Welcome to the next chapter of this story. As always I am trying to make this as decent as possible for you readers but I am sure just as always there will be people that dislike it. But they can just stop reading this if they feel like it while the rest of you put up with me and my grammatical errors.
Chapter 10
+early morning+
"So, are you ready to try explaining to Videl again?" Lime asks Gohan sitting in the dinning hall eating breakfast. Gohan then stops eating his piles of food for a moment to just look at her.
"I will try but I doubt I she will let me explain just as she did last time. But what I don't understand is why neither of you two explained it to her when you easily had the chance last night." Gohan told them then went back to eating.
"Heh you aren't gonna get out of this predicament that easy here Gohan. We were nice enough to give you every guys dream so you have to do the work to keep things going smoothly." Bri tells him with a smirk.
"Ok that is bull and you know it. Yes I am very grateful that I don't have to pick which of you two I would have to give up but this situation was out of my control. Even if this is a monarchy there are SOME rules we have to follow to keep the old bastards in the council off our backs." Gohan explains with a small glare.
"But yet you do like her." Lime states making Gohan cough on his food.
"I like her as a friend yes. But that is because I appreciate her actually training to be a proper fighter unlike most of the world."
"And yet you allow her to try and bully information out even though you can easily prevent it. You aren't that dumb to just 'let things slip' or mess up that much without being flustered."
"I-I have no idea what you are talking about." Gohan denied with a blush.
"Oh don't worry Gohan we are just teasing you. It is practically natural to in some way like those that match all of your preferences. We know that if you weren't forced you would never act on those desires and become a cheater even though we already gave you a this weird relationship….but in all honesty like I am sure you are already aware Videl will probably take this situation the best if the main person explains rather than only the 'side characters'" Bri explains.
*sigh* "You are right I need to do this myself…let's hope she let's me at least." Gohan tells them with a sigh then sadly finishes his meal. Thankfully they then enjoyed a lot lighter topics of conversation as they enjoyed the time before the rest of the class finally woke up.
(AN: this is what I assume goes on with real life. People will find interest in people that match their preferences. I feel that is almost human nature. BUT what counts as cheating is acting on those interests when in a serious relationship either physically or mentally. Honestly wish that people wouldn't cheat at all but this is far from a 'perfect' world)
+ A while later+
The groups conversations finished up as everyone else started coming into the cafeteria. First it was the rest of the younger members of the Z force who simply the conversation. But finally the rest of the class came forcing them to be mindful of what they now said. Instead they all decided to have a 'light' breakfast with the saiyans having already satisfied their real hunger.
"Hey guys you sure woke up early huh?" Erasa asks with her normal energy.
"Heh ya we just wanted some time of peace ya know? We have been stuck with the rest of this class for far longer than I normally wish to." Bri states making her friends chuckle.
"Ya I get ya. Its getting a bit stuffy with all of these guys even though these places have been very generous with our allotted space." Destiny agrees looking around at all of the teens doing their normal antics.
"So…what happened to Videl? I can't imagine that you somehow woke up before her and didn't at least check on her." Lime asks Erasa who shrugs.
"That gal actually did sleep in for once so when I went to say good morning, she just finished getting her clothes on. She'll probably be here to eat in just a minute. And as if on cue a tired looking Videl walked into the room and sat down next to them after grabbing a simple meal.
"Wow you don't usually look this tired Videl are you feeling ok?" Luke asks as she starts to stuff down her food.
"I'm ok Luke. Just couldn't get things out of my head last night is all. Don't worry I can still kick anyone's ass I need to." Videl tells him with a small smirk.
"If you say so." Luke mutters not looking completely sure.
"Heh, don't worry man my girl is still the best no matter how tired she is." Sharpner states with a cocky grin. A grin that was quickly removed after a glare from Videl.
"I'm still not your girl you idiot. Not to mention this is probably the one time you want me to lose if you truly want me to every even think about being 'your girl'." Videl tells him annoyed.
