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Chapter VIII – All the time in the world

Krillin was the first to speak. "No way in hell I'm spending the night here! Nu-uh!" he cried and ran outside. "Hey Krillin, wait up!" Goku said and followed him. Luana and Gohan looked down at the closed well. "Uh, so... this is it, huh?" Gohan asked. "I-I guess so," Luana said shivering. "Let's talk outside," Gohan said taking a few steps backwards. "Right..." Luana mumbled.

"You're gonna what!" Krillin cried. "We have to," Gohan said seriously. "The answer is down there." "Well, yeah, I guess so... but opening it?" Krillin objected. "At this time of the day?" He had a point, night was falling which caused the cabin to have an even more spooky radiation than it already had. "He has a point, Gohan," Luana agreed her face slightly more pale than before. "I-I'm already a little bit frightened to open the well. And then- knowing there's no light? Not aware of what's hiding in the shadows? We still got three days, we're slightly 'ahead of scedule'. It wouldn't hurt anyone to wait till daybreak." "What she says!" Goku said nodding. Gohan sighed. "I guess you're right." "And I'm not sleeping in there!" Krillin said pointing with shaking finger at the cabin. "No way!" "What, you wanna sleep outside?" Gohan cried. They all looked at him in an understanding way and he sighed yet again. "F-Fine... bunch of cowards..."

"Okay, on three!" Gohan said.

"We really gonna do this?" Krillin whined.

"One..."

"I mean, we don't have to!"

"Two..."

"Wait, are we gonna pull at three or at now?" Goku asked. They all rolled their eyes.

"THREE!"

Pulling together, the three men shove the cover (Queen Luana: Or whatever you call it! I'm not English, alrigh?) off the well. Luana hopped from the wooden floor next to the well and turned on her flashlight. Taking a deep breath they all leaned over and faced the well's dark depths. "Echo!" Goku called. Krillin smacked him against the shoulder. "How deep do you think this is?" Luana asked, aiming the light down the well. "Pretty deep I guess..." Gohan mumbled. Goku smirked clutched Krillin's shirt tightly in his fist and pretended to push him over. "Oops! Saved your ass!" "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND!" Krillin screamed his face as pale as chalk. "I DON'T BELIEVE YOU!" "Yeah, well, I'm going down," Luana said hopping onto the edge of the well. Gohan clasped her arm. "Are you crazy? Have you even got the slightest idea what's down there?" "I do, actually," she said and smiled. "Samara." "Exactly!" Gohan squeaked. He tried to pull her back but she sat still. "We aren't gonna figure out anything from here. We have to go down." "Then I'll go with you," Gohan said and pulled off his coat. "You don't have to," she whispered. "Yes I do," he said and sat down beside her. "If anything happens down there I'll feel responsible, so I'll go as well. Just hold on tightly." She did so. "You two be careful down there," Krillin said. "If anything goes wrong..." "...we'll give a scream," Gohan said, smirking. He breathed in deeply. "Here we go." They jumped off and although Gohan tried to go down slowly, they were still descending at high speed. Luana scanned the well with her flashlight. He could feel her heart beating against his chest, rapidly. Luana shrieked suddenly. "What?" Gohan said shocked. She looked at her feet. "Water, we've reached the bottom." They looked around for a while. "You alright down there?" Krillin yelled from above. "Yeah, we're still fine," Gohan answered. It wasn't completely true. He was terrified. As Luana turned her flashlight in all directions, he was frightened that the next second, he would see Samara. "Okay, let me down," Luana suddenly said. "Huh?" "Lower me," she clarified. "Uh... okay..." He carefully lowered her into the water. "Thanks," she said when the water reached her shoulders. She searched the water with her hand and the walls with her flashlight. He wanted to pick her up again, hold her tightly against him. He could see her being pulled down any second by the black-haired girl. But she didn't. She just waded around the water. "Hey what's that?" Gohan asked, pointing at a place on the wall the light had just passed. "Just a sec..." She slowly approached the wall and lifted her flashlight. "Well?" Gohan asked. She pulled a face of digust. "Fingernails." Gohan swallowed. The tape. A thumb breaking it's nail on a pin. "Okay, I'm done," Luana said and Gohan grabbed her arms, pulling her out of the water. Then it happened.

Right as he pulled her against his chest she screamed. A rotten hand had shot out of the water and was now clasped around her ancle. Luana's scream was somehow bloodcurdling. Gohan saw Samara Morgan's head rise fromthe water and while she was, somehow, looking at him through her thick black hair, the image changed.

Gohan was no longer in the dark well, but in a bright field with a clear sky. A young girl with long black hair was standing in front of a well, singing. "Here we go, the world is spinning. When it stops, it's just beginning." A woman with long curled black hair approached her from the back. "Sun comes up, we all laugh. Sun goes down, we all die..." "Isn't it beautiful out here Samara?" she asked the little girl. "We're gonna be so happy here." A few seconds it was silent, then the woman, clearly Anna Morgan suddenly pulled a bag over the little girls head, strangling her. Samara clutched at the bag with her small pale hands but without any succes. "All I wanted was you..." Anna whispered. She let go and Samara fell over, down into the well. As she hit the water's surface, her eyes opened again. Looking up, she saw somebody sliding the lid back onto the well, blocking the sunlight. In the end, only a faint circle of light was able to break through. The last thing she would see, was the ring.

Gohan blinked and found himself in the dark well again. Samara's head sank back into the water and her hand let go of Luana's ancle. She panted against Gohan's chest. "God..." He looked at her. "You saw it too?" "Of course I saw it!" she screamed. "It was grabbing my freakin' ancle!" "No! I mean, the vision, the flashback!" She looked at him in confusion. "What flashback?" Gohan sighed and shook his head, pittying Samara Morgan. "It wasn't an accident..."

"Hey! What's going on down there!" "Gohan!" "Gohan, Luana, can you hear me?" Gohan blinked at the light coming from the opening of the well. "We hear you. We're okay." He held Luana tightly and together they flow towards the light.

"She killed her, I just can't believe what she did." Gohan shook his head. "All I wanted was you..." They we're all sitting down in the grass, enjoying the warmth and light of the sun. "And she wasn't dead yet," Gohan whispered almost in tears. "Just imagine, a ten year old girl, all by herself down a well with no food or nothing." "Yeah," Krillin sighed. "I bet she didn't last for a day." "Oh she did," Luana smiled. "How extremely obvious when you think of it. Just now it reaches my mind. That I never thought of it before. Why seven days..." Krillin stared at her for a moment, then smiled. "Waw, that's unexpected." "I'm just glad all this is over," Gohan said lying down in the grass. "We actually beat it." "Wait till Chi-Chi hears about all this..." After saying it, Goku screwed up his face. "Oh man, that's not good..." Gohan looked at his watch. "Hey, we actually had two days left," he said. "We're just too good." "Here we go, the world is spinning..." Gohan shot up straight but sighed reliefed when he saw Luana singing quietly. "When it stops, it's just beginning..." "What makes you sing that?" Gohan asked smiling. Luana shrugged. "I don't know. I just felt like it." Gohan smiled, pulled her closer and kissed her softly. "Oops..." Krillin and Goku quickly turned around. About a minute later, Krillin asked: "You guys done yet?" "Almost," Luana smiled and she looked at Gohan. "It doesn't really matter, right? We've got all the time in the world." He nodded in agreement and pulled her even closer.


Queen Luana: NO! Don't you understand? You aren't rid of her yet, ah what the heck. If they wanna screw up, I say we let them. Or will they find a way anyway? Perhaps... it'll all depend on the mood I'm in. Oh it's so much fun to play God! Review, please!