Part 8 Romance
A/N: Hmm it's been over a month hasn't it…. Sorry everyone!! I had various issues, such as not being able to upload anything other then text to fanfiction, and other computer problems.
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The sounds of claws clicking on stone could be heard bouncing off the walls of the small corridor. The dog paused at the entrance to a room, and poked his head in the door. From what he could tell something was asleep on the bed…
And that something…
That something was a muse.
The dog backed out of the room and in his doggie brain he called his owners.
Muses must be stopped, that was the rule the site had set up and Fido always did his job.
*~*
Dot led the boy down another long hallway. Gohan had long since given up on counting how many doors they walked past.
Gohan read one and paused, Dot had by now gotten used to the boy doing stuff like this and floated back to where he was.
"Something wrong?"
"Um… yeah…"
"What is it?" Dot tried looking at what the boy was looking at but didn't see what was troubling him.
"Why is there an R Smurf section?"
"A what?" Dot read the sign on top of the door closer, Smurfs-rating R- Romance, not many things on the site bothered the dot, but this was one of them. "Gohan I have no idea, let's just move on."
Gohan nodded and the two continued their trip.
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A small group of three tried a door on the hallway, finding it locked, like all the others, they moved on to the next one. This had been going on for quite a while.
"Explain to me, why are we doing this?" Mewtwo asked.
"We need to find a way back to Just In without going past the main viewing point of the site." Rowen tried to explain.
"Um…" The Pokemon decided he had lost his mind.
"I don't get it either." Chibi Tails-Chan told him as she opened another door.
"So why are you doing this then?" Mewtwo asked.
"It beats wondering around lost."
Rowen sighed and stopped the door opening for a moment.
"Oh God, get ready for a long story." Mewtwo said and sat down.
"The site is set up almost like a kingdom now. Steven lives and works in a big gray castle in the center of the site. All of the corridors, which you will notice are done in gray stone, lead to different directories. The rooms with the computers, where the fictions are located on, are done in the same décor, gray stone floors and walls. All of the rooms are lit with florescent lights most of the time, with torches to accent the design in some rooms and most of the halls. When the site is hit with too many users, the main lights go down to prevent the site from crashing." Rowen paused for a breath.
"Not that that really works." Mewtwo muttered referring to the site crashing.
"As I was saying," Rowen started again, after a glance at Mewtwo, "we are on the wrong side of the site and in order to get back to safety, Fancy, and Just In we need to go past the main viewing point, or the castle if you will."
"And then why are we looking at doors?" Mewtwo asked.
"To find a backdoor we can just go through to get to the main page."
Mewtwo shook his head, Rowen really annoyed him sometimes.
"Does the castle have a draw bridge too?" Mewtwo asked.
"I think so." Rowen said, trying to remember.
"So how do we find the door?" Chibi Tails-Chan asked, trying to get the muses back on topic.
"With a lot of luck." Rowen told her and went to another door.
"Muses are being arrested and you're taking your sweet time." Mewtwo mutter, "No wonder your show got canceled."
"What was that?" Rowen said, catching everything Mewtwo had said.
"I said, no wonder your low class Anime got canceled." Mewtwo said.
"At least I'm not in some kid show where the kids go around screaming 'gotta catch 'em all' and the main hero's a half assed wuss." Rowen responded, he really didn't need this now.
"At least my Anime's still on." Mewtwo countered.
"Mine may not be on, but at least Bandai licensed it."
"Enough!" Chibi Tails-Chan yelled.
Both muses fell quiet.
"Didn't you say muses where being captured?" She asked Mewtwo who nodded yes, "Then why are we standing here arguing?"
"Ok… let's just find that door." Rowen said and moved to try another one.
"Pfff you find your door your way." Mewtwo said and for a second the hallway was lit up then all of the doors flew off their hinges, "I'll find it my way."
"That works." Chibi Tails-Chan said.
"Hmp." Rowen responded.
The group continued on to find their proper door.