"Huh what od you mean?" Sharpner asks confused.
*sigh* "Great I really didn't want to explain this to them even though it should have been obvious seeing as I am dad's ONLY child" Videl thought but still decided to just get it over with.
"If I win then our 'kingdom' gets the 'honor' of marrying the prince of this kingdom." Videl tells them even though it should be obvious already. Granted Luke did seem to finally piece things together just now while the rest of them seemed to just look at her with pitying looks…except Sharpner.
"Yea that is the deal that the Ox king told us about but why does that have anything to do with you kicking ass?" He asks making her sigh again as the rest of the group face palms.
"…you do realize I am an ONLY child right?"
"Yea.."
"So who the hell do you expect to be the bride if not me when I win you dumbass?" Videl growls out making him finally understand.
"W-what but no you can't! I just thought that some random girl your dad picked would be the bride. You can't get married. You are my girl." He states only to have his foot stomped on making him hop in pain.
"It sucks but dad is forcing me to do this but it makes it even more true that I am NOT your girl." Videl growls out and quickly finished her food. "Now if you excuse me, I have a tournament to get ready for." Videl tells the group before walking away.
"Well I guess I might have just lost my chance of telling her at least this morning now." Gohan mentally told Lime and Bri who simply nodded at him. After a while they filed in to watch the morning fights of the tournament where even more people were filling the stands. For today their learning time was made to be for a few hours in the afternoon after the fights were finished. Or at least most of them were finished seeing as you never knew how long the matches would last.
= Viewing stands=
"Ah I can't believe that my girl got stollen from me" Sharpner mutters depressed. "How dare some unknown prince do that to me."
"Dude first you weren't even dating and second, she didn't even like you that way. You have been trying to get with her for years now get over it already it was never gonna be a thing." Luke tells him rather coldly. Just as always, he never fully approved of Sharpner's constant tries but seeing as the man never did anything too drastic, he kept it in mostly. Course it also helps knowing that Videl was more than capable of taking care of herself. Hell, she was better at protecting herself than he could ever be trying to be her bodyguard. So, up until this point he just gave and only took jabs at Shaprner's pride seeing as Videl seemed happy enough just to use him as a punching bag rather than put an end to it.
"It still isn't fair….there better be a princess that can fall in love with me at least." Sharpner mutters with his normal friends shaking their heads at his antics. Meanwhile Gohan looked over to his sister with a teasing smirk.
"No chance in hell. I'd rather have to deal with having your lack of style than with marrying him." Mel tells Gohan mentally making him chuckle a bit. Course that smile quickly disappeared as he sensed something coming towards the castle fast that he'd rather not have to deal with.
"Oh great why are brats coming here already?" Gohan mentally asks the ki powered group.
"Guess they got too excited and ditched mom and Chichi to come faster." Miara mentally says with a small shrug.
"Just great I didn't want to have to deal with keeping them out of trouble until at least after I have to show myself as the prince." Gohan complained.
"Oh it won't be that bad so suck it up. I'll take care of keeping them occupied if you really want to watch this boring stuff and I am sure our mothers will have a conversation with them when they make it here as well." Mel tells him simply.
"Heh I almost feel sorry for the brats. They know how much our moms hate it when we just leave them in the dust without at least getting approval." Miara says with a chuckle.
"Hey you guys ok? It almost looks like you are having your own conversation but none of you are saying anything." Destiny asks noticing the mental conversation.
"Don't worry Destiny we just are close enough to have small chats like that. We are all rather close friends." Lime tells her.
"Huh I guess that does make a bit of sense." Destiny states before rejoining the conversation the others were having.
"Ok guess we have to keep these mental talks as short as we can. Now please just make sure they don't reveal more than they should…and the less chaos they cause the better." Gohan told them before focusing on what was around him more.
"Hehe ya don't worry we will deal with the demons while you pointlessly watch these matches." Mel tells him and smirks as he rolls his eyes at her.
