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Ease My Pain Chapter 45

Gohan was walking down the hall wishing he would just turn back around and forget the whole thing cause Zedrick could not be telling the truth. Gohan walked down the hall and saw Bray with Brandon coming up the hallway. Gohan thought that he should stay calm and find out what's going on before he just accuses Bray of poisoning him.

"Hey Gohan what's up?" Said Brandon approaching Gohan.

Gohan put his books down. "Oh nothing, but I want to ask you something Bray?"

Gohan looked at him.

Bray cracked a smile. "What's up?"

"Did you have anything to do…"

"Hey guys!" Said Videl and Erasa as they interrupted Gohan.

"Oh hi girls!" Said Gohan looking up to see them.

"Are we having some little get together here and your not saying nothing?" Smiled Erasa.

"Oh no I was just talking with Bray and Brandon." Said Gohan.

"Well guys I have to go I have something I need to do." Said Bray about to leave.

"Could you wait a minute Bray I really need to ask you something and it really can't wait until tomorrow."

"Seriously man I have to jet…. can't this wait, I'm pretty sure you have the answers to whatever problem it is about homework."

"Bray this isn't about homework."

Bray swallowed hard and was afraid he might just ask him about him poisoning him but it dawned on him that nobody knows but Brandon, Videl and Erasa and they said they wasn't going to tell.

"Ok Gohan, what is it?"

"Hey what's going on? This sounds too personal for us to hear." Said Erasa. "That's a good question but I think you guys might find out so I rather for you both to stay." Said Gohan.

"Are you moving?" Asked Videl.

"No, I'm not moving." Said Gohan.

Brandon was wondering to himself what was it and hopefully, it wasn't what Bray had been hiding. "Bray, did you have anything to do with me getting poisoned?"

Everyone's hearts went to their throats with fear.

"Gohan, I think maybe we better ask that question another time. Hey, your feeling better now and that's all that matters." Said Videl trying to change the subject.

"It's nice of you to be concerned Videl, but I need to ask this question. Bray could you tell me if it's true?" Said Gohan looking at him.

Bray wanted to run. But he felt nervous and swallowed hard and couldn't look at Gohan.

Sighs. "Yes…. I did have… something to do with it."

At that moment Gohan felt angry and hurt and confused. Gohan turned around he couldn't look at Bray for a moment he wanted to cry.

Sighs. "I can't believe… what I'm hearing!"

"Please Gohan it wasn't his fault." Said Brandon.

Gohan turned around and grabbed Bray quickly by his collar and pushed him up against the lockers. "HOW COULD YOU!?"

"Hey, I was made to do IT!" Yelled Bray.

"Do you REALIZE the PAIN I suffered cause of YOU!?"

"GOHAN PLEASE!" Yelled Videl.

"Gohan don't hurt Bray, PLEASE!" Yelled Erasa.

Gohan was blocking their words out cause he was angry.

Bray was grasping for air. "Come on Gohan your…. choking me!"

Gohan had to realize his strength cause he could kill Bray. Gohan let go of Bray and Bray fell to the floor. Gohan backed away and Brandon put his hand on his shoulder.

"Gohan, are you ok?"

"No I'm not! How could you do this to me?! Bray, do you realize what you did affected my whole life! I was put in intensive care and I felt like I was going to die!"

Bray was getting off the floor rubbing his throat and Videl and Erasa was looking at Gohan in fear cause they never seen him get like that.

"Gohan I-I didn't mean to do this to you! Mace forced ME! He threatened to kill my parents if I didn't do what he said! Do you realize the hell he put me through?!"

"He's telling the truth Gohan." Said Brandon looking at Gohan.

"Put you through HELL I'm the one that suffered out of the whole thing! Do you realize what you did cause me a health problem and now my doctor has to see if I can heal on my own and hopefully, I do. So, I DON'T have to have surgery in the near FUTURE!"

"Please, Gohan understand I didn't do this on purpose!" Yelled Bray.

"I assume everyone here knew about it?" Said Gohan sternly.

Brandon, Videl and Erasa had their heads down.

"I knew it, from the way you guys were talking. But you couldn't tell me the truth!"

"Gohan listen we wanted to but we wanted Bray to tell you." Said Videl.

"I see why you were avoiding me, Bray."

