It Never Ends
C-10 --- Challenge
Trunks looked at his watch.
12:10
She was never late. He was the one that always showed up late and he would get hell every time that he did so. She would always then order some expensive drink and wear a big smile for the rest of the meal.
12:11
He looked out the windows at the street. She had to be coming. She just had to be.
12:12
He ordered another drink. He didn't want to order any food until she arrived. He knew what she liked to eat, but he was trying to be considerate. He didn't want to do anything to upset her more that he already had.
12:13
Was that Pan? He sat up right in his chair as he saw a woman that looked like Pan walk past the window. Was he just seeing things? She was turning into the restaurant! It was Pan. The hostess pointed to his table. He had never been so relieved to see someone in his life.
He stood and pulled out the chair for her.
Her face was stern and she was trying to look mad but was not succeeding at it. That looked promising too.
"Sorry, I'm late. I got cornered by one of my teachers," she said and unfolded the napkin on to her lap. She hadn't even looked at him yet though. That was not a good sign to have.
"I wasn't worried," he lied as he sat back down.
"Oh," she said, looking at him now, with a sneer. He restrained himself from slapping his forehead for sounding so conceited. He had only said a few words and he was already screwing up.
"I mean, I just got here a short time ago," he then realized that was stupid too. There were three drink cups empty already on the table.
"Uh-huh," Pan said. "Did you order the food?"
"No. I was trying to be considerate and wait until you got here, in case you wanted something different," he said with a smile. That had to be the right thing to say.
"I'm starving!" She said. "Waiter."
He groaned inwardly. He couldn't do anything right.
...............
She tried to hide the smile that was threatening to emerge. Trunk's was so nervous. She wanted to burst out laughing and tell him that she wasn't mad at him anymore but if he suggested such things again, she was going to make him wish that he were still wandering about space with her uncle.
This was more fun, watching him squirm in his chair. The President of one of the biggest company's in the world was acting like a kid who was in trouble. It was fun watching him stumble over his words, and once he found what he thought were the right one's, she would send him crashing back down.
Once the food was ordered, he looked down at his plate and talked for a bit about how sorry he was for being a fool. "It is just so hard to adjust to having Soyna and Junior around. It's like a ready made family and I didn't even know I wanted one."
Well, there was a revelation, but at the same time, it was so easy to twist that around too.
"You've been preoccupied with trying to find a girl friend so you can start you own family?" she said and was pleased at her cold tone. She reached for her glass of water and took a sip.
It took a second for Trunks to realize what she had just said. "What? No, nothing like that!" he took a big drink of his own and then coughed. "It's not like that!"
She took another sip to hide her emerging smirk. She was going to see how long she could do this.
"Then what is it? You seemed so worried about my love life that you suggested that I was dating someone in high school! Is yours so bleak that you have to worry about mine?" she said. She got that stunned looking again.
He went a little pale. "No, I was just saying that having a family isn't that bad."
"Is Soyna even talking to you?" she said, knowing that was a real sticking point with him.
"As a mater of fact, she is," Trunks said with some confidence.
It was Pan's turn to stumble over words. "And how did you manage that?"
Trunks seemed to sink in his chair a bit. "Well," he looked down at his drink, "I kind of yelled at her."
"You yelled at her!" Pan said.
"Yeah. In front of Legen."
Pan shook her head.
"I was just so frustrated with her looking at me with those cold green eyes of hers and after having such a bad day Wednesday, I kind of lost it." Trunks said. "One good thing came out of it though. She showed me her family pictures and we talked for a bit. I think we can tolerate each other at this point and that is more than I thought it was going to be."
"But in front of Legen!"
"You hung up on me!" Trunks blurted a little loud.
...............
Trunks realized that his voice was probably a little to loud. He calmed himself down and just glared at Pan. She was purposely trying to provoke him!
She was looking at her napkin on her lap.
"I did like the flowers," she whispered. He just looked at her for a bit. The anger was gone now. She looked up at him. "I am not saying that I totally forgive you, but I am not longer ready to sic daddy on you!"
He smiled. "That's good news. I would go nuts if I didn't have a sane person to talk to once in a while. Everyone at the office is nuts."
