Chapter 20: Aftermath

All of Earth's heroes were left stunned. Gohan had just told the dragon to leave, conserving a wish, but there wasn't a need for that as far as they knew.

"Does anyone know why he just did that?" Asked Tien. Everyone remained silent. "...Maybe Gohan just wanted to save the wish, you know just in case his saiyan side reawakens." Said Krillin, breaking the silence. "Yeah, maybe." Added Tien.

All of them knew for a fact that Gohan was hiding things. Even his saiyan side had said so. "He hasn't told you? You don't even know what's been going on with Gohan all this time. There's a number of things that he's been hiding from all of you." That's what his other half had told them. They could approach him about it, but they needed to give him space after everything that's happened.

"Well, I guess we should get going." Said Krillin. "Come to think of it, we should tell Yamcha about what happened. And the bad thing is that Chichi and Bulma will also be waiting there." Tien laughed. "Knowing those two, you'll probably get an earful."

"And what about the brat?" Asked Vegeta. All eyes turned to him. "At any given moment he could lose control again." Piccolo spoke, "I'll keep an eye on him to make sure he's alright." "Oh, now there's a good plan, considering how well it worked the first time!" Yelled Vegeta. "We all know that you're always watching over him, but even then you didn't notice that something was wrong with him."

Hearing that, the martial artists had to admit that he had a point. Gohan was always somehow good at hiding how he was truly feeling, even from the ones he was really close too.

"Well, I guess we could all visit him from time to time and just hang out. And we just be straight forward and ask him. After all if you haven't noticed, Gohan isn't that good at lying when confronted." Said Krillin. "I guess that's all we can do up to this point." Said Tien.

"Fine, you fools do that and I'll just keep training with him." Said Vegeta. "Hehehe. Well you do that Vegeta. Just be sure not to push him over the edge." Said Krillin.

All of them said their goodbyes and took off for some very deserved rest, except for Vegeta of course who now had to deal with reconstructing his house. (Poor Vegeta)

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Meanwhile Gohan had just been flying around in the sky trying to clear his head. It was just so frustrating having to deal with this. Being a hero was hard, for some reason bad guys were always after you. Now he kinda understood what his father had meant.

~ Father...~ Thought Gohan. It had been so long since he had seen him or heard his loving voice. He had helped saved his life again, remembering back to the fight with Bojack and just now. Even death wouldn't stop him from saving the people he loved.

The thought of not being with him made him sad, but after the incident that took place today, it gave him the strength he needed not to be so sad or feel so guilty over his death. His father was right, there wasn't any point in thinking about the past or what could have been. Of course it still hurt, but Gohan knew that one day he would see his father again. After all, Goku had already proven that no matter what he would always be there in spirit.

And now that he was thinking about what happened today, the young saiyan realized that he forgot about a certain young blue eyed girl. Gohan stopped in mid air. "Aww Man that's right! I forgot about Videl!"

Feeling for her energy, he was relived to find that she was alright. Her energy felt normal and at full strength. Knowing that he let out a sigh.

"Great, now I'm going to have to face her at school. Now she knows that I can fight and she'll be hounding me more than ever that I'm the gold fighter. Oh well, at least I won't have to face her until Monday." Little did he know that she saw him transform into a ssj before passing out.

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Meanwhile the girl known as Videl Satan was currently at her home in the living room. She was sitting on the couch rewatching the tape her father had recorded on the day of the Cell Games.

Having failed to find any more information online concerning Gohan, she decided to watch the recorded tape and see if she could find anything more about him.

All she knew so far was that his mother and father were famous martial artists who were Son Goku and Son Chichi. And that his grandfather was the Ox King and that he was going to take over his kingdom in a couple years.

The video started out with her father fighting Cell and how he supposedly 'tripped', which caused him to lose. "That's strange. My father said that he tripped, but he was using his technique perfectly." Stated Videl, but for the moment she just shrugged it off.

Next came the fight between Goku and Cell. It amazed Videl how fast the two moved. The camera itself could barely keep up with them. As she continued watching the fight one of the warriors on the sidelines yelled out the name of the golden spiky haired man that was fighting Cell.

They had yelled out Goku. Videl was shocked to say the least. "There's no way that guy can be Gohan's father. He doesn't even look like him, but then again maybe he's also able to change his appearance like Gohan does." She looked closely at him and Gohan in the video. There was no doubt about it, he was the famous martial artists Son Goku. The resemblance between the two could be clearly seen.

And now she turned her attention to the other fighters that were standing next to Gohan. She recognized most of them who were famous fighters that had attended the Worlds Martial Arts Tournament long ago.

How is that Gohan knows all these people, was the question that was running through the young girl's mind. "It is possible that he met them through his father." After all when your a famous fighter your bound to meet other warriors. She knew that for a fact since she had the pleasure to meet a couple fighters, but none as famous as the Z Warriors.

As she looked back at the young saiyan on the screen she noticed for the first time how muscular he was. It was a no wonder why he never weared any short sleeves at school. ~ Wow. Now that I really look at him, he is kinda cute. Wait, did I just think that? Great, now I sound like Erasa. ~ Thought Videl, as she shook off the thought quickly.

The fight lasted up until Goku had surrendered against the evil android. Next was the fight that Videl was anxious to watch, Gohan Vs. Cell.

After Gohan had finished talking to his father, he flew down on the battlefield. And to much to Videl's surprise a huge gust of wind surrounded him as he yelled out. ~ It's just like with his father, he has some kind of yellow aura around him. ~

"My father says that's some kind of cheap trick, but after seeing all that happened today, there's no way that's fake."

