Disclaimer: I don't own Dragonball Z, nor would I want to. No one would
watch it anymore. But I do get a kick out of placing my odd stories up on
the internet. So, enjoy.
----- Television references.
"" talking
'' thinking
** Telepathy (chapter breaks too 0.o)
Darn it!! I may have caught some of you guys too LATE!!! This isn't a romance; it's a humor/drama! Well, there might be some romance, but that's much later on I assure you, there'll be more comedy and drama then romance!!=^.0=
*********Chapter Five**********
'What kind of effect could I possibly have on the future?' she tried to assure her doubts, but they were like a plague upon her mind, eating its way to the very core of her being.
Chi-Chi had left Goku to use the bathroom. While she was gone, Goku went into another seizure. Yamcha hurried Cassie to the writhing Saiyan's side.
"Watch him! I'm going to get some more of the antidote, try to keep him calm!" he said in a panic as he rummaged through the cluttered tables for the medicine.
She stood dumbfound in the presence of her greatest hero. She shook slightly as she felt her fingers go numb and she began to perspire. A cold sweat-mist began to lightly appear. Goku was grabbing at his chest as if to try and tear away the pain. His eyes were closed tight and his teeth were clenched. Her eyes wondered away for only a second. Her breathing shallow and fear had her in its grasp.
'What do I do.?' She thought as her eyes fell on the small turned over bottle of medicine.
Without thinking she reached down and picked up the bottle; almost mechanically. She unscrewed the lid and spilled a pill out into her palm. She then put the lid back on and grasped the small purple pill (the one that Goku supposed was grape flavored) between her index and thumb. Yamcha looked back in time to see the girl dampen Goku's forehead, calming him a bit and whisper to him. He then allowed her to give him the medicine, minutes later he was calm again. Yet she continued to sit with him, next to his side, damping his forehead and freeing his face sweat-beads as the formed. She sat in almost a daze as she cared for Earth's most valiant fighter.
'I touched him,' she thought.
'I can't believe I touched Goku,'
Her thoughts wondered back on what she did: Her hand moving all but steadily towards Goku's forehead with the dampened cloth, whispering frantically for Goku to trust her and take the medicine so that he could live; telling him how much everyone needed him and loved him. She thought of how he calmed some. She knew he is so much pain, yet, he was able to subdue it long enough to take the medicine. She remembered her fingers touching his lips; he was so trusting. She then sat and waited. Chi-Chi watched her from the kitchen. As soon as she came back from the bathroom she found Cassie attending to Goku. She found this opportunity to get house work done; however, she never let Goku and the new girl out of sight. She stood in the kitchen with Yamcha cooking and cleaning madly in a frenzy of worry and stress. She saw Yamcha watching them.
"I don't know if I should trust that girl around Goku, I mean just look at her." Chi-Chi said, pointing out the small smile on the girl's pretty face and the small blush on her cheeks.
"Aw, common Chi-Chi, she's a good kid." Yamcha said with sincerity.
He then rubbed his cheek slightly.
"And she's stronger then she looks." He absently added.
"What? She hit you?" she said with a mixture of amusement and that of someone evolved in a scandal.
He blushed and looked down as he used his index finger to scratch the side of his face.
"Yeah, I'm not sure what I did exactly, but she clobbered me good." He said and then looked up to where Cassie was sitting with Goku.
"It's funny, cause right afterwards she looked like she was going to cry and she kept apologizing over and over again." He said smiling more.
Chi-Chi only looked to the girl, a look of wonder on her face.
Cassie continued to sit with Goku for hours, thinking of home; of the wide open spaces of her house on the ranch (the pitiful excuse of a ranch). They had one old mare (she was older then even Cassie's mother), they had a bunch of sorry looking chickens, some peacocks (albinos, mostly), the one cow they had died of pneumonia, a large sum of scrawny hunting dogs crammed into small, smelly, and all around nasty cages, a scraggly rooster and a group of malnutrition goats. The only decent animals they had was the two cats and they basically belonged to her. There was a small black female (Sazuka) and her large, silver, tomcat-for-a-son (Shengi). She thought of her friends.
