Run to where the smallest
Ray of light will never find youGohan arrived at Capsule Corp. He had to speak with Bulma. She was the only one who could help him figure out what was happening to him. Gohan landed with great ease on the Capsule Corp. front lawn. He then proceeded to the house that belonged to Bulma and Vegeta. The demi saiyan then knocked upon the door. It was a matter of approximately seven seconds for the door to open and Gohan to be greeted by no one other than the saiyan prince himself. Vegeta looked disgusted when he first opened the door, but after seeing the eldest son of his long time nemesis the older saiyan was even more disgusted. "What do you want?" Vegeta said in a rather unpleasant tone.
Despite Vegeta's choice of greeting Gohan still managed to put a smile on even though inside his mind he wanted to just punch the prince and tell him to shut up. "It's nice to see you too Vegeta."
The two stood in silence for a minute as they both eyed each other in silence. Finally Gohan was able to break the uneasy silence that was clogging the air. "So… Vegeta…how are you?"
Vegeta looked at the brat before him as if he were an insect that needed to be swatted. "I'm fine now what do you want brat?"
Not wanting to anger the older saiyan anymore than he already was Gohan spoke of why he had come. "Well to get right to the point I was hoping that Bulma was here. I need to speak with her on some matters I've been trying to find an answer too."
"What if the woman's not home?" Vegeta questioned.
"Well then I guess I'll come back some other time." Gohan answered.
Vegeta paused for a second as he rubbed his chin. "It's that important then?"
"Yes it is Vegeta." Gohan said in a more serious tone.
"Fine then I'll go get the woman if it will keep you from showing up here again." Vegeta said coldly before going to find Bulma.
Gohan waited outside while Vegeta was gone. It wasn't long though until the person he had been waiting to talk to finally showed up. "Gohan how are you doing!" Bulma asked cheerfully as a genuine smile came from her.
Gohan smiled back. "I'm ok."
"That's good. Come in and sit down." Bulma said invitingly as she waved her hand for Gohan to come in.
"Oh tha- AHHHH!" Gohan screamed bloody murder as he grabbed his head.
The young saiyan doubled over from the extreme waves of pain racking his body over and over again. Bulma's eyes widened. Immediately she called for Vegeta. "Vegeta get out here quickly!"
Vegeta was there not half a second later. He had sensed something was wrong and his senses were never wrong. "What the-"
"Hurry, help me get him to the lab." Bulma said in a rushed tone.
Both of them were on either side of a trembling Gohan and carried him to the lab, which luckily was less than twenty paces away. Bulma punched in her code to unlock the door while Vegeta held onto Gohan by the arms. The door slid open. "Hurry Vegeta get Gohan on the examination table while I get the monitoring equipment setup."
Vegeta did as he was told. Both went to separate ends of the lab. Vegeta went to the right as he dragged Gohan by his under arms. Bulma went to the left as she frantically began setting up the various machines that would monitor Gohan's condition.
The prince was just less than five feet form the table when something he didn't expect happened. The quietly quivering Gohan that was being hauled by Vegeta suddenly got up and knocked the prince to the ground. Vegeta looked up from the ground ready to curse the boy for knocking him down when he saw something that made him think otherwise. Before the downed prince stood an enraged looking Gohan.
His stance was widened and his teeth were clenched. Gohan's hair had become noticeably spikier and his muscles had bulged beyond their normal size. Then what Vegeta saw next caused him to be scared for the first time in so long. The prince looked up into the boy's eyes only to find that they were half glazed over with a faded turquoise pupil "What in the hell is happening him?" Vegeta whispered to himself.
Gohan looked over at Vegeta, who was still on the ground as if he had heard what the prince had said. The demi saiyan then pounced on Vegeta with great bursts of speed and making it looked like a cat had just pounced on a mouse. The boy looked like he wanted to kill Vegeta, which he tried to do. Gohan wrapped both of his hands around Vegeta's neck immediately cutting off his air supply.
The prince grabbed a hold of the demi saiyan's wrists trying to get tem off. However, Vegeta was unsuccessful in his attempt. A smirk more evil looking than Vegeta's was plastered on Gohan's face as he continued to strangle the older saiyan. "Get off of me you brat." Vegeta managed to yell out.
No response came except from Bulma. "Oh dear Kami!"
Bulma reached for her tranquilizer gun and shot a dart containing 4,000 ccs of sedative, enough to perhaps put an elephant out, at Gohan. The dart stuck itself into Gohan's left upper arm. The demi saiyan turned his attention away from his strangulation attempt on the prince to rip the dart out of his arm. In the few seconds that Gohan was distracted Vegeta was able to throw him off. The crazed younger saiyan landed on his back only to be up moments later. He looked across at the prince who was standing just a few feet away from him.
