Spiral
Chapter 9: Is She? She Is!
Emplin Saga~Chapter 3
A/N: Welcome! I just love doing this. This is a great feeling to get reviews. Why am I talking about this. You know that song that gets itself stuck in your head? I'm listening to it: Crooked Smile by J. Cole. Also Cha-La-Head-Cha-La. You know, the DBZ theme song.
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Quotes of the Day: "Sometimes I hear music in my eyes." -Crash, from Crash and Bernstein
"The longest journey I ever took was inside me." K-Rino, Longest Journey
Knock knock.
"I'll get it." Goten says as he jumps up.
"We are the counsil. We are here to escort Videl and company to Ototop Island." A man in a black suit says.
Goten turn around and yells, "Hey! It's time to go!"
"Are you the one they call Goku?" One of the counsil man asks.
Goten face scrunches up, "No. That's my daddy."
"Oh."
"Hey! Wake up Sleeping Beauty!" Videl shouts as she shakes Gohan, "It's time to go!"
Nothing.
"If you think I'm gonna wake you up with a kiss, you've got another thing coming."
Nada.
"Gohan-kun? Please wake up."
Zip. Not even that?
"If you don't wake up, I will hit you with the Mondo Super Duper Cooper Frying Pan of Immeasurable Pain…of Doom ™, ya hear!"
"I had very good nap and my dream was just getting to the good part." Gohan whines.
"What was gonna happen?" Videl asked.
"Uh...not important." He says.
Videl put her hands on her hips, "Gohan. If. You. Don't. Tell. Me. I. Don't. Have. Time. For. This. Let's. Go."
"What just happened?" He asked.
"Get over here, Gohan." Videl groans.
"Which way do we go?" Goten asked.
After a half-hour flight, they had landed at the cave. They were all cold and slightly peckish so, that's what was with them. They had come to a fork in the cave. Trunks went to the left and Goten to the right, a small argument broke out and the scene began.
"She knows the way." A counsil man says pointing to Videl.
"Me?" She questions, "I have a terrible sense of direction. And I've never been here."
"The Chosen One, knows the way."
They all look to Videl and she replies, "Uh...the left?"
"Wait, we actually made it?" Videl questions.
"Yes, madam." A counsilman says.
"Now what?"
Another counsilman points to a small panel, "Place your left hand there."
Videl shrugs and does so and begins, "Okay, so what happens now..." She trails off her body stiffens and a light blue aurora surrounds her.
"Videl?" Gohan tries, "Can you hear me?"
Videl opens her eyes.
She looks down and she's sitting Indian style on a large white flower with four petals.
"I'd advise not to fall off of the flower. If you do, your soul with fall for an eternity." A soft voice behind her says.
Videl's eyes widen slightly as the flower slowly turns 180 degrees. She sees four Videls, all her age, of four different glowing colors. One pink, one light blue, one lime green, and one silver.
"Who...who are you?"
The silver one spoke, "We are kind of like your spirtual guides. I represent bravery and courage."
"I represent intelligence, common sense, and the way you look at life." The light green one smiles.
"In other words, the boring part." Silver mutters.
"Silver!" The others scold.
"Hey!" Silver replies, "Part of bravery and courage is saying what you think."
"And part of me is think of what you say before it leaves your mouth."
"Humph!"
"Humph!"
"Please stop arguing." Think pink one pleads, "This is our first vistor for a thousand years."
"...Fine." They sigh in unison.
"Anyways," Blue begins, "I represent strength and power."
"Oh, and I represent peace and love." Pink finished.
"So where are we?" Videl asked.
"I think we are in your subconscious mind and were unlocked when you touched the panel." Lime green answers.
"So where's my body?" Videl asked.
"Your body is till where it wad last used by you." Silver replies.
"Everyone is playing Poker, but Gohan keeps staring at you until Liz taps him and says, 'Ya folding, Gohan? {1}' but afterk his turn, he stares at you again." Blue informs.
"Really?" Videl asked.
"Come on. Chose one one of us to go on a spiritual journey." Silver says non-amused.
Videl points to Pink and shrugs.
"Good decision." She smiles.
