Life after deaths
By BlueNightGVZ2341
Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ :'(
Chapter 10
"Yamu," Spopvitch barked as they flew towards the next city. The smaller of the two gazed at his counterpart. "He might be in this city," Spopvitch suggested.
Yamu checked the energy reader, it was motionless, "No we need to keep going, we can't waste time, Master Babidi needs us back immediately with the pure energy."
"We should go to the fighting tournament Babidi mentioned, there has to be strong fighters there."
"What part of getting back immediately are you not getting through your thick skull Spopvitch!" Yamu barked, "That damn tournament is in two months from now we need to get the blasted energy now!"
They continued flying leaving that city behind and proceeding to the next closest one, Satan City.
"Good morning my young…scholars," the homeroom teacher began as he started scanning the room to note any absent students on the attendance card.
"So Videl what are you doing after school?" Erasa inquired as she turned towards her best friend.
"Nothing really," Videl replied half heartily, "Just homework and training for the tournament."
After finishing her sentence Videl took the time to take a quick glance at Gohan.
She noted that he was simply gazing out the window.
She felt a wave of guilt hit her right now, what made it worse was she was beginning to think that breaking up with him was a vain idea.
It had been two weeks since she had broken Gohan's heart and over the countless times she was called by the police he never showed up.
To make matters worse the whole school heard about her and Gohan breaking up and all the girls made no attempt to hide the acknowledge of the fact.
Many girls that held a mutual grudge against Videl or were just jealous of her being Hercule Satan's daughter would flirt with Gohan right in front of her or tell her how stupid she was to let a guy like him get away.
And lately they had taken a fancy to telling their friends of how they were going to go to the movies with Gohan or something like that, with of course having Miss. Satan right there.
Those testimonies of course were all false, but overlooking them was beginning to be harder and harder. Ignoring the fact as blunt as her stupidity was overbearing in the truth of it.
Now conversation with Gohan was as rare as now going down the hall and not receiving a glare from a girl who had an interest in Gohan or a smirk in a belittling fashion.
Several times Videl considered crawling back to Gohan saying how sorry she was and hoping they could be together again.
That could never happen because of her father's genes in her, the stubborn pride held by all of the Satan's forced the raven-haired beauty to 3 about such an attempt to reconcile.
She then realized she was staring at the Demi-Saiyan when he turned around and intertwining their gazes.
Kicking herself for doing that silent gawking Videl looked away and turned to face the front of the room. Gohan followed suit as he glanced at the teacher but he tuned him out.
His mind was right now wrapped around a certain raven-haired crime fighter who had become smitten with his alter ego. On numerous occasions he felt the urge the urge to empty his soul about everything he had kept from Videl.
However he held back, Gohan right now had a well working façade of disdain towards Videl, which had at times even he fooled, he hated himself for it, doing such a thing like that went against his morals and his pride.
After they broke up Gohan had retired the Gold Fighter, hoping that without him the Super Saiyan hero could stop interfering more than it already was.
Proud of that decision, maybe Videl would forget about him and they could be together again.
However that wouldn't work either, then he would have to go back to lying, he couldn't do that to her, maybe he was destined to be alone for the remainder of his life.
For Videl to be happy he would do whatever the cost. Gohan tuned back into class when the teacher was assigning homework. To Gohan this was best time to pay attention.
Over the few months he had gone to Orange Star High he concluded that it was a waster of time. He never would peruse his mother's dream of him being a scholar, the Demi-Saiyan actually was considering dropping out of High School after the tournament was over.
"Guess you kind of dosed out there, huh?" Erasa teased as the class dismissed.
"Yeah I guess I did," Gohan replied blankly as he walked towards his locker.
"Don't worry Gohan, you didn't miss a thing," Sharpener chuckled as the two blonde haired friends of Gohan waited for him at his locker.
Videl nonetheless kept going to her next class, it wasn't with any of them anyway, why should she bother waiting? As the raven-haired teen kept walking she heard laughter come from the trio. Her jealousy flared but she kept it well hidden as she continued walking.
"Here it is Spopvitch, Satan City," Yamu spat, as the two stood perched on the top of a building. "Hercule Satan lives in this city, we should get his energy," Spopvitch barked as he began cracking his neck.
"You mean the guy that beat you in the last tournament?" Yamu inquired darkly.
Spopvitch laughed menacingly, "It's perfect, we can crush him and help Master Babidi." They two sneered as they jumped off the building and off to pay a visit to famous afro-haired fighter.
"Damn," Videl whispered under her breath as she ran down the hall to her next class, which conveniently was on the other side of the school and she only had two minutes to get there.
Hastily Videl rounded the corner and ended up running into what felt like a metal door.
"Crap," Videl whined as she lay on the ground in pain.
When she looked up she saw staring into her beautiful blue eyes was Gohan.
