Chapter 12: Tania's Connection To Eternal

After the kiss Gohan gave me, he blushed and looked the other way. I just sat there feeling like I was in shock. I touched my lips and blushed.

Did he just kiss me?

My heart was pounding, almost as if it was about to explode. My blush reddened as I kept getting spaced out with thoughts of Gohan.

"Gohan?"

He looked at me still blushing. "What?"

"Can you um.." I begin to say, but then shyed away from the question. He continued to stare at me and then smirked.

"Can I what?" He asks, tightning the grip he had on my hand.

"Can you...kiss me again?" I finally pleaded, looking down at the sheet laying on my lap. My blush deepened as he nodded and forced me to look him in the eyes.

He reddened but then leaned in closer while I did the same closing my eyes. After two seconds, our lips finally met. He held onto my waist while I wrapped my arms around his neck, deepening the kiss. I wanted this moment to last forever. Gohan, I wanna be with you..

"Hope we're not interrupting on your romantic moment, but the others are here." I hear Bulma's voice say.

I pushed away from Gohan and pretended as though nothing happened.

"It's not what you think. I was just giving him some medicine!" I lied, hoping that I wasn't acting suspicious.

"Through his mouth?" Kid Trunks asks he and Goten began to laugh a little. Gohan and I blushed once again as we watched them dying of laughter That kid is too clever!

"Well yeah, he was too injured to drink it, so I had to give him it through his mouth. Of course, little kids such as yourself wouldn't understand this method doctors do for their patients." I lie once again, just hoping i'll push their buttons.

Goten stopped laughing and made Trunks do the same.

"I guess that makes sense, if you put it that way. I don't know, what do you think Trunks?" Goten asked his best friend as he put his arms behind his head, cocking his head with a confused expression.

Trunks walked around observing me while Krillin, Piccolo, Yamcha, older Trunks and Tien came into the room.

"If you ask me, I think she was trying to get something from him, if you know what I mean." Chibi Trunks answered.

My anger exploded and I clenched my fists then gritted my teeth.

"I WASN'T TRYING TO DO THAT TO HIM!" I growled, getting what he meant.

Yamcha appeared in front of me, hands out in a stopping motion.

"Tania, don't you think you're going a little to far, I mean he's just a toddler." Yamcha tried to stop me, but to no avail. That kid is no toddler! How does a four-year-old know about these sort of things?!

Pure rage filled my body as I gave Yamcha a glare that would forever haunt him.

"Get out of the way Yamcha.."

I watched as he gulped and moved aside. I then proceeded to approach the young boy with a frightening look on my face. Trunks stepped a little back before I heard Gohan's voice.

"Tania, stop. Let him go.." He says politely.

I stopped dead in my tracks and turned back to him with a big smile.

"Okay!" I say happily causing everyone to fall over (anime style lol)

They picked themselves off from the floor and smiled.

"Well atleast she's back to herself." Tien says folding his arms and sitting down onto a chair.

"Yeah.." Krillin replies rubbing the back of his head as he struggled to stand up.

"Why are you guys here?" Gohan asked after everyone recovered from that situation.

"What do you mean? We were worry about you guys of course!" Krillin answered.

"After Vegeta gave us senzu beans, we felt your ki weakend while Tania's life force was fading very rapidly. We came here as fast as we could to see how you guys were." Piccolo explained, happy to see us both okay.

"Speaking of Vegeta, where did he go?" I ask looking around for him.

"We don't know, after he gave us the beans he took off some place else." Older Trunks responds with a hint of worry in his eyes.

"You don't think that he went after Cell and Eternal, do you?!" Krillin questioned a little concerned.

"I don't know for sure, but there's a chance that he did." Piccolo answered.

I looked at them all confused. Who the heck is this Eternal person?

"Tania?"

"What is it Gohan?"

"Take Goten home." He said with a serious look on his face instead of his usual happy-go-lucky expression.

"But why?" Goten whined. I kneeled down and smiled at the kid.

"Just listen to what your brother wants, i'll ask Bulma if Trunks can come with us too, okay?"

"Okay, Sister." He says with a smile. I smiled back but then look back at him with questioning eyes.

"Sister?" I ask.

"Yeah. Aren't you and Gohan going to get married soon?!"

