A/N_yep.. this is a short chapter, but I thought I'd update cause... I'm bored. Sorry for all the spelling mistakes, I don't have Word on this computer _ I try my best to spell correctly and such. Well, things are going to start getting... Interesting. Review, please! :
_Music of the Night
Ryoko ran her hand over the rough bark of one of the larger trees in the woods that she was in. She let her arm fall to her side, and she looked up at the night sky. She was alone in the woods, and it was cold. Very cold. She didn't know how she got there and she didn't have any idea where she was, so she started to walk forward. A twig snapped behind her, and she quickly spun around, eyes wide.
"...Hello?" She called, her eyes searching the woods. Her eyes rose to the sky when she saw light spreading across it, the sun was shining. She smiled, feeling a bit calmer now that she could see. She looked down, and her arms and hands caught her eye.
Her wrists wer slit, and she was covered in blood...
With a shrill screem, Ryoko sat up in her bed and turned off her alarm clock. She was breathing heavy when she jumped up and turned on the ligths. She quickly studied her arms, and seeing that there was nothing wrong with them, she sat down on her bed, trying to calm down.
'That dream felt so real...' She thought. She shook her head and ran her hand through her hair.
"Just a dream, just a dream..." She said to herself, and jumped off of her bed and started getting ready for school.
Through the day, nothing unusual happened. Trunks and Ryoko didn't say a thing about Friday night, but they definitely felt a lot closer. Their peers had a lot to say about the dance, though. There was always a lot of gossip after a dance.
When Ryoko went home, she was surprised to find her house empty. She shrugged it off, inviting Mai over. She liked it when her parents weren't home. They spent the day talking about Friday, Mai mostly talking about how she hated Videl since she went to the dance with Gohan. When she asked where she and Trunks had went, Ryoko just said that they were hungry and decided to go out to eat.
Every day for the rest of the week, Ryoko came home to an empty house. Trunks mentioned that he was staying at Capsule Corp. for the weekend, and asked if she wanted to come, too. She agreed, and they arrived there around five.
They were sitting on the couch in the living room playing a video game (Ryoko was beating Trunks, and seemed very happy with herself), when Vegeta walked in. Trunks looked away from the screen and asked whyhe was there, and Ryoko dropped the controler and cried out "WOOO!" when she won the game. Then she greeted Vegeta, calling him carrot as usual, and he just grunted then answered Trunks.
"I came to go in the gravity room and I'm in here to get some food. Don't worry, I'll be out of here soon... so you two can get back to whatever you were doing." Vegeta smirked as a light blush spread across Trunks' face. He opened the refridgerator door, almost tearing it off, and the smirk dissapeared. "Where'd that piece of chocolate cake go?" Then it was Ryoko's turn to smirk.
"I ate it!" She cried. He glared at her.
"...you ate me cake?"
"Yep! And it was real good!" She said with a giggle, licking her lips. Vegeta's fist was clenched, and he looked like he was going to attack Ryoko.
"You... You... AH!" He cried, storming out of the house. He knew that if he stuck up a fight with Ryoko, she would win. She'd keep coming up with retorts, and he'd eventually get yelled at by someone else. Ryoko giggled again, glad to see that Vegeta gave up so easily this time. She loved making him upset. Trunks laughed.
"You're gonna get him really mad one time and get him in a lot of trouble."
"So?" She said with a shrug.
After that, they played video games for a few hours more (Ryoko winning everytime), then decided to go to bed.
Trunks yawned and stretched, "man, no wonder why you get bad grades in school, you must play games constantly."
"It's not that!" Ryoko cried. "I just... don't study... sleep in class... I get C's and B's! So... that's average and above average. ...leave me alone!" Trunks continued to laugh and shake his head, and she hit his arm playfully. He said he could hardly feel that, so she continued to hit him harder, and he just continued to laugh harder.
Ryoko slept in one of the many guests rooms, and Trunks went in the room that he had stayed in before.
She slept peacefully for a few hours, but then awoke with a start after another realistic dream. She rubbed her eyes and yawned, then started to lay back down. She heard a crash from outside, and looked out her window.
Trunks and Vegeta were out there, fighting many of those things that attacked her and Trunks a week ago. They seemed to be winning, but everytime they killed one, many more came.
She just stood at the window for a few moments, not sure what to do. Then she ran out of the room and down a few flights of stairs and out the door. When she got out there, she wondered why she went, there was nothing she could do but help.
One of the things turned around, a grinned. Terror struck through Ryoko, she hadn't been able to see it very good a week ago, but she could see them clearly now. It had black skin with many lumps and such all over it, yellow eyes, and yellow tinted teeth. It was short and tiny, but still terrifying. It screeched, and a few more turned and looked at her, also grinning. One pointed at her, and she stood transfixed.