"Sorry for not keeping you guys in the loop." Mel then told the rest of the group. Course Sharpner was still out of it so didn't even care and Luke just shrugged it off.
"Don't worry but I AM going to try and make it so that you are that close with us as well." Erasa tells her.
"Heh how would you manage that when you can't stop talking for more than twenty minutes." Luke mutters getting chuckles while Erasa glares at him.
"How dare you. I don't talk THAT much" Erasa states with a pout. "Right girls?" she then asks and watches as they all refuse to look in her direction. "Bah who needs all you traitors." Erasa grumbles.
"Oh don't be so mad gal we love you even if you do talk a lot." Destiny tells her giving her a one arm hug.
"No you guys are being mean." Erasa grumbles shaking off the arm. Course all of them could see that she was clearly not all that mad.
"Well anyway I am going to go stretch my legs for a bit how about I go get a treat to make it up to you." Mel told her standing up and beginning to walk away.
"Oh I'll join you" Bri tells her and quickly catches up to her friend.
"It better be a good suprsie to make up for being so mean." Erasa calls after them much to the amusement of the rest of the group. Especially seeing as she went right back to happily chatting soon after her 'anger'.
_Mel and Bri_
After leaving the group both girls walked as quickly as they could without attracting attention to the kitchen to pick up a handful of snacks then went to the top of the castle and waited. Only a few minutes later four energetic small kids arrived happily landing on the roof.
"Finally we made it here to see the fighting." Goten cheered happily
*sigh* "Like I told you before Goten they won't be actual fun fights. It is just a bunch of boring weaklings pretending they know how to fight." Trunks states but got a forehead flick from Bri. "Ow"
"Be nice to them. Even if they aren't like us they still are doing their best with what they know about. You should only belittle those that know about the truth but yet choose to ignore it." Bri tells him.
"…sis you really are basically saying only to hate only Mr. Satan" Bra mutters.
"Hehe that is totally like Bri" Georgia states with a laugh.
"…well ignoring that bad teaching for the moment. All of you know that you can't be causing trouble here and exposing us to the normal people, right?" Mel asks getting nods from the small group. "Good now just make sure you continue to do so or else we will have to punish you in the best way possible. Oh, and remember that my class is here so you can not be seen by them OR explain to them that we are the royal family." Mel explains to the kids
"Aww, but messing with a bunch of teens would be so much fun" Trunks states disappointed only to freeze when he saw his older sister glare at him.
"Indeed, it would. BUT if you ruin the 'normal' lives we have right now by getting caught then I would personally have to show you why you should fear me so much more than dad." Bri states making the kids pale. For Vegeta would always give them long and tough training as punishment so something worse than working them to the brink of breaking was something truly scary. Course Mel giggling in the back ground kind of ruined the threat a small bit.
"Anyways brats you better behave until our moms get here. If you do I promise I'll try and cool off their anger at you guys for leaving them at least a little bit ok." Mel tells the kids who nods.
"Thank you big sis!" the all call out then take the treats that she handed to them and left to watch the fights at least for a bit.
*tsk* "You are always too soft on the small brats. If you spoil them, they will never learn how to be proper people instead of little balls of chaos." Bri grumbles.
"And you need to learn to keep your Vegeta thoughts out of your head." Mel states calmly making them stare at each other for a few seconds. They both then broke out in a fit of laughter and smiled at each other.
"Anyway go take your treats back to Erasa and the gang to smooth over miss chatterbox. I think I am gonna wander around some more." Bri states with Melisa doing just that. "Now I just hope both our mothers are calm enough to at least not make the whole castle hear their yelling" Bri mutters looking off in the direction she could feel Chichi and Bulma coming from.
=Melisa and friends=
"Hey guys I'm back." Mel states carrying some more snacks that she passed to the group but passed an iced coffee straight to Erasa who happily took a sip.
"Ah just as I like it…you are forgiven." Erasa says happily.
"Like she needs any more energy. Gah!" Sharpner mutters then cries out as she stamped on his foot.
