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Dragon
Ball New Generation
The Xiol Saga
Chapter
42 - Double Date
Vegeta
turned around from his desk, taking off his glasses.
"You're joking right?"
Gokou shook his head.
"No. I wasn't going to go through with it, but Rue
made me."
"Gokou, you know I have no time with this kind of
stuff. I have my examinations coming up and I have to
study for them."
Gokou walked over to his table and looked at all the medical
textbooks scattered everywhere. It gave him a headache
just looking at them.
"Come on Vegeta! It's only for one night.
You're a smart guy. One night of not studying isn't going
to kill you."
Gokou took Vegeta by his shoulders as he continued to read.
"After all, you look like you need to relax anyway."
Vegeta turned around, scaring Gokou. He thought he was
going to kick him or something. Vegeta was a hard worker,
and he didn't relax much.
"If I had any time off from studying, I trained to help me
relax."
Gokou was about to give up.
"Come on Vegeta. Just do this once for me and I won't
ask anything off you ever again."
"Why so desperate? Since when did you like
opera?"
"Since Rue said I had too."
Vegeta adjusted his glasses and raised an eyebrow.
"So let me get the story straight. You want to go
after this girl who's already taken? The only way to is to
go to this opera, but her sister is coming too?"
"Yeah. Rue suggested that if she's there, I can't
talk to Art properly."
"Rue eh? Always causing trouble." Vegeta stood
up and walked to the window, "See what the females reduce
males too? Its embarrassing." Vegeta
laughed. "Not me though."
"Come on Vegeta. Big favour!"
"You're not going to leave me alone will you?"
"No"
"Then I have no choice. To get you off my back."
"Thanks Vegeta."
"No problem."
***
Gokou
stood outside the opera theatre alone. He was dressed in a
suit, buttoned up with a tie. Art and Painta soon turned
up. They were also dressed nicely.
"You look beautiful Art." Gokou told her.
"Thank you."
Painta glared at Gokou as he looked at her and smiled.
"You look great too Painta."
Painta blushed and smiled.
"Gee, thanks."
Vegeta then turned up also dressed in a suit, except he didn't
button his jacket together, and his dress shirt was on
loose. No tie or bow tie, and the shirt was
un-tucked.
"Hard day Vegeta?" Gokou asked.
"Kind of."
He turned to Art and Painta.
"Sorry I'm late. Has it already started?"
"No, in 15 minutes." Art said.
Gokou introduced the two women to Vegeta, but just as the
introductions were finished, Painta grabbed Vegeta's arm and
smiled at him. Vegeta watched her in surprise and embarrassment.
He leaned over to Gokou.
"I assume this is Painta?"
"Yeah."
"You owe me big time, you hear me?" Vegeta told him.
Gokou nodded.
Painta dragged Vegeta inside, and Gokou led Art inside.
The
opera was long and intense. It wasn't as bad as he thought
it would turn out to be. Gokou watched on, and turned to
Art. She was so absorbed into the opera, which made him
admire her love for the arts.
Vegeta however wasn't enjoying himself at all. His head
was aching as Painta kept her hold on him, asking him plenty of
questions about his personal life.
"So you like sport cars?"
"Yeah"
"I DO TOO!"
***
After
the opera they headed to a nearby restaurant located in a tall skyscraper
where you could oversee the entire city.
It was an okay dinner. They all got along, especially
Gokou and Art.
" I heard you're related to Hercule."
"Yeah I am. He's my great great grandfather."
"That's amazing."
"My grandmother told me a lot about him."
"He was a great fighter wasn't he?"
"I guess so."
"Can you fight too Gokou?"
"I can."
"You don't think it's a bad thing?"
"To protect the ones you love."
Art smiled.
"Would you protect me Vegeta?" Painta asked all star
eyed again.
"Ah, well..." he started.
Art and Gokou laughed at the two.
"So is Suite good to you Art?" Gokou asked.
"Yes he is, but he works a lot, and I don't always see
him. I wish he didn't though." Art turned to Gokou,
"Are you seeing anyone at the moment?"
"No I'm not."
"Why? You're a nice guy."
"I don't think I can measure up."
"That's wrong. Why you say something like that?"
"Because my power scares people, and right now I don't
think I deserve her."
"Deserve her?" Art asked.
Gokou then realized what he said, and didn't know what to say
now. Luckily Vegeta's cell phone rang. After the
conversation, Vegeta revealed he had to leave. His mother
needed his help at home with some work she had to
complete. Painta looked disappointed but he wasn't,
although he wasn't trying to show it. Inside he was
jumping with joy.
"I have to go too." Gokou told them. He didn't know if
he could do this if his friends weren't around. Art
continued to look at him in wonder when all of a sudden a large
bomb went off on the streets. They all looked down from
the windows and saw people running for their lives. Gun
shots were going off, and the screaming was horrific.
Gokou looked in shock as Vegeta watched in anger.
Suddenly something flew up to the window and looked at the
two. It was a normal human man who out stretched his hands
to release a large energy attack. The restaurant exploded
into pieces, and when the rubble subsided, Gokou and Vegeta were
holding the citizens in the restaurant in the air. Painta
was holding Vegeta tight around his neck, and he couldn't
breathe.
