The Ferryman Charon
By: Andross937
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Summery: Gohan goes on a school trip with his class to an archeological dig on another continent. How will he be Saiyaman in the city and Gohan at the dig site without anyone suspecting? How will he hide his secret when serious trouble erupts at the dig site and Saiyaman must make an appearance? Will Videl suspect him for who he really is?
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Bull let out a shout of power as his ki flew up at a massive rate, creating an aura around him that ripped the ground up and tossed it about. The tree he had just been beating on was ripped from the ground and torn to pieces from the power, just before the splinters that were left caught on fire. A tornado of power erupted outward from him and ripped through the area around him. Several buildings nearby were unfortunate enough to get cought up in it, and were sent crumpeling to their knees, slaughtering over a hundered people in only seconds.
Bull looked at their bodies with no guilt. They had cheered for Hercule, never thinking to see him for the coward that he was. They did not deserve life in his mind. Besides, he was told to kill. If he was expected to kill for his chance at revenge, then kill he would! He would slaughter the whole lot of them!
He rose into the air, his blood red aura burning around him as he did. He let out a cold laughter that sent chills down the spines of those that were unlucky enough to hear it. His eyes glowed red as he felt the energy around him, the very life force of the thousands of people that inhabited this city. It was washing over him, making him feel drunk with the feeling of superiority. He was more powerful then all of them combined!
They were evil. They cheered for the man that got his parents killed. Now he could have them back with him. All he had to do was kill everyone around him, and take his revenge on Hercule. His smirk turned into a horrible grin of pure evil. He let out another shout that tore the ground again.
Dark red ki formed around him in the shape of a sphere. It began to slowly grow larger, expanding outwards towards everything around him. The ground, the sky, the buildings, the people, the very city itself, they would all suffer like he had for seven years. With another shout the sphere suddenly lashed out faster, much faster then before. In seconds it engulfed nearly a third of the city. It faded away to reveal Bull, laughing again at the destruction.
His laughter suddenly stopped as the realization dawned on him that this was not how to gain his revenge. Hercule was not here, so he would simply have to go to him. He could kill anyone and anything he passed on the way there. That would be enough, and he would have his revenge so much faster. He had waited seven years for this, why wait anylonger?
In a blaze of red ki, he flew off towards Satan city, directly towards Hercule's home. He could feel the fool's ki from here, and it was pathetically weak. He would die for letting his parents die instead of saving them and that city. He would die, a very painful and slow death.
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Gohan's head shot up as the earth itself shook underneath him. It was a horrible power that he felt causing this. It was so powerful, and familiar. It felt like that horrible ki he had felt at the cave entrance. Standing from his position in the toy store, he walked out even as everyone else had to hold on to keep from falling down. Suddenly he gasped in horror as the ki of nearly a third the city disappeared from his senses, replaced by the dark ki.
Seconds later the dark ki started moving away at high speeds, headed straight for Satan city. He would have to follow it. Just as he crouched to take off, not caring if anyone saw him or not, something else caught his senses. The ki from the dead people reappeared again, but in one spot, and much stronger, like they were all now one even more powerful being, or as if something had absorbed it all and increased it. What was going on. He had to get to the ki source, which he was chilled to find out was at the dig sight.
Gohan had to get there, no matter what. He didn't care about the fact that he was standing in the middle of the street or anything. He was about to take off, when he suddenly felt Videl's ki round the corner. He looked up to see her only a block away, and locking her eyes on him. He could fly now, no matter how determined he was. He would just have to settle for the jet. Throwing the capsule, he jumped in and roared it to life, thankful for its speed now.
Videl watched as Gohan ignored her approach and jumped in his jet. It burst off of the ground and into the sky at speeds she had never seen a jet go in her life. It definately was the latest model from Capsule Corp.! It roared off in the direction of the dig site, and Videl was determined to follow him.
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The Gohan currently in Satan city in the disguise of Saiyaman also felt the power erupt and then come in his direction. It would take a few minutes for it to reach him, but he had no intention of letting it get this far. He powered up to his max power level and rocketed off to intercept the dark ki. To his horror the dark ki was killing more people as it came. He pushed himself harder.
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Bull flew at speeds he had thought impossible only minutes ago. As he flew, he passed over dozens of cities. He grinned each time and powered up a ki blast. He let them loose as he went, watching in near glee as they flew down to the center of each city and totally blew them away as if they were a pipe bomb in a city of lego pieces. He felt a never before experienced feeling of pure pleasure from each life force he felt disappear.