*****Flashback******
Her and her friends sat around the large screen television as they played Budokai for the Playstation 2. They laughed happily as they showed new combos to each other and made up jokes about the characters (especially Krillan). A couple of the characters had flaws in the game, like the way Piccolo looked at the screen after he won, his mouth refusing to close, a dumbfounded look on his face and his antennae rotating around madly (one faster then the other). Cassie's closest friend had to laugh hysterically at that because it was her that had a crush on Piccolo. Cassie's second closest friend had a thing for Trunks. It was Cassie who had a mild to moderate crush on Vegeta and looked up to Goku as a hero and role model. It wasn't till recently that she had even thought about Goku in any other way. Budokai made her think differently, or, to be more specific, Goku in his alternate costume made her think differently.
They would watch the characters they loved in alternate costumes and gawk and giggle, making comments about what they would do if they could. Occasionally they would go to the television screen and rub the character's bicep or thigh with their index finger and then pretend to swoon and faint. She had told her friends that if she could touch Vegeta or Goku she'd look like one of those crazy chicks on a boy-band tour grabbing at the girly- boys on stage.
******Flashback Ends********
'That's not exactly what happened, was it?' she thought back on how Vegeta had grabbed her and how terrified she was.
And then she thought of Goku and how numb she was when she gave him the medicine.
'Nope, it was nothing like I thought it'd be.' She thought.
She saw Goku fighting in his dreams, she knew what he was dreaming about and she wished she could help.
"Hang in there Goku." was all she managed to say the entire time.
It wasn't long before Krillan came and hurried them into Bulma's cargo ship. Goku lay on a mattress in the middle of the cargo bay area. Compulsively, Cassie found a far end corner to crouch in. Hugging her knees to her chest and feeling confident that Goku was going to survive from this point on.
'Well, everything's the same so far," she thought to herself as she watched Chi-Chi take over the job of watching over Goku.
****Flashback****
"It's all well and good that you've helped Goku out, but I think I should take over from here on out." Chi-Chi insisted before the departure.
*****End Flashback*****
Cassie hardly noticed that Krillan was staring at her. Suspicion hadn't left his features just yet. He was close to the short-haired Trunks. Trunks hadn't taken notice to her existence. Krillan scooted in closer to Trunks. Trunks watched in bewilderment as Krillan leaned in closer to Trunks and then whispered to him behind the back of his hand.
"Psst. Hey Trunks." He asked.
"Yeah?" Trunks replied, trying to keep the same volume.
"See that girl over there?" he asked, gesturing slightly over to Cassie with his head.
Trunks looked over in the general direction to see the girl in the yellow gi.
"Yeah? Who is she?" he asked.
Krillan let out a small sigh.
"Well, if you don't know who she is, then I guess that means she's not an android." He said with relief.
Trunks then narrowed his eyes at the girl.
"What made you think she was an android?" he asked suspiciously, his voice becoming serious and flat.
Krillan leaned in even closer.
"She seemed to know who we all were, and if that's not something odd, I don't know what is." He said looking at the girl; trying to imitate Trunks' look of growing concern for the new-comer.
"For your information, Krillan, she just happens to be the daughter of one of Goku's past friends! So quit being so paranoid!" Chi-Chi said loudly to Krillan.
Both Krillan and Trunks jumped. They then saw Cassie's attention come their way.
"That so, huh? I just happen to have known Goku for a long time, so I should know who your mother is." Krillan challenged the girl.
The girl was silent for a moment. It looked as if Trunks was ready to attack if need be.
'Think Cassie! Think!'
She then looked up as if to think about it.
"Let's see, she said she had short hair and large glasses. My uncles are cherubs and my youngest uncle is a genius. My mother was a faster runner then Goku at the time, but she was too dense to know any better, my grandfather told me this. I think she still is. Goku was looking for the four-star Dragonball when he came to our cottage. He talked a lot about Chi- Chi, his master Roshi, and his best friend and rival, Krillan." She said, trying to summarize all that she could without actually remembering their names.