With in a blink of an eye Videl finds her self in a movie theater. Her life literally flashed before her eyes.
One short video was of her and Liz's eighth birthday party where all guests had at least twenty grams of frosting, cupcakes, etc. on thier faces.
The next was after Cell's defeat. It was at dinner and the four had a toast to the defeat of Cell where they drank sparkling grape juice.
The next video was her holding Naomi after she'd just been born. She and Liz kept making silly faces while she cried. When Lizaria simply smiled and the baby began to laugh.
"Ha. She laughs at your face." Videl had taunted.
"Keep in mind that my face looks exactly like yours."
The next was when Gohan had told her her hair may be better short.
"Do you, like short hair on girls, Gohan?" Videl had asked.
The scene then changed to when Videl was beating on Gohan's chest after Buu had attacked.
"Don't you ever do that again, Gohan!"
In retrospect, even though she called him a jerk after he came back to life, she could died right then and there when she found out Gohan was dead for real.
The last scene shows her and Gohan kissing in the lake in the rain. You know, from the fifth chapter. Yes, that one.
"You have seventy seconds to answer after I finsh talking. If you don't give me the correct answer, Your spiritual journey ends." Pink's voice rings, "What do all these scenes have in common? You were showing the most _."
"Uh...happiness?"
"No."
"Joy?"
"No."
Videl racks her brain. What could it possibly be?
"I was at peace with myself!"
"No. 20, 19, 18..."
What now. She got it.
She loved her father, her mother, Naomi, Liz.
And though she wouldn't admit it, she loved Gohan.
"4, 3, 2-"
"Love!"
"Good job."
Videl looks down at her flower. One of the petal was the same pink as her new shirt which was fitting and the sleeves cut off mid forearm.
"Hey, where'd I get the shirt?" Videl asked.
"Me." Pink says.
"Thanks."
"Knock him dead." Pink says with a wink.
"Where's my other shirt?" She asked.
"...In your closet..." Pink says.
Lime green smiles, "Wanna come with me?"
"Sure."
Videl finds herself in a large light blue tube with two doors.
"Which is heavier: a pound of bricks, or a pound of feathers? Give me the correct answer, and you advance, if not, your journey is over."
'Bricks are heavier, but why would they ask it? Well, a pound is...a pound!'
"Hey, it's a trick question."
A door opens up under her and Videl suddenly drops onto the next floor. She sees a sign that says, 'Congrats! You're not stupid!'
"In the G scale, what note comes after E and before G?"
"F...sharp."
"Go through the door. Wait, you played the saxophone! No fair!"
"You ask the questions, I just answer." Videl replies.
Several brain teasers and rude and sarcastic signs later...
Videl walks into the final room where Lime green was sitting at a desk.
"You are almost finished." Lime green says as she presses a button. Videl then finds herself in a cage.
"Find a way out of that cage without breaking it. You've got ninety seconds."
Videl looked around and tried to find something to get her out of the cage. Videl honestly was a little scared. She was kinda claustrophobic and she could even stretch her arms out completely. She then saw a control panel labelled, 'Cage Control.' She could shoot a ki blast at it! Just one problem.
Gohan hadn't taught her yet!
Goten's words from the flying lessons came into her head, "It's something like this."
She'd made energy before when she was learning to fly, it was just hard. But now she was a Saiyan and she flew a lot.
She slipped her hands threw the bars and she calmed herself as the energy began to appear in her hands.
Now how do you throw it?
"14, 13, 12..."
With not much time to think, she rasies her hand above her head and aims for the control panel.
Slowly but surely, the cage began to lift.
Videl sighed as she was back on her flower. Now there was two white petals, one pink, and on lime green, like her new capris.
"Do we get a lunch break?" Videl asked.
The others shake thier heads.
"No fair." Videl whines.
"Come on." Silver says, "You can come with me."
"Why not?" Videl sighed, "I'm gonna have to starve to death anyways."
Videl find herself in what appears to be another cave. But there was lava, vines, and dolls?
"D-Dolls? W-what are they do-ing here?" Videl asked.
"I knew you had pediophobia. (A/N: Fear of dolls.)" Silver smirks, "And philophobia (Fear of falling in love or being in love)."
