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Chapter 6 – Reality or Dream
Bailey didn't know where she was going. She didn't pay attention to the houses below her. She only stopped flying when she started to get tired. She had been flying at full speed for some time now and couldn't keep it up. She slowly lowered herself down to the ground. It was a meadow that came to an abrupt stop, before giving way to a cliff that went into the sea. Bailey walked to the cliff.
How could this not be real? She sat with her legs draped over the side of the cliff. She touched the grass, the dirt. It felt so real. How could something that wasn't really there feel so real? Tears were still falling. She wiped them away, she could feel Goku come up behind her.
"Bailey?" Goku asked as he sat next to her. "What's wrong? Talk to me." Bailey shook her head. "Look I know this must be hard for you, but…"
"Hard? HARD? You don't understand. You have no fricken idea how I feel. And why should I talk to you, you don't even exist!" Bailey let out a sob. She couldn't stand it.
"What do you mean I don't exist?" Goku asked.
"Because you don't! I finally remembered. I remembered the story, the Dragonball and Dragonball Z stories. It's all there. It's even a show! Goku and Gohan and Vegeta and Piccolo and Trunks and Bulma and Chichi and Videl! Everyone is there! They are just characters, they aren't real. That means I must be going crazy! How else can something like this happen? How can someone end up in a story book? How? If you know please, tell me! I want to believe that you're here. I love you. I don't want to lose you, or find out you never existed." Bailey buried her head in his shirt. She would have cried, but all her tears were gone. Instead silent spasms racked her body.
Goku was silent for a moment, shocked. Then it hit him, "you love me?" Bailey didn't look up, just nodded her head. Goku then quickly forgot everything else and said the most untactful thing, "That's great!"
Bailey jumped up and glared at him. "I didn't mean that… you see… it's great you love me…not that… you know…"Goku stuttered as he felt Bailey's ki rise to incredible heights. Indeed, storm clouds started to form over head, the wind had picked up and now swirled around her. Goku was frightened.
"That's great? Are you brain dead? I tell you a major dilemma, I tell you, you might not exist and you say 'Great'? Do you not even care that I might be going crazy? Perhaps you didn't hear me! YOU ARE A CARTOON! You do not exist! And yet, here I am having all these …. Feelings towards you and you tell me 'great'? YOU CRAZY MONKEY, NO GOOD SON OF A BTCH, HORRIBLE, CRUEL, HEARTLESS, PIECE OF SHT EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN WITH ALIEN ANCESTORS!" Bailey yelled, her ki creating a huge crater where she stood. "I can't take! Why can't at least one thing in my life work out? Why?"
Goku let her drain herself of energy. After her huge rant, Bailey's knees buckled. Goku quickly went forward and caught her. Bailey looked at Goku. He shook his head, "We are real." He said it forcefully, but Bailey merely shook her head. Goku frowned, how could he convince her? A thought came to him. He lowered his head and kissed her, needing her to feel that this was real, that he was real. Bailey responded and kissed back. As they broke apart, Goku looked down into her eyes. "Tell me that wasn't real." Bailey lowered her head, but Goku forced her to look at him. "Tell me that wasn't real."
"I can't," she whispered. Goku let out a sigh of relief. "But how can I be in a book? A TV show?"
"I've heard crazier things." Goku said as he tucked a stray piece of hair behind her ear. Bailey nodded.
"Do you have some Kleenex?" Bailey asked as she sniffed rather loudly. When Goku looked at her like she was speaking a different language she sighed, "A tissue?" Goku nodded and handed her a tissue from his pocket. "Thanks." She said before blowing her nose. She smiled shyly, "I never mastered how to cry 'lady-like'. My mom always thought it was a sign of how much she had failed to raise another 'perfect' daughter. I mean my sisters could all cry softly, I think they mustn't have any sinuses… Sorry I'm rambling."
"Better to have you ramble then have you mad at me," Goku muttered to himself. That had been really scary. Bailey gave him 'the eye', then laughed.
"It was your own fault! How stupid can you be?" Bailey asked playfully poking him in the ribs. Goku grinned sheepishly, then grew serious.
"We shouldn't tell them…you know. That where you are from they are a cartoon. I don't know how they'd take it." Goku said. Bailey nodded. There was no use getting on the wrong side of them. "We should head back." Goku said as he started to hover, before Bailey could protest Goku had swung her up into his arms and had taken off for the CC.
"Goku you let me fly this instant!" Bailey shrieked, Goku just grinned.
As they flew back through the window that Bailey had broken earlier, they were met with many pairs of eyes. Bailey shifted uncomfortably. They had only seen her once, and she hadn't been on her best then. However she quickly forgot about that when her eyes rested on Goku's great, great grandfather. She wondered what he had told them.
As if sensing her thoughts, Goku Sr. stood up and welcomed them. "We were waiting for you two. I told them about the little wish mishap. Perhaps you should tell them a bit about yourself. I only told them that you are my great, great …. Oh let's just call you my grandson and that you are his girlfriend." Bailey and Goku both blushed at that, but neither denied anything.