"NO!" I yell embarrassed. "Lets just get going now. Bulma may I take Trunks with me?"

"Sure." The blue haired woman agreed. I looked over at Puar and Oolong which made me have an idea.

"Yamcha, may I please take Puar with me too?" I ask with puppy dog eyes. He hesitated, but then gave in. "Sure, Puar can go if she wants."

I looked at Puar with puppy dog eyes, which she finally gave in and nodded. I smiled, but I knew if I wanted to do what I wanted in the city I was planning to got to, I was gonna have to drag Oolong along with me too. Once again, I used the puppy dog eyes technique on him too.

"Oolong, please come too?" I asked as politely as I could.

Unlike the others, Oolong resisted and shook his head.

"No way babe, but i'm staying here!" He replied. I thought for a second then whispered in his ear.

"It's pretty windy outside today and i'm planning on going to the city. If you come, you might be able to see the girls skirts being blown." I cleverly whispered. Immediately, Oolong gave in and lead me out of the room in a hurry. Goten, Trunks, and Puar followed us too.

"Have a good time!" Bulma says while waving at me. "I will, bye!"

Gohan's P.O.V

"Okay Gohan, tell us the real reason why you wanted Tania out of the room?" Piccolo asked, knowing what I was up to.

"I wanted to talk about Eternal. I think Tania is somehow connected to her."

"What do you mean?" Tien asked..

"Well, after me and Vegeta injured her, she told us that if she were to die then that would mean that Tania would also die along with her."

"Do you think that she can be a reincarnation?" Bulma asks as she took a seat next to Tien.

"No, the person would have to be dead, in this case Eternal. Her soul or spirit would have to be in Tania's body for Tania to be Eternal's reincarnation." Piccolo stated, leaning onto the wall with his arms folded and legs crossed. We thought for a bit more until Master Roshi finally came up with a good answer.

"She's probably Eternal's counterpart."

"Counterpart?" Krillin questioned Roshi, waiting for him to explain some more.

"Yes, you see, just like Piccolo and Kami, Tania and Eternal is one in the same. The fact is that when Eternal gotten badly injured, it also effected Tania in the same way. Therefore, if Tania were to get hurt, Eternal will also suffer. So if you were to kill Eternal, you would be killing Tania also.."

"Darn it! So that means we can't try to kill her then." Tien growled clenching onto his fist.

"How are we suppose to stop her?" I ask Roshi.

"You can't, unless your willing to take Tania's life too. Is that what you want, Gohan?"

"Of course not!"

"But there has to be something you guys can do.." Bulma trailed off.

"We can't do anything to Eternal, but we can certainly hunt down Cell." Trunks suggested.

"Cell's too strong! He easily defeated me even when I was a super saiyan two!" I stated. Everyone went wide-eyed as soon as I said that.

"Easily.." Yamcha begins to say.

"Defeated you?" Krillin finishes. I nodded and looked at the palms of my hand.

"Yeah, I couldn't even leave a scratch on him!"

"If that's so, then we might not stand a chance against them after all." Piccolo admitted. Everyone looked a bit defeated. If we can't destroy Eternal without Tania getting hurt and leaving a dent in Cell, how do we defeat him then.

"Wait! What if we used the hyperbolic time chamber again?" Trunks asked with a hopeful look in his eyes.

"That might not work, besides, you and Vegeta have already been in the hyperbolic time chamber for 48 hours before. If you go in there again, you'll be stuck in there for eternity." Piccolo reminded him.

"But Gohan has only been in there for a day remember? Him and Goku didn't want to go back inside since Goku thought they had enough training." Trunks explained.

"That's right, i've only been in there for a day. I can use it again, if I wanted to get stronger" I agreed.

"Who will go in there with you then?" Tien asked.

"I'll go. I haven't been in there for more than two days. Also, it might be nice to spar with you again kid." Piccolo insisted with a smirk.

"Thanks Piccolo."

"Hold on, what if Cell and Eternal decides to come after you guys? Where are we hide until the time being?" Bulma questioned us all.

"I guess were gonna have to stay at the lookout in case they do come looking for us." Krillin says as he folded his arms, cocking his head to the side.

"Alright then, we'll use the time chamber!" Piccolo decided.