"I'm so sorry Videl," Gohan explained as he extended his arm for her to grasp.
She took it as she continued to look at the half-breed teen.
"I feel really bad Vi," Gohan sighed as he picked up her books that had been lost from her grasp in the fall.
"Don't worry, I'm fine," Videl exclaimed as he took the outstretched offering of her books, "I mean it was my fault, I should have been looking."
"I should have too," Gohan put in, acting less tense having the little incident shrugged off.
"I should get-" Videl began but was silenced by Gohan's mesmerizing gaze.
They were both silent for a few minutes before Videl felt her hands become enclosed in his own.
The space between them became less and less noticeable as both the teens felt that urge to shout out their apologies and to come clean with their feelings.
Their faces were so close now that Videl could feel his breath on her soft skin.
She sealed her eyes shut in anticipation but the desired kiss never came, she reopened her brilliant blue eyes to see Gohan backing up.
"What's wrong," the raven-haired beauty inquired.
"You said there was someone else," Gohan explained grimly as he slid his hands in his back pockets.
Then it hit Videl, the time to come clean was now and she was screaming at herself to do so, "Um," was all that came out.
"Is there?" he asked, so quietly that it was almost a whisper.
Videl kept shouting in her head, No. Not anymore, it's only you, I lov-.
Those words, the three little words that she wanted to shout from the rooftops but couldn't because there wasn't truth in them.
She did have strong feelings for Gohan, but she didn't know if it was love and she couldn't lie saying that she still didn't care for the Gold Fighter.
The fact of the matter is she was confused.
The decision between the two young suitors was too much for the poor girl. Both handsome, good bodies (she assumed that the Gold Fighter wasn't a scrawny guys considering his strength) and each of them were incredibly irresistible for the raven-haired girl.
Those qualities brought young Videl to her quandary at the moment, oh how she wished she could be with both. Gohan on one hand was kind, handsome, and brilliant; contrary to how he liked to doze off in class but he did get straight A's on his papers.
The Gold Fighter was similar yet quiet different, he was strong and brave, kind, heroic.
He also had a sense of adventure to him, which she herself had, and to top it all off he was one hell of a kisser, not to say Gohan wasn't but with him there was so much more passion. "I-I-I," Videl stuttered as Gohan's eye contact began diminishing.
"I'm sorry Videl, this is," he paused as he stared at the ceiling as a groan expressed the struggle he was having in his own head.
"This is stupid, you obviously aren't sure about what you want," Gohan explained, "I'll make the decision for you Videl."
She paused, awaiting the finishing of the statement.
He sighed as he faced his back to her, "Choose him."
Videl froze, she opened her mouth to say something but only a sigh of her own could be heard.
"If that is what you want," she replied softly.
"No Videl," he shot back, still not facing her now teary face as he began to walk away, "It's what you want."
Those words echoed through her mind, they hurt much worse than that bullet going into her foot, a pain to which she had just gotten over the trauma of.
Videl finally turned around and walked towards her next class, the concern of being late was no longer burdening her.
"The yearbook club meeting will be postponed until tomorrow where we will meet in the gymnasium. Also the Varsity boys lacrosse team will not be playing against North City High after school today. That is all of the afternoon announcements, have a good rest of the day," the principal said as the P.A. system turned off.
As soon as the announcements were finished all the students stood up and grabbed their books and headed towards their lockers, to get out of Orange Star High for the few hours of time they were granted between the beginning and end of the school day.
The half-breed teen proceeding as normal to his locker, his cell phone pressed against his ear as he was talking to Bulma.
"I'm going right now to talk to the principal Bulma," Gohan sighed.
He opened up the lock to his locker as he pulled his bag out from the metal hook it rested upon.
"I'm sorry but I have to," he explained dully. On the other end Bulma was screaming at him for asking for her permission to drop out.
The tournament, Videl and numerous other things had accumulated on the Demi-Saiyan as his decision to drop out of High School. Videl infatuated him so endlessly that being around her made the fact they could never be together as blunt as death.
He loved her, a thing he thought he could never do after the death of his parents came true.
Vegeta's training had opened the young Saiyan's eyes to fighting in a whole new way, he taught him so much about the Saiyan heritage that he almost became more familiar to it than the human ways.
The prince had once told him, "Love, an emotion foreign to Saiyan's will beat in your heart one day. Your human side will embrace, but your Saiyan half will hold back. However even though it will be a weakness in battle it can arouse your spirit like when you fought Cell, and it is then your greatest weapon."
Hearing that play back in the young Demi-Saiyan's mind brought up Videl immediately.
What Vegeta had told him was true, even him, who was undoubtedly the bitterest person in the galaxy about fifteen years ago had found love and raised a child with that woman.
He would probably give his life for her, though he didn't care to admit it.
The half-breed teen hoped one day that he would have someone like Vegeta had.