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Gohan was by now keeping his face toward the ground, he didn't want to read anymore of the door's titles, especially after the last one, he didn't want to know what went on in Blues Clues R fics.
"We're here Gohan." Dot told him.
"Ok." The boy muttered and looked at the title: Dragon Ball Z-rating G-R-Romance.
"Ready?" Dot asked.
The boy nodded and reached for the door, he just hoped Gohan wouldn't destroy Romance again.
The smell of roses drifted to Gohan's nose, but he followed Dot into the room.
The door closed behind the two and Gohan seemed to think maybe running would be a good idea, but then it was to late now, right?
Dot lead him to a computer and grabbed a second chair and dragged it over to the desk. Gohan couldn't help but notice the room was a dark red in color and as he sat down he noticed the chair was padded. He really didn't want to ask.
Dot had already began to look through fics.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to let you see anything about PG-13 if I can avoid it, we may do one R however."
"Ok..." The boy didn't sound happy.
Dot finally settled on one fic.
Lonely Love By: SSJ Trunks3
Just another Bulma/Vegeta fic. Bulma watches Vegeta train, and she realizes she's in love with him. What will she do?
The sun had finally broken though the clouds and was beginning to warm the area quite nicely. Vegeta had once again broken the gravity room so he had decided to go to the middle of no where to train.
Dot glanced at Gohan to see what the boy was doing. Romance shouldn't be too bad… right. His mind flashed back to what had happened before and he began to pray that the boy would be able to restrain himself. As if sensing eyes on him, Gohan turned to Dot.
"Something wrong?" Dot asked, afraid of the answer.
"Are all of these like this?" the boy asked.
"Like what?"
"Cliché." The boy told him, still not looking at the fic that was playing out in front of him.
"Yeah." Dot told him and pointed at the fic that had progressed slightly.
Bulma landed her air ship and returned it to the capsule. She knew how everyone felt about Vegeta, yet she didn't care. She loved him and wanted him.
Slowly she made her way to the edge of the rock cliff and found herself looking down on Vegeta, he had taken off his shirt and was standing alone, sweat making his body shine. Her breath caught in her throat and she found herself unable to breath. Her didn't yet know she was there, so he continued to train. Suddenly he powered up, and ash he did the cliff she was on collapsed.
Bulma let out a scream and closed her eyes as she fell. The next instant she felt her momentum stop as strong arms wrapped themselves around her body. Opening her eyes she found herself face to face with Vegeta.
"Vegeta I-" she began but he cut her off.
"You should be more careful." He told her.
Normally she would have told him it was his fault, but not this time.
As one they hit the ground.
To be Continued…
A/N: What do you guys think? I'd make another part but ten to one it would be NC-17 and I've already had a bunch of my fics taken down. But if you really want me to write on I will.
Gohan groaned.
"Something wrong?" Dot asked, ready to bolt.
"Why can't anyone finish a fic?!" Gohan yelled.
Authors in the room glanced at the two strange figures.
"It's to be dramatic." Dot said, trying to calm him.
Gohan paused, "I understand that, but why does everyone do it?"
"To get more reviews." Dot told him.
"And what's an NC-17?" Gohan asked, the events of his previous 'journey' were still not remember by him.
"Don't worry about it." Dot told him.
Gohan sighed, he would just have to look it up himself.
Dot began to move though the list of fics again.
"Hmm…. No …..no…." Dot said as he went through the list of fics. His sudden gasp caused Gohan to stop glancing around the room.
"What's wrong Dot?" the boy asked,
Dot didn't move and only stared at the screen. A fic was showing up with the title 'Gohan and Lime'. Gohan luckily still didn't remember it. Dot finally came out of his trance a moment later. "Gohan look away." Dot told him.
Gohan did as he was told, even though he was confused. Dot quickly went into the fic and after checking that it was indeed the same one he turned the fic in and exited.
"Dot?" Gohan asked, he seemed to remember a nice little girl named Lime he had saved from a river. That fic couldn't be about him and her could it? And if it was why was it described as an NC-17?