Hundreds of thousands of people died in only a few minutes as he flew, soon comming over the ocean he had flown over in the plane. Only a few minutes now, and he would have his revenge... He smiled with evil glee.
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Gohan's horror grew as he flew the jet as fast as it would go. Every single ki that blinked out from the traveling evil ki, went straight to the ki source he felt at the dig sight and increased even more. It was getting stronger every second from this horrible killing spree that was happening. He knew for sure that this was the dark ki that he felt at the entrance, and now it was here. He was only a minute from reaching the dig sight when he felt Yamcha's ki begin to battle the dark ki. At first it felt as though it was an even battle, until the dark ki got a sudden jump in power from the latest city killing.
Yamcha was now losing the battle, though not by much thanks to his great skill. He had been fighting his entire life practically, much like Gohan. Yamcha wasn't going to loose easily, Gohan could feel it. Gohan could feel him, even now, pulling out the stops. He recognized the jump in Yamcha's ki as the Kaio Kan. Yamcha kept rising it until he was as powerful as he could go, and began to fight again.
This time the dark ki was loosing somewhat badly. At this rate, Gohan may not have to fight by the time he gets there. However, this was not to be. Several more cities died suddenly, and the dark ki was powered even more then before. It used this advantage to make as quick work of Yamcha as it could.
Just as Gohan got there, he jumped out of the jet. He had only moments before Videl arrived, so he had to work fast. He pressed the blue button on his watch and put on the bandana and sunglasses and charged for the battle high in the sky. Yamcha was loosing badly now, and Gohan didn't know why sense the dark ki had stopped rising for now.
He knew why when he reached the battle. Yamcha was locked in fierce combat with a tall and skinny figure that was covered in black robes. Gohan could plainly see its skeleton face and hands as it fought. It wielded a wicked looking stick that had a strange evil aura around it. Gohan watched only moments as the skeleton fought with Yamcha, beating him with the stick. With each impact, some of Yamcha's ki was absorbed from him and into the skeleton.
"You won't win this!" Yamcha shouted out as he punched the figure in what was suppose to be its stomach, not knowing if the skeleton had one. At the same time he took a knee to the gut, and the stick came crashing down on his head, throwing him into the ground below.
"Who will stop me mortal?" came a horrible voice, dispite the fact that the skeleton's mouth did not move.
"I will!" Gohan shouted out, throwing aside his usual flashy behavoir when he was in a costume.
"You will stop Charon?! The Ferryman of Hades himself! I think not mortal!" the voice came again from the skelton. "I will take you across the river sticks myself! You will die!" it exclaimed as it charged at Gohan.
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Videl arrived at the dig site, landing just beside Gohan's abandoned jet. She breifly wondered where he was, when a powerful shockwave rocked the earth under her. She looked up at the sky to see two distant figures clashing in the skies. With each impact, the shockwave rocked her and everything around. It was incredible, with each impact coming several times a second, if not faster then that! It was like a constant force bearing down on her.
Suddenly her attention was diverted away from the battle in the sky by a rusteling near her. She looked to see a large crater in the ground just a hundred feet away. It must have been several hundred feet wide, and at least a hundred fifty feet deep! She looked down into it to see the baseball player Yamcha stirring inside of it.
"What it the world?! Did you make this with you body?!" she shouted in shock.
Yamcha groaned before looking upwards to see several transparent images of Videl floating and circleing around in his vision. He shook his head and stood up, slowly bringing himself to levetate to her eye level. This only served to shock her more.
"I assure you, it was not volentary. Listen, I don't have much time, so I need you to listen closely and not ask questions, okay?" Yamcha said seriously as he saw Gohan get knocked away by Charon, slamming him into a nearby cliff.
Videl could only knod in shock.
"Good. I want you to tell Gohan something for me. Have him tell the whole gang. Tell him, that I'm sorry I have to do this, but this evil must be stopped. I didn't get to do much against Cell, but I did what I could. Now I'm doing what I can again." Yamcha said with a strange smile as he took off flying.
"What do you mean against Cell?!" Videl shouted out in shock. Now she remembered seeing his face on the broadcast of the Cell games. He had been there too!
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Gohan disguised as Saiyaman came ever closer to facing against the dark ki headed straight for him. He would collide just over another city. Suddenly, his sight picked something out in the sky, heared straight for him. Before he could take it in fully, the figure slammed straight into with the exact same amount of force he was flying with. The resulting shockwave shock the city beneath them.