He was happy to see a genuine smile on her face. He knew he still had to make it up to her, but at least, she wouldn't hang up the phone anymore.
.................
"You had to hit me," Goten grunted as he hauled a heavy landscaping tile over his shoulder.
"You had to hit me back," Junior said. "I wouldn't have been so bad if we didn't destroy the classroom."
Fry was watching his uncle and Junior working in the back yard. Grandma always wanted to have a fancy garden with levels and a pool and now she was going to get it. This weekend! He watched them as the dug things up and tore out some old things all under the supervision of Soyna. It was so much fun watching them suffer and not him, under her punishment.
He still didn't have his video games because she talked to Gohan about the glue incident and because Benot and Legen lost their privileges too, but at least he didn't have to create a new garden in a weekend.
"Come on sis! Can't we have a break? I'm thirsty." Junior whined.
They were going to suffer more that he did. This pleased him a lot. She just pointed to the hose and sat in her chair reading a book. He could see both of them seething, but then they knew that they could do nothing about it.
It was great to see someone else in trouble!
............
Gohan piled the homework that was part of the two fighter's homework for their week suspension.
He looked at his son, who seemed enjoying watching the backyard being ripped apart and rebuilt. Soyna wasn't really that mad at them. He had talked to her briefly at the destroyed classroom where she was almost laughing at the mess that was created.
"I told Junior that if he couldn't get over it to let some of his steam out, but I didn't mean in the first class of the day," she chuckled. The principal had been so tense as she said this but calmed him down by saying that she would make sure they would get money to repair all that was destroyed and asked that they get some extra assignments. She had some other plans for them this weekend. Gohan was quite shocked at what she suggested. He didn't think she was aware of the plans to redo the garden, but agreed.
He looked over his son shoulder. They seemed to be doing a good job.
"Isn't it great dad," Fry said looking up at his father.
"What?" he said.
"Someone else in trouble!" he said.
He smiled at his son. He was always in trouble with one thing or another, usually involving Benot. They were really good boys when there are apart, but they were a powder keg when they got together.
He looked over at Soyna who seemed to be enjoying the sun and reading a book that she probably borrowed from his arsenal of them. She looked up briefly, gave him a smile and then went back to reading.
A few days ago, she was ready to kill anyone that got in her way of training and now she was calmly reading in his back yard. She certainly was a strange one. She just got to emotional at times. That was her human side. The only bit that she seemed to show.
"I'm hungry," Fry announced. "What can I have for a snack?"
...............
Pan arrived home to see the huge mess in the back yard and the two dirty men that were working in it. She stifled a giggle as she looked at them.
Goten spotted her first. "What are you chuckling about?" he snapped as he jabbed his shovel into the ground. It looked like he was digging a pond. He wasn't wearing his shirt and was covered with sweat and the sweat was thick with dust. His forhead had a dark smear from wiping his brow and his long hair looked almost matted with dirt and grass.
Junior didn't look much better as he was lying down some stone walkway tiles.
"What did you two do?" she said. She could see Soyna relaxing near by, so she knew that they did something wrong and this was how she was getting back at them.
The both grumbled answers and laid blame on each other.
"Pan, can you get us something to drink with ice in it. Soyna will only let us use the water from the hose," Goten begged after she got the gist of why they were redo the back yard.
"I guess, I could get you something," she said and walked into the house.
............
"You look like you are in a better mood today," Gohan said as his daughter walked in. He and Fry were sharing a box of crackers that had become their snack.
"I won't be huffing around the house anymore, if that is your concern," she smiled and pulled out some ice from the freezer.
"Everything okay at school," Gohan asked. He hoped her better mood was not because of the boy that sent all those flowers that filled up the living room.
"Fine," she said. "I never have any problems there."
It had to be a boy then. "Did you talk to the guy that sent you all those flowers."
"Yeah," she said and poured some juice in each of the two glasses. "We talked."
He waited for more detail but as she walked out, he realized that he wasn't going to get any.
Fry spoke with a mouthful of crackers, "She must have had a good time at lunch with Trunks today."
"What?"
"Geez dad, you mean, you didn't know that they went to lunch together every Wednesday and Friday? Why do you think she wore nice clothes on those days?" Fry said helping himself to some more crackers.
