Disclaimer: I don't own dragonball z.

Note: I'll miss you purplemoonlight! sorry if i spelt it wrong i forgot to write it down.

How great it is to be loved by you!

by: pic's pixie

Chapter 21: without piccolo

After an hour of grieving Vicki had Gohan out of bed and getting dressed.

"You know what?" Gohan asked.

"What?" Vicki asked as she did up her sandals on the bed.

"I love you." Gohan said sweetly. Vicki looked up and smiled at him.

"I love you too Gohan." She answered.

"You know what else?" Gohan asked playfully.

"What?" Vicki was getting slightly annoyed by this game.

"We're going to get married." Gohan broke out into the son smile and went off into a dreamy daze.

"We are." Vicki repeated in disbelief. They walked out of his room and down the stairs. Gohan was the first into the kitchen, he was hungry of course.

"Good morning sweetie, or should I say good afternoon." Chichi said cheerfully to her eldest son.

"Thanks mom, you too." Gohan said. Vicki then entered the kitchen scaring Chichi almost half to death.

"Ahh...Vicki?! What are you doing here?" Vicki didn't know what she meant until she remembered that she had just flown up to Gohan's window and not seen anyone else.

"Ah...oh..well...I came by to see you all, I'm feeling much better now, Gohan must have sensed me coming and opened the door." Vicki covered. Both Gohan and Vicki released the breath they were holding when they saw that Chichi would except this excuse.

"Well okay then, you must stay for lunch." Chichi added while whipping her hands on a dish rag no doubt she had been doing dishes. Vicki stayed for a bit, eating as much as she could without getting sick from watching Gohan, Goku and Goten eat./saiyans/she thought.

"Well, I best be going now. Bye, and thanks for lunch." Vicki shouted as she practically ran out the door. She wasn't in a rush to get out per say, she just didn't want to stay long enough for Chichi to remember that she was going to marry Gohan and start to make their wedding plans herself. That's another thing. She was going to marry Gohan. She almost fainted at the thought, she had not seen this coming. She shook her head expelling the unnerving thoughts and flew off home.

Meanwhile off in space, the giant planet-like thing called the deadzone, was hurtling back towards earth. Inside was a familiar little troll-like monster named Garlic Jr. He was still alive since he had wished for immortality, but was not doing too well inside the deadzone. He was just sitting there in the darkness, remembering his defeat. He had everything under control with the black water mist, but then those fools had to show up. He cringed at how the namek had only pretended to be under the mist's control just to gain his trust then attacked him when he had to blow his cover. The namek, Piccolo, had given him a run for his money, he was lucky that Kami was being attacked by the ghosts of the old kamis, therefore weakening Piccolo. But then that meddlesome kid, Gohan, had to screw things up. He was sent into the deadzone again and was sent off to rotate the universe yet again, but now it was returning towards earth so he had his chance for revenge. He had saved his energy and had even borrowed some from nearby planets he passed, and he stored it away for when the time was right. It was quickly approaching.

Back on earth a couple weeks had gone by and Gohan and Vicki were sitting in her room going over wedding plans. Vicki didn't really care how it looked she just wanted to be with Gohan but Videl had come over before and convinced her that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity and she should make it the way she wanted it , so she was putting in alot of thought. They had decided to have the wedding outdoors.

They were going over some figures on the cost of flowers, the cake, food, and other things. Bulma had graciously offered to pay for it so there was no money shortage.

"I guess we're finished for today?" Gohan said while lying back on her bed to relax.

"Not quite yet, remember we still have to get our clothing." Vicki reminded.

"Oh yeah! Bulma, mom, and 18 are taking you to get your dress right?"

"Yeah, who's taking you to get yours?" Vicki asked.

"My dress???" Gohan gave her a puzzled look.

"That's not what I meant." Vicki sweat dropped.

"I mean your tux, or whatever guys where to weddings."

"Yeah, my dad, Krillan, and Yamcha, I think they're even dragging Vegeta along too, to take me to get my tux."

"Really? Well good luck. And remember nothing too stupid looking." Vicki laughed abit picturing Gohan standing there in a rainbow striped suit that Goku thought was pretty cool looking. Gohan got up to leave. He bent down and gave her a quick kiss before shooting out the window towards his house. Vicki waved and just started to settle down before her door swung open and alot of giggling and shouting was heard.

Vicki almost hit the ceiling she was so startled.