"Well yeah, do you think I have the NERVE to go see you in the hospital after what I was made to DO!" Said Bray.

"Why shouldn't I be surprised by Mace!?" Said Gohan running his hands through his hair.

"Are you going to be ok, Gohan?" Asked Videl looking worried.

"No I'm not, going to be ok, I'm hurt and angry! I like to know how, were you able to poison me with out me seeing you?! You know, never mind I asked that cause I think I'm going to be SICK if I hear the details!" Said Gohan grabbing his books and turning to leave.

"Please Gohan wait! I'm sorry for what I did!" Yelled Bray. Bray wanted to go after him but Brandon stopped him.

"No Bray, he's very upset right now and he has every right to be."

Gohan walked away. "Guys, don't come after me right now cause I might say something I'm going to regret!"

Videl, Erasa, Bray and Brandon watched Gohan leave the building.

"I think it's going to be a very long time before he really wants to talk to us." Said Erasa with sadness.

"I don't even want to think about that." Said Videl.

Bray grabbed his books with tears coming from his eyes.

"Hey are you going to be ok, Bray?" Asked Brandon looking at him.

Bray looked at him with tears coming down his face. "No, Brandon I'm NOT! I might go to JAIL for this! I would like to know WHO said something?!" Said Bray looking at everyone.

"Well don't look at me!" Said Videl.

"Me either!" Said Erasa.

"Hey I didn't say a word even though I wanted to, but I didn't!" Said Brandon. "Well how did he find out?!" Yelled Bray.

Videl, Erasa and Brandon looked at each other confused.

"One of you must be a traitor!" Yelled Bray.

"Now wait a minute! We didn't say anything we told you THAT, and if you were LISTENING we told Gohan we wasn't going to say anything!" Yelled Videl.

"Yeah Bray we said we wasn't going to say anything cause we wanted you to tell him!" Said Erasa.

"Well someone said something!" Said Bray.

"Gohan didn't say Bray, but I believe it either had to be Mace or Zedrick and Zedrick has been hanging around the school a lot."

"Maybe it's a good time to tell the police." Said Brandon.

"That sounds like a good idea." Said Erasa.

"I can't tell the police, my PARENT'S are involved with Mace cause they sell his drugs! I never ask to sell anything for that jerk!"

"Well what are we going to do?!" Said Erasa.

"Maybe we need to set him up." Said Videl.

"Oh how are we going to do that, walk in his house and plant something!?" Said Brandon.

"We can always get a confession!" Said Videl.

"That's a JOKE! How are we going to get him to confess?! Mace isn't going to do that!" Said Bray.

"You guys have to understand about police work! I'm talking about going undercover and get the evidence we need to clear you and get that jerk for doing what he did to Gohan." Said Videl.

"Videl, why don't you just let the police go undercover?"

"Hey I'm in training." Said Videl.

"You may be in training but Mace isn't stupid." Said Brandon.

"Look, Mace is a very dangerous person I don't want my friends losing their lives." Said Bray.

"Who said anything about losing your life. It's not FAIR what he did to Gohan or making you take the blame for it!" Said Videl.

"Well I'm worried about Gohan cause he left here very hurt." Said Erasa. "You're not kidding." Said Videl worried.

"Well I better be getting home before my mom calls the school." Said Brandon.

"Are you going to be ok Bray?"

"I don't know Videl I just want this nightmare to end and Mace get what's coming to him!"

They all left out the building quickly for any teachers or any security start asking questions about them being in the building.

Gohan flew home at high speed not thinking about how fast he was going or the trees he was uprooting on the way. He landed home and went in his room and changed into his training clothes and went in the woods without Chichi or Goku knowing that he came home. Gohan flew out in the to the forest and went crazy in the woods when he transformed into supersaiyan.

He was scaring all the animals as he wrecked all the trees and blasted holes in the mountains. Gohan stopped and started yelling as he took it all the way to supersaiyan two and the clouds started changing. He shook the whole entire forest. Goku was on his way home and picked up all of Gohans power.

He knew that Gohan was taking it too far and at this rate he could destroy the forest and kill everything in it. As Goku was flying Piccolo came flying next to him. "Hey Piccolo." Said Goku.

"Goku, what is going on with Gohan?!"

"That's, where I'm going to find out!"