"It was nothing." Dot told him.
"Are you sure?" Gohan asked, he really wanted to know what was going on.
"That fic should have never been re-posted." Dot told him and looked for another fic for the boy to read.
Namackien Love Trials By: Piccolo luver
PxN, then later PxD. Namakiens don't have to be female to fall in love.
"Um… nope…" Dot said and quickly moved past that fic.
Beginnings By: Wish121
A cute little G/CC fic about the two of them meeting for the first time. AU
Dot decided this fic couldn't do too much damage and opened the fic. It said cute right? Then there was a chance Gohan may like it.
The fic started to play out, and that's when Dot decided to glance to where Gohan should be… except Gohan wasn't there….
Dot quickly paused the fic, "Um Gohan?" He asked glancing around the room.
"You mean the boy that was with you?" One of the authors asked.
"Yes him."
"He went to the little boy's room." She explained.
"He what?"
"Went to the bathroom!" Someone across the room shouted.
"…" Dot actually paused… bathroom…. Oh yeah… he had given the boy a drink…. Well at least that made sense…
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The lights were off in the room, for the most part, and the only source of illumination came from a single torch located in a corner. Light however should not have been needed in that room, or so the owners of the site believed. Use of light in a non-inhabited room was a waist of bandwidth.
At least the room seemed un-inhabited. There appeared to be no one alive in the room, for all purposes. The only thing, or things someone would see in the room was a pile of rubber duckies. Duckies that were cute, but for the fact that they looked like Psyduck.
Seconds went by and no noise could be heard in the room…
The torch sparked suddenly then settled back down to its normal level of light.
Crack!
Again it sparked as if it the wick was dirty.
No sound could be heard once again…
Until…
The pile of duckies began to move and once again Ash the Wanderer pulled himself free of the duckies. He sat on the pile and stared at the torch for a few seconds before appearing to speak to it.
"You know this joke is getting very old."
The torch didn't respond.
"It wasn't even funny the first time."
Still no response.
That's when Ash glanced down and noticed the Pokemon duckies.
"And my name isn't taken from Pokemon…" he told the torch, "How many times do I have to tell people."
The torch sparked for a split second.
"I'm glad you agree." Ash muttered.
A second spark followed.
"So you think both the Pokemon and duck joke has gotten worn out too?" Ash said, still looking at the torch.
Crackle crackle
"I thought so, you know I like you Torchy." Ash said, and continued to talk to the torch, obviously content to stay in the room, alone, away from whatever madness was going on. And especially away from Gohan.
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Outside of his cell, a girl had been walking past, when she noticed someone showing up on a view screen. From what she could tell the screen was there so someone could watch whoever was in the room, however no one was there. And since she had been past this point may times in the past and had never seen the screen before she stopped to see what or who was on it.
What she stopped in time to see was a man talking to a torch. Glancing under the screen she noticed a small plaque that said the man was Ash the Wanderer.
"I thought he was sane." She muttered to herself.
It was when he called the torch Torchy that she decided she had better things to do, and left rather quickly. Had she just stopped for a second longer then she would have noticed the button that clearly read Open Room Door in big letters, and had she only had to pushed it. However thanks to Ash's speech to Torchy she ran away from him.
And thanks to Ash's speech, Crazed Fanatic Anime Fan (who from now on to save the author's fingers will be called CFAF if that's ok with her) left to find her own adventure, leaving poor Ash locked up and out of the story for another chapter.
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Dot found himself sitting bored at the computer… 'where the hell was that boy at?' he wondered to himself. 'Maybe he got lost… or worse captured….
Seconds ticked by and still no Gohan.
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Kento had started to sing the Pokemon theme at the mention at the shows name.
"There isn't an off button for him either is there?" Makaveli asked, this time talking about Kento.
"Not that I know of." Ki-Ball told her.
"Can we please go look for Spooky now?!" CSWB Duo winded out.