"Stop it boy. Don't make me hurt you." Vegeta threatened.
Gohan seemed to have ignored the prince for his response was rushing at Vegeta. The prince barely dodged Gohan as he jumped to the right. The younger saiyan halted and turned to look dead center into Vegeta's eyes. The older saiyan knew there was no other choice now. He would have to take the boy down or at least render him unconscious. Vegeta powered up into super saiyan form because he sensed Gohan's power level was somewhere between a normal saiyan and that of a super saiyan. "Fine then if it's a fight you want boy then it's a fight you'll get." Vegeta said as he got into his fighting stance.
Another devilish looking smirk escaped from Gohan as he too got into his fighting stance. Gohan was the first to strike. He rushed at Vegeta only for the prince to jump into the air and over Gohan.
As Vegeta flipped over the demi Saiyan he kicked him in the back of the head. Vegeta landed on all fours like a cat while a possessed Gohan went to the ground similarly from the force of the Prince's kick. In less than a second however the boy was up and facing Vegeta with an "I'm going to kill you for that" look.
The Prince smiled. "What is it Gohan? Can't handle an old Saiyan Prince like me?"
Vegeta's taunting remark only seemed to anger the young Saiyan even more. With that drive Gohan rushed at Vegeta again. However this time instead of being tricked into falling for another of Vegeta's traps, Gohan had another tactic in mind. When he got less than a foot away from Vegeta, who took it that the demi-Saiyan was going to just keep rushing at him like a giant like a giant quarterback he was unprepared this time though. Just as it seemed Gohan was about to pounce him, the Prince moved to the left. Gohan was ready for him by jumping backwards and in mid-air sending a ki ball at the prince. The prince's guard was off and he took the energy right in the stomach. Vegeta plopped to the ground, clutching onto his stomach. This time Gohan ran forward again before the prince could move and pounce on him. Vegeta began taking more blows to the face than he himself could count. The older Saiyan was able to get his hand on gohan's face to push him off. Both got back up at the same time. They stared each other down like they were going to kill the other. However, just before that could happen gohan let out another feral growl as he ripped something from his upper shoulder blade. Moments later the boy was face first on the floor.
Vegeta looked over to see Bulma holding the tranquilizer gun with both hands. Vegeta immediately transformed back to himself and rushed over to Bulma. "What the hell did you just do woman?"
"I just saved your ass from him. Now help me get him on the operating table before I use this on you as well." Bulma said harshly while breathing hard.
Vegeta was taken aback by his mate's tone but disregarded it as he quickly went to bulma's side. "You get on the other side. We'll both get him up there." Bulma instructed.
Vegeta nodded then grabbed gohan by his underarms while Bulma grabbed him by his lower legs. "Ready. One… two… three…lift."
The couple lifted gohan up onto the table. Next bulma started strapping gohan down just incase he decided to come out of it. However, the demi saiyan wasn't completely unconscious just yet. As bulma tightened the last strap a groggy gohan slowly opened his eyes. He looked to Vegeta with those turquoise eyes, and then slowly opened his mouth to reveal his upper teeth, showing his sharpened canines. Then he relaxed, his lips closing together a bit. Softly, he whispered, "I will make her mine." With that Gohan blacked out completely.
Vegeta raised an eyebrow. What was the boy talking about? Bulma began to examine Gohan. First, she checked his pulse and was happy to find that it was slowly returning to a normal rate. She next checked his eyes finding that the pupils how now gone back to their usual black. Bulma sighed. "Phew, looks like gohan is back to normal."
"And how the hell do you know that woman?" Vegeta asked. "How do you know that for sure woman?"
"Because Vegeta, his heart rate is returning to normal and his eye color is black again instead of turquoise." Bulma explained.
"Fine but just to be certain…" Vegeta paused and checked the boy's energy level and looked satisfied with his findings, "Yes his energy level is what it should be."
"Then that means he's fine for now." Bulma finished.
The two sat in silence before Bulma did some more checks and testing. "So what are you going to do now?" Vegeta asked curiously.
"Well I'm going to draw some blood and see what's going on with him." Bulma responded.
"Heh." Vegeta commented
"You know Vegeta you don't have to stick around here. I'll be fine." Bulma said.
"What if he comes too?" Vegeta asked.
"Don't worry, I can handle myself." Bulma assured.
"Fine, but if anything goes wrong press the emergency button thingy that you always tell me not to push," Vegeta ordered.
"Yes master." Bulma said sarcastically.
He smirked. "And don't you forget it."
With that the Prince left, leaving his mate to fend for herself when Gohan would finally wake up.