'Wonder if they'll fall for it?' she wondered as she was unable to look at them, she kept staring at the ceiling until she was done and then she forced herself to look at them.
The fake smile was beginning to hurt and twitch mildly from the pressure. Krillan suddenly smiled and laughed happily.
"See? I knew it! I was Goku's first rival!" he said happily.
Trunks was only able to blink at Krillan, but when his eyes reverted back to Cassie, his thoughts were clear.
'Any of the Red Ribbon Army could know that kind of information, I just want you to know that I'm watching you and you'll have to make a mistake sometime, and when you do, I'll be there, ready,' the look seemed to say.
His gaze made her uncomfortable.
******Flashback*******
"Why don't you like Trunks? He's just so awesome looking and he looks so good." Her Trunks obsessed friend had asked.
Cassie had shrugged.
"I guess it's because I think he's a dip, like Yamcha. When he first came into the series he was awesome, but then he got his butt kicked one too many times and I just lost interest." She said looking at a picture of Vegeta with Bulma.
"What about Piccolo?" her Piccolo obsessed friend asked.
"I'm not going there!" she replied with a laugh.
******End Flashback*****
'I liked Vegeta because he was awesome, especially when he was a bad guy (bad man-snicker, snicker). But he was just EVIL.' She thought with a sigh as she placed her head down.
She zoned out as Chi-Chi gave her loud cry of despair and stated that Gohan needed to study. Chi-Chi tried to keep her son occupied with his studies as Gohan tried to talk with Trunks about time-lines. Cassie vaguely heard.
'Nothing has changed; I guess everything will be alright.' She thought, but some where, deep in her heart, she knew differently.
'Pretty soon, the call will come in; the call from Bulma.' She thought as she sat back, ready for a long drive.
Several seconds passed before the phone began to ring.
'And then we find out about the presence of Cell.'
**************** HOW was THAT??! Well, I tell you, I guess it kinda looks pretty good from here. I haven't gotten any fan reviews so I guess no one's reading any more. Darn! I was hoping that you guys could give me some insight on what I should do next! I need to know if there are any problems with the way I'm writing and so forth, you know? Well, thankx to all my loyal fans! Ja Ne Always! Usarea!
Darn it!! I may have caught some of you guys too LATE!!! This isn't a romance; it's a humor/drama! Well, there might be some romance, but that's much later on I assure you, there'll be more comedy and drama then romance!!=^.0=
*********Chapter Five**********
'What kind of effect could I possibly have on the future?' she tried to assure her doubts, but they were like a plague upon her mind, eating its way to the very core of her being.
Chi-Chi had left Goku to use the bathroom. While she was gone, Goku went into another seizure. Yamcha hurried Cassie to the writhing Saiyan's side.
"Watch him! I'm going to get some more of the antidote, try to keep him calm!" he said in a panic as he rummaged through the cluttered tables for the medicine.
She stood dumbfound in the presence of her greatest hero. She shook slightly as she felt her fingers go numb and she began to perspire. A cold sweat-mist began to lightly appear. Goku was grabbing at his chest as if to try and tear away the pain. His eyes were closed tight and his teeth were clenched. Her eyes wondered away for only a second. Her breathing shallow and fear had her in its grasp.
'What do I do.?' She thought as her eyes fell on the small turned over bottle of medicine.
Without thinking she reached down and picked up the bottle; almost mechanically. She unscrewed the lid and spilled a pill out into her palm. She then put the lid back on and grasped the small purple pill (the one that Goku supposed was grape flavored) between her index and thumb. Yamcha looked back in time to see the girl dampen Goku's forehead, calming him a bit and whisper to him. He then allowed her to give him the medicine, minutes later he was calm again. Yet she continued to sit with him, next to his side, damping his forehead and freeing his face sweat-beads as the formed. She sat in almost a daze as she cared for Earth's most valiant fighter.
'I touched him,' she thought.