"Should've expected that Sharpner. Now did I miss anything cool?" Mel asks sitting down.
"Nothing too much. The matches have been going but no one has really stood out from the crowd. Though as you can see Videl's fighting right now." Luke states. Upon looking herself Mel saw Videl pushing back another female fighter while the spectators around them cheered wildly.
"Must have been a pretty good fight for the people to be this amped up." Mel states simply.
"Ya I mean I don't know much about technique and stuff but it was very cool to see another girl giving Videl a tough time. We really don't get to see that all that often. Most of the time it's just sweaty dudes." Destiny says happily.
"…while slightly offended I have to agree with Destiny. It's great to see another top-class female fighter in person. Plus, I am betting Videl loves it to seeing as I don't think there are many female fighters really in the school or in the Satan gym." Sharpner adds.
"Probably because they constantly got flirted with at the gym." Erasa grumbles with the other two girls remembering a couple times when they went to the gym looking for Videl. Not that all of the gym members bothered any girl they saw. But even the few bad eggs in the group were enough to make a girl feel uncomfortable at times. So, sadly most female members end up leaving trying to find the mythical gym where no guys would swoon over them.
(AN: as a male I can only imagine the annoyance but seeing as I have seen the idiots in the gym before doing it I can easily imagine how girls would not wanna use the place unless they really had to. Just a sad case where a few bad people can ruin people's image of things…just as all other places/jobs/things. But to keep it with the story the amount of female opponents Videl has is severely lacking so each one is refreshing to her…and with her abnormal strength a 'normal' girl isn't much of a match for her)
"I mean at least some of the guys know better than to excessively bother another member trying to better themselves. And I know Videl and the few other girls that stayed have made sure to teach several that didn't. So, hopefully they will be able to retain more female fighters now…and those idiots know for sure to not mess with you guys." Luke states laughing at the memory. It's not often you see a bunch of buff overly confident dudes taken down by a small group of girls.
"Heh that was quite fun." Mel admits.
~Arena ground~
"An the winner is Videl!" the announcer calls out after her opponent finally accepted defeat.
"Phew that was a good match." Videl states happily holding out a hand to her opponent who looked at it for a few moments before finally accepting the handshake.
"Yea it was…wish I could have won it for my home but I won't complain about a fair match." The woman states.
"…yea I wish you could have to.." Videl muttered under her breath but still was overheard.
"Huh you didn't want to win this thing? Then why even fight?" She asked.
"Well it was either me or my dad." Videl states with a shrug clearly not too enthused. Something that confused the woman next to her but eventually the woman shook it off and threw an arm around Videl.
"Listen I don't know what is going on with you and the world champ but you gotta be your own person no matter what. I sure as hell don't know what is going on in your family and ain't asking. But if you need it I am sure that I could get the king to give you a place to start over away from his control…course we'd have to make it a bit less obvious so we don't have to deal with his powers still." The woman offered honestly. She could understand that there was some sort of problem going on but didn't want to push further into it and instead just gave support; and a way out finally.
*sigh* "Thanks so much I appreciate it. But a Satan never backs down. I will get things to work out one way or another." Videl states trying to give a confident smile.
"..whatever you want gal. Just know that the offer is there. With your skills there are options out there." The woman tells Videl giving her one last pat on the shoulder before walking out of the arena.
"I am getting closer to the end of this. Just a few more rounds left for me to plan with." Videl thins looking towards the castle that was standing over the arena.
~= Bad guy's dojo main office=~
"You asked to see me boss?" a man asks walking into his office. Something that their real boss rarely used but just kept for formality's sake.
"Yes Frazer come on in." the leader says happily sitting at his desk. So, Frazer does just this and closes the door behind himself. He then sat down in a chair in front of the desk.
(AN: this is they guy who cared about money more than anything from the last bad guy update. Totally didn't last minute decide to give this character a bit more importance than initially felt like)
"So, how is our business doing?" the leader asks with a small smile.
"Oh so you are just here for your normal update then." Frazer mutters a bit surprised seeing as usually he went to the boss' actual regular hang out.