Several long and trying hours had passed, yet she had not come any closer to a reason for Gohan's outrageous actions. Bulma was currently looking at yet another blood sample that came from the youthful saiyan. The microscope, which the older woman gazed through, contained the image that blood. However, when Bulma added dye to the sample and looked back into the scope there appeared to be two different types of blood cells. There was the usual human red blood cell, but there were also darker red cells. These cells looked almost identical to human ones, except the dye added to them made them appear darker, they also appeared to have a more square shape, where as the human blood cells were a oval or circle shape. Bulma had seen this before; the square cells were saiyan blood. Obviously Gohan being half saiyan his blood contained to different types of cells.
Bulma continued to look at the sample. Suddenly she noticed something. The blood was shaking back and forth, almost as if it was possessed. Then Bulma heard someone or something breathing behind her heavily. She turned around to see Gohan quivering violently like he had hours before. She walked over to the demi Saiyan. He still appeared to be unconscious or in some kind of subconscious state. Bulma rubbed her chin. She then looked up at the various monitors that displayed his heart rate, stabilization etc. They all appeared to be normal even though Gohan was shaking. However just as fast as his episode had started it stopped and he returned back to his peaceful sleep. Bulma took some notes on her clipboard, returned to the microscope, and peered into it once more. However, she gasped and quickly jumped back in disbelief when she found what she was looking at. Bulma took a deep breath and cautiously walked back to the microscope. She looked into it once more only to find what she thought she had seen the first time. From what she could see there appeared to be saiyan blood cells multiplying and devouring the human blood cells. Bulma in complete awe turned from the scope and to her clipboard. There she wrote down everything that had just occurred before her very eyes. Bulma then took her lab coat off and ran for Vegeta, who was out in the kitchen eating a snack. "Vegeta come to the lab quickly."
"Why should-"
"Just get your ass to the lab!" Bulma shouted.
Vegeta's eyes widened at the woman's tone and decided to run to the lab after her. The prince walked into a seen with Gohan still on the table and Bulma by her microscope waving him over with her hand. "Come on Vegeta."
Vegeta walked quickly over to his mate. "What is it?"
"Look into here. Tell me what you see." Bulma instructed.
Vegeta eyed her suspiciously, but looked into the scope anyway. He too saw the image of the saiyan blood cells multiplying and devouring the human cells. After a few seconds of examining the image before him the prince turned from the microscope and looked back up at Bulma. "It's just some cells multiplying and stuff woman… so what?"
"So what? So what do you think of Gohan's blood sample?" Bulma interrogated.
Vegeta's eyes narrowed as he frowned and rubbed his chin. "Well, it appears to me as if the saiyan side of Gohan was battling his human side or something like that."
"But what does that mean?" Bulma asked, even though she feared she thought she knew what it meant.
"Well to me it would mean that if Gohan's saiyan side wins then he becomes full saiyan and if his human side wins then he becomes full human, but why should that be a problem?" Vegeta asked.
Bulma got a look of anger on her face. "What do mean that should be a problem? If that happens to him then he'll be as obnoxious as you or he won't have any powers at all! Not even to mention what Chichi and Goku will say!"
Vegeta's facial expression did not change. "Woman, do you think I should care what happens to that baka's brat. My concerns in life are not of my rival or his family."
Bulma sighed. She was becoming tired of Vegeta real fast. "Look I don't care right now what you care or don't care about right now. I just want to know if you have any suggestions on how to correct this. There has to be someway of preventing this."
Vegeta thought. "Well when I still lived on Vegeta my father told me of a saiyan who was half saiyan half and half Konat. My father said that something was happening to this half saiyan that caused his saiyan half to start overtaking his Konat half. In the end though this half saiyan wanted to stay half, half because of his certain attributes that full saiyans, and full Konats did not have. Supposedly he had to mate with a Konat to equalize the saiyan and Konat halves of him. He had to mate with a Konat so that his saiyan side would realize that the half saiyan wanted to stay half saiyan."
"So does that mean that Gohan is going to have to mate with a human to keep himself half human half saiyan?" Bulma asked.
"Yes it does. However it is the boy's choice. Not yours, not mine, not anyone else's than his own." Vegeta replied.
"So that's it then. There's nothing that anyone can do for him." Bulma said.
"The only one who can do anything for him would be the person he decides to mate with." Vegeta said.
Bulma sighed. "Ok, well I guess all we can do now is let him wake up and let him decided his own future."
So now it has finally been told. Bulma and Vegeta know of Gohan's condition. However, what are they going to do about it? What will Gohan choose to do once he awakens? If wants to stay a demi saiyan who will he choose to be his mate and what will the results be of him mating if he does so? All these questions were soon to come to answer.
Run away from all the soulless
Heartless fiends who hound you- Disturbed