Saiyaman was sent flying through several buildings until his dragged a large gaping hole in a street, blowing parked cars and light poles aside as he went. Finally he slowed to a stop and stood. With a quick rise in his ki he took off again for the dark ki just across the city.
Bull was blown back by the force of the impact and rammed himself through several buildings. Those buildings were not as fortunate as the others as they crumbeled and killed hundreds. Bull wasn't done though as he slowed and stood still for a moment. Rage filled him as he had to face off against someone in his way that could stall him from his revenge. In his rage he let out a horrible ki shockwave that leveled over half the city, killing all those that were caught in it. He wasn't done though as he let out an attack that spred out and whiped out not only the city he was in, but several nearby cities.
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Charon knocked Gohan away, sending him into a nearby cliff. This kid was good! He was actually giving him a true test of his powers! He would enjoy killing him and presenting his soul to Hades as a trophie! Suddenly strong arms wrapped around his chest, holding his arms still and forcing him to drop his ferrying stick. He struggled, but the arms would not let go.
"Kaio Kan times twenty!" shouted out Yamcha. "I don't know who you are mister, or even what you are! But I won't stand by and let you kill people! I will finish you myself, so prepare yourself for oblivion!" he shouted out as he let out a scream of power.
Ki swelled into his body at a increasingly fast rate. It was building, stressing his body more and more. His muscles buldged and buldged, with his veins threatening to burst with internal bleeding. His chest, arms, legs, hands, and feet swelled to several times their natural size until he looked like he was a balloon ready to pop! His aura grew as red as Bull's and grew in size and heat as its power increased more and more. Yamcha was now shouting in pain, as he voice was being cut off as his throat was burning from the heat.
Suddenly there was a great flash of light. It blinded all nearby. It blinded Gohan as he watched helplessly while he flew to his friend's assistance. It was blinding to him, especially with his saiyan senses, yet he couldn't look away even as tears were swelling in his eyes. It blinded Videl as she watched in horror and shock. She couldn't tell what had happened, yet had a feeling of what exactly had just happened.
The flash faded soon after, and a pillar of smoke in the sky was all that remained of Yamcha. The smoke drifted there as Gohan only hung in the sky in shock of Yamcha's death. He had sacrificed himself to protect the Earth, just like his father. Questions bambarded his mind of how he could have prevented this from happening. Again he was wracked with guilt for letting another person die because he didn't kill the enemy fast enough.
Then the smoke cleared away. Just as it did, a chilling laugh echoed through the sky. Gohan and Videl both looked in shock to see Charon still floating there, his body surviving the sacrafice of Yamcha thanks to the added power from Bull's sudden killing of several cities in his rage. Charon still floated there, laughing as his skull somehow gave the impression of a devious and evil grin.
"Oh my, that hurt. It really did, but rest assured, he is waiting for me to take him to Hades at the river sticks. You shall soon be joining him." Charon said as his ki level suddenly jumped, his body having finished absorbing the released ki of Yamcha's death. It was even more powerful though, at least four times more powerful even with Yamcha having used the Kaio Kan to the twenteith level.
"What?! How is he so powerful!" Gohan shouted out in shock.
"Stupid mortal! When a mortal's life if over with, his ki is released, increasing for that one moment up to four times its previous level for those who can absorb it and put it to use properly!" Charon laughed.
"Ofcourse, that's why he's gaining power so much faster then Cell did." Gohan said to himself. Now he was in real trouble.
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Gohan as Saiyaman was thrown back and into a crater from the attack of the dark ki. He was now more horrified to find the cities gone, and his rage increased so much more. He blasted out of the crater and straight at the dark ki. To his shock, when the ki source came in visible range, he recognized it as Bull.
"Bull! What are you doing?!" he shouted in shock.
"Huh? You know me?!" Bull asked as he looked up to see the source of his stalled revenge. It was Saiyaman blocking his path. "Saiyaman?! Humph, you would side with the coward Hercule! Get out of my way or I will kill you!" Bull shouted in rage.
"No Bull! I won't let you kill anyone else!" Gohan shouted.
"Then you will die!" Bull shouted in rage as he rocketed at Gohan.
Bull went to slam his fist into Gohan's face, but Gohan had been ready and dodged to the right, bringing his knee up and into Bull's gut. This force the air out of Bull's body, but he still brought his arm back and slammed his elbow into the back of Gohan's head. This threw Gohan off balance for a second, and the blinding exchange of blurred blows began.