"Ryoko! Get in the house!" Trunks cried, cutting a few in half with its sword. She blinked, and her mind started working again and she ran for the door and closed it. They ran to the door and pounded on it, trying to open it. She locked it, then ran to the phone.
"Oh God... who can I call?!" She asked herself. "Oh! I know!" She dialed the numbers.
"...Hello?"
"GOHAN!" Ryoko cried.
"Ryoko? What's up? It's two in the morning!" He asked with a yawn.
"These- these- these- things! Are attacking Capsule Corp. and Trunks and Vegeta are fighting them all alone!"
"Things? What kind of things?"
"I don't know! Just get your dad and get over here fast!"
"Right." Gohan hung up the phone. Ryoko looked at the door as she heard a loud crack, then ran up a quite a few flights of stairs and hid in a random room. The door downstairs burst open, and she heard the things flooding in. She crawled to the window again, and saw that Trunks and Vegeta were turned into one of those Super Saiyans that Trunks was talking about, and from what she could see, they were starting to look pretty worn out.
Her heard turned from the window when the doorknob was wiggling. 'They'll be able to break that down easily', she thought, taking one last glance at Trunks before she ran out of another door into the bathroom. They broke in, then she though it would be best to make a run down the hallway. She quickly counted to three, then threw the door open and ran.
They quickly reached her and knocked her down, then she passed out.
_New Home
Ryoko awoke with a slight headache, and sat up. She was at her house, in her bed. There was light shining through the windows, and the clock said it was one o' clock.
"...what happened?" Ryoko asked, rubbing her head. "Did I dream what happened last night?" She got out of bed, her eyes not working properly yet. Her mother was seated at the table, drinking coffee.
"Morning." She said.
"G'morning..." Ryoko replied groggily. She got some water, then turned around, rubbing her eyes. "I had the weirdest... hey! You're not my mom!" Ryoko cried, her eyes wide as she stared at Mrs. Son. She laughed.
"Actually, I am. Goku! Come here, Ryoko's awake!"
"What're you doing in my house?!" Ryoko cried, fully awake, now. Goku came down the stairs and grinned.
"Morning, Ryoko!" He cried.
"What's going on here?" She asked, looking from Chichi to Goku.
"Let us explain, Ryoko. Sit." Chichi nodded to the chair across from her, and Ryoko slowly sat down, Goku leaned against the wall. "Like I said, I am your mother... and obviously Goku is your father. You are Gohan's twin. When you two were born, Goku promised that Gohan would grow up to be a scholar, not a fighter. But I knew that no matter what, Gohan would be thrown into Goku's crazy adventures." Chichi eyed Goku, and he grinned with a small laugh and put his hand behind his head. "And I was right... Anyway, I wanted at least one of our children to have a normal life, so we gave you to the Augiri family. We decided that when you turned sixteen we'd take you back... Your birthday is next month, but we decided to just take you, now. I heard that Trunks already explained all that othe stuff to you, so I'm happy that I don't have to." Ryoko blinked a few times, thinking about what she was just told.
"...out of all the families out there, you had to give me to the Augiri's?" She asked, her stomach dropping.
"...yes? Why?" Chichi asked, her head to the side.
"They must have been the worst parents out there..." Ryoko said, then explained to her new parents what she had told Trunks, but without the tears. Chichi and Goku exchanged glances.
"We didn't know." Goku said quietly, laying a hand on her shoulder. "But that's all over, now." He grinned. "You're going to have a great life with the Son's!"
After that, Chichi and Goku argued a bit about whether Ryoko would also be a fighter or not. Ryoko said that she wanted to learn how to fight, so Goku won that argument.
"Ryoko, Ryoko, Ryoko!" Goten cried, running to her and wrapping her arms around her waste and hugging her tightly.
"Ow, Goten! That's a bit too tight!" She cried, and he released her and looked up at her, his eyes sparkling.
"Wow! I can't believe it! I have a big sister!" He cried happily. Ryoko laughed and patted his head lightly, then Gohan came with a large smile on his face.
"Hey, Ryo-chan!" He cried.
"Hey." Ryoko said. She wasn't too sure what to think; she was shocked, yet extremely excited.
"Ryoko, we're going to go over to Master Roshi's house, so go get ready, you're gonna be meating everybody!" Goku said. Ryoko nodded, and then got ready. It took her about forty five minutes, then they headed over to the island. Goku had to carry Chichi, and Gohan had to carry Ryoko as they flew.