"Gohan, I can't believe you, you're not going to drop out, do you hear me," Bulma snapped on the other end.
"Understand, this is going to be for my own good," Gohan explained calmly.
"Gohan, I don't think that you should fight for a living, you have so much more potential than that. Chi-Chi, all those years she taught you and tutored yo-"
"How dare you bring them up," the Demi-Saiyan roared in the mouth piece, "Why would you even think of mentioning her."
Videl just then happened to be walking by, she saw Gohan's fit of anger towards whom ever was on the other end.
Even considering the things they had gone through recently, she couldn't help but think that the 'her' Gohan was talking about was herself.
"Forget it," Gohan spat back to the other end, "We'll just do it after the tournament."
The raven-haired crime fighter watched as Gohan hung up his phone and slammed his locker shut as he walked towards the front door.
Videl strolled down the streets casually, her father was on vacation so there was no rush to get home.
Finally she had a break from training non-stop, all she had to do was be home before 10:00 o'clock just so the butler and maids wouldn't worry. She continued to walk down the street as she looked up.
Suddenly she saw two navy blurs zoom through the sky and swoop down to land in the middle of the street.
The raven-haired beauty observed the two men. Both looked somewhat troublesome but Videl ignored them as she continued walking.
"Help!"
The raven-haired crime fighter whipped around to see the two men attacking someone with the needle like thing in the alley.
She ran over and kicked the bigger of the two sharply in the head, surprisingly turning it all the way around.
Videl landed and stared in disgust at the damage she had caused.
Spopvitch fell to the ground like a lead weight. His body was motionless as the grotesque scene of his inverted head had both Videl and the man they had attacked repulsed.
"Get up," Yamu barked nonchalantly, "Get up, this girl is much stronger than him."
Immediately Spopvitch got up and grabbed with both hands his reversed head and pulled it up and snapped it back into place.
"Oh my god," Videl gasped under her breath. "Grab her," Yamu demanded.
The giant minion of Babidi grabbed Videl into bear hug as she struggled to break free.
"Let go of me," Videl growled as she continued her struggle.
"Hold her still," the smaller of the two villains ordered.
"I'm trying, she won't stay still," Spopvitch grunted as he tightened his grip.
Videl tried screaming but the brute enclosed her mouth with his giant hand.
The energy collector finally pierced Videl's soft skin in her side.
The raven-haired beauty's muffled screams became more and more loud and agonizing.
"Get off of her," a deep voice demanded harshly as a foot landed square in the cheek of Spopvitch. Videl collapsed against the brick wall of the alley, all the energy that would enable her to move.
She looked up to see who her savior was.
"Gold Fighter," she said softly.
"Videl," The Gold Fighter said soothingly as he held her up in his arms, "Don't worry, I'll get you help as soon as I finish these guys."
Videl smiled as she closed her eyes while Gohan set her down gently.
"It's him," The Gold Fighter heard Spopvitch exclaim.
"The reader is going off the scale!" Yamu gasped. Before the Gold Fighter could react, surprisingly Spopvitch locked Gohan with his two arms, but before Gohan could easily break out of it Yamu stabbed him with the energy collector.
Suddenly the Demi-Saiyan felt all strength flood out of him into whatever that collector was.
"Gold Fighter," Videl said weakly as she witnessed in horror someone she thought to be invincible at the mercy of two goons who looked like they were stripping the life from him.
Screams echoed through the alley, but all the bystanders who beheld this did nothing.
Videl continuously tried now to get up, but each time she collapsed back to the dusty dirt ground.
"Get all of it Yamu!" Spopvitch instructed as his grip tightened on the helpless Demi-Saiyan.
Then suddenly the energy collector began glowing as the Gold Fighter's screams began more agonizing.
Finally to Gohan's realization, he was about to turn back to his normal state, which is exactly what happened and to Videl's bewilderment saw that the two suitors she had struggled with her feelings with turned out to be one in the same.
"Gohan," the raven-haired beauty gasped as she saw the Demi-Saiyan land on the ground next to her.
"Master Babidi will be very pleased with us," Yamu sneered as they stared at Gohan's motionless body before them.
Spopvitch began laughing dangerously, "That was like taking candy from a baby."
The two blasted off and then all the people who witnessed the event came over and checked to make sure that the two were okay.
One of them dialed an ambulance to take both Videl and Gohan to a hospital.
End of Chapter Ten
A/N: Crappy ending to the chapter but the next chapter will be a lot better. Sorry about the energy collector thing, I'm not really sure of the real name of it. I did however fix Spopvitch's name, I think I spelled it right this time but I hope you liked it! The next chapter I already started working on so hopefully it'll be up before this week is over. I would also I like to say that in the next few chapter the rating will go up to T. I hope that won't turn any of you off to my story:(. I really appreciate you reviewing my story, Miss Satan and I hope you review this Chapter too! You guys rock my socks. R&R plz
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