Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ High School...Dbz Style ❯ A Week At The Spa (Part III) ( Chapter 30 )
[ P - Pre-Teen ]
By: Saiya-jin_Cc 
The end. Surprise ya at all?
Anime/Manga: Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Comedy / Adventure / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 02.26.2003 | Pages: 14 | Words: 9.8K | Visits: 433 | Status: Completed
The end. Surprise ya at all?
Anime/Manga: Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Comedy / Adventure / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 02.26.2003 | Pages: 14 | Words: 9.8K | Visits: 433 | Status: Completed
Disclaimer: You know the deal. I don't own anything but my own fan-created characters.
Okay, well, lets make this short and get to the chapter.
Uhhhh...I dun have anything to say. o_O;
HERE! Enjoy. (READ IMPORTANT NOTICE AT END OF CHAPTER WHEN YOU FINISH)
~*~
*Last time, on the EXCITING chapter of "High School, Dbz Style.."*
A few minutes later they were all ready and were just walking out the door when the phone rang.
"I got it!" Bulma called, being the closest to it anyways. She picked it up, "Hello?"
~Continuing from there..~
"Hello.." A deep voice replied, "This is the resort doctor and I'm trying to reach a Miss Chi-Chi.."
"We were just heading out the door. I'll tell her, what do you need?" Bulma asked.
"It's about her ankle," The doctor explained, "as you probably already know, it's injured. Before the banquet
we need to inspect it...just to see how it's coming along and if she'll need anything when she..goes home."
"Okay, I'll tell her."
"Have her meet me in the lobby."
"Alright, I will."
"Thank you...have a pleasant evening."
Bulma hung up and turned to Chi-Chi. She explained what she was supposed to do.
"Okay...dangit, right before the banquet too.." Chi-Chi sighed, shaking her head. She was still on her crutches.
"Go ahead and go down there, we'll see you at the banquet." Karina said. "We're already late."
"Yeah, I bet the guys just went down without us." Bulma sighed.
They opened the door to find no one waiting. Bulma looked at her watch, "Yeah, it's 7:03 already."
"Dang, we're 20 minutes late." Chi-Chi blinked. They went to the elevator and took it downstairs, splitting up there.
"See you in a few," Chi-Chi called, using her crutches to move towards the lobby.
"Bye," Karina said, and Bulma and her walked to the Dining room.
They opened the door and blinked. "Whoa.." The already elegant dinning room was decorated with shimmering lights,
as well as dangling streamers. Small sparkling bits of confetti fell from seemingly no where, and a large, glittering
chandelier hanging from the center of the glass dome ceiling. The stars sparkled overhead.
"It's so beautiful.." Bulma whispered. Karina nodded dumbfoundedly. They regained their ability of speech and
Karina pointed out the guys, who were seated in their formal attire at a table near the center. They joined them.
"What took you so long?" Vegeta arched a brow.
"Sorry, we lost track of time." Bulma said.
"Hey, where-"
Goku got cut off as a waitress arrived. Her black hair was drawn back into a tight bun with a large red rose in it.
She was carrying a large try with many glasses of champagne on it. She was dressed in the waitress uniform,
a black, short dress.
"May I take your orders?" She asked, smiling, her brown eyes sparkling. She set down the glasses in front of them.
As Goku watched her he recognized something about her. 'What's familiar about her...?' he wondered, but
the thought was dismissed from his mind as he began to give his large order.
He finished and picked up his glass of champagne. He took a sip. Blinking, he looked at it. "Wow, this is great!"
He downed the whole glass. "Can I have another?" He asked the waitress after she had taken everyone's order.
She smiled and picked another glass off of the tray and set it before him, taking his empty one.
"This kind is the most popular." She said, "How about I bring your table a few bottles, since you have such
a large group. It goes fast." She winked.
Bulma took a long drink of hers, "Wow...it is good!"
"Sure, why not?" Vegeta smirked, picking his glass up and sipping it. "It's good."
"Alright.." Her smile broadened as she walked off, "Be back in a second."
~*~
Chi-Chi's heart was pounding hard in her chest. Everything was black, but she knew she was awake.
She tried to yell out but she couldn't. Something was in her mouth. The back of her head throbbed.
'Where am I?' she thought, trying to move. She felt numb, all except for the pain in her head.
She couldn't move either. Her hands and ankles were bound together tightly by something.
The feeling slowly returned to her body, along with a sharp pain shooting up her leg from her ankle.
She tried to shift it into a more comfortable position, but couldn't. The pain became so intense she wanted to cry,
and a muffled sob escaped. She shuffled around, unsure of where she was and bumped into something.
What was that? A wall? Yes, it was solid and as she sat up with difficulty she could tell it continued upward beyond
her reach. She wanted to hit herself against it to make some kind of noise, to get some kind of help,
but her arms and legs weren't mobile enough. Her head was spinning and she fell on her side again.
All she could feel was pain...and fear. That and the constant and quick beating of her heart.
~*~
"Hello Setting Suns Spa Resort Guests!" A man greeted over the microphone that stood near a wall in front
of the only clear space in the entire room. "We will miss you when you go, but we ask that you please enjoy
this evening like none you have before!"
There was applause, then he continued. "Our orchestra is going to play some classical and relaxing music
that you can feel free to dance to. If you would like more food, ask! Tonight is your night to enjoy."
As he replaced the microphone on it's stand, the orchestra, which was to the side of him began warming up,
the warm sounds of humming strings caused by bows filling the room. After a few minutes of doing this
they fell silent and the conductor walked to the mic, leaning forward and speaking into it with his hands
folded neatly behind his back.
"Our first piece was written by myself, Bradford R. Platon, and I ask that you gather onto the dance floor,
for this song is a wonderful tune to dance to."
"Oh, Vegeta!" Bulma smiled, grabbing his arm.
"Wha-?" Before he could even get the first word of his question finished he was yanked from him chair and
led, stumbling, to the dance floor. She up righted him and entwined her fingers in his. He blinked. The music
began, flowing and steady and, Bulma leading, they began to dance.
"Piccolo, do you want to dance to?" Karina smiled.
"Not right now, "He declined softly with a small smile.
Goku was stuffing his face. He was so busy eating, the thought of Chi-Chi missing didn't even cross his mind.
After the first song ended, Bulma and Vegeta returned. The orchestra started playing another song,
but Vegeta didn't allow Bulma do drag him out there again. He claimed he wanted to eat.
So, Vegeta and Goku busied themselves with their even-larger-then-usual meals, and Karina and Bulma chattered
while drinking their champagne. Piccolo sat enjoying the music, although he preferred rock, sipping at his drink.
Goku lifted his head for the first time and belched loudly, causing the people at the tables closest to them look
up from their meals and look at him scoldingly. He grinned at them and waved. Some shook their heads while
others rolled their eyes, and one old woman exclaimed, "Well, I never!" Then gave a loud "hmph!" and picked up
her fork with her white-gloved hand again.
Goku shrugged and picked up his empty glass and refilled it, downing it very fast. He smiled, "Do you guys like
this stuff as much as I do?" He asked.
"It's wonderful," Bulma smiled back.
"A toast to this drink, and this night." Karina announced and giggled some, lifting her half-filled glass into the air.
The others followed suit and lifted theirs, repeating what she had said. The tingle of glass hitting each other sounded
and they all chuckled, taking long gulps from their glasses.
Their waitress had returned, "How are you enjoying yourselves?" She asked with a smile.
Karina smiled back, "We're having a great time, thank you."
"Is there anything I can get for you?" She asked, tilting her head to one side.
"No, we're alright for right now," Piccolo replied.
"Well, I'll be back in a little while to check up on you again."
"Alright, thank you." Bulma said.
"No problem at all," She said as she retreated toward the kitchen doors.
"She's very nice," Karina commented, smiling at Bulma.
"I know! She's the friendliest waitress we've had yet."
Goku watched as she disappeared into the kitchen. He turned back to his food and picked up his fork.
The orchastra was starting another song.
"Oh, Piccolo, please?" Karina smiled beggingly at him.
He couldn't turn down that smile, "Ahhh...'Aight." He smirked and stood, extending his arm to her. She took it
and they walked through the tables to the clearing in the dining hall, which was the dance floor. Quite a few
couples were already on it, dancing to the provided music.
It was a slow, romantic song, so Karina clasped her hands gently behind Piccolo's neck, her body close to
his. He gulped slightly and wrapped his arms around her waist. She was smiling softly up at him, her eyes
staring into his affectionately.
"You know.." She said after a little while, "I'm going to miss it here. I had such a great time."
"I did too," Piccolo agreed, "But it will be nice to get back to school too."
"Yeah, I feel home sick. But one thing I'm not looking forward to is all the work.."
"Who is?" Piccolo snorted.
"Not me." She smiled.
"Well," He grinned some, lowering his head and pressing his forehead against hers gently, their gazes
locked together, "That makes two of us."
They both laughed some and he lifted his head. She moved closer to him and rested her head against his chest
as they moved slowly to the melody of the song. He tucked his chin on her head lightly, closing his eyes.
"Kakarot! Give me that!!" Vegeta growled back at the table.
Goku held the bottle of champaign tauntingly out of the slightly smaller saiyan's reach, "Make me, Shorty."
That was the wrong thing to say all right. Vegeta growled and jumped into the air, kicking Goku hard in the
stomach, while at the same time he grabbed the bottle and flipped backwards, landing on his feet as
Goku flew backwards from the kick.
Goku crashed into an elderly couples table, landing on his back
and crushing some of their food. Everyone around them gasped, spare the old people.
"Honey?" The elderly woman asked, looking up to her husband.
"Yes, dear?" He replied.
"Did you hear something?"
"No, did you?"
"I wasn't sure."
They continued eating.
"Honey?" The old woman raised her head again.
"Yes, dear?"
"Did we order a young man?"
"I don't think so...why?"
"Because there's one on our table."
"Would you look at that!" He exclaimed, "There is a young man on our table!!"
"VEGETA!!" Bulma yelled, standing up.
"Well!" Vegeta half whined, "HE WAS HOGGING THE CHAMPAGNE!!"
"He would have shared if you would have asked!"
"But...HE CALLED ME SHORT!"
Goku slid off the table and sunk into a sitting position. His eyes were closed. Suddenly, he snorted with laughter.
"Hogging the champaign....short..." He repeated, continuing to chuckle.
Piccolo and Karina returned and sat down. Karina blinked, "What's going on?"
"Kids these days," The old woman sighed, shaking her head.
"Don't worry dear, we're going home tomorrow morning."
"I know honey, but still, they are always being so violent and quarrelsome."
He nodded solemnly, "I know, I know. Back in 1940, our elders wouldn't even dream of standing for this."
"It must be the generation."
"Can't see any other explanation."
Goku began laughing harder. Vegeta looked at him, then began to smile and snicker.
"I don't see what's so funny!" Bulma exclaimed, crossing her arms. But she was suppressing a smile.
Piccolo looked at Vegeta, who looked back, and they both cracked up. Karina covered her hand with her
mouth to suppress her giggles.
"Stop it right now." Bulma said, trying to regain her seriousness.
They didn't stop at all, just kept on laughing. Bulma and Karina looked at each other then after a moment broke
out in a smile and began laughing as well.
~*~
"Good," she thought, watching the five younger spa guests from a dark corner, "It worked."
She slipped into a doorway and went down a few hallways, turning this way and that. She then took the stairs
up three flights and unlocked a door. She went inside and pulled on black pants and gloves, as well as a black
turtle neck sweater. She also put on knee high black leather hiking boots. On her way out she grabbed a small box,
as well as a metal bar and coil of rope. She slipped the bar and rope into a bag with a smirk and hauled it over her
shoulder, sliding the box in her pocket.
She left the room, re-locking the door, and took the stairs down four flights. She walked through hallway after hallway,
turning right, left, right, and left again. It seemed like she was walking aimlessly around, but she stopped and
finally opened a door. The corridor before her was floored with cement, and the musty brick on
either side of her was almost black. She quickly rushed down the hallway, her high heels
clicking noisily on the bare cement.
~*~
'What..what is that noise..?' Chi-Chi thought, trying to sit up. She heard a hollow, continuous clicking noise.