It was a brillaint sight to behold, if the there had been anyone alive to watch it. All those who would have witnessed the amazing and deadly spectacle happening, had already been killed. The two warriors fought in the middle of a several mile lone wasteland. The shockwaves of their battle only created deaper craters in the ground as they dotted from spot to spot.
Finally Gohan caught Bull's left ankle with his right hand. Acting with blinding speed and reflexes, he powered up and swung Bull downwards, slamming his face deep into the ground. Swinging his fists downwards, Gohan axe handled Bull in the stomach, driving him deeper down, and forcing him to throw up the entire contents of his stomach.
Bull shot back up and drove his fist into Gohan's gut, trying as hard as he could to impale the demi-saiyan super hero. Gohan spit hard, before bringing his elbow down and his knee up to breack Bull's forearm. Bull shouted in pain as he pulled his arm back and tried to kick at Gohan. Gohan ducked back and flipped backwards, slamming his foot into Bull's chin.
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Sharpner and Erasa hid in fear inside the theater's bathroom. There were at least ten other people inside the smelly room with them, but they had been told that it was the safest room in the building. The earth under them shook from the shockwaves of the battles. They had no idea what was happening outside, what was causing the quakes in the earth. They just somehow knew that it was anything but natural.
A radio was playing inside the bathroom with them and all the other people. Still more people came in to hide as the radio spewed reports of the dozens of cities that had been whiped out in only minutes. They could hardly believe what was being said as the radio reporter was panicing and blabbering about Cell returning and Hercule being nowhere to save them. Something told them, though they didn't know what, that it was not Cell creating all these disasters. They were afriad none the less though.
Erasa held Sharpner tightly as he tried to comfort her with his gentle, yet also fear filled embrace. Their surroundings were lost to them as the wolrd seemed to shrink to the two of them, the radio, and the qaukes. They didn't say anything between them. They were unable to think of anything, yet somehow words weren't needed now. They knew of the strong feelings they had for each other, and those feelings were only growing now, and didn't need to be expressed in words. Sharpner felt the urge to try anyways.
"Erasa, listen... I... I, uh..." he tried to say through the fear.
"I know Sharpner, I feal the same way. I'm scared." she admitted in a whisper.
"I know, me too. Don't worry though, I'm sure Hercule can take care of what ever is doing this." Sharpner said, trying to reassure her. Yet somehow, they both knew that Hercule could be of no help now. They only held on tighter, hoping for the best.
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Gohan was being beaten up badly by Charon. Since he had gained all that power from Yamcha's sacrafice, Charon had seriously over powered Gohan. Now it seemed that he was playing with Gohan, smacking him about like he were a rag doll. He would hit him one way, then intercept and hit him another way, before beginning again.
It was getting Gohan very mad, and tired at the same time. He had to think of something to give him an advantage over Charon, if only for a moment. He racked his mind for something that could give him the advantage he needed. Suddenly, the perfect idea came to his mind. Spredding his fingers infront of his face, he waited until Charon appeared infront of him to hit him again.
"Solar Flare!" Gohan shouted out.
The flash that followed was even brighter then the explosion of Yamcha's death. The glow stayed in its position as Charon shouted in pain from the light, even though he had no eyes. Somehow, the light was causing him incredible pain. He rithed in pain under the light of the solar flare.
Gohan rained punishment down on Charon as hard and fast as he could. He slammed his fists into him as fast as he could as hard as he could over and over again. Charon's black robes were now being bunched against his skeleton because of the constant blows raining down on him. Charon gritted his teath for the first time, and struck out against Gohan. He didn't cause any damage, but he did swipe off his sunglasses and bandana, tearing them to pieces in the process.
"You will die boy!" Charon shouted as his ferrying stick suddenly returned to him and he began to furiously and blindly swipe out at Gohan.
Gohan dodged the blows easily enough and continued to rain the blows down on Charon. This only made Charon more enraged as he fought even more wildly, unable to see Gohan or sense hime well because of the pain. As he fought harder, he was able to nick Gohan here and there, slowly draining him.
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Videl watched in shocked amazement as the two figures battled. She had only recently been able to identify the blue blur as Ginyuman. What was he doing here, and where was Gohan? He had come all this way in his jet, so where was he now. Had he been killed in the battle, or was he hiding, or was he actually Ginyuman fighting in the sky? But how could Ginyuman be Gohan, if he had been on the bus to the hotel when she had seen him?