'I can't believe I touched Goku,'
Her thoughts wondered back on what she did: Her hand moving all but steadily towards Goku's forehead with the dampened cloth, whispering frantically for Goku to trust her and take the medicine so that he could live; telling him how much everyone needed him and loved him. She thought of how he calmed some. She knew he is so much pain, yet, he was able to subdue it long enough to take the medicine. She remembered her fingers touching his lips; he was so trusting. She then sat and waited. Chi-Chi watched her from the kitchen. As soon as she came back from the bathroom she found Cassie attending to Goku. She found this opportunity to get house work done; however, she never let Goku and the new girl out of sight. She stood in the kitchen with Yamcha cooking and cleaning madly in a frenzy of worry and stress. She saw Yamcha watching them.
"I don't know if I should trust that girl around Goku, I mean just look at her." Chi-Chi said, pointing out the small smile on the girl's pretty face and the small blush on her cheeks.
"Aw, common Chi-Chi, she's a good kid." Yamcha said with sincerity.
He then rubbed his cheek slightly.
"And she's stronger then she looks." He absently added.
"What? She hit you?" she said with a mixture of amusement and that of someone evolved in a scandal.
He blushed and looked down as he used his index finger to scratch the side of his face.
"Yeah, I'm not sure what I did exactly, but she clobbered me good." He said and then looked up to where Cassie was sitting with Goku.
"It's funny, cause right afterwards she looked like she was going to cry and she kept apologizing over and over again." He said smiling more.
Chi-Chi only looked to the girl, a look of wonder on her face.
Cassie continued to sit with Goku for hours, thinking of home; of the wide open spaces of her house on the ranch (the pitiful excuse of a ranch). They had one old mare (she was older then even Cassie's mother), they had a bunch of sorry looking chickens, some peacocks (albinos, mostly), the one cow they had died of pneumonia, a large sum of scrawny hunting dogs crammed into small, smelly, and all around nasty cages, a scraggly rooster and a group of malnutrition goats. The only decent animals they had was the two cats and they basically belonged to her. There was a small black female (Sazuka) and her large, silver, tomcat-for-a-son (Shengi). She thought of her friends.
*****Flashback******
Her and her friends sat around the large screen television as they played Budokai for the Playstation 2. They laughed happily as they showed new combos to each other and made up jokes about the characters (especially Krillan). A couple of the characters had flaws in the game, like the way Piccolo looked at the screen after he won, his mouth refusing to close, a dumbfounded look on his face and his antennae rotating around madly (one faster then the other). Cassie's closest friend had to laugh hysterically at that because it was her that had a crush on Piccolo. Cassie's second closest friend had a thing for Trunks. It was Cassie who had a mild to moderate crush on Vegeta and looked up to Goku as a hero and role model. It wasn't till recently that she had even thought about Goku in any other way. Budokai made her think differently, or, to be more specific, Goku in his alternate costume made her think differently.
They would watch the characters they loved in alternate costumes and gawk and giggle, making comments about what they would do if they could. Occasionally they would go to the television screen and rub the character's bicep or thigh with their index finger and then pretend to swoon and faint. She had told her friends that if she could touch Vegeta or Goku she'd look like one of those crazy chicks on a boy-band tour grabbing at the girly- boys on stage.
******Flashback Ends********
'That's not exactly what happened, was it?' she thought back on how Vegeta had grabbed her and how terrified she was.
And then she thought of Goku and how numb she was when she gave him the medicine.
'Nope, it was nothing like I thought it'd be.' She thought.
She saw Goku fighting in his dreams, she knew what he was dreaming about and she wished she could help.
"Hang in there Goku." was all she managed to say the entire time.
It wasn't long before Krillan came and hurried them into Bulma's cargo ship. Goku lay on a mattress in the middle of the cargo bay area. Compulsively, Cassie found a far end corner to crouch in. Hugging her knees to her chest and feeling confident that Goku was going to survive from this point on.
'Well, everything's the same so far," she thought to herself as she watched Chi-Chi take over the job of watching over Goku.
****Flashback****
"It's all well and good that you've helped Goku out, but I think I should take over from here on out." Chi-Chi insisted before the departure.
