schubskie: Thanks for the review! And good guesses! You are somewhat correct, but we'll need to wait and see what really happened (which will be revealed in a few chapters). And I think you are correct about my mix-up with words, so thank you for alerting me to that! And here's the next chapter! :)

CrazyGohanGurl: I'm glad that you are caught up, and thanks for the review! What parts are you kind of confused on? Some of them are going to be confusing for plot reasons that I can't explain yet, but if some of your questions can be answered, I'll do that the best I can. Thanks once again!

Chapter 13: Wrong Timing

"Marie, wait up!" Gohan shouted as he ran, trying to catch up to his blonde haired friend.

Marie was currently running as if they were playing tag, jumping just out of his reach when he got near.

"No, you need to catch me first!" Marie shouted back, making Gohan laugh as he tried to catch up to her.

Marie had been the one to suggest coming to this area, which she had quickly turned into a field of flowers, making Gohan somewhat wish that he would be able to do that. He was getting better though, since he didn't pass out anymore and the flowers survived at least two days.

Gohan stopped running and realized that he had lost sight of Marie among the field. He quickly reached out to find her Ki, but was surprised that she was hiding it pretty well.

She's already getting better, Gohan thought with a smile.

He had been teaching Marie how to use Ki and other 'tricks', as she liked to call them, in exchange for her teaching him about the Lotus, or "Lein-Hua" as Marie sometimes referred to it.

He walked a bit and tried to search for her Ki in the different areas, but he still couldn't find her. Getting worried that the Taco could have possibly found her; Gohan raised his Ki a bit and started to call her name.

"Marie!" he shouted, getting somewhat worried.

After a few minutes and still not finding her, Gohan started to sprint across the field trying to find her.

"Marie!" he shouted again, louder this time. He knew that he probably sounded frantic, but he was starting to think that he wouldn't be able to find her.

Suddenly, he saw a shape quickly appear in front of him. Nearly running into the shape, Gohan stopped as quickly as he could and came face to face with a smiling Marie.

"What is it?" she asked, smiling as if nothing was wrong. Gohan quickly remembered that they had been playing tag and gently poked her.

Marie looked down at her arm where he poked her, a puzzled and somewhat sad expression on her face.

"Oh, you caught me," she said, staring at her arm looking confused.

Gohan sighed and sat down. He was starting to wonder if she had a multiple personality disorder or something, with the way she kept changing personalities so quickly.

He felt Marie sit down beside him, and was puzzled when he realized that his legs were dangling off a cliff. Looking down, he saw that there was a river in the valley below them.

There was never a river there though, Gohan thought and then turned to look at Marie.

"When did that river get there?" he asked, feeling somewhat confused.

"I made it," Marie stated, a smile on her face.

"How can you do that?" Gohan wondered, falling back to rest on the grass behind him.

"I asked the vines to move and water spurted out of the ground," Marie explained, making Gohan laugh.

Every time Marie did something with plants, she always said she "asked them" to do something.

Marie lied down beside him and started staring at the sky. Gohan looked up as well.

Even though the sky was never the bright blue that it had been in his childhood, it was nicer today.

"The sky is sick," Marie said, making Gohan look over at her and see that she was frowning. He looked back up at the sky.

"What do you mean?" he asked, wondering why she thought that.

"Look at it," Marie stated, pointing at the sky with her finger. Gohan looked at her and started laughing.

Marie apparently didn't like this.

"What's so funny?" she asked in a disapproving tone. Gohan took a moment to stop laughing.

"I have looked at it, but I still don't get what you mean," he explained.

Marie sat up, still staring at the sky.

"Look how dull it is," Marie stated, "doesn't it look sick to you?"

Gohan sat up and glanced back up at the sky again.

"I guess you're right," he said, "but I would have never thought of it that way. I guess I'm just used to the way it looks."

Marie glanced at him, a puzzled look on her face.

"Why is that?" she asked.

Gohan was now starting to wonder if she had been blind before this, but he didn't want to ask her.

"It's just that the sky always used to look so much prettier when I was younger. After time, it just turned to look like this," Gohan said, feeling a little sad.

A few moments of silence passed before Marie pulled him to his feet.

"What…?" he started, but Marie started smiling.

"Come on. Let's go down there," she said while pulling him to the top of a hill that led down to the river.

"Ok…" Gohan stated as Marie suddenly stopped at the top of the hill and started smiling at him.

"What?" he asked, feeling as if he missed something. Marie just kept smiling as she turned him to face the hill.

"You're it!" she yelled as she shoved him from behind, resulting in him falling down the hill.

Gohan didn't know what to think when his vision started turning in so many directions that he couldn't concentrate. When his vision finally settled, he found himself at the bottom of the hill.

Standing up, he looked at Marie, who was now running down the hill towards him.

"If that was your idea to cheer me up, I don't think it was a very good one!" Gohan yelled. Marie just stood in front of him and laughed.

"Come on," Marie stated as she pulled him towards the river. Gohan just shook his head and let himself be pulled.

Why do I put up with this? He thought as he laughed.

Marie pulled him to the water's edge and dipped her feet in, motioning for him to do the same. He did as he was told, dipping his feet in the water and finding that it was a lot cleaner than most of the water he had seen before.

"Maybe we should tell everyone else about this," Gohan suggested as they sat there. Marie shook her head.

"We can't. It wouldn't be worth it," she said and Gohan wondered if she was being selfish for once.

"Why?" he asked, feeling somewhat confused.

"Because the vines will move back and the river will dry up. Everything has a lifespan," Marie said as she stared at the water. Gohan looked into the water and saw their reflections.

Well, maybe not the Tako, Gohan thought, wondering how the giant octopus could ever be defeated.

Just then, a Ki signal flared up in his head. Marie must have noticed too, since she stood up in surprise at exactly the same time as he did.

"Who…?" he started to ask, but Marie shook her head.

"Krillin," she whispered, making Gohan's heart stop.

Sorry that this fanfiction was the last one I updated on my list of four continuous ones. It was just the last thing I came to. So, why do you think that Krillin's Ki shot up? And what do you think is going to happen next? I hope you enjoyed this chapter and please review!

-AnimeWolfGirl9