"It seems like he's angry."

"Well he hasn't been himself lately cause he's upset about Mace."

"Why haven't we taken this guy down and what's the deal with this guy and the energy I'm sensing from him?" Asked Piccolo.

"Well when it comes to taking this guy down, I was real slow about it and also I wanted to know who this guy was."

Well you know him already, so let's take him down for what he did to Gohan." "Your absolutely right!" Said Goku.

They both landed were Gohan was and yelled to get his attention. Gohan was floating in the air breathing heavy and his clothes were torn with scratches on his arms and face. Gohan was going to throw another beam and Goku instant transmission in front of him and canceled his attack.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! Yelled Goku.

"I'm practicing really HARD!"

"You could have fooled me! Don't you PLAY ME FOR AN IDIOT, GOHAN!" Yelled Goku.

"Look, I'm upset right now and I don't want you yelling at me cause I've had ENOUGH!"

Gohan quickly fired another beam at the rocks and Piccolo smacked it out the way. Piccolo appeared in front of Gohan and punched him in the face. Gohan went flying towards a hill of rocks and hit it.

"Piccolo we need to talk to him not beat him up."

"I wasn't trying to beat him up Goku, I was trying to knock some sense into him for acting crazy!"

Gohan fell to the ground and his hair changed back to black. He looked up and saw Goku and Piccolo come to the ground.

"What is going on with you Gohan? It's not like you to do this!" Said Piccolo. "Why don't you leave me alone!" Said Gohan.

"Son what's gotten into to you today? If you look around you're destroying the forest!"

A few teardrops fell from his eyes. "Please dad it hurts too much to talk about it."

"Gohan, taking your anger out on the forest is not going to take the pain away. You're going to start killing all the animals."

"What are you hurt about? What happen in school today?"

Gohan sat down on a rock with his head down.

"Son listen, I know I'm not the greatest dad in the world but I want you to talk with me."

Sighs. "I found out today that one of my friends from school that I trusted helped Mace poison me."

"That explains why you're out here. Is he one of Mace's assistant?"

"From what he said he was forced to do this to me and he didn't mean it! He said if he didn't help poison me, Mace was going to kill his parent's."

Sighs. "That's a tough one!"

Gohan looked at his father. "Huh!"

"Gohan, it sounded like Mace blackmailed your friend and made him do things he didn't want to do."

"Dad couldn't he HAVE found a way to get out of it instead of going through with it!"

"Son who told you this?"

"Zedrick!"

"It sounds like to me their putting the blame on your friend and Gohan, how, can you say that he could of gotten out of it. When Mace tried to do you in for leaving his gang."

"So dad what are you saying, it was ok for me to get poisoned!"

"No, I believe your father is saying that you can't blame him for being made to do Maces dirty work!" Said Piccolo.

"Do you guys understand he could have said something to the police or came and said something to me!?"

"Why didn't you say anything to the police when he threaten you!" Said Piccolo.

Gohan looked at Piccolo like if he lost his mind. "I didn't cause I was trying to take care of it MYSELF! WHAT, ARE YOU SAYING PICCOLO!" Yelled Gohan.

"Calm DOWN, Gohan Piccolo, is not saying it was ok for this guy to do this!" "Only thing I'm saying is you have a lot of nerve calling the kettle black when you were just as much involved with Mace! You know how Mace is and he has a way of making people do his dirty work!"

Gohan got upset and stood up. "I see I've already been judged!"

"Listen you two, arguing is not going to change what he did to Gohan I'm not happy about this situation because it's very confusing and it sounds like your friend was put in a situation that he had no choice but, to do what Mace said."

Gohan ran his hand through his hair with frustration. "Yeah dad, but I TRUSTED HIM and what's so disturbing is how he did it and I wasn't able to see him!"

"Did he tell you how he did it?" Asked Goku.

"I asked but I told him not to tell me it makes me sick to EVEN THINK about it!" Said Gohan throwing a rock towards the tree.

"Son I understand how you feel but we need to get to the bottom of this! It's time to have it out with Mace and put him behind bars!"

"Goku aren't you forgetting, that this guy has some hidden power!" Said Piccolo.

"Oh yeah that's right!" Said Goku.

"I don't think a cell is going to hold him." Said Piccolo.