She heard a door open as the noise stopped and she froze. She tried to ask, "Who's there?" But again
her voice was muffled. She gasped as she felt herself be pulled forcefully to her feet. She almost fell
because of the pain in her ankle, but her holder slammed her front first into a wall.
"You are going to stay quiet, and go exactly were you are led." A voice told her.
Her head was spinning so badly she couldn't determine if it was female or male. She wanted to ask why
they were doing this to her, what she did wrong, how they could be so cruel. But her gagged mouth forbid
her from getting anything out them muffled babble.
She felt her ankles suddenly part as the bounds on them seemed to disappear.
"Now walk!" The voice was commanding and low, as if afraid someone else might hear.
Chi-Chi did as she was told, feeling the freezing cold hands of her captor on her arms, pushing her forward
some. Chi-Chi tried to calm herself, she tried to stop asking herself questions that feared her. But her mind couldn't
suppress the questions, "Where are they taking me? Who are they? What are they doing?"
She felt so dizzy, the pain in her head thunderous, her ankle feeling weak beneath her.
"Stop." She did, gladly, trying to rest as much weight on her good leg without falling over from her dizziness.
She heard a door swing open and felt the sharp, cool feel of wind whipping against her body. The cold
hands pushed her forward and she stepped forward, almost falling from the increase of how low the ground was.
As she was pressed forward farther she felt dewy grass blades whip against her feet and ankles, her shoes in
only high heeled sandals.
She took a deep breath. 'I need to clear my head and figure out what's going on...' Chi-Chi thought.
Shaking her head, she tried to put her thoughts in order.
Obviously she was outside, she could tell by the wind and grass. Over her eyes was some kind of
tight, black cloth. She chewed some on what was gagging her. She felt like spitting, it tasted horrible.
Probably a sock. Her hands were bound by rope, telling by the rough scratchy feeling on her wrists.
'Now..where in the world is this person taking me?' She thought, coming to a loss. 'They wouldn't
be kidnapping me, would they?'
Chi-Chi had no idea where she was headed. She did know, however, it wasn't good. Not good at all.
~*~
Goku and the others had finally stopped laughing, and were now seated again. Goku and Vegeta had ordered
more food, and were stuffing their faces again as the others talked.
The waitress had left at least eight bottles of the champagne, they weren't sure. They had already gone through
five of them.
"That waitress was so nice..." Bulma said, smiling wide as she refilled her glass.
"Yeah, leaving us all this. And so friendly too." Karina agreed, refilling her glass after Bulma.
"What was her name?" Bulma blinked, looking up in thought.
"Umm...I'm not sure, it was on her name tag though.."
"Verna!"
"Yeah! That's it!"
Bulma hiccuped. Karina giggled.
Piccolo was watching Vegeta and Goku in disgust. "How can you eat so...so..."
"Happily?" Goku asked, looking up.
"Quickly?" Vegeta looked up too.
"Sloppily?" Goku suggested.
Piccolo opened his mouth but didn't get a chance to get a word out.
"Messily?" Vegeta added.
"Un-neatly?" Goku said.
"Uncleanly?"
"Stupidly?"
"Fatly?"
"Uglyly?"
They stopped talking and looked at each other in silence.
Piccolo finally broke it, "Uglyly...?"
All three burst out in laughter.
"Uglyly! AHAHA!" Goku said, then hiccuped.
"That's not even a word!" Piccolo laughed.
"Kakarot, you are such a moron," Vegeta snickered. He was swaying slightly in his chair.
"Yeah I know, haha...wait a sec-hey!" Goku growled.
Piccolo and Vegeta continued laughing as Goku pouted.
"Vegeta, Vegeta, Vegeta!" Suddenly Bulma was there, hopping around behind Vegeta's chair. She hiccuped.
"What do you want, woman?" He asked blinkingly, trying to turn one way to look at her but as soon as she did
she hopped to the opposite side he was turned. "Dangit, Bulma! Stay still!"
"Dance with me!" She grinned, grabbing his arm.
"But I-" He was pulled from his chair and dragged to the dance floor before he could finish.
"Oo, Oo, Piccolo! Dance with me, Dance with me!" Karina was suddenly at Piccolo's side.
"Ugh..Fine.." Piccolo sighed, then hiccuped and grinned. She pulled him from his chair and they walked,
unsteadily, to the dance floor.
Goku blinked then shook his head. "Hmm.." He realized he was acting weird, and so were the others.
They found everything funny, when it wasn't really funny at all. Just...stupid. He looked around.
Suddenly, he realized something else. He looked around.
"Chi-Chi...?"
~*~
"Okay, stop here." Chi-Chi could tell now it was a female. Boy, did she sound pissed.
She was shoved forward another foot and then pulled down roughly, causing her to sit.
"Sit there and don't move, because I promise you, you will regret it if you do." She was commanded
harshly and Chi-Chi wondered who this woman was and why she was so enraged.
"Do you have any clue what is going to happen to you?" The woman spat.
Chi-Chi would answer but the gag didn't give her an opportunity to. Suddenly she felt the
gag leave her mouth and she took in a deep breath. "Answer me!" The other woman growled.
"I...I don't know." Chi-Chi mustered to say. She felt frightened.
"Do you want to know?" The woman's voice turned almost happy.
Instead of speaking Chi-Chi nodded, since she couldn't find it in her to speak anyways.
Chi-Chi waited for an answer, but felt the bounds on her hands be tightened and she winced.
The rope was cutting into her wrists.
"Please..." Chi-Chi said, "Please, take my blind fold off.."
There was a long pause. "I suppose it wouldn't hurt for you to see me.." The voice had an evil joy to it.
As the woman fiddled with the tie of the blindfold she said with the same cruel happiness,
"It's not like you will get a chance to tell anyone.." Chi-Chi felt her stomach churn.
~*~
"WOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo-HooooooooOOOOOOOOO OOooooo!"
Bulma and Karina were laughing histerically as Piccolo jumped onto the table and gave out the loud cry.
The two women leaned against each other to keep from falling out of their chairs, tears of laughter rolling
down their cheeks.
"Piccolo!!" Goku said, standing from his seat and trying to pull Piccolo down off of the table as everyone
around stared. The orchestra, at least, seemed oblivious, and at the time their were luckily no waiters or
waitresses around.
Piccolo resist the attempts and laughed like a mad man, putting his foot on Goku's forehead and shoving the
saiyan to the floor. Goku got up, rubbing his head and Vegeta leaned back in his chair and Piccolo stomped
all over his food.
Vegeta started cursing profanities angrily at the namekian, who took no notice what so ever as he faced the
girls. He started dancing as if he were at a rock club and smashed some glasses into pieces beneath his feet.
Bulma and Karina, totally incapacitated, like Piccolo, cheered for him, giggling like two crazy school girls.
(Well...they are school girls, but HECK! Whatever!! O_o)
Piccolo pulled off his tuxedo jacket and let it drop over Vegeta's head, making the saiyan all the more angry.
"PICCOLO, IF YOU DON'T STOP THIS RIGHT NOW-" Vegeta pulled the jacket off of his head and ripped it
right in half.
Piccolo finally turned to him and hiccuped, "Can't you see I'm busy here?"
Vegeta growled and jumped up at him, about to tackle him from the table onto the ground, but the green
one was too fast and side stepped, almost falling off the table. Vegeta zoomed up fast, and before he
could stop himself he hit the beautiful chandelier. He became entangled in the thing, and hung their,
dizzy. He shook his head and tried fiercely to get free, but his efforts were fruitless and he finally gave up,
muttering angrily under his breath and glaring down at Piccolo.
Piccolo was now facing the girls again, and all three were acting ass if they were at some crazy party
in a bar. Piccolo unbuttoned his white long sleeved shirt and pulled it off, exposing his black muscle
shirt. He pulled off that too, and swung it in circles above his head, crying out something that sounded
like an Indian battle cry. Bulma and Karina were going crazy.
This was making Vegeta even madder and he got the fight back in him, struggling around in the chandelier
to get free. He finally gave up again and watched what went on down below with an angry, defeated pout.
Goku wondered what the heck was happening. It suddenly dawned on him: Something was in that
champagne that wasn't supposed to be there. Maybe it was a drug, or maybe a really strong alcohol.
He grabbed the final bottle of champagne and smashed it. At least now it couldn't cause any further
damage.
But why had it been spiked? Who had, better yet. It had to have been the waitress. Goku felt furious
that he couldn't put his finger on what about her that sparked his memory. 'She is someone familiar,
I just don't know who!' He thought, watching as Karina jumped on the table with Piccolo, Bulma cheering.
As Karina followed Piccolo's example she ripped off the first layer of her skirt and began to dance wildly
with him, totally trampling anything on the table. They abruptly stopped as an old woman used her walker
to approach them.
"Go ahead, sonny, dance!" She said, grinning widely. She held up a bill, waving it enthusiastically.
Piccolo continued dancing, encouraged now in his drunken state, and Karina laughed, falling off the
table but landing miraculously in her chair again. Bulma laughed and fell on her and they both toppled
to the floor. There was a pause, then they burst out laughing again.
The old woman took a chair as well and reached up to Piccolo and put the bill in the waistband of his pants!
Vegeta started howling with laughter from his tangled perch in the chandelier. Goku shook his head,
this was getting out of control. He was surprised that everyone was still just sitting there and watching,
and not going to any resort officials to calm the place. He sighed.
'And where in the world is Chi-Chi?' He thought.
~*~
As the blindfold dropped from her face, Chi-Chi slowly opened her eyes to look upon her capturer.
She blinked, slightly confused. The woman was dressed entirely in black. Her hair spilled onto her
shoulders, but it too matched the black. The woman was smirking evilly, her eyebrows furrowed.
But something was familiar about her. Chi-Chi had definitely seen her before, but where?
"Are you satisfied?" The woman asked.
"Who..who are you?" Chi-Chi stammered.
The woman seemed very please with her fright, "You don't remember me, Chi-Chi? I'm hurt."
Her voice dripped with sarcasm.
"You seem really familiar but.." Chi-Chi was trying hard to keep her voice even.
Chi-Chi blinked as the woman ran one leather gloved hand over the wet grass, saying with a smile,
"Here..let me help refresh your memory.."
'What the freak is she doing? Rubbing the grass??' Chi-Chi wondered, but silenced her thoughts, watching the
woman before her.
Her capturer turned her head so Chi-Chi could see her profile, and she watched her rub her wet gloved
hand over her hair with pressure. She did this a few more times and Chi-Chi's eyes widened as the spot
of her air she was rubbing turned from black to a vibrant pink color. Chi-Chi felt anger rise in her
as the woman ran her hand over the grass to dampen it once more, and smoothed at her eyebrows,
rubbing the black from them to reveal the matching pink.
"Remember me now, wench?"
"You!! You're, you're Savilia! That once woman from the facialist activity!"
"Me. Yes. It is me." Savilia smirked, seeming very pleased with herself.
"I remember you...you hit on Goku, and I also remember kicking your sorry-"
"Silence!" Savilia interrupted, clearly angry again, "You are in NO position to be insulting me!"
Chi-Chi fell silent, realizing with anger that this was true. She watched helplessly as Savilia wrenched her legs
over to her and bound them with more rope from a bag, but only used some of it, cutting the rest free with a knife.
"Do you wish to know what will happen to you..and why?" Savilia asked, looking straight at her. Savilia rubbed at her
eyes for a moment, then Chi-Chi watched as she took out two contact lenses. She looked to her again, her blue eyes
blazing with intensity.
Chi-Chi stopped herself from spitting out an angered, sarcastic comment like, "No, I want you to just leave me in suspense,"
but merely nodded.
"Take a look around.." Savilia's voice was low, and Chi-Chi had to strain to hear it some, but she did look
around. She almost jumped as she saw behind her, only yards away, was the edge of a high cliff.
She could the sound of waves crashing into rocks below. She swallowed hard and looked around more.
They seemed to be in a completely empty, grassy plain. Far in the distance she could see lights though.
they were faint, and down the large uphill rise they sat atop of. She could imagine that the cliff dropped off
sharply, the ocean below it.
Savilia continued in the same low voice, "There is no one around that will be able to find us...and if
they did happen to figure out where you were, they would never reach this spot in time to save you."
With growing dread, Chi-Chi realized Savilia was going to slowly reveal what was to be her future,
as well as her own.