Suddenly there was a blinding flash of light that came off of Ginyuman. It stayed there, keeping Videl from even looking up, or even being able to see at all. She could still hear the battle going on above her. Suddenly, something soft brushed against her face. She looked down and opened her eyes as much as she could, to barely be able to make out the remains of a bandana, the one Ginyuman had been wearing.
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Bull was being thrown back more and more as Saiyaman was constantly charging him and beating on him more and more. Bull fought back for all he was worth, but was unable to even get in more then a hit or two every few seconds on Saiyaman! He was becoming more and more enraged by this, and feeling as though he would explode in rage!
He suddenly reached out and gripped Saiyaman's face as hard as he could. Charging up a powerful ki blast in his broken arm, he swung it at Saiyaman's head.
"I will have them back!" Bull shouted as he hurled the blast at Saiyaman's head.
Gohan ripped free of Bull's grip and ducked under the blast. It continued on to destroy another city that had been unluckly enough to be in its path. That enraged Gohan and he fought harder then ever. He would stop this destruction, even if it ment killing Bull.
Grabbing Bull's hand, Gohan cruched with both his hands at once, breaking Bull's fingers. When Bull shouted in pain, Gohan shoved his fist into his mouth, grabbed his cheek, and slammed his head into his knee. Twisting and bringing his leg around, Gohan drove his foot into Bull's lower back. This action broke the lower half of his back, paralizing his legs. Gohan did not stop there though, he threw Bull to the ground and began to savagely beat on his friend like he were and animal.
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Charon suddenly gave off the impression of a smirk again as the light of the solar flare fadded and the increased ki of the dead city flowed into his body. He could feel Bull weakening from his own battle. He knew now that the boy was doomed, as he had been from the moment he made the deal with him. Now his usefullness was ending, and Charon had one more card to play up his sleeve.
In the meantime, he could finally see Gohan again, and began to attack him with renewed energy with his ferrying stick, drawing away Gohan's strength with every strike of it. Gohan did his best of avoide being hit with it, but was only partially successfull. One by one the strikes were making him weaker, but he wouldn't go down with out a vicious fight. He couldn't go super saiyan, but he could do something Vegeta and Piccolo had taught and forced him to do, rely on his saiyan instincts and his immense anger.
Suddenly, as Gohan seemed to give into his saiyan fighting instincts and anger, his moves became more precise and much swifter. His hits came faster and harder, pounding down on Charon. Despite the blows of the stick, Charon couldn't detect Gohan getting any weaker, only stronger. He could hear his own bones begginning to crack under the pressure of Gohan's blows.
Now was the time to play his card...
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Gohan's anger was taking over him again. He was turning his short time friend into a bloody pulp. with every strike, cracking bones were heard and blood spurted into the air. Suddenly the darkness of Bull's ki seemed to fade away all together.
"Please..." he heard him plead.
Gohan's assualt stopped in the blink of an eye at hearing Bull's soft pleas for mercy. He looked down in horror at what he had done to his friend. Bull was hardly alive, and wouldn't be for more then a minute at the most. He was in such bad condition, that there was no way he could even swallow a senzu bean. Gohan suddenly felt sick as he realized that he had let himself become a monster, and had savagely beat on Bull, when it had been obvious that he had been under some kind of control.
"Bull... I... I'm sorry..." was all Gohan could get out.
"All... all I wanted... was to have... them back with me..." Bull said before he couldn't speak anymore.
His eyes started to close and fade, when suddenly they shot open. He let out a terrible gasp of pain as his body was suddenly filled with that horrible twisted ki again. It started to swell up and build on itself, like Yamcha had done. It was now that Gohan realized that Bull's ki had been given to him by another source, probably the one at the dig site, and now that source was overloading him with power. It was going to give him enough power to blow up anything within several hundred miles!
Gohan began to cry. It was happening again. Someone else was paying for his mistake. Bull might have been able to have been saved if only he could have knocked him out, or stopped the source at the dig site. Either way, he could do nothing about that now. Whiping away his tears, he gripped Bull by the arm tightly.
"I'm sorry Bull." he said as he took off his helmet to let his dying friend see his face. Bull's eyes widened in shock. "I have to do this." Gohan continued.
"Do it!" Bull got out before screaming in pain from the building ki in his body.