"Don't judge me! What do I have to do?" Videl asked.
"You are in a volcano. At the end there is a Naomi doll. Save the doll, or when you get back to Earth, Naomi might be missing a few limbs. Two minutes starting now. Oh and no flying."
Darn, that was her only trick up her sleeve. She'd have to swing over lava, with vines while surrounded by...these demon toys.
While Videl takes her little journey, let's see how she got pediophobia, hmm.
Four years ago...
Videl screams as she opened her eyes. Her scream had been muffled by the tape on her mouth. She'd been knocked out on the job again. No fair. She fould herself roped to a stick and were surrounded by four men and a plethora of girly dolls.
"Chi oh cha cha! Chi oh cha cha!" The four men chanted.
"What are you doing?" Videl tried to ask.
"You are the sacrifice for our goddess, Barbie."
Videl looked around and saw a five foot tall Barbie doll waving at her. "Thank you, boys. This girl is pretty enough for me to play dress up with. You are dismissed."
The men left and Videl tried to talk, "What are you doing with me?"
Lizaria chose that moment to bust in. She quickly unties her twin and asks, "What the cheeseball is going on here?"
"Barbie wants to play dress up." Videl explained.
"Was martial arts one of your jobs?" Lizaria asked the living doll.
"No, but I was a street rapper {2}."
The girls look at each other and they beging to fight the doll.
End Flashback
Videl quickly grabs the doll and sits it down somewhere else.
"Are we finished here?" Videl asked.
"Yep. Just blink and you'll be back."
Silver wasn't wrong as they were back in five seconds.
One of the petals on her flower was now a shiny silver as was her new vest.
"So I guess I'm going with you, Blue, huh?" Videl says.
"We're not really going anywhere." Blue said.
Suddenly, Videl found herself trapped in a bubble. Blue then rights soemthing on a piece if paper that said, 'Get out. No time limit.'
Videl begins to punch the bubble and she only hurts her hand. Wait, she could...but does that even work in your subconscious? Eh, it might work.
She pulled out her frying pan with a very long title and banged against it. Nothing. She tried punching it but it was just like hitting Gohan.
Gohan... What would he do?
'He'd go Super Saiyan.' She thinks, 'Hasn't taught me that either. But if I can learn how to a ki blast on my own, I can at least make myself stronger.'
She sees Silver look at her and shakes her head.
Videl's eyes twitch. Was she saying she was weak? She started feeling angry, and more powerful?
Anger! That's what powered it! She just needed to get angry.
People told her she was weak, insolent (that one was mostly Veggiehead), stupid, ugly, and she always felt insecure. She never trusted anyone other than the ones she had to. She was angry.
Really angry.
Videl squeezes her eyes shut and puts all her energy, anger, and power into her punch.
"Congrats, Videl! You did it!" Blue smiles. "Bye bye."
Videl feels her body shoots backwards, "Whoa!" She screams loudly.
Everybody stares at her in amazement.
"Is she...? She is!" Goten shouted
"What?" She asks. Lizaria slowly hands her a mirror.
"I'm a...Super...Saiyan...?" Videl asks no one in particular.
Gohan nodded and put a hand on her shoulder.
She turns to him and says, "And why didn't you bother to teach me how to go Super Saiyan? Or teach me how to shoot ki blasts?"
"...Uh...I..." Gohan then darts toward the exit.
"Hey! Get back here!" She screams.
"Ah, to be young and in love." Astella sighs.
One the counsilman turns to her, "Does Miss Videl know that she opened a gateway to a palace?"
"Probably not. Goten! Trunks! Go get them!" Astella yells, "We're gonna live in a palace!"
A/N: Yay! Another chapter! Lately I've been getting chapters out in like, three days but, school starts soon so updates may not be as frequently.
{1} 'Ya folding, Gohan?' Does folding even belong in poker?
{2} Barbie being a street rapper. I kid you not. Wikapedia said she was anyway. I can't see that though.
NerdsRule
2:11 p.m.
8/21/13
P.S. For those of you who have voted on my poll, For Nevermore and The Girl with the Dragonball are sharing first place.