"You see, as soon as I laid eyes upon him, I felt myself fall. And hard. He was so perfect, with an innocence
about him. I thought that he would like me, he would surely want to be kind to me..." She spat out suddenly,
the rage in her voice sending a chill up Chi-Chi's spine, "Unlike everyone else! No one truely loves me.
No one. Sure, there has been men. But they wanted me for my body, and the feeling was mutual. After
we fullfilled our pleasures we would move on, and the pay was good."
Chi-Chi realized Savilia was a whore. It wasn't really surprising, but she was startled that she admitted it.
"But still, I long for more. Money and sex doesn't fill the gap in my heart." Chi-Chi thought Savilia was going to
start sobbing. "I thought that he would be different from everyone, I thought he would care for me. But he is not
even interested in me! He doesn't even look at my body, much less my heart!"
Chi-Chi knew whenever Savilia said "him" of "he" she was referring to Goku. Chi-Chi almost felt sorry for
her. She was pathetic. Chi-Chi couldn't begin to imagine what her background held. She could bet money
though that in included a lot of family problems, drinking, depression, and drugs.
Savilia's sad cries contorted into anger as she pointed her finger accusingly in Chi-Chi's face, "BUT THAT WILL
CHANGE!! Because it's your fault that he doesn't love me! If you weren't here, then he would fall into my arms!
If YOU weren't bound to him then he would love ME!!"
Chi-Chi wanted to bite her finger, but thought better of it. Besides, this woman was obviously short a few marbles
and would get even more insanely angry. But Chi-Chi's distaste turned into fright as she processed Savilia's
words. Her next thought was now obvious, even to herself who had been only wondering for the last hour.
'She's going to kill me.'
~*~
Goku's worry was even preventing him from laughing at the sight before him. Piccolo was now only in his boxers,
dancing wildly, as many women sat crowded around the table, all waving large amounts of money above
their heads, cheering. Bulma and Karina had gotten up from the ground finally, and sat in the inner part of the circle,
cheering as well.
Vegeta watched from his higher position. He wished he had a camera. This was a Kodak moment in his book.
To make the scene even funnier, Piccolo's black boxers sported large yellow smiley faces, all whom were
sticking their red tongues out. He was comforted to see that Bulma seemed to be just amused, and wasn't holding
out money or anything. 'Maybe it's just because she doesn't have any on her?' He thought, blinking. 'Nahh..'
he dismissed the thought from his mind. He knew darn well that it was a plausible reason, but he was in denial.
Goku paced in circles. Obviously, whatever had been added to the champagne didn't effect saiyans as much.
Either that, or the effects wore off easily. He wondered for a brief moment if the alcohol that used to be on
his home planet would have been much stronger then the alcohol on Earth. He shook the question from his head.
He scolded himself mentally. How could he even ponder such a stupid thing at a time like this!?
His instincs were telling him that Chi-Chi was in danger. His heart was hurting as he felt so helpless. He had to do
something. Maybe, just maybe, he could sense her ki. Goku closed his eyes and blocked out all the sound,
including the cheers of women and breaking glass, and concentrated as hard on possible for what he felt
when he was near Chi-Chi. He knew that all humans had ki's though most were so weak he could barely even feel them.
He could, however, feel Chi-Chi's when she was close. But he couldn't feel anything right now. Nothing.
Questions plagued his mind: Was she far from here? Was she right under his nose, but he was just so
worried he couldn't sense it? No. She had to be pretty far.
Meanwhile, as Goku was lost in thought and frustration, not to mention worry, Vegeta was smirking down
at the Namekian. Piccolo was now swinging his pants wildly over his head, just like he had done
with his shirt. Karina scrambled onto the table and hugged him tightly, almost making them fall over.
Piccolo laughed and lifted her chin, kissing her. They wrapped their arms around each other and all
fell silent.
Suddenly Bulma started cheering again, and all the women followed.
A man who was watching from afar turned to his comrade. "I hate being single."
His comrade, who was black, nodded, and replied in a deep voice, "Me too, brotha, me too."
Both sighed at the same time. "Joe?" The white guy asked.
"Yeah, Bill?" The other man replied.
"Think that women like green or something?"
They both looked down a their hands. "Nah, can't be!" Joe replied.
"I don't know.." Joe said hesitantly.
"It's just because that fool is muscular and stripping!" Joe assured.
"Really think so?"
"I know so." Joe said wisely, "If we were to jump up on a table and start rippin' our clothes off,
the women would come running."
"..." Bill looked down at his beer belly. "Are you sure?" He looked back to Joe, perking an eyebrow.
Joe was tall and pretty well fit. "Er...well...they would flock to me anyways."
Joe laughed as Bill socked him in the arm. "Jus' playin', fool, jus' playin'!" He chuckled, rubbing his arm.
"I'm sure many chicks would love to be with ya."
"Yeah," Bill pouted, "Maybe all the old ones."
Joe howled with laughter.
There were some surprised yells and the cheering stopped as everyone gasped. Karina had backed
Piccolo off of the table and they had hit the ground with a thud. They now laid there, pulled apart,
Karina and Piccolo blinking as she laid on top of him.
Bulma rushed over, pushing through the women. She was forcing back laughter as she asked, "Are you guys Okay?"
They looked up at her. All three burst out laughing. Vegeta's laughter could easily be heard as well.
Goku was oblivious to all of this. All he could think about was Chi-Chi. The feeling of helplessness
was overwhelming, and he hated it. He felt like he wanted to yell out her name, but he held it in.
She couldn't hear him, wherever she was. He felt so feeble he sank to his knees, raising his chin
and looking up at the stars that glittered down at him though the glass of the dome.
"Chi-Chi..." He cried quietly. "Please..just let me know where you are. I love you..Let me help you.."
~*~
Watching Savilia walk to the edge of the cliff, Chi-Chi felt like crying.
'I want to live...' She thought, sobs pulling at her throat, 'I want to grow up...I'm too young to die. I want...I want...'
She looked up at the stars as a name from her lips, her voice choked with emotion, "Goku.."
Savilia felt closer and closer to happiness. Once she killed Chi-Chi, Goku would HAVE to love her.
No one would be in the way to stop her. Without her in the way, Goku would be hers. Joy swelled
in her from the pit of her stomach as she hammered the metal bar into the edge of the cliff so
it hung out over the water.
But before her happy future started, before she killed her, she wanted to enjoy every minute of it.
She had loved the rush she felt when she heard Chi-Chi's fear in her voice, she had enjoyed
the increase of the beating in her heart when she saw it in Chi-Chi's face.
Once she was sure that the bar was secure, she returned to Chi-Chi to find her looking at the stars.
She looked almost calm. 'I'll fix that alright!' Savilia thought with a small growl, digging in the bag
she had brought. She pulled out a coil of rope and walked to Chi-Chi again.
"Hold your arms out, now!" She commanded.
Chi-Chi was startled. She looked up to Savilia. She did numbly what she was told and was dimly aware
of end of the rope being tied around her already bound hands. Chi-Chi looked up to the stars again.
She had felt the most wonderful warmth when she had looked to them just moments ago. She felt so
warm and comforted. Suddenly, a familiar scent had filled her nostrils and she had felt so comforted her
fear had disappeared. She had felt as if Goku was right there with her, the of him scent seemed so real.
And the warmth. It's as if his strong arms had wrapped around her.
As Savilia led her, pulling at the end of the rope that wasn't tied to her wrists, to the edge of the cliff
she felt something that made her feel comforted.
She felt hope.
~*~
'What..?' Goku thought. After he had looked to the stars and muttered that simple sentence, he had felt something.
It was warm. It was hope. Comfort filled him, and as if a string pulled at his heart from that direction, he looked to the East.
"Chi-Chi.." He said aloud.
She was there. To the east. He didn't know how he knew, but he just did. The beating of his heart increased speed
dramatically. He raced over to the table where Bulma sat. To Goku's surprise and somewhat disgust, Piccolo and Karina
were on the floor, kissing passionately. He looked down at them and made a face. "God dang, guys, get a room."
They ignored him completely. He didn't care anymore. He grabbed Bulma by the shoulders and looked straight into
her eyes, "Bulma, you have to tell me if you saw where Chi-Chi went."
"Chi-Chi..?" Bulma hiccuped, looking confused.
"Yes! Chi-Chi! Where is she!?" He shook her some.
"Ohh..Chi-Chi! Well..the phone..." She paused as if in thought.
"The phone? What about it?"
"Well...it...the phone...rang." Bulma grinned dumbly.
"Someone called? Who!? When!?"
"Uhh...some guy. A doctor. It was..before now. Before we got here."
"A doctor?"
"Yeah, he said....he wanted to look at Chi-Chi's ankle."
Goku's heart was racing. He thought it was going to explode. "And?"
"So...me and...*hic* Karina...and *hic* Chi-Chi.." Bulma was swaying badly, and only Goku's hands prevented
her from falling over, "We went downstairs and...Chi-Chi...she...she went to go see the doctor."
"Thanks, that's all I needed to know." And with that, Goku ran out of the room.
Without Goku's hands to support her, Bulma fell out of her chair with a thud and hiccuped.
~*~
Even though Chi-Chi felt like there was still a chance of survival, she couldn't keep the fearful feeling
out of her stomach as she looked into Savilia's insane eyes. They were blazing with anticipation and
cruelty.
"If you haven't figured out your fate by now, you really are idiotic.." Savilia laughed. She tied the other
end of the rope to the metal bar that extended out over the ocean.
Chi-Chi swallowed. She didn't want to show her fear. She knew it would please this whore, and she wasn't
going to give her the privilege. "You're going to try to kill me." She said, carfefully keeping her voice steady.
"Wrong. I'm not going to try to kill you," She grinned evilly, "I am going to kill you, no doubt."
Chi-Chi was shocked as suddenly Savilia ran at her. She would have side stepped, but she was having trouble
just standing with her ankles bound again. Savilia shoved her over the edge of the cliff, and Chi-Chi couldn't
help but scream.
She closed her eyes tightly, her stomach feeling like it was lifting to her chest as she fell. But suddenly, the
slack of the rope disappeared and the rope cracked loudly as it tightened. She swung and hit the cliff
wall, wincing some. She swayed some, hanging in the air by her wrists, about 200 feet above the crashing
water below.
Chi-Chi swallowed. At least she wasn't dead, yet. But what was Savilia playing at? Was she doing this to just be cruel,
to watch her and make the fear build up until she killed her? She looked up and her question was confirmed to be a
fact. Savilia was lying on her stomach, facing her and looking down with an evil smile at Chi-Chi. Savilia's arm was extended
toward the rope, and in the hand was a knife. The silver blade glistened in the light of the moon.
The wind was blowing hard a Chi-Chi, and she was freezing. She realized she was still in her dress. The skirt
of it blew wildly, whipping around her legs. She watched as Savilia gave an evil chuckle and slid the sharp
end of the blade across the rope gently, cutting some of the strands of the rope. Chi-Chi felt the rope
starting to give way with the small nick, and could see the threads of the rope stretching apart at the cut.
She knew in moments the rope would snap in two, and then there would be nothing to hold her away
from the freezing, wild ocean below.
~*~
As Goku ran through the hallways, he pulled his jacket off and and threw it behind him, as well as his bow tie.
A doctor, huh? Goku knew that was a loud of bull. All of the pieces of the puzzle were falling together now.
That waitress. She wasn't really a waitress at all. She was someone else, someone he had seen before.
But who?
He reached the front door of the resort and pulled it open. He looked around. East, east, he had to go east.
Which way was again east? 'Duh,' he told himself, quickly jumping over the steps he ran as fast as his legs would
take him eastward. He was running into what looked to be nothing but a grassy field, but he noticed that the ground
was slowly rising. He must be going up a huge hill, but he couldn't see anyone before him.
He wanted to fly, but for some reason he couldn't control his ki to go underneath him to permit him to do so.
He cursed out loud. It must have been whatever was in that champagne. But surely, that waitress didn't know
he could fly, did she?
~*~
"You know, I really am a genius." Savilia smirked. "I made sure that your friends, couldn't get in the way."