They landed on the island and were greeted by a grinning Roshi, who grabbed Ryokos hand as soon as she was set down.
"Ah! You must be Gokus daughter!" He cried, looking up at her. His sun glasses slipped down, and a bright blush covered his face. He laughed to himself as he looked her up and down, still holding her hand as her blush got brighter and brighter. Chichi slapped him in the back of his head and he let go of Ryokos hand and fell face first into the sand.
"That's Roshi." Chichi said, angrily, as the Son boys laughed. "He's a perverted old man! Try your best to stay away from him as much as you can, Ryoko." Chichi put her head up and stepped over a dazed Roshi and went into the house. Ryoko glanced at her laughing brothers and father, then at Roshi, then followed her mother into the house.
Through the day, Ryoko met many new people who all seemed delighted to meet her. She stayed with Trunks and Gohan for most of the day, but did talk to some of the other people.
Over the next few days, Ryoko went out training with her brothers and father. She learned how to fly, and became a bit stronger and faster than she used to be. Goku had been keeping them out of school for those few days, and wanted to keep them out longer, but Chichi made them go back, much to Ryokos dismay.
"WHAT?!" Mai cried, the day that the Sons went back to school, after Ryoko told her that she was a Son. "You live with GOHAN?! That's not fair!! I wanna live with Gohan!" She rambled on and on, and Ryoko laughed.
"Wanna come over after school?"
"Yes! Is Gohan gonna be home?"
"I think so... Unless he goes out with Daddy somewhere."
"Ooh... I wanna see his room!"
"Their rooms aren't too personalized, yet, they just moved in." They talked some more during classes and in between, Mai kept saying how cute Gohan was and how excited she was to go to their house. She talked all day, but by the time they got on the bus, she seemed to quiet down.
When they got to the house, the three teens sat in the living room and watched tv. Mai basically chose what they watched, Gohan didn't care for tv all that much, and Ryoko liked pretty much the same things as Mai.
Mostly for the whole day they just watched tv, and before Mai's mom picked her up, she ranted on how cute Gohan was and how much she 'loved' him. Ryoko rolled her eyes as she left, then went back in the living room with Gohan, who hadn't the slightest clue of Mai's crush on him.
"You're so naive." Ryoko told him with a laugh. He looked at her, a blank expression on his face
"Huh?"
A/N_well... How was that? Short, yes, but... ::shrugs:: I should have more up soon... eview please!
_Music of the Night
Ryoko ran her hand over the rough bark of one of the larger trees in the woods that she was in. She let her arm fall to her side, and she looked up at the night sky. She was alone in the woods, and it was cold. Very cold. She didn't know how she got there and she didn't have any idea where she was, so she started to walk forward. A twig snapped behind her, and she quickly spun around, eyes wide.
"...Hello?" She called, her eyes searching the woods. Her eyes rose to the sky when she saw light spreading across it, the sun was shining. She smiled, feeling a bit calmer now that she could see. She looked down, and her arms and hands caught her eye.
Her wrists wer slit, and she was covered in blood...
With a shrill screem, Ryoko sat up in her bed and turned off her alarm clock. She was breathing heavy when she jumped up and turned on the ligths. She quickly studied her arms, and seeing that there was nothing wrong with them, she sat down on her bed, trying to calm down.
'That dream felt so real...' She thought. She shook her head and ran her hand through her hair.
"Just a dream, just a dream..." She said to herself, and jumped off of her bed and started getting ready for school.
Through the day, nothing unusual happened. Trunks and Ryoko didn't say a thing about Friday night, but they definitely felt a lot closer. Their peers had a lot to say about the dance, though. There was always a lot of gossip after a dance.
When Ryoko went home, she was surprised to find her house empty. She shrugged it off, inviting Mai over. She liked it when her parents weren't home. They spent the day talking about Friday, Mai mostly talking about how she hated Videl since she went to the dance with Gohan. When she asked where she and Trunks had went, Ryoko just said that they were hungry and decided to go out to eat.
Every day for the rest of the week, Ryoko came home to an empty house. Trunks mentioned that he was staying at Capsule Corp. for the weekend, and asked if she wanted to come, too. She agreed, and they arrived there around five.
They were sitting on the couch in the living room playing a video game (Ryoko was beating Trunks, and seemed very happy with herself), when Vegeta walked in. Trunks looked away from the screen and asked whyhe was there, and Ryoko dropped the controler and cried out "WOOO!" when she won the game. Then she greeted Vegeta, calling him carrot as usual, and he just grunted then answered Trunks.
