Queen Luana : Told you there would be a chapter II soon ! Come on guys ! Please review ! PLEEEEEASE !
Chapter II - The tape
Gohan smacked the alarmclock that was buzzing loudly. It was summer break? Why in the world did he turn on his alarm clock? "Gohan! Come to breakfast!" his mother called from downstairs. Still moaning, Gohan threw his sheets aside and sat up straight. Rubbing his eyes and yawning he stood up and sauntered towards his door. As he grabbed the knob he looked up in surprise. Water was running into his room from under the door. "Goku, go wake up your son, he's being awfully lazy," Chi-Chi cried. Gohan's hand trembled. In the reflection of the doorknob stood a girl. She was wearing an old, white dress and her long black, silky hair hung in front of her face. Horrified Gohan stared at the image. "Gohan! Are you still in bed?" He heard footsteps coming up the stairs, yet continued staring. He saw one of the rotten hands of the girl reach out for him. When he sawthe hand was only a couple of inches away, he screamed in horror, pulled open the door and slammed it shut behind him. Panting he sank down to his knees and saw his father standing at the edge of the stairs, blinking at him in amazement. "Gohan are you alright?" The girl from the tape, Gohan remembered. He thought deeply. That girl... What did he hear them say about that girl...
"When you watch it, you can see somebody's nightmare."
It was her nightmare they had seen. His father crouched beside him and stroke through his wild dark hair. "Are you okay?" "It was her nightmare," Gohan said, gazing deeply into his father's dark eyes. "We watched her nightmare." "Hey, are you still freaking about that video?" Goku asked slightly smiling. "Where is it!" Gohan cried clutching his father's shirt. "It's still in the tape recorder, w- Hey Gohan!" Gohan sprinted down the stairs, almost tripping and sank to his knees in front of the television. With shaking hands he pressed rewind and then play.
He watched it over and over again. Carefully observing everything he saw. His father watched from the kitchen as he rewound it again and pressed play, after which he stared at the white circle. The bell went. "Tell them not to enter the living room," Gohan mumbled hypnotised. Goku went to answer the door. Chi-Chi was ahead of him though. "Yes, can I help you?" When Goku enterred the hallway he saw a young girl standing their. She had dark skin and long brown hair,which she had tied in dozens of little pigtails. Her dark brown eyes rested on his face. "Oh, Goku, this is Luana, Luana Potter. She lives in the nearby village. Remember her, she was here a couple of weeks ago to sell cookies." Goku's face brightened. "Oh right," he said his eyes resting on the box she was carrying. She smiled slightly and handed it over. Goku beamed and opened it right where he was standing picking out a chocolate chip coockie and ate it in an eyeblink. "Goku, Luana here, oh please come in dear," Chi-Chi said, beckoning her to come inside and closing the door after her. "Luana said she forgot a tape here, an unlabelled tape, have you seen it?" "Yeah, I shraw itsh," he said his mouth still full with chocolate. Chi-Chi casted him a disapproving look and he quickly swallowed. "It's in there." He pointed towards the living room. Luana smiled gratefully and went inside.
Goku turned surpised as he heard someone enterring the living room. "You're watching it..." Luana said with horror-struck face. "Dad! I asked you not to let anyone in!" "You're watching the tape!" she shrieked. "I already watched it last night," he said swallowing at the sight of the upset girl, who was almost as old as him. "STOP THE TAPE!" she cried. Gohan reached out for the stop-button but the tape had already ended, with the arm clutching the edge of the well. Luana sank into the couch staring at the screen. "I didn't watch it yet." She had just said it when the phone went. Goku enterred the living room and casted a look at the phone, then at the girl who was staring at it in shock. "Oops..." With shaking hand, Luana reached for the phone. "Don't," Gohan said. Luana looked at him, nodded and lowered her hand. After a few moments the ringing stopped. Luana sobbed quietly. "What's going on?" Goku asked. "If I tell you, are you finally going to believe me?" Goahn said seriously, rising from the ground and settling himself next to Luana. "Gohan, it's rediculous that a tape can make people-" "Die?" Luana said, glaring at him. "It can." Goku raised an eyebrow and her glares only became harder. "Dad, please, of she says so to then-" "I understand," Luana interrupted Gohan, who blushed a bit as she looked at him with her dark eyes. "I first didn't believe it either when m-my brother said so. He was a supersticious guy." "Was?" Goku said now growing slightly pale.
"He said... he had found a tape in the videostore. Since it was unlabelled, he had taken it with him. And watched it when me and my parents went to the movies. The next day he told me he was cursed. I laughed at him." Silent tears began to run down her cheeks as she spoke. "Then, all of the sudden, he started saying goodbye to people. One day he handed me a tape and told me I could never – ever watch it. I told him I wouldn't, but was still quietly laughing to myself. The next eve, we found my brother in the living room, dead. His face... It was awful... So awful..." Through teary eyes she looked at Goku. "Now you believe?" Goku swallowed and looked at his son, who was shaking as well. "S-So, in seven days, the same will happen to us?" Gohan asked, afraid of hearing the answer. Luana watched them both. "You both watched it?" They slowly nodded. "A-And Krillin," Gohan added.Luana sighed deeply. "Then we're all cursed." "Now I remember you!" Gohan suddenly cried. "You're in school with me! You work for the school paper, right? Luana Potter?" She looked at him, as if she were drugged, apparently, not giving a shit at all. "Gohan Son, we were once in Biology together." Only now she smiled vaguely. "Oh right. Your frog was still alive when you wanted to cut him." They both sniggered at the memory. "It jumped al around the room, the entire class was after it." Luana laughed loudly, as if for a second forgetting her tears. Goku just sat there. He had already finished the box of coockies and was now just watching the two of them. Luana shook her head, still laughing quietly. "Oh well..." She turned serious again. "So, now what?" "Well, there's gotta be something we can do right?" Gohan suggested. Luana sighed deeply but had nothing to say. "I wrote down some things," Gohan continued and showed them a paper. "About what's to see on that tape." Luana read it carefully. "Burning tree, chair, ladder that faals, water turning red, bodies lying on the beach, nope, that's all junk." She narrowed her eyes. "Woman that jumps off a cliff?" "Yeah, she appears in it a second time, brushing her hair," Gohan said, indicating another line. Luana nodded. "I see." "I also believe she's the girl's mother." "The girl?" "Yeah," Gohan said this time pointing at the last phrase. "At the end of the tape, you can see a hand clutching over the edge of a well. A girl's hand." "How do you know it's not the mother herself?" Luana asked. Gohan ran his tongue over his lips then said: "Because I saw her standing in my room this morning." Luana turned pale. "There was a girl in you room?" Goku cried. "If your mother hears about that-" "Dad, please!" Gohan moaned. "Did she speak to you?" Luana asked. "No, I just saw her reflection in the doorknob." Luana frowned and looked at the paper. "Anything strange about her?" "Well, I couldn't see her face because all her hair was hanging in front of it," Gohan said and thought. "And well, she looked... wet." "The well." Luana stood up and paced up and down the room. Goku rose from his chair as well. "I think I'll call Krillin..." "Yes, do that," Luana said immediately. "He's involved. We all have to work together if we want to survive this. You're right Gohan, there must be something we can do."
So much for chapter II.
