Sibling Rivalry Chapter 5
Pink Prank in Effect
The sun was just beginning to rise when the small house appeared into view for the raven-haired demi saiyan. Rejhan, who was still going out for her morning workouts, had been jogging for an hour and figured that it was time to get her shower before her darling little sister got up and took over the bathroom for herself, which she was doing a lot of recently.
Arriving back in the house, she walked briefly up the stairs and was slightly disappointed to see the bathroom door shut. Groaning, she peaked into her sister's room and was surprised to see her still snug under her duvet. Pushing aside the urge to wake her up, after strongly arguing with herself that she punished her enough the other day, Rejhan figured it was Gohan who was in the bathroom.
Upon entering her own bedroom, Rejhan prepared her day clothes and got ready for her shower. She soon heard the shuffling of feet, which told her that Gohan had finished, and quickly jumped into the bathroom before Emily could get in first. Upon leaving the bathroom ten minutes later, she had her newly washed hair wrapped up in a towel and was now in her day clothes. Making her way into her bedroom she was just about to grab her hairdryer when a startled voice suddenly rang from downstairs.
"Uh Rej? I think you'd better come and see this!" It was Gohan. Rolling her eyes, Rejhan left her room and went in search of her twin, finding him in the laundry room bent over the washing machine.
"What is it?" she asked, frowning as she never even looked at him properly and made her way over to the washing machine. She looked in and gasped.
"Uh, the clothes are pink." Gohan mumbled. Rejhan looked up at her brother for the first time that morning and made a startling discovery.
"They're not the only things that are pink. What have you done to your hair?" she asked. Widening his eyes, Gohan jogged to a mirror on the other side of the room and gasped as he saw his reflection.
"What the… How did this happen? I only washed it this morning!" he cried. Rejhan frowned as she spotted a wet pile of clothes in the basket near the washing machine, and put her hand into the washing machine and pulled out a nasty surprise.
"They're all my clothes! Yours and Emily's are in the basket!" she announced, growling as she spotted her favourite blue t-shirt, which was now a baby pink colour. Shaking a bit, the towel on her head slipped off and fell to the floor, and Gohan put his hand to his mouth.
"Rej, uh go look in the mirror," he gasped. Rejhan stared at him briefly, then made her way over to the same mirror he had went to before and gasped as her raven black her was now bright pink aswell, perfectly matching Gohan's.
"Oh my god! I'm gonna kill her!" she screamed, her eyes flashing the super saiyan green, and Gohan put his hand on her shoulder to calm her down.
"Hang on a second, how do you know it was Emily?" he asked, but he knew himself that this was a stupid question. He knew, just like Rejhan, that she had to be the one behind this.
"Oh come on Gohan, who else would sink this low. She is so dead this time, and don't even think about stopping me!" Rejhan yelled, running out of the room with her twin close behind her.
Meanwhile upstairs, Emily had woken up to the commotion and grinned to herself. So, the twins had found their surprise. Knowing she may have to make a quick exit, she was sitting on her bed in a pair of jogging pants and a baggy t-shirt, waiting for the worst to happen. Only she didn't realise how bad it had become. Suddenly her bedroom door was slammed open so hard that it came off of it's hinges, and Rejhan stood there glaring at her so coldly that Emily could swear she saw fire in her eyes.
"Uh oh," she muttered and quickly brought two fingers to her forehead.
"Oh no you don't!" Rejhan yelled, jumping onto the bed but it was too late; the teen had successfully used her trick, the one thing that always got past her Sight.
"Now what?" Gohan asked, looking around her room.
"We go after her and bring her back unconscious." Rejhan snapped, running back out of the room and down the stairs. Gohan sighed as he heard the front door slam shut.
"Oh Emily, what have you done?" he muttered, hesitatingly going after them. Over in Satan City, the blonde demi saiyan appeared out of nowhere in a small alleyway away from nosy shoppers.
"Well, now I just stay out of their way until they calmed down. Looks like I get to camp tonight. I can feel Rej on her way and Gohan's close behind her. I'd better get going, it's not safe for me to be hanging around here for too long," she mumbled as she took off down the alleyway and found a row of shops. In the air, Rejhan smirked triumphantly as she located her sister's burning ki.
"She's in Satan City. Oh dear sister you've just made your biggest mistake," she growled as she gathered up speed and blasted off, leaving Gohan struggling to keep up with his mega annoyed twin. Back in Satan City, Emily had stumbled into a video shop and was browsing through the titles. She knew it would be a waste of her time lowering her ki as she was perfectly aware that Rejhan would pick it up no matter what.
She was looking through the horror section and had picked up a film about a very haunted house when one of the workers leered up to her.