"Trunks!" Gohan said. He should have known. There were so many hints! He would have to go talk to that boy.
"Dad?" Fry looked at him with a mouthful of crackers. "Are you okay?"
"Fine," he said and realized that he growled it. Maybe he wasn't fine.
"You look mad," Fry said as he swallowed and dived in the box for more.
"I just got to go talk to your sister for a little bit," he said and left his son to his snack. He knew that Fry would finish off the box easily and probably go for more food, but right now, ruining his son's dinner was the least of his worries.
As he walked outside, he saw Pan with the hose soaking her uncle who was yelling at her to stop. Junior was laughing, only to get the next shot from the hose. Soyna seemed to have seen this coming and moved her chair back from the start of a water fight.
He stopped and watched.
"You wanted to cool down!" Pan laughed and sprayed the hose back at Goten who was trying to take a lunge at her. Of course, changing the course of the spray left her open to attack from Junior who did take advantage of it and grabbed part of the hose and tried to yank on it.
She yanked back and the fight was on. Water flailed everywhere and soon all three were soaked. Goten finally got a good hold of the hose, but Pan escaped from Junior grip.
Then Goten made the biggest mistake of his life. He tried to aim the hose at Pan, who was standing a little close to where Soyna was sitting, and Soyna really wasn't paying much attention to them. Goten aimed the hose and missed Pan, but not Soyna.
.............
Goten quickly dropped the hose but it was much to late. He had soaked her. She looked up at him with an angry glare. She didn't move right away, but he could tell that she was angry.
"You better run," Junior whispered. He glanced over at Junior. "She doesn't much care for water."
He looked back over at Soyna. He could see sparks coming out of her eyes and her body seemed to glow. She was powering up and he was the primary target! He quickly blasted off, but he didn't get very far. He felt a hand on his ankle and he felt himself being turned in a circle and then the next thing he knew he was in the hole that he was digging earlier. The now mud filled hole.
"Ouch," he moaned as he sank in the mud a bit.
Soyna hovered over him for a bit. He was waiting for the next attack and was getting ready to block it. He cursed Pan for turning the hose on him; he would get back at her later.
He was grateful to hear his mother yell, "What the hell is going on here?" Soyna looked in the direction of the voice and seemed to be powering down, as descending as well. She wasn't going to attack him again. He was relieved. He peered over the edge of the muddy hole to see his mother scowling at them all.
"Well, is someone going to answer me!"
"I was just trying to help the guys cool down," Pan started.
"We are building you that new garden you always wanted," Junior smiled. He looked nervous, but then, mom seemed to do that to everyone.
"We just got a little carried away," Pan said.
She shook her head and then looked at the patio door, where Gohan stood. "And why didn't you do anything to stop it?"
Gohan looked shocked. He was stunned for words.
"ARG! Children!" Chi-Chi said and stormed into the house past her eldest son.
Pan was the one that started to giggle and Junior was the follow. Goten didn't find being covered with mud very funny. He knew they were laughing at him.
He was quite surprised to see Soyna offering her hand to him, to help him out of the hole. He hesitantly took her hand and pulled himself out of the mud.
"I lost my temper," she said.
"Really," he said with a voice dripping with sarcasm. "Next time, you attack me, give me some warning!"
Her eyes narrowed.
Goten was expecting another attack. He had never spared with her, he had only seen her and Vegeta going at it but he doubted that he had the skill to defeat her. He thought that he could maybe have the advantage on strength, but she was definitely fast. "Every time you attack me, you get me by surprise." He remembered clearly the first day he saw her sparing with Vegeta and how she just appeared in front of Benot. He also remembered how her eyes glowed as she was powering up for another attack and how he couldn't move her foot from his throat.
"Is that a challenge?" she said in that soft voice of hers, but it was still threatening.
He looked at her, a little shocked for a second. "Yeah. It is. If I win, we don't have to finish this garden."
"What are you doing Goten?" Pan said. "You can't beat her."
Junior just shook his head. "Let him get pummeled. He knows what he is getting into."
Pan smacked Junior rather hard.
"Alright. You are warned," she said and flared into super saiyian!
He forgot she could do that. How he could forget, he didn't know. He quickly powered up as well and then they began their little challenge.