"I came to go in the gravity room and I'm in here to get some food. Don't worry, I'll be out of here soon... so you two can get back to whatever you were doing." Vegeta smirked as a light blush spread across Trunks' face. He opened the refridgerator door, almost tearing it off, and the smirk dissapeared. "Where'd that piece of chocolate cake go?" Then it was Ryoko's turn to smirk.
"I ate it!" She cried. He glared at her.
"...you ate me cake?"
"Yep! And it was real good!" She said with a giggle, licking her lips. Vegeta's fist was clenched, and he looked like he was going to attack Ryoko.
"You... You... AH!" He cried, storming out of the house. He knew that if he stuck up a fight with Ryoko, she would win. She'd keep coming up with retorts, and he'd eventually get yelled at by someone else. Ryoko giggled again, glad to see that Vegeta gave up so easily this time. She loved making him upset. Trunks laughed.
"You're gonna get him really mad one time and get him in a lot of trouble."
"So?" She said with a shrug.
After that, they played video games for a few hours more (Ryoko winning everytime), then decided to go to bed.
Trunks yawned and stretched, "man, no wonder why you get bad grades in school, you must play games constantly."
"It's not that!" Ryoko cried. "I just... don't study... sleep in class... I get C's and B's! So... that's average and above average. ...leave me alone!" Trunks continued to laugh and shake his head, and she hit his arm playfully. He said he could hardly feel that, so she continued to hit him harder, and he just continued to laugh harder.
Ryoko slept in one of the many guests rooms, and Trunks went in the room that he had stayed in before.
She slept peacefully for a few hours, but then awoke with a start after another realistic dream. She rubbed her eyes and yawned, then started to lay back down. She heard a crash from outside, and looked out her window.
Trunks and Vegeta were out there, fighting many of those things that attacked her and Trunks a week ago. They seemed to be winning, but everytime they killed one, many more came.
She just stood at the window for a few moments, not sure what to do. Then she ran out of the room and down a few flights of stairs and out the door. When she got out there, she wondered why she went, there was nothing she could do but help.
One of the things turned around, a grinned. Terror struck through Ryoko, she hadn't been able to see it very good a week ago, but she could see them clearly now. It had black skin with many lumps and such all over it, yellow eyes, and yellow tinted teeth. It was short and tiny, but still terrifying. It screeched, and a few more turned and looked at her, also grinning. One pointed at her, and she stood transfixed.
"Ryoko! Get in the house!" Trunks cried, cutting a few in half with its sword. She blinked, and her mind started working again and she ran for the door and closed it. They ran to the door and pounded on it, trying to open it. She locked it, then ran to the phone.
"Oh God... who can I call?!" She asked herself. "Oh! I know!" She dialed the numbers.
"...Hello?"
"GOHAN!" Ryoko cried.
"Ryoko? What's up? It's two in the morning!" He asked with a yawn.
"These- these- these- things! Are attacking Capsule Corp. and Trunks and Vegeta are fighting them all alone!"
"Things? What kind of things?"
"I don't know! Just get your dad and get over here fast!"
"Right." Gohan hung up the phone. Ryoko looked at the door as she heard a loud crack, then ran up a quite a few flights of stairs and hid in a random room. The door downstairs burst open, and she heard the things flooding in. She crawled to the window again, and saw that Trunks and Vegeta were turned into one of those Super Saiyans that Trunks was talking about, and from what she could see, they were starting to look pretty worn out.
Her heard turned from the window when the doorknob was wiggling. 'They'll be able to break that down easily', she thought, taking one last glance at Trunks before she ran out of another door into the bathroom. They broke in, then she though it would be best to make a run down the hallway. She quickly counted to three, then threw the door open and ran.
They quickly reached her and knocked her down, then she passed out.
_New Home
Ryoko awoke with a slight headache, and sat up. She was at her house, in her bed. There was light shining through the windows, and the clock said it was one o' clock.
"...what happened?" Ryoko asked, rubbing her head. "Did I dream what happened last night?" She got out of bed, her eyes not working properly yet. Her mother was seated at the table, drinking coffee.
"Morning." She said.
"G'morning..." Ryoko replied groggily. She got some water, then turned around, rubbing her eyes. "I had the weirdest... hey! You're not my mom!" Ryoko cried, her eyes wide as she stared at Mrs. Son. She laughed.
"Actually, I am. Goku! Come here, Ryoko's awake!"
"What're you doing in my house?!" Ryoko cried, fully awake, now. Goku came down the stairs and grinned.
"Morning, Ryoko!" He cried.
"What's going on here?" She asked, looking from Chichi to Goku.