Gohan nodded. "Good bye Bull. I'll see you again later." Gohan said as he braced himself.
Suddenly Gohan swung and hurled Bull high into the sky. Crouching and cupping his hands at his side, he began to chant of his family's most famous attack.
"Ka-Ma-Ha-Ma-HAAA!" he shouted out as he launched the bright blue wave of ki at Bull.
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At the same time at the dig site Gohan had pushed Charon back enough to charge up the same attack. The two Gohans launched their attacks at the same time, striking their targets at the same time. The eplosions were brillaint to behold and were blinding to any normal person. Even Videl was hardly able to look up at all.
When both attacks ended, at one place, Bull was gone from the mortal world. In another place, a newly refreshed Charon hovered. He let out a laugh as he had been charged with the full four times the amount of ki Bull had when he had finally died. Now he was more powerful then ever!
"Now mortal boy, you will see my true power!" Charon declared as the dark ki swirled around his body.
His torn black robes suddenly repaired themselves and his bones healed from their chips and cracks. His entire skeleton seemed to become thicker, until he was twice as thick as before. His robes changed, keeping the same shape and color, but with dark brown writting appearing all over them now like patches. His ferrying stick became thicker and a third longer, with a wicked steel blade finally extending out of one end in a curved shape, forming itself into a scyth.
Gohan steeled himself for an even worse battle, despite knowing that he was severly out classed now. Before he could blink almost, Charon was infront of him and struck him with the but of the scyth. Gohan was knocked around, before slamming down onto Charon's knee, and then having his fist slam into Gohan's head.
Gohan tried to charge back, firing several small ki blasts as he did, but Charon twirled his scyth about, knocking the blasts away. He drove through them and came at Gohan. Gohan tried to sweep a kick at Charon's chest, but Charon brought the butt of his scyth down onto Gohan's face and driving him down into the ground.
Gohan made a giant crater pratically at Videl's feet. She stumbled and fell, but kept from rolling into the crater herself. He looked down to see the beaten and bloodied form of Gohan. It shocked her so much to actually see that it was him there, that she stumbled backwards speachless.
It had been a good thing that she had done so, because Charon came rocketing downward into the crater, enlarging it some. She fell backwards before looking down into the crater again. Charon had picked the beaten form of Gohan up by his hair and held him in the air with his hand. Again and again Charon slammed his other fist into Gohan's body while his scyth stood as if by itself behind him.
Videl was too shocked to speek at this, but not too shocked to let out a gasp. This was a bad thing. Charon finally took notice of her presence. When he looked up at her, she froze in fear, and Gohan struggled to get free. It was pratically useless for him to struggle against Charon's grasp, so it amused Charon greately that Gohan tried to free himself to protect this girl.
"Videl, run!" Gohan managed to get out.
Videl could only back away while still on her back as Charon came walking out, dragging Gohan on the ground on his face as he walked. He he was finally on level ground again, he somehow made another impression of a grin as he held up Gohan's near unconscious form. Striking Gohan's stomach again, he took great pleasure in seeing Videl flinch.
"Ah, so the little girl cares for this mortal boy. He even tries to free himself to save her. Well, I shall do you both a favor then, and reunite you both at the river sticks!" Charon said as he held up his hand and began to power a ki blast.
Suddenly a blast struck Charon in the chest hard enough to drive him back and force him to let go of Gohan, and abandon his blast to the air. He looked up to see a second Gohan pick up the first one and Videl, before jumping back quite a distance. Upon landing he placed Videl down.
Videl was speachless! There were two Gohans! One was dressed in Saiyaman's outfit with out the helmet, while the other was in Ginyuman's outfit with out the bandana and sunglasses! There were two of them, and they both were the masked super heroes! Now it made sense how Gohan could be somewhere, while Ginyuman or Saiyaman somewhere else!
The beat up Gohan managed to stand, and suddenly the two turned off their costumes. They combined again, and turned on the saiyan armor, which was now fully fixed. Gohan felt nearly back to full strength now, and he had a trick of his own up his sleeve for Charon.
"Now Charon, you're fate is seeled!" Gohan exclaimed loudly.
"You know mortal, I've heard that before!" Charon exclaimed back, interested in this fight again.
"Now it's time for you to die!" Gohan said as he went super saiyan.
His gold aura lashed out and burnt at Charon almost as much as the solar flare had. Gohan's super saiyan transformation was able to hurt him just by his presence, but even now, their power was only just even. Charon's scyth would still give him an advantage.