................
Gohan felt the two huge power surges. He recognized them both. He looked out the window and saw two gold balls of energy going at each other in the sky.
What the hell was Goten thinking? Soyna was an excellent fighter. She didn't make mistakes. She was fast and strong. He hated to admit it, but faster than even he was. He knew that she was much faster than Vegeta was too, but then skill played a huge factor in their fights. They didn't rely on either strength or speed to land an attack, it was cunning.
Goten could think of the odd good fighting strategy, but usually he could pick up on it quick enough to get out of it. He knew his brother all too well.
His attention turned to his daughter who was standing awful close to Junior again. He was still not comfortable with those two. Soyna had laughed at him, when he suggested that they were an item, but he didn't like the fact that they always stood so close together and even when they watched movies, they seemed to sit to close together.
Then there was the Trunks factor now. Why was he taking his little girl to lunch twice a week?
His eyes narrowed at the thought.
Trunks. He didn't know if he like that idea at all. Trunks as Goten's friend were fine, but as Pan's....
He shook his head. 'No, it can't be like that,' he thought as he looked back up at the two fighting figures. Goten wasn't doing to bad. Considering he had an advantage with Soyna having an injured arm.
At least he should have.
That was until he saw his younger brother land in the muddy hole that was to become the pond.
Soyna floated to stand by the pond and offered him his hand again. Goten took it, but instead of hauling himself up, he took her down into the mud.
He gasped. He couldn't help it. He could hear Pan calling her uncle and idiot.
"I'm not that easy to take down!" Goten said as he leapt out of the mud and followed by an equally muddy and angry Soyna.
"Why are you watching them destroy all the work they have done on my garden!" he cringed as he heard his mother behind him. "Stop them Gohan!"
He really didn't want to get in the middle of those two fighting. They looked pretty determined to get each other.
................
Well, there is another quick chapter
Who will win the fight? Goten? Soyna? Could be a good one.
Will Gohan confront Trunks?
Will the garden get finished?
Will the boys ever get to play video games again?
And where are these supposed evil characters that Soyna is so determined to train for?
Ah, the questions, the questions.
Soyna.
C-10 --- Challenge
Trunks looked at his watch.
12:10
She was never late. He was the one that always showed up late and he would get hell every time that he did so. She would always then order some expensive drink and wear a big smile for the rest of the meal.
12:11
He looked out the windows at the street. She had to be coming. She just had to be.
12:12
He ordered another drink. He didn't want to order any food until she arrived. He knew what she liked to eat, but he was trying to be considerate. He didn't want to do anything to upset her more that he already had.
12:13
Was that Pan? He sat up right in his chair as he saw a woman that looked like Pan walk past the window. Was he just seeing things? She was turning into the restaurant! It was Pan. The hostess pointed to his table. He had never been so relieved to see someone in his life.
He stood and pulled out the chair for her.
Her face was stern and she was trying to look mad but was not succeeding at it. That looked promising too.
"Sorry, I'm late. I got cornered by one of my teachers," she said and unfolded the napkin on to her lap. She hadn't even looked at him yet though. That was not a good sign to have.
"I wasn't worried," he lied as he sat back down.
"Oh," she said, looking at him now, with a sneer. He restrained himself from slapping his forehead for sounding so conceited. He had only said a few words and he was already screwing up.
"I mean, I just got here a short time ago," he then realized that was stupid too. There were three drink cups empty already on the table.
"Uh-huh," Pan said. "Did you order the food?"
"No. I was trying to be considerate and wait until you got here, in case you wanted something different," he said with a smile. That had to be the right thing to say.
"I'm starving!" She said. "Waiter."
He groaned inwardly. He couldn't do anything right.
...............
She tried to hide the smile that was threatening to emerge. Trunk's was so nervous. She wanted to burst out laughing and tell him that she wasn't mad at him anymore but if he suggested such things again, she was going to make him wish that he were still wandering about space with her uncle.
This was more fun, watching him squirm in his chair. The President of one of the biggest company's in the world was acting like a kid who was in trouble. It was fun watching him stumble over his words, and once he found what he thought were the right one's, she would send him crashing back down.