"Ready to go dress shopping?" Bulma asked loudly.

"Right now? Oh okay." Vicki almost fell off the bed.

"We invited Videl to come along as well is that all right?" Bulma asked sheepishly.

"Yeah, sure ,no problem." Then Bulma grabbed her by the arm and dragged her out to the hovercar. They stopped over and picked up Videl, then Chichi then 18. After getting everyone they headed for the mall.

Later at the mall.

"Come on out! I'm sure you look great." Bulma encouraged.

"You know I actually like this one." Vicki shouted sounding sure.

"Well we can't tell if you stay in the change room." Videl shouted before pounding on the door.

"All right, keep your pants on." Vicki slowly stepped out. The room hushed before the roar of compliments came rushing to her ears.

"Yes! This is totally the one."

"You look great in it."

"This dress was made for you."

Vicki was almost dizzy from all the comments. She decided to get it and they all stopped by at the food court to munch down before heading for home.

Meanwhile at another mall in the city Gohan was trying on jackets while Krillan, Goku, Yamcha and Vegeta waited outside. Gohan picked out his clothes, the ones he liked best then made his way out to ask the others what they thought.

"Oh yeah! That looks great on you Gohan!" Krillan yelled.

"Yeah I think so too." Yamcha agreed.

"What do you think dad?" Gohan asked still unsure.

"I like it." Goku said while munching down a bag of chips.

Vegeta didn't say anything but when asked about it he just gave an approving nod.

Gohan decided to get it then they all went back home to plan another part of the wedding.

A month later it was the day before the wedding. Gohan was out in his old training grounds trying to find Piccolo. He wanted Piccolo to be his best man more than anything else in the world. Gohan had checked every inch of that place and still no sign of him. Gohan was depressed his wedding just wouldn't be as special as it should be without his best friend there. He was just about to leave when he felt someone very close to him fly up. Gohan was sitting on the top of a cliff edge with his feet dangling over the edge when his father landed just behind him.

"Is this seat taken?" Goku asked sarcastically just before he sat down.

"What's wrong?" Goku was worried about his son he was acting distant lately.

"Oh I'm fine, it's just that I really wanted Piccolo to be at my wedding tomorrow."

Gohan was actually close to tears. His eyes were watering and his heart was aching.

"Yeah I know son, but don't worry Dende's still looking for him he's bound to show up sooner or later. Hopefully sooner rather than later." Goku assured.

"It's just, I worry about him, where could he be, yeah I know he's an adult and can take care of himself but what if something horrible has happened to him and he's just waiting for us to come rescue him and here we are just ignoring his absence."

Gohan's head was now resting in his hands which were shaking with worry.

"If I know Piccolo, which I think I do, he wouldn't want you to be so upset and especially on such a special day." Goku rubbed his son's back trying to make him feel better.

The sun was setting and a breeze was rustling their hair.

"You better get back soon you're going to want a good night's sleep for tomorrow." Goku said.

"I just don't know if I should do this without him." Gohan stated.

"I'll tell you what if you can go look at that girl just waiting to marry you and then tell me that you still want to wait for Piccolo then I'll personally tell everyone to delay the wedding but if you want to not break that lovely girl's heart and marry her tomorrow as you two have planned then you will go to sleep get through tomorrow and go looking for Piccolo when you return from your honeymoon okay?" Goku proposed.

"Hmm....sounds good. Night dad I'll see you in the morning." Gohan replied while taking off in the air towards Capsule Corp.

"Good night son." Goku said as he starred off into the sunset.

Back at Capsule Corp. Vicki was watching a movie with Bulma and Vegeta. Bulma then suddenly turned off the television and left for bed.

"Well I guess I should get some sleep, I don't want to be tired." Vicki said while yawning.

"Yeah, wouldn't want you to stumble and fall on your face now would we." Vegeta mocked.

"You wish." Vicki started to lightly storm out of the room when she heard.

"You'll do just fine namek."

Vicki was both thankful and regretful at this statement. It reminded her that she really is Piccolo Damon and that she would be giving all that was her up to be with Gohan, but when she thought about Gohan she didn't find it to be much of a sacrifice. Vicki climbed the stairs and into her room. She flopped down onto her bed and starred up at the ceiling.

Meanwhile just outside her window Gohan was floating with this dreamy grin on his face. How could he not love her? And how could he deny her the wedding they had planned for so long? He couldn't, even if it had to go on without Piccolo.