"Damn it...Have you seen Videl anywhere, Gohan?" Keira said nervously as everyone continued to walk. "I need to find her, and really soon," The teenage saiyan turned around to look at her and shrugged.
"Sorry, haven't seen her all day," Keira gritted her teeth, clutched on her shrit and cursed under her breath. Everyone seemed to notice that the young girl was acting a little differently than usual, and that she was really nervous. "You alright? You're acting strange..." Gohan asked, a little consearned.
"Not teh mention that you looked really streased right now..." Krillin added. Keira looked up into the sky and sighed.
"I don't know...I have this uneasy...feeling, like somethings gonna happen," she replied softly and calmy. "But...I also have something to do that Ican't do if I can't find Videl!" she added on angrily, only to feel a tap on her shoulder. Keira squeakeda little bit in surprise andbolted around to see Videl, in all her "glory", standing there.
"You called?" she said, smirking.
"Harr-di-harr-harr, you're so funny." Keira said with her arms on her hips. "Where do I go to do this this thing?" Videl grabbed her hand and started to pull.
"Follow me and you'll see.You go on before the little kids, alright?" She said, still pulling Keira in the opposite direction of her friends. "I'll make sure all these guys are here to see it, too," she added.
"Where the hell is she going?" Vegeta suddenly boomed.
"You'll find out after the prelims, jerk," his niece snapped back at him. "I'm sixteen, thank you. I can take care of myself, you don't need to treat me like I'm six anymore,"
"Bull. You're probably fighting with the children because you're not good enough to fight with us," he snapped back, only to get a ki blast in the stomach. He looked up to see Keira tearing up a little bit.
"Say anything like that again, and it'll be at your face, bastard," she said walking off to follow Videl.
"That was stupid, you know that right?" she heard Goku say from afar.
"Shove it, Kakarrot..."
"I can't believe of all the things to come out of my mouth, it was that!" Keira was in one of the waiting rooms with Videl. She groaned and put her face in her palm. Videl, who was sitting next to her, was trying to cheer her up a little bit. "I'm already on thin ice, now I think I just broke it! He hates me!"
"C'mon, he deserved...whatever you gave him...He shouldn't of said something like that," Keira continued to sulk.
"Doesn't matter...he's to damned hard headed to admit he did something wrong... Besides, it's not like he's not right...I'm not good enough to fight with you guys,"
"That's bull. You're probably better than us all because of your speed! No one could even lay a hand on you in gym, remember?" That was true. On the ground, theteen was faster than everyone, even Vegeta. That was her strong point, and maybe her only one."Don't think about stupid things like that for now, you can settle this later. Right now, I need you to sing one song. Just one. But I need to got o the prelims right now, so I'll make sure you go on after everyone's done, alright? If that happens, you might be on after the kids,"
"Alright, but make sure that you don't tell anyone," Keira said quickly before Videl was gone.
"Don't worry about it! I won't tell a soul!"
It was about an hour after Videl left her that one of the officials of the tournament called her.
"Miss? The prelims are over, you're on in three minutes," Keira got up and nodded.
"Three minutes...right. Thank you very much," after she was sure he was gone, Keira sat back down and sighed. Her hands were shaking when she looked down at them. "Why am I so nervous? Singing's what I do, what I'm good at. If he can't accept that, why should I care?" She sat still for awhile. Then groaned. "Because...he's one of the only people I've got left..." She laid down on the bench and spread her arms out. "If there's another God other than Dende, please, kill me now." Then, Keira heard the annoncer call out and an appaulase. "Shit...I guess that's my cue. This is it girl, show them what you're made of." Then walked out into the sun light.
Keira ran and jumped up in the air. "YES!" After the song was done, a thunderous applause gripped her soul. She was good. Good. Something she had never believed would happen. People were still cheering when she left the huge fighting stage. She could've sworn her heard Bulma screaming something about her, Trunks and Goten cheering happliy, and some voices she'd heard before. "Oh yeah, uh huh uh huh uh huh! YIPEE!" Keira had never felt so appreciated in her entire life or so full of life at the same time. Suddenly, she was tackled in the back and landedon the ground with a loud thump. She turned around to see Gohan staring down at her, smiling.
"You lied," he said happily. "You said you were blackmailed." Keira shurged on the ground and smiled evily.
"I do that alot, don't I?" She pushed theGreat Saiyaman of her. "Besides, I couldn'tlet you guys have all the fun." Thenstuck her tongue out. Videl ran up afterward, smiling wide and brightly. The others followed soon after.
"For that wonderful performance," the human girl said triumphantly. "You get exclusive back-stage passes that can get you in the fighter area, thus meaning, you can stay with us allday!"
"That's great!" Keira said, full of energy. "It'd be better roaming around here with you idiots than beingup in the stand with crazy, drunk people." She got slapped in the backof the head after that comment.
"Take that back," Goku teased. "We're better than drunk people by far."Keira grimaced and laughed at the same time, trying to avoid Vegeta's stone hard glare.