Once the food was ordered, he looked down at his plate and talked for a bit about how sorry he was for being a fool. "It is just so hard to adjust to having Soyna and Junior around. It's like a ready made family and I didn't even know I wanted one."
Well, there was a revelation, but at the same time, it was so easy to twist that around too.
"You've been preoccupied with trying to find a girl friend so you can start you own family?" she said and was pleased at her cold tone. She reached for her glass of water and took a sip.
It took a second for Trunks to realize what she had just said. "What? No, nothing like that!" he took a big drink of his own and then coughed. "It's not like that!"
She took another sip to hide her emerging smirk. She was going to see how long she could do this.
"Then what is it? You seemed so worried about my love life that you suggested that I was dating someone in high school! Is yours so bleak that you have to worry about mine?" she said. She got that stunned looking again.
He went a little pale. "No, I was just saying that having a family isn't that bad."
"Is Soyna even talking to you?" she said, knowing that was a real sticking point with him.
"As a mater of fact, she is," Trunks said with some confidence.
It was Pan's turn to stumble over words. "And how did you manage that?"
Trunks seemed to sink in his chair a bit. "Well," he looked down at his drink, "I kind of yelled at her."
"You yelled at her!" Pan said.
"Yeah. In front of Legen."
Pan shook her head.
"I was just so frustrated with her looking at me with those cold green eyes of hers and after having such a bad day Wednesday, I kind of lost it." Trunks said. "One good thing came out of it though. She showed me her family pictures and we talked for a bit. I think we can tolerate each other at this point and that is more than I thought it was going to be."
"But in front of Legen!"
"You hung up on me!" Trunks blurted a little loud.
...............
Trunks realized that his voice was probably a little to loud. He calmed himself down and just glared at Pan. She was purposely trying to provoke him!
She was looking at her napkin on her lap.
"I did like the flowers," she whispered. He just looked at her for a bit. The anger was gone now. She looked up at him. "I am not saying that I totally forgive you, but I am not longer ready to sic daddy on you!"
He smiled. "That's good news. I would go nuts if I didn't have a sane person to talk to once in a while. Everyone at the office is nuts."
He was happy to see a genuine smile on her face. He knew he still had to make it up to her, but at least, she wouldn't hang up the phone anymore.
.................
"You had to hit me," Goten grunted as he hauled a heavy landscaping tile over his shoulder.
"You had to hit me back," Junior said. "I wouldn't have been so bad if we didn't destroy the classroom."
Fry was watching his uncle and Junior working in the back yard. Grandma always wanted to have a fancy garden with levels and a pool and now she was going to get it. This weekend! He watched them as the dug things up and tore out some old things all under the supervision of Soyna. It was so much fun watching them suffer and not him, under her punishment.
He still didn't have his video games because she talked to Gohan about the glue incident and because Benot and Legen lost their privileges too, but at least he didn't have to create a new garden in a weekend.
"Come on sis! Can't we have a break? I'm thirsty." Junior whined.
They were going to suffer more that he did. This pleased him a lot. She just pointed to the hose and sat in her chair reading a book. He could see both of them seething, but then they knew that they could do nothing about it.
It was great to see someone else in trouble!
............
Gohan piled the homework that was part of the two fighter's homework for their week suspension.
He looked at his son, who seemed enjoying watching the backyard being ripped apart and rebuilt. Soyna wasn't really that mad at them. He had talked to her briefly at the destroyed classroom where she was almost laughing at the mess that was created.
"I told Junior that if he couldn't get over it to let some of his steam out, but I didn't mean in the first class of the day," she chuckled. The principal had been so tense as she said this but calmed him down by saying that she would make sure they would get money to repair all that was destroyed and asked that they get some extra assignments. She had some other plans for them this weekend. Gohan was quite shocked at what she suggested. He didn't think she was aware of the plans to redo the garden, but agreed.
He looked over his son shoulder. They seemed to be doing a good job.
"Isn't it great dad," Fry said looking up at his father.
"What?" he said.
"Someone else in trouble!" he said.
He smiled at his son. He was always in trouble with one thing or another, usually involving Benot. They were really good boys when there are apart, but they were a powder keg when they got together.
He looked over at Soyna who seemed to be enjoying the sun and reading a book that she probably borrowed from his arsenal of them. She looked up briefly, gave him a smile and then went back to reading.