"No." DA muttered, Familiar she could stand, barely, but she still could stand the kitten, this bat however…
"Why not!" the bat yelled.
"Cause they don't feel like it?" Vixy offered.
"We'll get to it in a second." Vejita-Girl told him.
"But in a second it will be too late!" CSWB Duo yelled.
"Why?" Chuquita asked, she and Vejita-Girl had taken a seat on the ground since they were tired of standing and it didn't seem like they would be moving to soon.
"Cause if we wait to long she'll get to far away and I'll never see her again!"
"Do you really think she'll miss you?" Chuquita asked.
"That's kinda mean." Vejita-Girl muttered.
"But it may be true." DA added.
"Well I know Spooky would miss me." Vixy told the group of authors.
"I don't suppose we could stop standing at this place in the hallway?" Makaveli asked, "I've memorized the wall by now."
"Sounds like a good idea." Chuquita said and stood, brushing herself off, she then helped Vejita-Girl up.
"Ok, then lets go-" Ki-Ball started.
"Um, let's go this way." DA said and started walking in a completely opposite direction from what Ki-Ball had wanted to go in.
"But… I… wanted to go in this direction." Ki-Ball muttered and followed the group that was leaving her behind.
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With a sigh Dot got up to go look for him, just then the door opened and Gohan walked in.
"Sorry I got lost." He said, slightly blushing.
"Lost?"
"Um… yeah…. There was this weird group of people walking around so I tried to go down a side alleyway but they went down it too. Buy the time I lost them I was lost and it took me a while to find my way back here."
"Did they see you?" Dot asked a little concerned.
"Nope."
Dot decided not to ask anymore questions, they where only confusing him. "Next time tell me if your going to leave." He scolded.
"Sorry." Gohan said and took his seat.
"Now of course you missed the first part of the story."
"Can't you go back?" Gohan asked.
"No."
"But why not?"
"Because…. I um… just can't." Dot told him, trying to get the boy to stop asking.
"Ok?" Gohan said, still confused.
Dot just started the fic back up with out another word.
Chapter 2
Next to him Dot heard Gohan make a noise.
"Yes you missed the whole first chapter."
Chichi looked again to the boy that had crashed into the edge of the lake while she had been fishing. Somewhere in her young heart she felt a slight flutter, 'What could this be?' She thought to herself. The boy, while he looked like some of the other boys she had seen, she could tell he wasn't normal, the tail was the main thing that gave it away.
She had become so lost in thoughts over the strange looks of him that she didn't notice when he woke up. It wasn't till he sat up that she noticed he was awake. Then she quickly backed away from him due to the fact that he had startled her.
She quickly recovered herself and found she was looking to his eyes, again her heart fluttered.
"I'm Goku." The boy told her.
"My name is Chichi." She told him.
She and the boy talked for a few more minutes until a device he had sensed something called a Dragon Ball near. As soon as the device picked it up he told her he had to leave, but Chichi knew she would see him again.
"Um…"
"Yes Gohan?"
"Shouldn't there be more to the story?" Gohan shifted in his chair.
"Yes… and they're would be more, but you missed half of the story." Dot said, he had started to look for the last story the boy needed to read.
Kingdom Hearts By: Yamcha & Bulma 4ever
AU, B/Y, Yamcha is a prince of a kingdom at war with the evil Saiyans. But what happens when his bride to be is captured by them?
Fantasy/Romance
"Nope." Dot muttered, clicking past that one.
Blood and Roses By: Dark Mental
How much would you do for the one you loved? AU.
Dot could tell Gohan was getting impatient so he just went in the fic.
The air was calm, yet it seemed as if it was waiting for something. The crashing of a car into another one… The sounds that could make people dread what they would see once they got to the source.
These were the sounds that came to Gohan's ears as he left the house he and his new wife Videl had just bought. Videl had just gone to the store to pick up something… something that should have taken her only a few minutes.