"What did you do to them!?" Chi-Chi asked, feeling her rage overcome her fear. She wanted to go up
there and kick that woman right off the cliff, but she was aware of the fact that it was impossible to do
so, since she was the one hanging helplessly by her bound arms to a rope that would soon break.
"Don't worry, they'll be fine. I just put a little something special in their drinks. They are mainly drunk,
but soon they will pass out too."
"What did you put in them?" Chi-Chi asked. She was relieved that she hadn't hurt them.
"Well, a very strong drug called Razcoline." Savilia seemed to be willing to tell anything, as if it reflected
on her intelligence. "It makes you very energetic at first, causing you to do things you would never do
regularly, and it makes you find almost everything hilarious. But it ends up causing you to pass out,
and when you awake you don't remember anything that you did while drugged."
"I choose it because I happened to see your green friend flying one night!" Savilia exclaimed, clearly
amazed by it. "So, I decided I had to get rid of that possibility. That they could fly here. I figured that he
somehow uses his energy to be able to do it. But Razcoline, it messed up your system so much,
they would never be able to control it enough to fly like that."
Chi-Chi had to admit, for a stupid ho she was pretty clever.
"What did you do to Goku!?" she asked.
"Same thing." Savilia replied, "And let me tell you what I'm going to do after you are out of the picture.
I'm going to run back to the spa. I'm a wonderful actor. How does this story sound?"
Savilia started crying, to Chi-Chi's surprise. But suddenly Chi-Chi realized, as Savilia began
talking with her voice dripping emotion and sympathy, it was an act, just as she said.
"Goku, Goku! It was so horrible!" Savilia cried, sobbing, "I was on my way out of the resort to
go do some shopping, but I suddenly saw your girlfriend run past out of the lobby! I wondered why
she was running. She was crying. I ran after her, yelling for her to stop. She ran all the way out
to the cliff, Alas Peak!" Savilia really started dishing it out now, "I told her to stop and tell me what was wrong,
and when she reached the cliff edge she spun around to me. She told me that she hated her life,
and that she knew you didn't really care for her. She said she was going to end it. Before I could
ask what she meant she jumped over the edge!"
~*~
Goku growled as he ran as fast as possible eastward, the grass whipping at his feet. He suddenly
slid to a stop, spotting something in the grass. The grass was so wet he slid a little to much and fall on his butt.
Grumbling he got up and kneeled, picking up the thing he had spotted. It was a red rose.
A red rose. Where had he seen that before? An image of the waitress suddenly flashed into his mind.
Her hair had been up in a large bun, and on top of it a big red rose.
Everything was almost clear to him now. The waitress had imitated the spa doctor to get Chi-Chi
to come downstairs, away from him and the others. Now the waitress was putting Chi-Chi in
danger. He growled and crushed the flower in his hand, beginning to run again.
He suddenly knew who the waitress was. She wasn't a waitress, but that crazy facialist! What was her name?
He strained to remember. Something that started with a "S." Sarah? Nah. Samatha? No..It was something
odd, kind of weird to pronounce. Silla? No! Savilia! That was it!!
He would give anything to fly right then. His legs were hurting and he felt fatigued, and he was breathing hard.
But he wouldn't let the pain in his legs or lungs stop him. He had to get to Chi-Chi, and save her from
whatever this Savilia was doing to her.
~*~
Vegeta finally was free of that cursed chandelier. He had gently untangled himself and found in shock
he couldn't fly and fell like a rock as soon as he let go of the chandelier. He hit a table and it
snapped in two from the force of the fall. He rubbed his head and groaned, sitting up.
He blinked, looking to his right to see Bulma unconscious on the floor. A few feet away from her
lay Piccolo, only in his boxers, and Karina on top of him. They were knocked out too.
Everyone else in the room seemed not to care, and were eating again. The orcestra was stil playing.
He crawled to Bulma and pulled her to him, resting her cheek against his chest with his arms around her.
He looked about.
"Where is Kakarot?" He suddenly remembered looking down at Bulma to see Goku holding her by the
shoulders. He hadn't gotten mad though, because Goku had looked as if he was asking her something
really important, not flirting or anything. Vegeta recollected his confusion as he had wondered what
he was doing.
He stood up, lifting Bulma in his arms. He wondered why he couldn't fly, and why he felt totally exhausted.
He thought he might drop Bulma, so he set her gently in a chair, her head limply hanging down. He realized
that Kakarot's woman wasn't there either. She hadn't been there all night. Had Goku and her gone somewhere
private? No...Chi-Chi had been gone all night, and Goku had ran out of the room as if he was worried.
He walked to Piccolo and Karina and pushed Karina in the side with his foot lightly. She rolled easily off of
Piccolo. He then kicked Piccolo in the side. He didn't move. Vegeta kneeled and opened one of
the namekian's eyes. 'Out cold,' he thought.
"Maybe it was that champagne.." he thought aloud. He wondered if he could fly yet, and jumped in the air
to try. But he couldn't control his ki and hit the ground face first. Mumbling obscenities, he stood up, rubbing his nose.
There must have been something in that champagne that had made the other's really drunk, and had knocked them
out. He had drunken just as much though. He wondered why he wasn't out cold too. He did feel really tired,
but not enough to pass out.
Maybe it didn't effect saiyans as harshly. If that was true, Goku was still up and about. He decided to try
and find his ki. He closed his eyes, but it took him a long time to finally sense it. It was pretty far away and
a weak signal too. Towards the east.
"What in the world are you doing all the way out there, Kakarot?" Vegeta wondered out loud, as he stood
in the middle of the destroyed table, ruined food everywhere near it, as well as broken glass. Also, there were
unconscious people all about him. He could imagine that this was the only blemish in the whole room's
perfect condition.
~*~
"Goku will NEVER believe that!" Chi-Chi yelled ferociously. "He really cares for me, and he knows I do!!"
"Think whatever you want, tramp, but as soon as you're out of the picture I'm heading back there with this
story, and he will wake up from his unconsciousness, thanks to the Razcoline, to find himself in my caring
arms. And once I spill that little story, he'll feel so broken. And I will be there to comfort his pain, and I will
put him back together! AND THEN HE WILL LOVE ME!!"
Savilia broke out into hysterical laughter.
"HE'LL NEVER LOVE YOU!" Chi-Chi yelled. The rope was about to snap, she was hanging on by a thread,
literally.
"We'll see about that! Have a nice swim, and I'll see you in hell!!" Savilia screamed back. She really had lost it.
Above, thunder struck, and a second later rain fell hard. Lightning crossed the sky, followed by a loud crack,
and Savilia's pink hair was soon visible, the black temporary dye washed out of it.
~*~
Goku finally saw someone. They were lying on their stomach, on the cliffs edge. A second later rain
fell hard. He cursed it, almost slipping more then once in his dressy shoes that weren't made for
running at all. He saw a flash of pink a second later and realized it was Savilia. He felt growing
anger, and it seemed to increase his speed.
"WHERE IS CHI-CHI!?" He yelled as soon as he was close to her. She spun around. She looked so
surprised and shocked in one, he thought she would wet herself.
"GOKU!!!"
"Chi-Chi!?" Goku gasped, hearing her yell. Savilia stood up and he shoved her behind him, looking over the cliff to
see Chi-Chi, hanging by her wrists. "Chi-Chi!"
"Goku, help! The rope!!" Chi-Chi cried. Goku looked to see the rope was only held together by a string.
Right then it snapped in two.
Goku screamed her name, jumping on his stomach and reaching desperately for the rope. But it slide through
his fingers. "NO!" He yelled in anger, leaning forward, trying to snatch it. He grabbed it.
"Goku!" Chi-Chi cried.
"Chi-Chi! It's Okay!" He said, trying to pull himself onto the cliff more.
"NO!!!" A yell from behind him sounded and a second later Savilia jumped forward, right onto him .
'She really is crazy!' Chi-Chi thought, watching in horror as Savilia hung downward, stretching her arm
out toward the binds on Chi-Chi's wrist. Savilia was literally holding onto his neck with her legs. They
were locked around it as she sat on his back, leaning forward over his head, giving her the ability to reach farther.
In her extended arm, to Chi-Chi's horror, was the knife.
Goku struggled to get Savilia off of him without letting go of the rope. But he couldn't. He continued
wiggling around like crazy, making Savilia unsteady and unable to cut the binds on Chi-Chi's wrists.
"YOU WILL DIE!" Savilia shrieked after five minutes of this, and fianlly thrust herself forward enough
to reach the binds with her knife, slicing them. She also cut one of Chi-Chi's wrists, in the process.
Chi-Chi screamed as she began to fall toward the water. Goku yelled her name, and suddenly,
the weight on his shoulders, Savilia, was lifted.
Half a second later Goku felt himself shoved forward, and though he himself was going to fall off the cliff,
but he felt strong hands grasping his ankles.
"KAKAROT, GRAB HER!" It was Vegeta.
Goku already had reached out to Chi-Chi before he had even yelled it, and Chi-Chi was reached up as far as her arms
could stretch. He grabbed her wrist, and he his, making it lock. He felt himself jerked down some by her weight,
but held onto her with both hands.
"Chi-Chi, don't let go, no matter what!"
"I'll never let go, Goku, never!" Chi-Chi was crying.
Vegeta was holding them both up, his arms hanging over the edge, Goku's ankles in his hands.
He grunted with effort, feeling like he was going to pass out. He was so tired and holding them up took all
of his strength. What he would give to be able to fly. He wouldn't give up though. He yelled as he slowly
shifted his lower body forward, sitting up on his knees first, raising his upper body bit by bit, pulling them up some
as well. She finally sat back on his butt. He almost slid forward on the soaked grass, but slammed his heels
into the earth, stopping them. He kicked at the ground, making himself scoot back and pull them up, slowly, but
surely.
After a few minutes of this Vegeta finally managed to pull them both up. With a final yank, Vegeta fell back
and Goku and Chi-Chi sat up, embracing each other. Chi-Chi sobbed into Goku's chest and Goku looked
to Vegeta. "Vegeta, you saved our lives."
"No kidding," Vegeta growled, resisting the urge to say something more strong and profaine. He was panting.
"I'll never forget this!" Goku smiled.
"Vegeta!" Chi-Chi pulled away from Goku, "Thank you so much!!"
Both men blinked as Chi-Chi shuffled over to Vegeta on her knees, wrapped her arms around his neck
and kissed him on the cheek. She then started hugging him tightly, and Vegeta coughed. He sat up with
difficulty, one eye opened, and pointed at Chi-Chi, looking at Goku. He coughed again.
"Uhh, Chi-Chi, he can't breathe." Goku pointed out, trying not to laugh.
"Oh!" Chi-Chi exclaimed, letting go. Vegeta gasped for breath. "Sorry!" She apologized and tried
to help, but he waved his hands, scooting back, away from her.
Goku pulled Chi-Chi close to him and whispered gently, staring into her eyes. "I thought I was going to lose you."
"I thought I was going to die, but you saved me. You and Vegeta." She started to cry again.
Goku smiled, admiring her beautiful face as tears mingled with the rain. He cupped her cheek in his hand.
Leaning close, he kissed her.
They pulled away to see Vegeta standing and picking up an unconscious Savilia. He tossed the knife that was lying
near her body to Goku. Goku caught it and cut the bounds on Chi-Chi's ankles. He picked Chi-Chi up, to spare
her ankle. They, as well as her wrists, were bleeding from the ropes.
Vegeta hauled the limp Savilia under his arm, and the they began the slow return to the resort.
~*~
Piccolo groaned and woke up slowly, sitting up. He looked around. No one was there. The entire place was cleared out.
He blinked to see Bulma sitting limply in a chair, and Karina lying at his side. He looked over his shoulder.
A janitor was whistling, pushing a broom as he swept up the food near their broken table. The janitor had a large
mustache. He looked up to see Piccolo. "Ahh, you awake, aye?"
"Yeah..what happened?"
"Long story, aye."
Piccolo suddenly realized he was in his boxers. "Why am I in my underwear?"
"Aye." The janitor shrugged, resuming his sweeping.
Piccolo lifted the waistband of his boxers, peeking in. "And why are they stuffed with money?"
~*~
Nice ending, I know. So...sentimental. *Grins.* Hope you liked it, Please reveiw. Oh, i want to point out something.
Remember this part?
"Chi-Chi, don't let go, no matter what!"