"Yes, well I did have some plans I want to work on and would rather not have to worry about 'borrowing' more money in the middle of it rather than just waiting to start it." The boss tells him simply.
"Whatever you are the boss." Frazer states rather uncaring now that he knew something big wasn't happening. "As always here is the amounts of money that is currently available for you to use without us having to earn money some way. And just as always, I have split up the amount into the amounts of clean legal money and dirty money. As for the dojo we are still working at max capacity with no new members at a proper level to recruit to the gang. But for money there really isn't room for either the gang or me to launder anymore money through with plain clothes cops already trying to snoop around us. If you need more legal money, I can suggest different ideas to go about it though." Frazer explains writing down three numbers onto a sheet of paper. For it wouldn't make sense to leave information that they are talking about anywhere easily available.
"Heh as always, I am so glad you have decided to work with us. Even though I make sure that all of my minions have a basic education I don't think I would be able to move nearly as freely without you…well without having to deal with more nuisances." The boss says looking at the number. "This should be more than enough money seeing as I don't need it to be legal." He adds then burns the paper up in a ki ball.
"Thans as always boss. And you don't have to worry about me leaving. This is the easiest way for me to launder my self-gained funds even though I have to pay a bit more. I mean can you really say that a guy like me wouldn't seem suspicious creating a nail saloon?" Frazer asks making his boss chuckle.
"Well I guess I have to count myself lucky that you look like a tough guy. Anyways expect to be pretty busy for a little bit as we need to gather more funds after I use up a decent amount. I need you to keep those idiots streamlined like always."
*sigh* "Fine but you know how much I hate the overtime hours. Oh and you should know that you might want to be a bit careful." Frazer states getting a frown.
"And why is that."
"Well quite a few of the goon level members are wanting to deal with the Ox kingdoms tournament going on. And while in the big picture its not a big deal if we lose some of the lower levels it will paint energy users more as beatable tricksters. Seeing as the ox king never has confirmed that they too train their people to use their ki to at least strengthen themselves. This will lead to less people being as willing to join your 'revolution'" Frazer states simply.
"Ugh you are probably right…those fools would proudly state they are energy users even if they are hardly worth being called that and be destroyed. But why the emphasis on the revolution? I do truly want to prove that ki is more than just a 'fancy trick'" the boss asks curiously.
"Heh I have been with you for a while now and feel like I know a decent amount about you. While you may want to show ki is real it is far from your big goal. But if you let the others, you have properly trained know they probably would revolt away from an 'evil' goal. At least a couple of them that I have gotten to know.
"Heh, I can never get one over your head huh?" the boss states clearly amused.
"Nope I have lasted this long in the criminal world by using my brain and don't plan on stopping anytime soon. But I don't care what you do as long as I can get my money and have it be easily useable; I just don't want my good thing to crumble because of a revolt." Frazer explains.
"…I'll keep that in mind" the boss states and Frazer takes that as his que to leave the room.
"Hah I wish that he cared about strength as much as he did money. He would have been the perfect leader to give my empire to. But at least I know I have a loyal minion to help me fulfill my goals." The leader tells himself with a happy smile upon his face.
Thank you as always for ready my story. Now I will admit due to it being so long since I worked on it that I probably will forget some things even though I do now have some notes but I am trying my best. Also as always I am trying to make my writing a bit better which is not as easy to see. Afterall I get stuck back in my old ways far too often. It makes writing at times almost as annoying as dealing with my co-workers is at times.
Honestly a though I have just now after all this time is I should have made the kids names a play on chichis name like it is go- for the males but honestly it's not worth the effort seeing as I am pretty sure the pun was that they were named after rice or something but cant be asked to check to see how true that is.
Oh, and by the way please no one take offense to anything I write. I don't mean to be picking on any specific group in particular. I'd like to believe that for the most part I am neutral on all parts. If you think anything I write is offensive/uncaring then sorry it's not trying to be.