*****End Flashback*****
Cassie hardly noticed that Krillan was staring at her. Suspicion hadn't left his features just yet. He was close to the short-haired Trunks. Trunks hadn't taken notice to her existence. Krillan scooted in closer to Trunks. Trunks watched in bewilderment as Krillan leaned in closer to Trunks and then whispered to him behind the back of his hand.
"Psst. Hey Trunks." He asked.
"Yeah?" Trunks replied, trying to keep the same volume.
"See that girl over there?" he asked, gesturing slightly over to Cassie with his head.
Trunks looked over in the general direction to see the girl in the yellow gi.
"Yeah? Who is she?" he asked.
Krillan let out a small sigh.
"Well, if you don't know who she is, then I guess that means she's not an android." He said with relief.
Trunks then narrowed his eyes at the girl.
"What made you think she was an android?" he asked suspiciously, his voice becoming serious and flat.
Krillan leaned in even closer.
"She seemed to know who we all were, and if that's not something odd, I don't know what is." He said looking at the girl; trying to imitate Trunks' look of growing concern for the new-comer.
"For your information, Krillan, she just happens to be the daughter of one of Goku's past friends! So quit being so paranoid!" Chi-Chi said loudly to Krillan.
Both Krillan and Trunks jumped. They then saw Cassie's attention come their way.
"That so, huh? I just happen to have known Goku for a long time, so I should know who your mother is." Krillan challenged the girl.
The girl was silent for a moment. It looked as if Trunks was ready to attack if need be.
'Think Cassie! Think!'
She then looked up as if to think about it.
"Let's see, she said she had short hair and large glasses. My uncles are cherubs and my youngest uncle is a genius. My mother was a faster runner then Goku at the time, but she was too dense to know any better, my grandfather told me this. I think she still is. Goku was looking for the four-star Dragonball when he came to our cottage. He talked a lot about Chi- Chi, his master Roshi, and his best friend and rival, Krillan." She said, trying to summarize all that she could without actually remembering their names.
'Wonder if they'll fall for it?' she wondered as she was unable to look at them, she kept staring at the ceiling until she was done and then she forced herself to look at them.
The fake smile was beginning to hurt and twitch mildly from the pressure. Krillan suddenly smiled and laughed happily.
"See? I knew it! I was Goku's first rival!" he said happily.
Trunks was only able to blink at Krillan, but when his eyes reverted back to Cassie, his thoughts were clear.
'Any of the Red Ribbon Army could know that kind of information, I just want you to know that I'm watching you and you'll have to make a mistake sometime, and when you do, I'll be there, ready,' the look seemed to say.
His gaze made her uncomfortable.
******Flashback*******
"Why don't you like Trunks? He's just so awesome looking and he looks so good." Her Trunks obsessed friend had asked.
Cassie had shrugged.
"I guess it's because I think he's a dip, like Yamcha. When he first came into the series he was awesome, but then he got his butt kicked one too many times and I just lost interest." She said looking at a picture of Vegeta with Bulma.
"What about Piccolo?" her Piccolo obsessed friend asked.
"I'm not going there!" she replied with a laugh.
******End Flashback*****
'I liked Vegeta because he was awesome, especially when he was a bad guy (bad man-snicker, snicker). But he was just EVIL.' She thought with a sigh as she placed her head down.
She zoned out as Chi-Chi gave her loud cry of despair and stated that Gohan needed to study. Chi-Chi tried to keep her son occupied with his studies as Gohan tried to talk with Trunks about time-lines. Cassie vaguely heard.
'Nothing has changed; I guess everything will be alright.' She thought, but some where, deep in her heart, she knew differently.
'Pretty soon, the call will come in; the call from Bulma.' She thought as she sat back, ready for a long drive.
Several seconds passed before the phone began to ring.
'And then we find out about the presence of Cell.'
**************** HOW was THAT??! Well, I tell you, I guess it kinda looks pretty good from here. I haven't gotten any fan reviews so I guess no one's reading any more. Darn! I was hoping that you guys could give me some insight on what I should do next! I need to know if there are any problems with the way I'm writing and so forth, you know? Well, thankx to all my loyal fans! Ja Ne Always! Usarea!