"I'll never let go, Goku, never!" Chi-Chi was crying.
Well, I know that sounds like the part in Titanic with Jack and Rose, but I didn't mean for it to turn out like that.
Just a little disclaiming thing there. Even I surprised myself with the twist, where Vegeta ended up saving them.
I was just at a loss how they could pull it off without flying, and how Goku could do it alone in his position.
So, hope you liked it.
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*Last time, on the EXCITING chapter of "High School, Dbz Style.."*
A few minutes later they were all ready and were just walking out the door when the phone rang.
"I got it!" Bulma called, being the closest to it anyways. She picked it up, "Hello?"
~Continuing from there..~
"Hello.." A deep voice replied, "This is the resort doctor and I'm trying to reach a Miss Chi-Chi.."
"We were just heading out the door. I'll tell her, what do you need?" Bulma asked.
"It's about her ankle," The doctor explained, "as you probably already know, it's injured. Before the banquet
we need to inspect it...just to see how it's coming along and if she'll need anything when she..goes home."
"Okay, I'll tell her."
"Have her meet me in the lobby."
"Alright, I will."
"Thank you...have a pleasant evening."
Bulma hung up and turned to Chi-Chi. She explained what she was supposed to do.
"Okay...dangit, right before the banquet too.." Chi-Chi sighed, shaking her head. She was still on her crutches.
"Go ahead and go down there, we'll see you at the banquet." Karina said. "We're already late."
"Yeah, I bet the guys just went down without us." Bulma sighed.
They opened the door to find no one waiting. Bulma looked at her watch, "Yeah, it's 7:03 already."
"Dang, we're 20 minutes late." Chi-Chi blinked. They went to the elevator and took it downstairs, splitting up there.
"See you in a few," Chi-Chi called, using her crutches to move towards the lobby.
"Bye," Karina said, and Bulma and her walked to the Dining room.
They opened the door and blinked. "Whoa.." The already elegant dinning room was decorated with shimmering lights,
as well as dangling streamers. Small sparkling bits of confetti fell from seemingly no where, and a large, glittering
chandelier hanging from the center of the glass dome ceiling. The stars sparkled overhead.
"It's so beautiful.." Bulma whispered. Karina nodded dumbfoundedly. They regained their ability of speech and
Karina pointed out the guys, who were seated in their formal attire at a table near the center. They joined them.
"What took you so long?" Vegeta arched a brow.
"Sorry, we lost track of time." Bulma said.
"Hey, where-"
Goku got cut off as a waitress arrived. Her black hair was drawn back into a tight bun with a large red rose in it.
She was carrying a large try with many glasses of champagne on it. She was dressed in the waitress uniform,
a black, short dress.
"May I take your orders?" She asked, smiling, her brown eyes sparkling. She set down the glasses in front of them.
As Goku watched her he recognized something about her. 'What's familiar about her...?' he wondered, but
the thought was dismissed from his mind as he began to give his large order.
He finished and picked up his glass of champagne. He took a sip. Blinking, he looked at it. "Wow, this is great!"
He downed the whole glass. "Can I have another?" He asked the waitress after she had taken everyone's order.
She smiled and picked another glass off of the tray and set it before him, taking his empty one.
"This kind is the most popular." She said, "How about I bring your table a few bottles, since you have such
a large group. It goes fast." She winked.
Bulma took a long drink of hers, "Wow...it is good!"
"Sure, why not?" Vegeta smirked, picking his glass up and sipping it. "It's good."
"Alright.." Her smile broadened as she walked off, "Be back in a second."
~*~
Chi-Chi's heart was pounding hard in her chest. Everything was black, but she knew she was awake.
She tried to yell out but she couldn't. Something was in her mouth. The back of her head throbbed.
'Where am I?' she thought, trying to move. She felt numb, all except for the pain in her head.
She couldn't move either. Her hands and ankles were bound together tightly by something.
The feeling slowly returned to her body, along with a sharp pain shooting up her leg from her ankle.
She tried to shift it into a more comfortable position, but couldn't. The pain became so intense she wanted to cry,
and a muffled sob escaped. She shuffled around, unsure of where she was and bumped into something.
What was that? A wall? Yes, it was solid and as she sat up with difficulty she could tell it continued upward beyond
her reach. She wanted to hit herself against it to make some kind of noise, to get some kind of help,
but her arms and legs weren't mobile enough. Her head was spinning and she fell on her side again.
All she could feel was pain...and fear. That and the constant and quick beating of her heart.
~*~
"Hello Setting Suns Spa Resort Guests!" A man greeted over the microphone that stood near a wall in front
of the only clear space in the entire room. "We will miss you when you go, but we ask that you please enjoy
this evening like none you have before!"
There was applause, then he continued. "Our orchestra is going to play some classical and relaxing music
that you can feel free to dance to. If you would like more food, ask! Tonight is your night to enjoy."
As he replaced the microphone on it's stand, the orchestra, which was to the side of him began warming up,
the warm sounds of humming strings caused by bows filling the room. After a few minutes of doing this
they fell silent and the conductor walked to the mic, leaning forward and speaking into it with his hands
folded neatly behind his back.
"Our first piece was written by myself, Bradford R. Platon, and I ask that you gather onto the dance floor,
for this song is a wonderful tune to dance to."
"Oh, Vegeta!" Bulma smiled, grabbing his arm.
"Wha-?" Before he could even get the first word of his question finished he was yanked from him chair and
led, stumbling, to the dance floor. She up righted him and entwined her fingers in his. He blinked. The music
began, flowing and steady and, Bulma leading, they began to dance.
"Piccolo, do you want to dance to?" Karina smiled.
"Not right now, "He declined softly with a small smile.
Goku was stuffing his face. He was so busy eating, the thought of Chi-Chi missing didn't even cross his mind.
After the first song ended, Bulma and Vegeta returned. The orchestra started playing another song,
but Vegeta didn't allow Bulma do drag him out there again. He claimed he wanted to eat.
So, Vegeta and Goku busied themselves with their even-larger-then-usual meals, and Karina and Bulma chattered
while drinking their champagne. Piccolo sat enjoying the music, although he preferred rock, sipping at his drink.
Goku lifted his head for the first time and belched loudly, causing the people at the tables closest to them look
up from their meals and look at him scoldingly. He grinned at them and waved. Some shook their heads while
others rolled their eyes, and one old woman exclaimed, "Well, I never!" Then gave a loud "hmph!" and picked up
her fork with her white-gloved hand again.
Goku shrugged and picked up his empty glass and refilled it, downing it very fast. He smiled, "Do you guys like
this stuff as much as I do?" He asked.
"It's wonderful," Bulma smiled back.
"A toast to this drink, and this night." Karina announced and giggled some, lifting her half-filled glass into the air.
The others followed suit and lifted theirs, repeating what she had said. The tingle of glass hitting each other sounded
and they all chuckled, taking long gulps from their glasses.
Their waitress had returned, "How are you enjoying yourselves?" She asked with a smile.
Karina smiled back, "We're having a great time, thank you."
"Is there anything I can get for you?" She asked, tilting her head to one side.
"No, we're alright for right now," Piccolo replied.
"Well, I'll be back in a little while to check up on you again."
"Alright, thank you." Bulma said.
"No problem at all," She said as she retreated toward the kitchen doors.
"She's very nice," Karina commented, smiling at Bulma.
"I know! She's the friendliest waitress we've had yet."
Goku watched as she disappeared into the kitchen. He turned back to his food and picked up his fork.
The orchastra was starting another song.
"Oh, Piccolo, please?" Karina smiled beggingly at him.
He couldn't turn down that smile, "Ahhh...'Aight." He smirked and stood, extending his arm to her. She took it
and they walked through the tables to the clearing in the dining hall, which was the dance floor. Quite a few
couples were already on it, dancing to the provided music.
It was a slow, romantic song, so Karina clasped her hands gently behind Piccolo's neck, her body close to
his. He gulped slightly and wrapped his arms around her waist. She was smiling softly up at him, her eyes
staring into his affectionately.
"You know.." She said after a little while, "I'm going to miss it here. I had such a great time."
"I did too," Piccolo agreed, "But it will be nice to get back to school too."
"Yeah, I feel home sick. But one thing I'm not looking forward to is all the work.."
"Who is?" Piccolo snorted.
"Not me." She smiled.
"Well," He grinned some, lowering his head and pressing his forehead against hers gently, their gazes
locked together, "That makes two of us."
They both laughed some and he lifted his head. She moved closer to him and rested her head against his chest
as they moved slowly to the melody of the song. He tucked his chin on her head lightly, closing his eyes.
"Kakarot! Give me that!!" Vegeta growled back at the table.
Goku held the bottle of champaign tauntingly out of the slightly smaller saiyan's reach, "Make me, Shorty."
That was the wrong thing to say all right. Vegeta growled and jumped into the air, kicking Goku hard in the
stomach, while at the same time he grabbed the bottle and flipped backwards, landing on his feet as
Goku flew backwards from the kick.
Goku crashed into an elderly couples table, landing on his back
and crushing some of their food. Everyone around them gasped, spare the old people.
"Honey?" The elderly woman asked, looking up to her husband.
"Yes, dear?" He replied.
"Did you hear something?"
"No, did you?"
"I wasn't sure."
They continued eating.
"Honey?" The old woman raised her head again.
"Yes, dear?"
"Did we order a young man?"
"I don't think so...why?"
"Because there's one on our table."
"Would you look at that!" He exclaimed, "There is a young man on our table!!"
"VEGETA!!" Bulma yelled, standing up.
"Well!" Vegeta half whined, "HE WAS HOGGING THE CHAMPAGNE!!"
"He would have shared if you would have asked!"
"But...HE CALLED ME SHORT!"
Goku slid off the table and sunk into a sitting position. His eyes were closed. Suddenly, he snorted with laughter.
"Hogging the champaign....short..." He repeated, continuing to chuckle.
Piccolo and Karina returned and sat down. Karina blinked, "What's going on?"
"Kids these days," The old woman sighed, shaking her head.
"Don't worry dear, we're going home tomorrow morning."
"I know honey, but still, they are always being so violent and quarrelsome."
He nodded solemnly, "I know, I know. Back in 1940, our elders wouldn't even dream of standing for this."
"It must be the generation."
"Can't see any other explanation."
Goku began laughing harder. Vegeta looked at him, then began to smile and snicker.
"I don't see what's so funny!" Bulma exclaimed, crossing her arms. But she was suppressing a smile.
Piccolo looked at Vegeta, who looked back, and they both cracked up. Karina covered her hand with her
mouth to suppress her giggles.
"Stop it right now." Bulma said, trying to regain her seriousness.
They didn't stop at all, just kept on laughing. Bulma and Karina looked at each other then after a moment broke
out in a smile and began laughing as well.
~*~
"Good," she thought, watching the five younger spa guests from a dark corner, "It worked."
She slipped into a doorway and went down a few hallways, turning this way and that. She then took the stairs
up three flights and unlocked a door. She went inside and pulled on black pants and gloves, as well as a black
turtle neck sweater. She also put on knee high black leather hiking boots. On her way out she grabbed a small box,
as well as a metal bar and coil of rope. She slipped the bar and rope into a bag with a smirk and hauled it over her
shoulder, sliding the box in her pocket.
She left the room, re-locking the door, and took the stairs down four flights. She walked through hallway after hallway,
turning right, left, right, and left again. It seemed like she was walking aimlessly around, but she stopped and
finally opened a door. The corridor before her was floored with cement, and the musty brick on
either side of her was almost black. She quickly rushed down the hallway, her high heels
clicking noisily on the bare cement.
~*~
'What..what is that noise..?' Chi-Chi thought, trying to sit up. She heard a hollow, continuous clicking noise.
She heard a door open as the noise stopped and she froze. She tried to ask, "Who's there?" But again
her voice was muffled. She gasped as she felt herself be pulled forcefully to her feet. She almost fell
because of the pain in her ankle, but her holder slammed her front first into a wall.
"You are going to stay quiet, and go exactly were you are led." A voice told her.
Her head was spinning so badly she couldn't determine if it was female or male. She wanted to ask why
they were doing this to her, what she did wrong, how they could be so cruel. But her gagged mouth forbid
her from getting anything out them muffled babble.