"Let us explain, Ryoko. Sit." Chichi nodded to the chair across from her, and Ryoko slowly sat down, Goku leaned against the wall. "Like I said, I am your mother... and obviously Goku is your father. You are Gohan's twin. When you two were born, Goku promised that Gohan would grow up to be a scholar, not a fighter. But I knew that no matter what, Gohan would be thrown into Goku's crazy adventures." Chichi eyed Goku, and he grinned with a small laugh and put his hand behind his head. "And I was right... Anyway, I wanted at least one of our children to have a normal life, so we gave you to the Augiri family. We decided that when you turned sixteen we'd take you back... Your birthday is next month, but we decided to just take you, now. I heard that Trunks already explained all that othe stuff to you, so I'm happy that I don't have to." Ryoko blinked a few times, thinking about what she was just told.
"...out of all the families out there, you had to give me to the Augiri's?" She asked, her stomach dropping.
"...yes? Why?" Chichi asked, her head to the side.
"They must have been the worst parents out there..." Ryoko said, then explained to her new parents what she had told Trunks, but without the tears. Chichi and Goku exchanged glances.
"We didn't know." Goku said quietly, laying a hand on her shoulder. "But that's all over, now." He grinned. "You're going to have a great life with the Son's!"
After that, Chichi and Goku argued a bit about whether Ryoko would also be a fighter or not. Ryoko said that she wanted to learn how to fight, so Goku won that argument.
"Ryoko, Ryoko, Ryoko!" Goten cried, running to her and wrapping her arms around her waste and hugging her tightly.
"Ow, Goten! That's a bit too tight!" She cried, and he released her and looked up at her, his eyes sparkling.
"Wow! I can't believe it! I have a big sister!" He cried happily. Ryoko laughed and patted his head lightly, then Gohan came with a large smile on his face.
"Hey, Ryo-chan!" He cried.
"Hey." Ryoko said. She wasn't too sure what to think; she was shocked, yet extremely excited.
"Ryoko, we're going to go over to Master Roshi's house, so go get ready, you're gonna be meating everybody!" Goku said. Ryoko nodded, and then got ready. It took her about forty five minutes, then they headed over to the island. Goku had to carry Chichi, and Gohan had to carry Ryoko as they flew.
They landed on the island and were greeted by a grinning Roshi, who grabbed Ryokos hand as soon as she was set down.
"Ah! You must be Gokus daughter!" He cried, looking up at her. His sun glasses slipped down, and a bright blush covered his face. He laughed to himself as he looked her up and down, still holding her hand as her blush got brighter and brighter. Chichi slapped him in the back of his head and he let go of Ryokos hand and fell face first into the sand.
"That's Roshi." Chichi said, angrily, as the Son boys laughed. "He's a perverted old man! Try your best to stay away from him as much as you can, Ryoko." Chichi put her head up and stepped over a dazed Roshi and went into the house. Ryoko glanced at her laughing brothers and father, then at Roshi, then followed her mother into the house.
Through the day, Ryoko met many new people who all seemed delighted to meet her. She stayed with Trunks and Gohan for most of the day, but did talk to some of the other people.
Over the next few days, Ryoko went out training with her brothers and father. She learned how to fly, and became a bit stronger and faster than she used to be. Goku had been keeping them out of school for those few days, and wanted to keep them out longer, but Chichi made them go back, much to Ryokos dismay.
"WHAT?!" Mai cried, the day that the Sons went back to school, after Ryoko told her that she was a Son. "You live with GOHAN?! That's not fair!! I wanna live with Gohan!" She rambled on and on, and Ryoko laughed.
"Wanna come over after school?"
"Yes! Is Gohan gonna be home?"
"I think so... Unless he goes out with Daddy somewhere."
"Ooh... I wanna see his room!"
"Their rooms aren't too personalized, yet, they just moved in." They talked some more during classes and in between, Mai kept saying how cute Gohan was and how excited she was to go to their house. She talked all day, but by the time they got on the bus, she seemed to quiet down.
When they got to the house, the three teens sat in the living room and watched tv. Mai basically chose what they watched, Gohan didn't care for tv all that much, and Ryoko liked pretty much the same things as Mai.
Mostly for the whole day they just watched tv, and before Mai's mom picked her up, she ranted on how cute Gohan was and how much she 'loved' him. Ryoko rolled her eyes as she left, then went back in the living room with Gohan, who hadn't the slightest clue of Mai's crush on him.
"You're so naive." Ryoko told him with a laugh. He looked at her, a blank expression on his face
"Huh?"
A/N_well... How was that? Short, yes, but... ::shrugs:: I should have more up soon... eview please!