A few days ago, she was ready to kill anyone that got in her way of training and now she was calmly reading in his back yard. She certainly was a strange one. She just got to emotional at times. That was her human side. The only bit that she seemed to show.
"I'm hungry," Fry announced. "What can I have for a snack?"
...............
Pan arrived home to see the huge mess in the back yard and the two dirty men that were working in it. She stifled a giggle as she looked at them.
Goten spotted her first. "What are you chuckling about?" he snapped as he jabbed his shovel into the ground. It looked like he was digging a pond. He wasn't wearing his shirt and was covered with sweat and the sweat was thick with dust. His forhead had a dark smear from wiping his brow and his long hair looked almost matted with dirt and grass.
Junior didn't look much better as he was lying down some stone walkway tiles.
"What did you two do?" she said. She could see Soyna relaxing near by, so she knew that they did something wrong and this was how she was getting back at them.
The both grumbled answers and laid blame on each other.
"Pan, can you get us something to drink with ice in it. Soyna will only let us use the water from the hose," Goten begged after she got the gist of why they were redo the back yard.
"I guess, I could get you something," she said and walked into the house.
............
"You look like you are in a better mood today," Gohan said as his daughter walked in. He and Fry were sharing a box of crackers that had become their snack.
"I won't be huffing around the house anymore, if that is your concern," she smiled and pulled out some ice from the freezer.
"Everything okay at school," Gohan asked. He hoped her better mood was not because of the boy that sent all those flowers that filled up the living room.
"Fine," she said. "I never have any problems there."
It had to be a boy then. "Did you talk to the guy that sent you all those flowers."
"Yeah," she said and poured some juice in each of the two glasses. "We talked."
He waited for more detail but as she walked out, he realized that he wasn't going to get any.
Fry spoke with a mouthful of crackers, "She must have had a good time at lunch with Trunks today."
"What?"
"Geez dad, you mean, you didn't know that they went to lunch together every Wednesday and Friday? Why do you think she wore nice clothes on those days?" Fry said helping himself to some more crackers.
"Trunks!" Gohan said. He should have known. There were so many hints! He would have to go talk to that boy.
"Dad?" Fry looked at him with a mouthful of crackers. "Are you okay?"
"Fine," he said and realized that he growled it. Maybe he wasn't fine.
"You look mad," Fry said as he swallowed and dived in the box for more.
"I just got to go talk to your sister for a little bit," he said and left his son to his snack. He knew that Fry would finish off the box easily and probably go for more food, but right now, ruining his son's dinner was the least of his worries.
As he walked outside, he saw Pan with the hose soaking her uncle who was yelling at her to stop. Junior was laughing, only to get the next shot from the hose. Soyna seemed to have seen this coming and moved her chair back from the start of a water fight.
He stopped and watched.
"You wanted to cool down!" Pan laughed and sprayed the hose back at Goten who was trying to take a lunge at her. Of course, changing the course of the spray left her open to attack from Junior who did take advantage of it and grabbed part of the hose and tried to yank on it.
She yanked back and the fight was on. Water flailed everywhere and soon all three were soaked. Goten finally got a good hold of the hose, but Pan escaped from Junior grip.
Then Goten made the biggest mistake of his life. He tried to aim the hose at Pan, who was standing a little close to where Soyna was sitting, and Soyna really wasn't paying much attention to them. Goten aimed the hose and missed Pan, but not Soyna.
.............
Goten quickly dropped the hose but it was much to late. He had soaked her. She looked up at him with an angry glare. She didn't move right away, but he could tell that she was angry.
"You better run," Junior whispered. He glanced over at Junior. "She doesn't much care for water."
He looked back over at Soyna. He could see sparks coming out of her eyes and her body seemed to glow. She was powering up and he was the primary target! He quickly blasted off, but he didn't get very far. He felt a hand on his ankle and he felt himself being turned in a circle and then the next thing he knew he was in the hole that he was digging earlier. The now mud filled hole.
"Ouch," he moaned as he sank in the mud a bit.
Soyna hovered over him for a bit. He was waiting for the next attack and was getting ready to block it. He cursed Pan for turning the hose on him; he would get back at her later.