She felt her ankles suddenly part as the bounds on them seemed to disappear.
"Now walk!" The voice was commanding and low, as if afraid someone else might hear.
Chi-Chi did as she was told, feeling the freezing cold hands of her captor on her arms, pushing her forward
some. Chi-Chi tried to calm herself, she tried to stop asking herself questions that feared her. But her mind couldn't
suppress the questions, "Where are they taking me? Who are they? What are they doing?"
She felt so dizzy, the pain in her head thunderous, her ankle feeling weak beneath her.
"Stop." She did, gladly, trying to rest as much weight on her good leg without falling over from her dizziness.
She heard a door swing open and felt the sharp, cool feel of wind whipping against her body. The cold
hands pushed her forward and she stepped forward, almost falling from the increase of how low the ground was.
As she was pressed forward farther she felt dewy grass blades whip against her feet and ankles, her shoes in
only high heeled sandals.
She took a deep breath. 'I need to clear my head and figure out what's going on...' Chi-Chi thought.
Shaking her head, she tried to put her thoughts in order.
Obviously she was outside, she could tell by the wind and grass. Over her eyes was some kind of
tight, black cloth. She chewed some on what was gagging her. She felt like spitting, it tasted horrible.
Probably a sock. Her hands were bound by rope, telling by the rough scratchy feeling on her wrists.
'Now..where in the world is this person taking me?' She thought, coming to a loss. 'They wouldn't
be kidnapping me, would they?'
Chi-Chi had no idea where she was headed. She did know, however, it wasn't good. Not good at all.
~*~
Goku and the others had finally stopped laughing, and were now seated again. Goku and Vegeta had ordered
more food, and were stuffing their faces again as the others talked.
The waitress had left at least eight bottles of the champagne, they weren't sure. They had already gone through
five of them.
"That waitress was so nice..." Bulma said, smiling wide as she refilled her glass.
"Yeah, leaving us all this. And so friendly too." Karina agreed, refilling her glass after Bulma.
"What was her name?" Bulma blinked, looking up in thought.
"Umm...I'm not sure, it was on her name tag though.."
"Verna!"
"Yeah! That's it!"
Bulma hiccuped. Karina giggled.
Piccolo was watching Vegeta and Goku in disgust. "How can you eat so...so..."
"Happily?" Goku asked, looking up.
"Quickly?" Vegeta looked up too.
"Sloppily?" Goku suggested.
Piccolo opened his mouth but didn't get a chance to get a word out.
"Messily?" Vegeta added.
"Un-neatly?" Goku said.
"Uncleanly?"
"Stupidly?"
"Fatly?"
"Uglyly?"
They stopped talking and looked at each other in silence.
Piccolo finally broke it, "Uglyly...?"
All three burst out in laughter.
"Uglyly! AHAHA!" Goku said, then hiccuped.
"That's not even a word!" Piccolo laughed.
"Kakarot, you are such a moron," Vegeta snickered. He was swaying slightly in his chair.
"Yeah I know, haha...wait a sec-hey!" Goku growled.
Piccolo and Vegeta continued laughing as Goku pouted.
"Vegeta, Vegeta, Vegeta!" Suddenly Bulma was there, hopping around behind Vegeta's chair. She hiccuped.
"What do you want, woman?" He asked blinkingly, trying to turn one way to look at her but as soon as she did
she hopped to the opposite side he was turned. "Dangit, Bulma! Stay still!"
"Dance with me!" She grinned, grabbing his arm.
"But I-" He was pulled from his chair and dragged to the dance floor before he could finish.
"Oo, Oo, Piccolo! Dance with me, Dance with me!" Karina was suddenly at Piccolo's side.
"Ugh..Fine.." Piccolo sighed, then hiccuped and grinned. She pulled him from his chair and they walked,
unsteadily, to the dance floor.
Goku blinked then shook his head. "Hmm.." He realized he was acting weird, and so were the others.
They found everything funny, when it wasn't really funny at all. Just...stupid. He looked around.
Suddenly, he realized something else. He looked around.
"Chi-Chi...?"
~*~
"Okay, stop here." Chi-Chi could tell now it was a female. Boy, did she sound pissed.
She was shoved forward another foot and then pulled down roughly, causing her to sit.
"Sit there and don't move, because I promise you, you will regret it if you do." She was commanded
harshly and Chi-Chi wondered who this woman was and why she was so enraged.
"Do you have any clue what is going to happen to you?" The woman spat.
Chi-Chi would answer but the gag didn't give her an opportunity to. Suddenly she felt the
gag leave her mouth and she took in a deep breath. "Answer me!" The other woman growled.
"I...I don't know." Chi-Chi mustered to say. She felt frightened.
"Do you want to know?" The woman's voice turned almost happy.
Instead of speaking Chi-Chi nodded, since she couldn't find it in her to speak anyways.
Chi-Chi waited for an answer, but felt the bounds on her hands be tightened and she winced.
The rope was cutting into her wrists.
"Please..." Chi-Chi said, "Please, take my blind fold off.."
There was a long pause. "I suppose it wouldn't hurt for you to see me.." The voice had an evil joy to it.
As the woman fiddled with the tie of the blindfold she said with the same cruel happiness,
"It's not like you will get a chance to tell anyone.." Chi-Chi felt her stomach churn.
~*~
"WOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo-HooooooooOOOOOOOOO OOooooo!"
Bulma and Karina were laughing histerically as Piccolo jumped onto the table and gave out the loud cry.
The two women leaned against each other to keep from falling out of their chairs, tears of laughter rolling
down their cheeks.
"Piccolo!!" Goku said, standing from his seat and trying to pull Piccolo down off of the table as everyone
around stared. The orchestra, at least, seemed oblivious, and at the time their were luckily no waiters or
waitresses around.
Piccolo resist the attempts and laughed like a mad man, putting his foot on Goku's forehead and shoving the
saiyan to the floor. Goku got up, rubbing his head and Vegeta leaned back in his chair and Piccolo stomped
all over his food.
Vegeta started cursing profanities angrily at the namekian, who took no notice what so ever as he faced the
girls. He started dancing as if he were at a rock club and smashed some glasses into pieces beneath his feet.
Bulma and Karina, totally incapacitated, like Piccolo, cheered for him, giggling like two crazy school girls.
(Well...they are school girls, but HECK! Whatever!! O_o)
Piccolo pulled off his tuxedo jacket and let it drop over Vegeta's head, making the saiyan all the more angry.
"PICCOLO, IF YOU DON'T STOP THIS RIGHT NOW-" Vegeta pulled the jacket off of his head and ripped it
right in half.
Piccolo finally turned to him and hiccuped, "Can't you see I'm busy here?"
Vegeta growled and jumped up at him, about to tackle him from the table onto the ground, but the green
one was too fast and side stepped, almost falling off the table. Vegeta zoomed up fast, and before he
could stop himself he hit the beautiful chandelier. He became entangled in the thing, and hung their,
dizzy. He shook his head and tried fiercely to get free, but his efforts were fruitless and he finally gave up,
muttering angrily under his breath and glaring down at Piccolo.
Piccolo was now facing the girls again, and all three were acting ass if they were at some crazy party
in a bar. Piccolo unbuttoned his white long sleeved shirt and pulled it off, exposing his black muscle
shirt. He pulled off that too, and swung it in circles above his head, crying out something that sounded
like an Indian battle cry. Bulma and Karina were going crazy.
This was making Vegeta even madder and he got the fight back in him, struggling around in the chandelier
to get free. He finally gave up again and watched what went on down below with an angry, defeated pout.
Goku wondered what the heck was happening. It suddenly dawned on him: Something was in that
champagne that wasn't supposed to be there. Maybe it was a drug, or maybe a really strong alcohol.
He grabbed the final bottle of champagne and smashed it. At least now it couldn't cause any further
damage.
But why had it been spiked? Who had, better yet. It had to have been the waitress. Goku felt furious
that he couldn't put his finger on what about her that sparked his memory. 'She is someone familiar,
I just don't know who!' He thought, watching as Karina jumped on the table with Piccolo, Bulma cheering.
As Karina followed Piccolo's example she ripped off the first layer of her skirt and began to dance wildly
with him, totally trampling anything on the table. They abruptly stopped as an old woman used her walker
to approach them.
"Go ahead, sonny, dance!" She said, grinning widely. She held up a bill, waving it enthusiastically.
Piccolo continued dancing, encouraged now in his drunken state, and Karina laughed, falling off the
table but landing miraculously in her chair again. Bulma laughed and fell on her and they both toppled
to the floor. There was a pause, then they burst out laughing again.
The old woman took a chair as well and reached up to Piccolo and put the bill in the waistband of his pants!
Vegeta started howling with laughter from his tangled perch in the chandelier. Goku shook his head,
this was getting out of control. He was surprised that everyone was still just sitting there and watching,
and not going to any resort officials to calm the place. He sighed.
'And where in the world is Chi-Chi?' He thought.
~*~
As the blindfold dropped from her face, Chi-Chi slowly opened her eyes to look upon her capturer.
She blinked, slightly confused. The woman was dressed entirely in black. Her hair spilled onto her
shoulders, but it too matched the black. The woman was smirking evilly, her eyebrows furrowed.
But something was familiar about her. Chi-Chi had definitely seen her before, but where?
"Are you satisfied?" The woman asked.
"Who..who are you?" Chi-Chi stammered.
The woman seemed very please with her fright, "You don't remember me, Chi-Chi? I'm hurt."
Her voice dripped with sarcasm.
"You seem really familiar but.." Chi-Chi was trying hard to keep her voice even.
Chi-Chi blinked as the woman ran one leather gloved hand over the wet grass, saying with a smile,
"Here..let me help refresh your memory.."
'What the freak is she doing? Rubbing the grass??' Chi-Chi wondered, but silenced her thoughts, watching the
woman before her.
Her capturer turned her head so Chi-Chi could see her profile, and she watched her rub her wet gloved
hand over her hair with pressure. She did this a few more times and Chi-Chi's eyes widened as the spot
of her air she was rubbing turned from black to a vibrant pink color. Chi-Chi felt anger rise in her
as the woman ran her hand over the grass to dampen it once more, and smoothed at her eyebrows,
rubbing the black from them to reveal the matching pink.
"Remember me now, wench?"
"You!! You're, you're Savilia! That once woman from the facialist activity!"
"Me. Yes. It is me." Savilia smirked, seeming very pleased with herself.
"I remember you...you hit on Goku, and I also remember kicking your sorry-"
"Silence!" Savilia interrupted, clearly angry again, "You are in NO position to be insulting me!"
Chi-Chi fell silent, realizing with anger that this was true. She watched helplessly as Savilia wrenched her legs
over to her and bound them with more rope from a bag, but only used some of it, cutting the rest free with a knife.
"Do you wish to know what will happen to you..and why?" Savilia asked, looking straight at her. Savilia rubbed at her
eyes for a moment, then Chi-Chi watched as she took out two contact lenses. She looked to her again, her blue eyes
blazing with intensity.
Chi-Chi stopped herself from spitting out an angered, sarcastic comment like, "No, I want you to just leave me in suspense,"
but merely nodded.
"Take a look around.." Savilia's voice was low, and Chi-Chi had to strain to hear it some, but she did look
around. She almost jumped as she saw behind her, only yards away, was the edge of a high cliff.
She could the sound of waves crashing into rocks below. She swallowed hard and looked around more.
They seemed to be in a completely empty, grassy plain. Far in the distance she could see lights though.
they were faint, and down the large uphill rise they sat atop of. She could imagine that the cliff dropped off
sharply, the ocean below it.
Savilia continued in the same low voice, "There is no one around that will be able to find us...and if
they did happen to figure out where you were, they would never reach this spot in time to save you."
With growing dread, Chi-Chi realized Savilia was going to slowly reveal what was to be her future,
as well as her own.
"You see, as soon as I laid eyes upon him, I felt myself fall. And hard. He was so perfect, with an innocence
about him. I thought that he would like me, he would surely want to be kind to me..." She spat out suddenly,
the rage in her voice sending a chill up Chi-Chi's spine, "Unlike everyone else! No one truely loves me.
No one. Sure, there has been men. But they wanted me for my body, and the feeling was mutual. After
we fullfilled our pleasures we would move on, and the pay was good."