Videl was speechless again. She had really susptected it, but now she could actually see it! Gohan was standing infront of her, his fully golden aura flaming about himself. His dangerously cold green eyes and his flaming golden hair were breath taking to her.
"The Gold Fighter!" she exclaimed.
As if that were the cue, the two figures launched themselves at each other. They fought for all they worth, Charon swinghing his scyth about, while Gohan dodged it and burned at Charon with ki blasts and pounded down on him with his fists. The fight left the ground again and flew hight into the air as the two warriors fought for their lives.
Charon got another cut on Gohan with his scyth, and power seemed to flow out of Gohan. He was weakening again, but he had to keep going on. Charon suddenly had a burst of speed and came above Gohan, bringing his scyth down on Gohan. Gohan barely managed to clap his hands on the blade, holding it off.
Now they were at a stalemate. The two pushed against eachother more and more. Slowly Charon was winning, because with every second of contact with the weapon, Gohan's strength was slowly being drained. Still, Gohan fought against him, and he wore a smirk.
"Why do you seem so confident mortal?" Charon had to ask.
"Feel around you Charon. My friends have arrived to see you die. Go ahead, feel them out." Gohan said with his smirk intact.
Charon felt out, and sure enough, felt several strong ki levels. He looked up to see the entire Z gang, even those that hadn't fought in years floating around him. Even Dende was there, floating back with the others as they all watched. Goten and Trunks were even there, both floating in the air next to Vegeta and Piccolo. All three of the saiyans had gone super saiyan, and their aura's were absolutely painful to look at for Charon. Yet they were far enough away that he wouldn't be hurt as long as he didn't look at them. He returned his gaze to Gohan as they continued to fight for control.
"They won't attack unless I want them too." Gohan said with confidence.
"When I kill you, I'll have enough power to defeat them!" Charon exclaimed. "Then I'll be even more powerful from them! At least four times as powerful as all of you combined!" Charon shouted in near glee, but it faded when Gohan kept smirking.
"You don't get it yet do you Charon? You won't kill me, because you're going to die by my hand." Gohan said as his grip was weakening.
"What makes you say that?" Charon questioned.
"This!" Gohan shouted.
Suddenly Gohan went super saiyan level two. His muscles buldged more, his hair became spikier, and his aura burned so much hotter. Charon screamed in pain as Gohan crushed the blade of his scyth between his hands. His then snatched the stick and broke it, before burning it away. He gripped Charon by the neck, burning his entire skeleton with his aura as he did.
"You made me kill Bull, and you made him kill all those people! For that you will die Charon! Now prepare yourself for oblivion!" Gohan shouted.
Suddenly his aura intensified and grew hotter and hotter. It grew so hot that it burned Charon's robes away, and cracked his skeleton. Charon let out another shout of pain as his hollow eye sockets gave the impression of fear as his skeleton body cracked apart. The bits and pieces left burnt into nothing, and Gohan continued burning for several seconds, just to make sure, before vaporizing what was left of the scyth's blade.
Having finished that, Gohan lowered himself to the ground and powered down completely. He stood before Videl now, as he deactivated his armor. Videl was still absolutely speechless for several seconds. In the mean time, the rest of the Z gang landed around Gohan, powering down as they did.
"Son Gohan, you have a lot of explaining to do." Videl finally managed to say.
Gohan nodded. "Alright Videl, but first you have to come with me. A lot of damage was done today, and we have to fix it." Gohan said. "Just clime into my arms." Gohan said as he held out his arms.
Videl was still so shocked that she hardly looked at Gohan funny before she did as she was told. Surpsingly, Krillen or any of the others made no comment on this. They all flew off in the direction of Capsule Corp in silence.
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Sharpner and Erasa slowly opened their eyes as the shaking finally stopped. They didn't know why, but they had a feeling that it wouldn't start again. Smiling at each other, they shared a small kiss before they slowly got up and out of the bathroom, followed by all the others that had been in there with them. They walked out into the street to see the sunlight and the destruction caused by the attack, the wave of destructive ki having almost reached the theature. They breathed a sigh of relief before sharing another small kiss, and then setting off in search of Gohan and Videl.
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How was that for a chapter? I finally got the big action sequence out of the way! Sorry to all you who have been waiting on an update! My computer had crashed and I couldn't update. Only tonight did my inspiration return! I hope to have more out soon! Enjoy! Review please!