Gohan ran to the road and found the car he and Videl had bought under another car. He made it to the nearly flat car and froze, wishing he couldn't see inside of it. Videl was there, her neck at a strange angle, not breathing. The slightly sweet smell of blood met Gohan's noise and he back away from the car and threw up. Someone moved him back and he watched as she was removed from the car.
Gohan was clearly confused. He could understand that it was set in the future, that much was obvious from his older self, but he had no idea who Videl was. He tried to ask, but Dot hushed him. He had missed some of the story, not that he minded.
The day, as it was, appeared to be night. The clouds in the sky covered the sun so much that for all purposes it was night. It was a stark contrast to the day Videl had died. Just as Gohan was a contrast, the normally focused man was zoning out. He didn't even appear to notice as the casket containing her body was lowered into the ground.
After she had been laid to rest he went home to a cold, dark, lonely house and simply collapsed on the couch. His friends had tried to talk to him but he wouldn't listen to them, he couldn't. He just couldn't go on living without her.
Gohan again glanced away from the fic. "Dot how is this romance?"
"Hush you'll see." Dot told him.
Gohan sighed to himself and tried to concentrate on the fic.
Gohan pulled out an old book he had gotten from somewhere, one that was forbidden for humans to read. He opened it to a spell and began to read. To do what he was about to do he would have to cut himself and allow enough blood to flow to allow Videl to come back to life. She would be with him then. It didn't matter how much it would hurt him, she would be by his side from now on.
Closing his eyes he let the knife cut into his skin.
TBC
Gohan tried to figure out what had just happened. Next to him Dot closed the computer.
"Dot?"
"What's wrong Gohan?"
"What just happened?"
"Gohan made a pact with the devil to bring Videl back to life."
"Ok…" the boy was still confused. So much so that he had yet to get up from the computer.
"Why didn't he just use the Dragon Balls?"
"My guess," Dot began to explain, "is that the fics AU-ness was due to there being no Dragon Balls."
Gohan sighed and got out of his chair. "But the whole thing about my world is the Dragon Balls." Gohan told him.
"Yes, but that makes the fic more sappy." Dot told him and began to move toward the door. Gohan followed, trying to figure out why people would write fics about his world and make it so the Dragon Balls didn't exist.
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Bang! Bang! Bang! Sounded from the closed room. The offending muse Fido had found had been locked in the small room. From what the staff, who were outside the room, could tell it sounded as if the muse was hitting the wall. At one point, before he had destroyed the hidden camera, he had been hitting the wall with his head.
What had confused them was at one point he had looked at the camera and demanded to talk to LittleDevil. How had he known there was a hidden camera? And why did he demand to talk to LittleDevil, these where questions everyone wanted to know. They had made the decision and called her to the room, which was why they were standing out side of it.
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Several minutes later the author walked up to them, alone, her muse had other business.
Bang!
"You called?" she asked, slightly annoyed, she had been working on something.
Bang?
"Yes, we captured a muse, and he asked for you."
"Is it one of mine?" she asked.
The men looking at her shifted and glanced at one another.
"You only had one muse listed." A younger man told her.
"Only one? I have more then one." She told them getting slightly mad.
"Only Cale-Ronin Warriors was listed."
Bang!!
She sighed to herself, Cale was supposed to report her other muses as well when he reported himself.
"Open the door." She told them.
The men did as she asked and let the door open.
Once the door was open fully a tall male walked out. He had dark black hair, full black wings, and was dressed in black leather. {See Clamp's manga 'Wish'} LittleDevil squealed and jumped through the air, attaching herself to the male in a huggle-glomp. "It's my little devil!" she yelled.
"Um…. he's not so little." Someone commented.
"Ohh he can be." She said, still attached to the devil.
Koryu (the devil) looked less then happy, almost like he wished he was back in the room.
"Do… you… think… you… can… let ….go?" he asked, trying to breath.
"Yep." She said, and dropped to the ground next to him.
"You may want to come with us to and fix your muse list."
