jurori added, placing her hands on her hips.
"O-oh," the boys said simultaneously.
"The only tiny problem is that we're no where near as fast as you two are," Jurori said.
"Well we've trained under multiple forces of gravity and you haven't yet," said Trunks.
"Yeah. All the way up to about 150 times gravity," said Ann carelessly.
"WHAT! How did you know?" yelled Trunks.
"Oops. Well we might as well confess," said Ann, sinking towards the earth. Jurori quickly followed.
"You'd better," said Trunks as he and Goten sank also.
A/N: For those who have read this…I'm updating the chapter and the next (chapter 5) so please bear with me!
I know I haven't updated in practically for ever…my internet supporter has been a little strange lately, and denying me my internet. --;
Again, please be patient with me!