Chi-Chi realized Savilia was a whore. It wasn't really surprising, but she was startled that she admitted it.
"But still, I long for more. Money and sex doesn't fill the gap in my heart." Chi-Chi thought Savilia was going to
start sobbing. "I thought that he would be different from everyone, I thought he would care for me. But he is not
even interested in me! He doesn't even look at my body, much less my heart!"
Chi-Chi knew whenever Savilia said "him" of "he" she was referring to Goku. Chi-Chi almost felt sorry for
her. She was pathetic. Chi-Chi couldn't begin to imagine what her background held. She could bet money
though that in included a lot of family problems, drinking, depression, and drugs.
Savilia's sad cries contorted into anger as she pointed her finger accusingly in Chi-Chi's face, "BUT THAT WILL
CHANGE!! Because it's your fault that he doesn't love me! If you weren't here, then he would fall into my arms!
If YOU weren't bound to him then he would love ME!!"
Chi-Chi wanted to bite her finger, but thought better of it. Besides, this woman was obviously short a few marbles
and would get even more insanely angry. But Chi-Chi's distaste turned into fright as she processed Savilia's
words. Her next thought was now obvious, even to herself who had been only wondering for the last hour.
'She's going to kill me.'
~*~
Goku's worry was even preventing him from laughing at the sight before him. Piccolo was now only in his boxers,
dancing wildly, as many women sat crowded around the table, all waving large amounts of money above
their heads, cheering. Bulma and Karina had gotten up from the ground finally, and sat in the inner part of the circle,
cheering as well.
Vegeta watched from his higher position. He wished he had a camera. This was a Kodak moment in his book.
To make the scene even funnier, Piccolo's black boxers sported large yellow smiley faces, all whom were
sticking their red tongues out. He was comforted to see that Bulma seemed to be just amused, and wasn't holding
out money or anything. 'Maybe it's just because she doesn't have any on her?' He thought, blinking. 'Nahh..'
he dismissed the thought from his mind. He knew darn well that it was a plausible reason, but he was in denial.
Goku paced in circles. Obviously, whatever had been added to the champagne didn't effect saiyans as much.
Either that, or the effects wore off easily. He wondered for a brief moment if the alcohol that used to be on
his home planet would have been much stronger then the alcohol on Earth. He shook the question from his head.
He scolded himself mentally. How could he even ponder such a stupid thing at a time like this!?
His instincs were telling him that Chi-Chi was in danger. His heart was hurting as he felt so helpless. He had to do
something. Maybe, just maybe, he could sense her ki. Goku closed his eyes and blocked out all the sound,
including the cheers of women and breaking glass, and concentrated as hard on possible for what he felt
when he was near Chi-Chi. He knew that all humans had ki's though most were so weak he could barely even feel them.
He could, however, feel Chi-Chi's when she was close. But he couldn't feel anything right now. Nothing.
Questions plagued his mind: Was she far from here? Was she right under his nose, but he was just so
worried he couldn't sense it? No. She had to be pretty far.
Meanwhile, as Goku was lost in thought and frustration, not to mention worry, Vegeta was smirking down
at the Namekian. Piccolo was now swinging his pants wildly over his head, just like he had done
with his shirt. Karina scrambled onto the table and hugged him tightly, almost making them fall over.
Piccolo laughed and lifted her chin, kissing her. They wrapped their arms around each other and all
fell silent.
Suddenly Bulma started cheering again, and all the women followed.
A man who was watching from afar turned to his comrade. "I hate being single."
His comrade, who was black, nodded, and replied in a deep voice, "Me too, brotha, me too."
Both sighed at the same time. "Joe?" The white guy asked.
"Yeah, Bill?" The other man replied.
"Think that women like green or something?"
They both looked down a their hands. "Nah, can't be!" Joe replied.
"I don't know.." Joe said hesitantly.
"It's just because that fool is muscular and stripping!" Joe assured.
"Really think so?"
"I know so." Joe said wisely, "If we were to jump up on a table and start rippin' our clothes off,
the women would come running."
"..." Bill looked down at his beer belly. "Are you sure?" He looked back to Joe, perking an eyebrow.
Joe was tall and pretty well fit. "Er...well...they would flock to me anyways."
Joe laughed as Bill socked him in the arm. "Jus' playin', fool, jus' playin'!" He chuckled, rubbing his arm.
"I'm sure many chicks would love to be with ya."
"Yeah," Bill pouted, "Maybe all the old ones."
Joe howled with laughter.
There were some surprised yells and the cheering stopped as everyone gasped. Karina had backed
Piccolo off of the table and they had hit the ground with a thud. They now laid there, pulled apart,
Karina and Piccolo blinking as she laid on top of him.
Bulma rushed over, pushing through the women. She was forcing back laughter as she asked, "Are you guys Okay?"
They looked up at her. All three burst out laughing. Vegeta's laughter could easily be heard as well.
Goku was oblivious to all of this. All he could think about was Chi-Chi. The feeling of helplessness
was overwhelming, and he hated it. He felt like he wanted to yell out her name, but he held it in.
She couldn't hear him, wherever she was. He felt so feeble he sank to his knees, raising his chin
and looking up at the stars that glittered down at him though the glass of the dome.
"Chi-Chi..." He cried quietly. "Please..just let me know where you are. I love you..Let me help you.."
~*~
Watching Savilia walk to the edge of the cliff, Chi-Chi felt like crying.
'I want to live...' She thought, sobs pulling at her throat, 'I want to grow up...I'm too young to die. I want...I want...'
She looked up at the stars as a name from her lips, her voice choked with emotion, "Goku.."
Savilia felt closer and closer to happiness. Once she killed Chi-Chi, Goku would HAVE to love her.
No one would be in the way to stop her. Without her in the way, Goku would be hers. Joy swelled
in her from the pit of her stomach as she hammered the metal bar into the edge of the cliff so
it hung out over the water.
But before her happy future started, before she killed her, she wanted to enjoy every minute of it.
She had loved the rush she felt when she heard Chi-Chi's fear in her voice, she had enjoyed
the increase of the beating in her heart when she saw it in Chi-Chi's face.
Once she was sure that the bar was secure, she returned to Chi-Chi to find her looking at the stars.
She looked almost calm. 'I'll fix that alright!' Savilia thought with a small growl, digging in the bag
she had brought. She pulled out a coil of rope and walked to Chi-Chi again.
"Hold your arms out, now!" She commanded.
Chi-Chi was startled. She looked up to Savilia. She did numbly what she was told and was dimly aware
of end of the rope being tied around her already bound hands. Chi-Chi looked up to the stars again.
She had felt the most wonderful warmth when she had looked to them just moments ago. She felt so
warm and comforted. Suddenly, a familiar scent had filled her nostrils and she had felt so comforted her
fear had disappeared. She had felt as if Goku was right there with her, the of him scent seemed so real.
And the warmth. It's as if his strong arms had wrapped around her.
As Savilia led her, pulling at the end of the rope that wasn't tied to her wrists, to the edge of the cliff
she felt something that made her feel comforted.
She felt hope.
~*~
'What..?' Goku thought. After he had looked to the stars and muttered that simple sentence, he had felt something.
It was warm. It was hope. Comfort filled him, and as if a string pulled at his heart from that direction, he looked to the East.
"Chi-Chi.." He said aloud.
She was there. To the east. He didn't know how he knew, but he just did. The beating of his heart increased speed
dramatically. He raced over to the table where Bulma sat. To Goku's surprise and somewhat disgust, Piccolo and Karina
were on the floor, kissing passionately. He looked down at them and made a face. "God dang, guys, get a room."
They ignored him completely. He didn't care anymore. He grabbed Bulma by the shoulders and looked straight into
her eyes, "Bulma, you have to tell me if you saw where Chi-Chi went."
"Chi-Chi..?" Bulma hiccuped, looking confused.
"Yes! Chi-Chi! Where is she!?" He shook her some.
"Ohh..Chi-Chi! Well..the phone..." She paused as if in thought.
"The phone? What about it?"
"Well...it...the phone...rang." Bulma grinned dumbly.
"Someone called? Who!? When!?"
"Uhh...some guy. A doctor. It was..before now. Before we got here."
"A doctor?"
"Yeah, he said....he wanted to look at Chi-Chi's ankle."
Goku's heart was racing. He thought it was going to explode. "And?"
"So...me and...*hic* Karina...and *hic* Chi-Chi.." Bulma was swaying badly, and only Goku's hands prevented
her from falling over, "We went downstairs and...Chi-Chi...she...she went to go see the doctor."
"Thanks, that's all I needed to know." And with that, Goku ran out of the room.
Without Goku's hands to support her, Bulma fell out of her chair with a thud and hiccuped.
~*~
Even though Chi-Chi felt like there was still a chance of survival, she couldn't keep the fearful feeling
out of her stomach as she looked into Savilia's insane eyes. They were blazing with anticipation and
cruelty.
"If you haven't figured out your fate by now, you really are idiotic.." Savilia laughed. She tied the other
end of the rope to the metal bar that extended out over the ocean.
Chi-Chi swallowed. She didn't want to show her fear. She knew it would please this whore, and she wasn't
going to give her the privilege. "You're going to try to kill me." She said, carfefully keeping her voice steady.
"Wrong. I'm not going to try to kill you," She grinned evilly, "I am going to kill you, no doubt."
Chi-Chi was shocked as suddenly Savilia ran at her. She would have side stepped, but she was having trouble
just standing with her ankles bound again. Savilia shoved her over the edge of the cliff, and Chi-Chi couldn't
help but scream.
She closed her eyes tightly, her stomach feeling like it was lifting to her chest as she fell. But suddenly, the
slack of the rope disappeared and the rope cracked loudly as it tightened. She swung and hit the cliff
wall, wincing some. She swayed some, hanging in the air by her wrists, about 200 feet above the crashing
water below.
Chi-Chi swallowed. At least she wasn't dead, yet. But what was Savilia playing at? Was she doing this to just be cruel,
to watch her and make the fear build up until she killed her? She looked up and her question was confirmed to be a
fact. Savilia was lying on her stomach, facing her and looking down with an evil smile at Chi-Chi. Savilia's arm was extended
toward the rope, and in the hand was a knife. The silver blade glistened in the light of the moon.
The wind was blowing hard a Chi-Chi, and she was freezing. She realized she was still in her dress. The skirt
of it blew wildly, whipping around her legs. She watched as Savilia gave an evil chuckle and slid the sharp
end of the blade across the rope gently, cutting some of the strands of the rope. Chi-Chi felt the rope
starting to give way with the small nick, and could see the threads of the rope stretching apart at the cut.
She knew in moments the rope would snap in two, and then there would be nothing to hold her away
from the freezing, wild ocean below.
~*~
As Goku ran through the hallways, he pulled his jacket off and and threw it behind him, as well as his bow tie.
A doctor, huh? Goku knew that was a loud of bull. All of the pieces of the puzzle were falling together now.
That waitress. She wasn't really a waitress at all. She was someone else, someone he had seen before.
But who?
He reached the front door of the resort and pulled it open. He looked around. East, east, he had to go east.
Which way was again east? 'Duh,' he told himself, quickly jumping over the steps he ran as fast as his legs would
take him eastward. He was running into what looked to be nothing but a grassy field, but he noticed that the ground
was slowly rising. He must be going up a huge hill, but he couldn't see anyone before him.
He wanted to fly, but for some reason he couldn't control his ki to go underneath him to permit him to do so.
He cursed out loud. It must have been whatever was in that champagne. But surely, that waitress didn't know
he could fly, did she?
~*~
"You know, I really am a genius." Savilia smirked. "I made sure that your friends, couldn't get in the way."
"What did you do to them!?" Chi-Chi asked, feeling her rage overcome her fear. She wanted to go up
there and kick that woman right off the cliff, but she was aware of the fact that it was impossible to do
so, since she was the one hanging helplessly by her bound arms to a rope that would soon break.
"Don't worry, they'll be fine. I just put a little something special in their drinks. They are mainly drunk,
but soon they will pass out too."
"What did you put in them?" Chi-Chi asked. She was relieved that she hadn't hurt them.