He was grateful to hear his mother yell, "What the hell is going on here?" Soyna looked in the direction of the voice and seemed to be powering down, as descending as well. She wasn't going to attack him again. He was relieved. He peered over the edge of the muddy hole to see his mother scowling at them all.
"Well, is someone going to answer me!"
"I was just trying to help the guys cool down," Pan started.
"We are building you that new garden you always wanted," Junior smiled. He looked nervous, but then, mom seemed to do that to everyone.
"We just got a little carried away," Pan said.
She shook her head and then looked at the patio door, where Gohan stood. "And why didn't you do anything to stop it?"
Gohan looked shocked. He was stunned for words.
"ARG! Children!" Chi-Chi said and stormed into the house past her eldest son.
Pan was the one that started to giggle and Junior was the follow. Goten didn't find being covered with mud very funny. He knew they were laughing at him.
He was quite surprised to see Soyna offering her hand to him, to help him out of the hole. He hesitantly took her hand and pulled himself out of the mud.
"I lost my temper," she said.
"Really," he said with a voice dripping with sarcasm. "Next time, you attack me, give me some warning!"
Her eyes narrowed.
Goten was expecting another attack. He had never spared with her, he had only seen her and Vegeta going at it but he doubted that he had the skill to defeat her. He thought that he could maybe have the advantage on strength, but she was definitely fast. "Every time you attack me, you get me by surprise." He remembered clearly the first day he saw her sparing with Vegeta and how she just appeared in front of Benot. He also remembered how her eyes glowed as she was powering up for another attack and how he couldn't move her foot from his throat.
"Is that a challenge?" she said in that soft voice of hers, but it was still threatening.
He looked at her, a little shocked for a second. "Yeah. It is. If I win, we don't have to finish this garden."
"What are you doing Goten?" Pan said. "You can't beat her."
Junior just shook his head. "Let him get pummeled. He knows what he is getting into."
Pan smacked Junior rather hard.
"Alright. You are warned," she said and flared into super saiyian!
He forgot she could do that. How he could forget, he didn't know. He quickly powered up as well and then they began their little challenge.
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Gohan felt the two huge power surges. He recognized them both. He looked out the window and saw two gold balls of energy going at each other in the sky.
What the hell was Goten thinking? Soyna was an excellent fighter. She didn't make mistakes. She was fast and strong. He hated to admit it, but faster than even he was. He knew that she was much faster than Vegeta was too, but then skill played a huge factor in their fights. They didn't rely on either strength or speed to land an attack, it was cunning.
Goten could think of the odd good fighting strategy, but usually he could pick up on it quick enough to get out of it. He knew his brother all too well.
His attention turned to his daughter who was standing awful close to Junior again. He was still not comfortable with those two. Soyna had laughed at him, when he suggested that they were an item, but he didn't like the fact that they always stood so close together and even when they watched movies, they seemed to sit to close together.
Then there was the Trunks factor now. Why was he taking his little girl to lunch twice a week?
His eyes narrowed at the thought.
Trunks. He didn't know if he like that idea at all. Trunks as Goten's friend were fine, but as Pan's....
He shook his head. 'No, it can't be like that,' he thought as he looked back up at the two fighting figures. Goten wasn't doing to bad. Considering he had an advantage with Soyna having an injured arm.
At least he should have.
That was until he saw his younger brother land in the muddy hole that was to become the pond.
Soyna floated to stand by the pond and offered him his hand again. Goten took it, but instead of hauling himself up, he took her down into the mud.
He gasped. He couldn't help it. He could hear Pan calling her uncle and idiot.
"I'm not that easy to take down!" Goten said as he leapt out of the mud and followed by an equally muddy and angry Soyna.
"Why are you watching them destroy all the work they have done on my garden!" he cringed as he heard his mother behind him. "Stop them Gohan!"
He really didn't want to get in the middle of those two fighting. They looked pretty determined to get each other.
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Well, there is another quick chapter
Who will win the fight? Goten? Soyna? Could be a good one.
Will Gohan confront Trunks?
Will the garden get finished?
Will the boys ever get to play video games again?
And where are these supposed evil characters that Soyna is so determined to train for?
Ah, the questions, the questions.
Soyna.