Goku Jr. stepped forward. "Well, as he might of told you my name is Son Goku… Junior that is. I live with my grandmother Pan, who is your, Son Gohan's, daughter. Yeah… that's pretty much it." He looked over at Bailey who then stepped forward. Goku held her hand and gave her a reassuring squeeze.
"My name is Bailey Lydia Leflet," she started. "Actually, I guess here you would say Leflet Bailey Lydia, or something. Bailey's actually my grandfather's name. You see I'm from a different world or dimension or time. We haven't really figured that out just yet. I'm sixteen. Umm… When I came here Son Pan kinda took me in. I've been in this dimension, in Goku Jr.'s time, for about four months and two weeks. So…yeah. That's it." Bailey looked at Goku who smiled down at her.
Chichi was the first to talk. "Yeah! I'm going to have great, great, great grandchildren!"
"But Goku's only your great, great grandson." Bailey pointed out, thinking the woman must have missed the fact.
"I know!" Chichi squealed, "I'm talking about your children." Everyone in the room who knew Chichi, or had heard of her, sweat dropped.
Bailey on the other hand was confused, "I don't have kids." Chichi must not be all together, thought Bailey. She was only 16, she didn't have any kids.
"I mean the kids you are going to have!" Chichi said impatiently, as if talking to a child about why not to eat dessert before dinner. Bailey looked at Goku Jr. who was blushing like crazy, yet at the same time, trying to hold his laughter. Bailey felt a bit uncomfortable. She still wasn't a hundred percent convinced this was real. And if this wasn't real… that just the situation that more awkward.
All the sudden everyone started to ask questions. They were all basic questions, and Bailey left Goku Jr. to answer them all, she was still a bit mad at him about before. As Bailey's attention drifted to the TV set, which sat in the corner of the room.
Bailey's blood turned cold. It showed a blue mist covering a major highway. With everyone talking she couldn't hear what was being said. She hushed everyone. But they didn't seem to hear her. So she yelled, "SHUT UP!" Luckily, that got their attention. Bailey grabbed the remote and turned up the volume. "Goku, look at this."
"Late this afternoon this blue mist appeared on highway 29, heading south to Satan City." The news reporter was saying. "The mist is just starting to rise. It seems to have a poisonous property, everyone that entered the mist did not appear again. The areas in which the gas has retreated has left a pile of bodies. We are warning everyone to stay away from this 'mist', now onto the weather." Bailey flicked it off. She felt shaken. There was no doubt in her mind that that was the same mist that had been in her room. But she hadn't died.
She turned to Goku Jr. "Do you think….?"
"Yes," Goku said still staring at the screen, even though it was blank.
"Should we…?"
"Yes," Goku said as he turned to look at her finally. "Grandpa, we need to check out the mist. I'm sure you understand why?"
Goku Sr. nodded. Then sighed, "I guess that means I have to go away for the time being?" Goku Jr. nodded. He closed his eyes and relaxed, letting his connection with Goku Sr. die. Bailey and the others watched as he vanished in front of them.
Everyone looked quizzically at Goku Jr. He opened his eyes. "You see I have to connect with Grandpa Goku in order for him to appear. It takes a lot of energy to do it. And I need to be at full strength to check out this mist." He explained.
"But why do you have too check the mist?" Goten asked, looking at Trunks and then back at them.
"You see," Bailey said crouching down to be eye level with the two youngest, "when I came to this world, I was transported here by the same blue mist that seems to have appeared here. The only thing is there was something in the mist that brought me. There is a small chance that there is someone in that mist, who is causing all this havoc. We need to check it out."
Trunks and Goten excepted the situation without question. In fact they both started to smile, "Can we come too?" Trunks asked. Bailey looked at his eager face, maybe they could go… they were just going to check it out after all.
"We are only going to see if we can sense any ki, that's it. So as long as your parents don't mind, I don't see the problem. Do you Goku?" Bailey looked at Goku. He shook his head.
"I don't see a problem. Would you mind Ms. Briefs, Grandma Chichi?" He asked politely. They both seemed a little hesitant. But in the end they agreed to let the Trunks and Goten go along. To everyone's surprise, Bailey then turned to Vegeta.
"You've been quiet, veggie. Whasup? I didn't think that the wish would bring you here as well," She said cheerfully grabbing his arm, like she always did. Vegeta, extremely annoyed, yanked his arm out of her grasp. Goku Jr., who was laughing, finally spoke up.
"Bailey, that's Vegeta's great grandfather, Vegeta." He explained. Bailey took a good look at him. Like the two… or is it three… Goku's, the two Vegeta's looked identical.
"That's sad. You mean that there are two Vegeta's? I mean I can deal with one, but two? What type of torture is that?" Bailey said.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Vegeta asked dangerously.
Bailey merely smiled, waved and took out the window she had ki blasted earlier. "I'll fix your window when we get back!" She yelled. Goku Jr. and the two boys looked at each other before flying after her.
Please rr. I tried to get a pic on my profile but couldn't, how do you do that? Thanx for reading I hope you liked it.
Next Time: Bailey is exhausted from her rant, meaning Goku Jr. must go to the mist alone.