"Well, a very strong drug called Razcoline." Savilia seemed to be willing to tell anything, as if it reflected
on her intelligence. "It makes you very energetic at first, causing you to do things you would never do
regularly, and it makes you find almost everything hilarious. But it ends up causing you to pass out,
and when you awake you don't remember anything that you did while drugged."
"I choose it because I happened to see your green friend flying one night!" Savilia exclaimed, clearly
amazed by it. "So, I decided I had to get rid of that possibility. That they could fly here. I figured that he
somehow uses his energy to be able to do it. But Razcoline, it messed up your system so much,
they would never be able to control it enough to fly like that."
Chi-Chi had to admit, for a stupid ho she was pretty clever.
"What did you do to Goku!?" she asked.
"Same thing." Savilia replied, "And let me tell you what I'm going to do after you are out of the picture.
I'm going to run back to the spa. I'm a wonderful actor. How does this story sound?"
Savilia started crying, to Chi-Chi's surprise. But suddenly Chi-Chi realized, as Savilia began
talking with her voice dripping emotion and sympathy, it was an act, just as she said.
"Goku, Goku! It was so horrible!" Savilia cried, sobbing, "I was on my way out of the resort to
go do some shopping, but I suddenly saw your girlfriend run past out of the lobby! I wondered why
she was running. She was crying. I ran after her, yelling for her to stop. She ran all the way out
to the cliff, Alas Peak!" Savilia really started dishing it out now, "I told her to stop and tell me what was wrong,
and when she reached the cliff edge she spun around to me. She told me that she hated her life,
and that she knew you didn't really care for her. She said she was going to end it. Before I could
ask what she meant she jumped over the edge!"
~*~
Goku growled as he ran as fast as possible eastward, the grass whipping at his feet. He suddenly
slid to a stop, spotting something in the grass. The grass was so wet he slid a little to much and fall on his butt.
Grumbling he got up and kneeled, picking up the thing he had spotted. It was a red rose.
A red rose. Where had he seen that before? An image of the waitress suddenly flashed into his mind.
Her hair had been up in a large bun, and on top of it a big red rose.
Everything was almost clear to him now. The waitress had imitated the spa doctor to get Chi-Chi
to come downstairs, away from him and the others. Now the waitress was putting Chi-Chi in
danger. He growled and crushed the flower in his hand, beginning to run again.
He suddenly knew who the waitress was. She wasn't a waitress, but that crazy facialist! What was her name?
He strained to remember. Something that started with a "S." Sarah? Nah. Samatha? No..It was something
odd, kind of weird to pronounce. Silla? No! Savilia! That was it!!
He would give anything to fly right then. His legs were hurting and he felt fatigued, and he was breathing hard.
But he wouldn't let the pain in his legs or lungs stop him. He had to get to Chi-Chi, and save her from
whatever this Savilia was doing to her.
~*~
Vegeta finally was free of that cursed chandelier. He had gently untangled himself and found in shock
he couldn't fly and fell like a rock as soon as he let go of the chandelier. He hit a table and it
snapped in two from the force of the fall. He rubbed his head and groaned, sitting up.
He blinked, looking to his right to see Bulma unconscious on the floor. A few feet away from her
lay Piccolo, only in his boxers, and Karina on top of him. They were knocked out too.
Everyone else in the room seemed not to care, and were eating again. The orcestra was stil playing.
He crawled to Bulma and pulled her to him, resting her cheek against his chest with his arms around her.
He looked about.
"Where is Kakarot?" He suddenly remembered looking down at Bulma to see Goku holding her by the
shoulders. He hadn't gotten mad though, because Goku had looked as if he was asking her something
really important, not flirting or anything. Vegeta recollected his confusion as he had wondered what
he was doing.
He stood up, lifting Bulma in his arms. He wondered why he couldn't fly, and why he felt totally exhausted.
He thought he might drop Bulma, so he set her gently in a chair, her head limply hanging down. He realized
that Kakarot's woman wasn't there either. She hadn't been there all night. Had Goku and her gone somewhere
private? No...Chi-Chi had been gone all night, and Goku had ran out of the room as if he was worried.
He walked to Piccolo and Karina and pushed Karina in the side with his foot lightly. She rolled easily off of
Piccolo. He then kicked Piccolo in the side. He didn't move. Vegeta kneeled and opened one of
the namekian's eyes. 'Out cold,' he thought.
"Maybe it was that champagne.." he thought aloud. He wondered if he could fly yet, and jumped in the air
to try. But he couldn't control his ki and hit the ground face first. Mumbling obscenities, he stood up, rubbing his nose.
There must have been something in that champagne that had made the other's really drunk, and had knocked them
out. He had drunken just as much though. He wondered why he wasn't out cold too. He did feel really tired,
but not enough to pass out.
Maybe it didn't effect saiyans as harshly. If that was true, Goku was still up and about. He decided to try
and find his ki. He closed his eyes, but it took him a long time to finally sense it. It was pretty far away and
a weak signal too. Towards the east.
"What in the world are you doing all the way out there, Kakarot?" Vegeta wondered out loud, as he stood
in the middle of the destroyed table, ruined food everywhere near it, as well as broken glass. Also, there were
unconscious people all about him. He could imagine that this was the only blemish in the whole room's
perfect condition.
~*~
"Goku will NEVER believe that!" Chi-Chi yelled ferociously. "He really cares for me, and he knows I do!!"
"Think whatever you want, tramp, but as soon as you're out of the picture I'm heading back there with this
story, and he will wake up from his unconsciousness, thanks to the Razcoline, to find himself in my caring
arms. And once I spill that little story, he'll feel so broken. And I will be there to comfort his pain, and I will
put him back together! AND THEN HE WILL LOVE ME!!"
Savilia broke out into hysterical laughter.
"HE'LL NEVER LOVE YOU!" Chi-Chi yelled. The rope was about to snap, she was hanging on by a thread,
literally.
"We'll see about that! Have a nice swim, and I'll see you in hell!!" Savilia screamed back. She really had lost it.
Above, thunder struck, and a second later rain fell hard. Lightning crossed the sky, followed by a loud crack,
and Savilia's pink hair was soon visible, the black temporary dye washed out of it.
~*~
Goku finally saw someone. They were lying on their stomach, on the cliffs edge. A second later rain
fell hard. He cursed it, almost slipping more then once in his dressy shoes that weren't made for
running at all. He saw a flash of pink a second later and realized it was Savilia. He felt growing
anger, and it seemed to increase his speed.
"WHERE IS CHI-CHI!?" He yelled as soon as he was close to her. She spun around. She looked so
surprised and shocked in one, he thought she would wet herself.
"GOKU!!!"
"Chi-Chi!?" Goku gasped, hearing her yell. Savilia stood up and he shoved her behind him, looking over the cliff to
see Chi-Chi, hanging by her wrists. "Chi-Chi!"
"Goku, help! The rope!!" Chi-Chi cried. Goku looked to see the rope was only held together by a string.
Right then it snapped in two.
Goku screamed her name, jumping on his stomach and reaching desperately for the rope. But it slide through
his fingers. "NO!" He yelled in anger, leaning forward, trying to snatch it. He grabbed it.
"Goku!" Chi-Chi cried.
"Chi-Chi! It's Okay!" He said, trying to pull himself onto the cliff more.
"NO!!!" A yell from behind him sounded and a second later Savilia jumped forward, right onto him .
'She really is crazy!' Chi-Chi thought, watching in horror as Savilia hung downward, stretching her arm
out toward the binds on Chi-Chi's wrist. Savilia was literally holding onto his neck with her legs. They
were locked around it as she sat on his back, leaning forward over his head, giving her the ability to reach farther.
In her extended arm, to Chi-Chi's horror, was the knife.
Goku struggled to get Savilia off of him without letting go of the rope. But he couldn't. He continued
wiggling around like crazy, making Savilia unsteady and unable to cut the binds on Chi-Chi's wrists.
"YOU WILL DIE!" Savilia shrieked after five minutes of this, and fianlly thrust herself forward enough
to reach the binds with her knife, slicing them. She also cut one of Chi-Chi's wrists, in the process.
Chi-Chi screamed as she began to fall toward the water. Goku yelled her name, and suddenly,
the weight on his shoulders, Savilia, was lifted.
Half a second later Goku felt himself shoved forward, and though he himself was going to fall off the cliff,
but he felt strong hands grasping his ankles.
"KAKAROT, GRAB HER!" It was Vegeta.
Goku already had reached out to Chi-Chi before he had even yelled it, and Chi-Chi was reached up as far as her arms
could stretch. He grabbed her wrist, and he his, making it lock. He felt himself jerked down some by her weight,
but held onto her with both hands.
"Chi-Chi, don't let go, no matter what!"
"I'll never let go, Goku, never!" Chi-Chi was crying.
Vegeta was holding them both up, his arms hanging over the edge, Goku's ankles in his hands.
He grunted with effort, feeling like he was going to pass out. He was so tired and holding them up took all
of his strength. What he would give to be able to fly. He wouldn't give up though. He yelled as he slowly
shifted his lower body forward, sitting up on his knees first, raising his upper body bit by bit, pulling them up some
as well. She finally sat back on his butt. He almost slid forward on the soaked grass, but slammed his heels
into the earth, stopping them. He kicked at the ground, making himself scoot back and pull them up, slowly, but
surely.
After a few minutes of this Vegeta finally managed to pull them both up. With a final yank, Vegeta fell back
and Goku and Chi-Chi sat up, embracing each other. Chi-Chi sobbed into Goku's chest and Goku looked
to Vegeta. "Vegeta, you saved our lives."
"No kidding," Vegeta growled, resisting the urge to say something more strong and profaine. He was panting.
"I'll never forget this!" Goku smiled.
"Vegeta!" Chi-Chi pulled away from Goku, "Thank you so much!!"
Both men blinked as Chi-Chi shuffled over to Vegeta on her knees, wrapped her arms around his neck
and kissed him on the cheek. She then started hugging him tightly, and Vegeta coughed. He sat up with
difficulty, one eye opened, and pointed at Chi-Chi, looking at Goku. He coughed again.
"Uhh, Chi-Chi, he can't breathe." Goku pointed out, trying not to laugh.
"Oh!" Chi-Chi exclaimed, letting go. Vegeta gasped for breath. "Sorry!" She apologized and tried
to help, but he waved his hands, scooting back, away from her.
Goku pulled Chi-Chi close to him and whispered gently, staring into her eyes. "I thought I was going to lose you."
"I thought I was going to die, but you saved me. You and Vegeta." She started to cry again.
Goku smiled, admiring her beautiful face as tears mingled with the rain. He cupped her cheek in his hand.
Leaning close, he kissed her.
They pulled away to see Vegeta standing and picking up an unconscious Savilia. He tossed the knife that was lying
near her body to Goku. Goku caught it and cut the bounds on Chi-Chi's ankles. He picked Chi-Chi up, to spare
her ankle. They, as well as her wrists, were bleeding from the ropes.
Vegeta hauled the limp Savilia under his arm, and the they began the slow return to the resort.
~*~
Piccolo groaned and woke up slowly, sitting up. He looked around. No one was there. The entire place was cleared out.
He blinked to see Bulma sitting limply in a chair, and Karina lying at his side. He looked over his shoulder.
A janitor was whistling, pushing a broom as he swept up the food near their broken table. The janitor had a large
mustache. He looked up to see Piccolo. "Ahh, you awake, aye?"
"Yeah..what happened?"
"Long story, aye."
Piccolo suddenly realized he was in his boxers. "Why am I in my underwear?"
"Aye." The janitor shrugged, resuming his sweeping.
Piccolo lifted the waistband of his boxers, peeking in. "And why are they stuffed with money?"
~*~
Nice ending, I know. So...sentimental. *Grins.* Hope you liked it, Please reveiw. Oh, i want to point out something.
Remember this part?
"Chi-Chi, don't let go, no matter what!"
"I'll never let go, Goku, never!" Chi-Chi was crying.
Well, I know that sounds like the part in Titanic with Jack and Rose, but I didn't mean for it to turn out like that.
Just a little disclaiming thing there. Even I surprised myself with the twist, where Vegeta ended up saving them.
I was just at a loss how they could pull it off without flying, and how Goku could do it alone in his position.
So, hope you liked it.
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so I'd cut it in two. 30 chapters is a nice clean cutting space, don't you think?
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