"You've got to be 18 to rent that out. Why don't you go over to the children's section, you'll be more at home there," he stated, looking down at her, and Emily just glared at him.
"Why? It's just about a haunted house, it's probably not that scary. And I'm thirteen years old, I don't even go near the children's section anymore, and how would you know where I'd be more at home in?" she demanded. It was true that she was smaller and thinner for her age, but it was only because that she trained every day that made her physically and mentally stronger, and she was resisting the urge to knock the guy out. Making sure her ki wasn't flaring, she quickly replaced the film and stalked over to the comedy section. To her annoyance, another worker was there and was leering at her from behind his row of shelves that he was stocking up.
"Can I help you?" he asked, and Emily glanced at him before returning her attention to the rows of videos before her.
"No thank you, I'm just looking," she replied. She had no plans on renting anything out, mainly as she had forgotten to bring her money with her.
"Where are your parents?" he asked.
"What's it to you?" Emily snapped back, beginning to loose her patience with the staff.
"Children under the age of twelve shouldn't be out on their own without their parents. Now, where are yours? If you're lost, I'll take you to our security office," he replied, frowning at her, and Emily just growled at him.
"For your information mister, I'm thirteen years old. And my parents are not home at the moment if you must know. Now if I want your services I'll ask for them so leave me alone!" she half yelled, while all of the other customers in the shop stared at her for a moment, but quickly went about their business, tutting about what an ill mannered girl she was. Emily just ignored them and left the shop. This wasn't as much fun as she thought it would be, but as she set eyes on the next shop, she was so ready to change her mind. Grinning now, she ran through the automatic doors and disappeared behind the rows and rows of the shop's goods.
Over at the other side of the city, Rejhan and Gohan landed, both looking about.
"Where is she?" Rejhan growled.
"She'll be here if your sight is telling you she's here," Gohan sighed. Rejhan closed her eyes and suddenly a blue image of her sisters ki appeared. Snapping her eyes open, Rejhan pointed ahead of them.
"She's at the super market. Come on before she gets away again," she cried, running off in the direction she'd pointed. Arriving shortly in the supermarket, Rejhan scanned the area for any sign of Emily.
"Well…" Gohan started but quickly got cut off.
"She's in here, I know it," Rejhan snapped, not meaning to lose it with her brother, she just wanted to get her hands on her conniving little sister before she managed to do anything else.
"I was going to say Rej, she's over there behind the sweets," Gohan sighed, and Rejhan quickly turned to the savoury aisle and sure enough, there was Emily filling up a basket of crisps and salted popcorn.
"Oh she is dead!" Rejhan hissed, making her move only to get pulled back by her brother.
"If you just storm over there, do you think for one second she's going to stay put? If we work out how to grab her she won't be so aware," Gohan said firmly, and Rejhan sighed.
"You're right. Ok here's what we do..." she said and started to whisper her newly formed plan into his ear. A few moments later, Gohan nodded and they both took off in different directions, ignoring the comments about their pink hair.
"Hm, let's see, six bags of salt and vinegar, six bags of bacon, six bags of cheese and onion, four bags of popcorn and a few dozen cans of cola, should be enough to survive until mum gets back. I'd better get some meat too, mum's always moaning that I don't eat enough meat. I can ki grill it," she was mumbling, looking at the contents in the basket.
"Do you really think you'll be living long enough to ki grill your dinner?" a voice snarled in her ear, and her eyes went wide. Spinning around, Emily was shocked to see Rejhan standing right there.
"I uh…" she stuttered, bringing two fingers to her forehead, but was suddenly grabbed from behind as Gohan quickly scooped her up, forcing her two arms behind her back.
"You don't really plan on doing your trick in front of all these people do you?" he hissed into her ear.
"Let me go Gohan!" Emily shouted, but only to have her brother tighten his grip on her. Nodding to each other, Rejhan and Gohan escorted her outside of the supermarket, and to the back of it where they were most likely not to be disturbed by other shoppers.
Satisfied that they were alone, Gohan dropped Emily to the floor but grabbed her wrist so that she wouldn't be disappearing anytime soon.
"What the hell have you done to us?" Rejhan yelled, glaring at her. Emily winced slightly but refused to give in to her.
"What are you gonna do? Beat me up again?" she sneered, only to earn a hard yank off Gohan.
"Just shut up and answer the question!" he snapped. He too had finally lost his patience Emily had noticed, and she had a feeling that it really was going to be two on one today.
"Nothing," Emily huffed, staring at the floor. Rejhan shot her hand out and pulled her sisters head up harshly by her chin.
"It sure doesn't look like nothing! Our hair is pink," she hissed.
"So I've noticed," Emily shot back with a slight smile.