The battle started with Gohan being able to dodge every one of Cell's punches, that is until the android increased his speed. As the battle continued Videl could only watch in amazement as Gohan held his own against Cell. That's when he was thrown into a pile of rocks and everyone assumed he was dead, but blowing them away he came out alright.

"It's just like what happened today. Gohan was thrown through a ton of buildings and he came back as if nothing happened. How does he do it?"

The video reached the point to where Cell unleashed the horrid Cell Juniors on all the fighters as Gohan could only watch in horror. Eventually Mr. Satan threw Android 16's head where Gohan was. And to much to Gohan's horror, Cell crushed his head. ~ Ewww. I don't think I'll ever be unable to unsee that. ~ Thought Videl with disgust.

All of a sudden the young warrior started to power up and as a huge gust of air of power emitted from him, the camera broke, never revealing what truly happened.

Videl Satan, just sat there letting all that she saw in the video sink in. Finally after a couple of minutes she got up and turned it off.

She then sat back down. ~ Okay, so Gohan and his father were at the Cell Games and they were doing a heck of a lot better against Cell than my dad, which is impossible. But then my father was doing his best, there's no way that he tripping was an accident. So, does that mean that Gohan was the one to actually beat Cell? Gohan's just a kid though, but today's incident makes me think...ugh! If only the camera hadn't broken. ~

Trying to make sense of all of this was giving the young girl a headache, so she decided to take a break from it and use her phone instead. She stood up and made her way up the stairs. Turning right she made her way to her room.

When she got their she was surprised to find that it was missing. She looked everywhere for it, but with no luck. "Ugh, great just what I needed." Said the blue eyed girl annoyed. "Hmmm...I must have dropped it while fighting. I might as well go see if the chief has it."

While going over to the police station with her helicopter, she couldn't help, but keep thinking back to a boy named Son Gohan. ~ Why is that Gohan is hiding so many things? It's pretty obvious that he doesn't like being in the spotlight, so that could be it. But I still don't get why he would be at the Cell Games. Did my father really lie to everyone and even me about defeating that monster?~

"Now that I think about it, I wonder what could have happened to Gohan and that freak that he was fighting. He should be fine, but he did seem to have trouble fighting that guy. I guess I'll ask the police if they've heard anything."

Reaching her destination, Videl got down from the helicopter and made her way inside the police station. Right there she asked if they had her phone and luckily they did. After they had emitted Videl to the hospital they had gone back to the scene of the fight and found that whoever had destroyed the city wasn't there anymore and neither was the little boy who had fought him.

And as they looked around the entire city they had seen Videl's cell phone and decided to pick it up and give to her later on.

"Did you happen to hear if any little boy was injured or killed today?" Asked Videl with a little nervousness. To her relief, there hadn't been anything like that.

Saying goodbye and taking her phone she walked back to her helicopter and headed home. About ten minutes later Videl was back in her room, lying down using her phone.

As she turned it on she noticed there was a unread message in her inbox, which she figured was from Erasa. She had forgotten that she'd been with Erasa and Sharpener when the attack had happened. She was about to read it, when something caught her eye.

On her phone said that there was a new recorded video on her phone. ~ That's weird, I never use my phone to record any videos. Unless the cops decided to mess with my phone, but I doubt they'd do that. ~

She decided to first see what the recorded video was and then read Erasa's message. As she opened it her eyes widened in surprise at what she saw.

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Meanwhile with the half saiyan...

Gohan had just finished eating a dozen hot dogs. Lucky for him he had learned to cook a little better, so he didn't burn it all like he did back in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber when he set his father's hair on fire.

That's when the phone rang all of a sudden. As he answered a voice practically yelled out, "Gohan are you alright? Krillin just told me what happened!" It was Bulma who was calling from Capsule Corp.

"Yeah, don't worry Bulma, I managed to regain control." Said Gohan. He could hear her sigh of relief come from her. "That's good." He spoke, "So, Bulma how are my mom and brother doing?" "Don't worry, there fine. Luckily when Krillin came to tell us what happened she was asleep or else she would have freaked." Gohan laughed at that. His mother sure could overreact at the littlest of things.

"Gohan, do you want to come here and stay with us, since your mom won't be out of the hospital for another two days?" In the background you could hear Vegeta yell, "Oh no! The brat better not come here! If I see him, I'll kill him for destroying our house!" Bulma just rolled her eyes.

"Don't listen to him Gohan. So, what do you say?" He Spoke, "No, it's okay. I'd rather stay here." "Are you sure you'll be fine on your own?" Asked Bulma. "Yeah, don't worry." "Well okay, but I'm still gonna come and check on you." "Hehehe. If you say so." Said Gohan. With that they said there goodbyes and hung up.

"I guess I might as well continue studying." Said Gohan as he went to his room.

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Back at the Satan's home...

Videl still couldn't believe what her phone had recorded. It was just pure luck that she got that video.

She smiled. ~ This is perfect! I can use this to blackmail him. Hehehe... ~

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Gohan had been studying, when all of a sudden he got a bad feeling about something and it wasn't because of the creature or his saiyan side, but he just shrugged it off and continued on studying.

A/N: Yes! I finally finished this chapter! It was fun to write. Stupid school, making me to busy with all their work :/ And you know I have a life, I like to do other things in my free time. And enough about my lame excuses for not updating sooner, please remember to review!

P.S. before I forget I don't have school on Thursday and with the weekend I should have enough time to update in a couple of days! So count on that! I'll do my absolute best not let you guys down on that :D Again, please review! Thnx!