"I really don't care what's going to hold him I want him to pay for what he did to me!" Said Gohan.

"Gohan, we don't know how much power this guy has or what he can do!" Said Goku.

"So what are we going to do NOW wait and see what sort of power were dealing WITH!"

"Listen Gohan, I didn't say we were going to wait, I just want to know what were dealing with!"

"Well your both too late to find out what were dealing with cause I already told Zedrick to tell Mace to meet me out in the desert this Saturday morning to settle this once and for all!"

"You did what, without consulting me first!" Said Goku.

"Dad I'm tired of seeing Zedrick with that big STUPID SMIRK on his face looking at me like what they did was something good!" Said Gohan.

"He's right Goku it's time to take this guy down! No more delays!" Said Piccolo.

"Dad I've been meaning to ask you this what is the deal with Zedrick telling me that Mace shot you!"

Goku didn't want to tell him that, but he knew in his heart he had no choice.

"Well, it's true."

"What! Your kidding, right!" Said Gohan shocked.

"Remember when you got sick at school that time and I came to pick you up." "Yeah." Said Gohan.

"When you went to the hospital that night I felt really bad cause you were dehydrating too much and it hurt me to see you in pain and I wasn't thinking. So I instant transmission to Maces office without thinking and out of nowhere he shot me with some sort of bullet that started sapping all my energy."

Gohan was frustrated and he couldn't believe what he was hearing. "How did you get out of there?!"

"Well son I manage to instant transmission and get out of there before Maces assistants were going to dispose of me. Bulma took me to Kames lookout and Dende healed me and the bullet came out of me. Bulma has the bullet so she could analyze it."

Gohan was balling his fist."Why didn't you tell me?"

"I didn't want to upset you cause you were already sick."

Sighs. "This guy is hurting everyone!" Said Gohan.

"Well if I want to help I need to do some training." Said Piccolo.

"Your not kidding I need to continue also." Said Gohan.

"Gohan you need to come home cause you been at it for a while and your not training right!"

"Listen dad I don't care right now, let's train so we can beat this guy!" "Gohan why don't we go home first and build up some energy and then we can finish training."

"That sounds good Gohan you should listen to your father!" Said Piccolo sternly.

Gohan didn't want to listen to his father but fighting with them wouldn't solve anything. "Ok let's go."

Gohan and Goku went home and Chichi approached her son. "How DARE you come home and then leave without telling anyone where you were going!" Yelled Chichi.

"I'm sorry mom I didn't mean too." Said Gohan looking worn out.

"I'm glad you are sorry and look at your clothes you should no better not to go training without eating first."

"I'm very sorry mom I won't let it happen anymore I'm going to go take a shower." Said Gohan not wanting to argue.

"Good!" Said Chichi folding her arms.

Goku took Chichi to the couch and asked to talk with her while Gohan went to his room. Gohan went in his room and closed the door. He took off his torn clothes and got into the shower and turned the water on as the water was running on his hair tears started to form in his eyes cause of all the pain he felt that day.

He couldn't help it. He trusted Bray, he was his friend, and Mace came in and used his friend to torment him, thought Gohan. As Gohan was standing their letting water run on him that tormenting pain that he felt in his stomach starting to build again like earlier.

Gohan closed his eyes and slid down towards the tub while the water ran on him. He knew he really over did it this time and he hated having that pain. He didn't want to tell his parents cause he felt they worried about him enough and he had to learn how to deal with it.

Gohan was holding his stomach. "Ahh! I think…. I'll try to be more careful when I get upset. But I couldn't help but get upset with Bray."

Gohan stood up as the pain ease up and finished taking his shower. There was a knock on the door.

"Yeah, I'm taking a shower!" Shouted Gohan.

"I know son I just wanted to tell you not to take too long cause dinner will get cold and I just might eat yours." Said Goku smiling.

The way Gohan felt he wished he did. "I won't take too long!" shouted Gohan.

"Ok." Said Goku walking back towards the kitchen."

Gohan let the shower run on his face cause he was tired and stressed from all the stuff he heard. Gohan leaned up against the wall and bent over. "OW! I better hurry up and take my medicine before my parents get suspicious." Gohan turned off the shower and dried off. He wrapped the towel around his waist and took his medicine and went in his room to put on his clothes.

That's the end to another chapter. Review please.