"Well?" Gohan demanded. Emily just sighed, then concentrating all of her power onto her free hand, she fisted Gohan as hard as she could in the stomach. Not prepared for the blow, Gohan instantly lost his breath and let go, clutching at his stomach. Before Rejhan could grab her, Emily took off again as fast as she could.
Helping Gohan get his breath back a few minutes later, Rejhan glared at the direction that the troublemaker had gone.
"Now can I kill her?" she asked, and Gohan shook his head.
"Unfortunately, as much as I'd love to say yes, we can't. I just don't think beating her up is going to knock any sense into her," he said once his breath had completely returned.
"What do you mean? As you've noticed, nothing can get through to her," Rejhan pointed out.
"Actually you're wrong there, sis. Let's try one more time at trying to get her, I'll be prepared for miscellaneous blows and if we can't grab her, I'll tell you my idea," Gohan bargained, and Rejhan sighed.
"Alright, one more chance," she sighed. Closing her eyes, she was surprised to find her sister in a clothes shop, but when she opened her eyes to look into that direction, she then realised that it was a sports and gym shop.
"Where is she?" Gohan asked.
"She's in there. Come on," she replied, pointing at the shop then they both took off to the shop's entrance. As they entered, they were suddenly surrounded by every sport related activity they could think of. From tennis balls to canoes, fishing rods to punching bags. If Rejhan was in the mood, she'd have liked to have a browse around this shop herself, knowing it was likely that she wouldn't walk out empty handed. She scanned the room and was annoyed to find her sister was nowhere in sight.
"Well? Do you see her?" Gohan asked. Rejhan closed her eyes and Emily's burning blue ki signature was indeed present in the shop, but it was so close that it failed to give out a direct location.
"She's in here, and close because all I'm seeing is her ki up close. I suppose she's hiding in something. Well she's not escaping that easily," she snarled and began upending the canoes inside out, undoing the zips of a few nearby tents and basically creating an annoyed mess. Sighing, Gohan made his way over to the store's manager.
"Excuse me sir, but we're looking for a young girl, she's thirteen years old and she has blonde hair which is tied back into a ponytail. Have you seen her?" he asked, and the manager frowned at him.
"What clothes does she have on?" he asked.
"Uh, navy blue jogging pants and a blue t shirt I think," Gohan replied, being honest with himself, he was too busy looking for her facial features when hunting her down that he wasn't sure which clothes she had on.
"Yeah, I saw her wonder around this place just a few moments before you came. I got busy with a customer, so I dunno whether she's left or not," he answered, and Gohan nodded his thanks and joined his twin over in the weights section.
"Any luck?" he asked.
"Not one bit. She's hidden pretty well, but I've just checked again and she's still in the shop. It's only a matter of time before she gives herself up," Rejhan replied, pulling at a punch bag that came off the hook. Gohan suddenly noticed something that was situated on the workbench. It looked like a dumbbell, but it had piece of paper stuck to it.
"What's that?" he asked, frowning at it, and Rejhan peered down and noticed that the bit of paper had both her and Gohan's name on it. Frowning herself now, she picked up the dumbbell not realising that it had a bit of twine attached to it. Pulling it up to her eye level in case it was a note, she realised quickly that it began to struggle against her grip and widened her eyes as a large dumbbell came flying down from the roof.
Gasping, she quickly dropped to the floor and yelled out to Gohan to duck but it was too late. Gohan looked up just in time to see it smack into his face.
"Aargh!" he yelled, clutching his eye. Rejhan jumped back up and ran over to stop the dumbbell coming back down and hitting them again on its second swing, and then turned to her twin.
"Are you alright?" she asked.
"I dunno. My eye," he gasped, taking his hand away momentarily. He tried opening his eye, which had a nice purple bruise forming around it, but the moment the light attacked it he winced and shut it again.
"Right that's it. I don't care how we get her home, but she is getting found right now. Emily if you don't get your little butt out here now I'm gonna start hunting you my way," Rejhan yelled. Suddenly she heard a rustle in a large purple tent a bit away, and curiously moved over and ripped the door open. The tent was empty, but a small trail of sweets was inside, so she knew the teenager had occupied the tent.
"Now where'd she go?" Gohan mumbled, still clutching his eye. Rejhan closed her eyes once more and was annoyed to find her sister had arrived back on Mount Potaz again.
"She's gone home. Come on let's go," Rejhan announced, grabbing Gohan by the arm and pulling him out of the shop, leaving the manager staring after them.
"My shop," he said weakly, staring at the carnage left by the two demi-Saiyans. Twenty minutes later, the two agitated twins arrived back at Mount Potaz and stormed into the house to find the teenager sitting on the couch watching a movie. Looking up, Emily smiled innocently.
"So, where have you two been? I was getting worried," she asked in a voice that was so sincere that both twins were finding it hard not to throttle her.