"While you do that, I'm going to go say hi to Cale." Koryu told her.
"Oh no you don't, you little devil, you're coming with me." LittleDevil told the devil. "I'm not losing you again." She told him and grabbed on of his hands.
He tried to get her hand off of his hand and managed to, he turned quickly to try and go again, but stopped when he felt a tug on his wing. Turning he saw LittleDevil had grabbed one of his wings and was walking with the men.
"Hey! Let go! I wanna trash Cale!!" he yelled, and turned to keep up with the group.
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As Gohan had noticed earlier, there was, in general, a purple tint to the air that could mostly be seen when the lights were high enough. While it was truly very pronounced at the main page it tended to fade to almost un-noticeable in the main viewing parts of the site. In the parts where the authors and muses were at, the tint was never noticed, as if it didn't exist.
There were, however, other parts where the purple was so heavy that one had trouble seeing where one was going, and the smell of the purple, if colors could have smells, would overwhelm someone.
Cale found himself in just such a place, thanks to a certain Pokemon. The purple would have been fine, but for the fact that Cale had a sneaking suspicion he knew where he was, and he really didn't want to be there.
His suspicions were confirmed when he tripped and found himself face down in two week old pizza, or something that looked like pizza. The garbage dump… Mewtwo had thrown him in a garbage dump.
At least that explained the purple, the lowest levels of the site seemed to have the most purple coloring… almost like it settled down there.
Cale pulled himself out of the pizza and tried to get anything that may have stuck to him off, a nice long shower, that's what he really needed right about now, then to kill that cat. He knew the main reason Mewtwo hated him so much… but he didn't see what was so wrong with it. So he had tried to sneak into the girls showers to spy and Mewtwo had caught him. There was nothing wrong with sneaking was there?
Cale was brought out of his almost happy thoughts when he heard something…. Something that sounded like…
Whoosh!
Trash fell on top of him.
'Enough of this.' He thought and teleported himself to the nearest male shower. He could get revenge on Mewtwo later.
*~*
When last seen Pippin was running down a corridor.
Right now, the poor muse was beginning to think, maybe, just maybe running hadn't been such a good idea… Yep not a good idea. He was surrounded by the 'Evil Fanfic people' as Kento had put it. He knew what they wanted, they wanted to take him away and lock him up with Duo. He just knew it… then Duo could continue to torture him, much like he had done in the past.
It wasn't fair, it just wasn't, what had he ever done? He was a good muse… some things in life just weren't fair.
He curled up into a little ball on the floor and closed his eyes, and got ready to be taken away.
The sounds of shouts came to his ears and he suddenly felt arms around him as someone picked him up and ran with him.
Several minutes later she stopped running and put the hobbit down.
"Thanks for saving me." Pippin said, his eyes were still closed.
"You can open your eyes now." Teekoness told him.
"Oh, ok." Pippin opened his eyes and glanced around… he had no idea where he was.
"Don't ask, I don't know either, I've never been here before." Teekoness told him when she noticed how he was glancing around.
"Can you help my find my author?"
"Yeah, I should be able to, why?"
"Cause I don't want to be captured for being a muse." Pippin told her.
Teekoness sighed "Let's go look for her then. Your author is a her right?"
"Yep."
The two set off to go look for Fancy, or at least try to find their way out of the level of fanfiction they were currently in.
TBC
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A/N: I'm stopping it here so I can get it up by tomorrow, as of right now it's 17 pages, if I do the Spooky/Fancy/Showndra part it will be 18 pages. They should be the first group in the next part. I'll try and update sooner.
Oh yeah, all fanfics used here were made up by me, any resemblance to real fics is a complete accident, with the exception of Gohan and Lime if the author of that fic wishes me to remove the reference to his fic please e-mail me at: gargoyle_otaku@yahoo.com and I will do so.
Also I made a slight mistake, I need about 3 more people who want to be bad, you must be bad if you want to be added to this fic, e-mail me at gargoyle otaku and I'll add you.