"What was that all about?" Gokou asked.
Art was being held by his arm as everyone else were perched on
his other arm.
"That was scary!" Art cried, "Gokou, what's going
on?!"
Gokou looked around the surrounding area and through the burning
smoke, the human man appeared, still hovering in the air.
"Vegeta" he called.
"Yeah? What?" he struggled to say as Painta still had
her arms around his neck.
"Take these people to safety."
Vegeta couldn't object. He didn't want too. The
faster he could get rid of Painta, the better.
"Please be careful Gokou." Art told him.
He smiled as Vegeta took everyone to safety.
"What's all this about?!" Gokou yelled.
The man remained still.
"Aren't you going to answer me?!"
The man remained shrouded in darkness.
"You afraid of me? Maybe you're still a human, but
hurting others? I won't let that one go easily."
Gokou continued.
The human said nothing, but:
"Kill! Kill! Order! Order! Order kill Gokou!"
Gokou looked surprised as the man flew at him. They fought
for a bit, and the man wasn't that strong, however his energy
attacks were a little tougher than he thought. He
delivered an attack, but it was deflected by Vegeta.
"Is everyone okay?" Gokou asked.
"Yeah. All safe." Vegeta turned to the human,
"And what is this about?"
"Don't ask." Gokou told him.
The human charged again and the fighting resumed. Art and
Painta watched from the ground like many others. Art was a
little worried for Gokou's safety. She worried in
silence. Painta however was cheering them on.
Vegeta fought on a little, but as the man went to punch him, he
grabbed his wrist and tossed him into one of the
buildings. Something then fell of his wrist and landed
inside the broken part of the building. He regained
himself and continued in his actions.
In his final attack, the human charged, but was hit aside by
Vegeta. Gokou charged up an energy ball but then paused.
"What are you waiting for?!" Vegeta yelled.
Gokou couldn't do it. He was a human.
"Go on!" Vegeta yelled again.
The human recovered and grabbed hold of Gokou, making him loose
his grip on his energy attack. The human man begun to
strangle him, but just as Gokou was going to toss him off, the
man charged up and blew up.
"Gokou!" Vegeta called.
Smoke covered the sky, and Art watched in shock.
"Gokou?"
He was fine though, just a little shocked that he blew up on
them.
"Why didn't you finish him off?!" Vegeta demanded.
Gokou didn't say anything, and Vegeta let it go. Vegeta
then noticed the side of the building, and went to
investigate. He saw the item which the human
dropped. Vegeta picked it up and examined it. It took him
by shock.
"What is it Vegeta? You find something?" Gokou
inquired.
"I think so."
Gokou flew up to him.
"What?"
"It's a Capsule Corporation watch."
"So? Why you look so shocked?"
"It's because this model is outdated." Vegeta put the
watch to Gokou's face, "This model existed 72 years
ago."
"Maybe he just had an old version? He couldn't afford
the new ones." Gokou said.
"You kidding? The time and date on this thing doesn't
even correspond with ours. It dates back to 828AD!"
"The guy is probably just late. You're paranoid
Vegeta."
"You're probably right. After all, he was a crazy
man. But how can a human have that kind of power?"
"Don't give yourself a headache over it." Gokou said,
wiping the soot from his face, "Lets go."
***
Vegeta
and Gokou took the girls home, still mucked up from battle.
"So this is where you live?" Gokou asked.
"Yes. Cosy home." Art said, "Are you sure
you're not hurt?"
"No"
She turned to Gokou and smiled gently.
"Thanks for taking me Gokou."
"It was fun Art."
Her face then looked a little confused. She seemed like
she wanted to ask something but nothing came out. When she
found the voice to ask, Pesto came outside.
"About time!"
"Get back inside Pesto!" Painta yelled.
It was time to leave, but Vegeta couldn't make Gokou
leave. Vegeta already said his goodbyes to Painta, and was
aching to leave before she starts something on him again.
"What is it Gokou?" Art asked.
"You're hand."
Art looked at it. Her right hand was badly injured from
the explosion.
"Why didn't you tell me sooner?"
"I didn't think much of it Gokou. After all, you and
Vegeta did save us all."
Gokou smiled, and took her hand.
"But still. If you injure yourself like this, how can
you paint?"
All of a sudden, their father, Easel, walked outside. He
was shocked to see Gokou holding Art's hand.
"You dirty bastard!" he yelled, "Let go of
her! Don't you get it?! She's with that winner
Suite. I saw you at the Art Gallery, and I knew it from
the beginning. A person like you doesn't belong with my
daughter!"
Pesto tried to calm his father down, and everyone tried to
explain, but the man was furious that nothing went
through. He picked up his shot gun and aimed it at Gokou.
Art was terrified.
"Papa!"
"Get inside Art!"
Painta took Art inside before something else erupted.
"Art!" Gokou took a step forward, but Easel raised his
shot gun at him. Vegeta told the man to calm down, but he
didn't. Easel then threatened Vegeta but the young man was
ready for action. Gokou then held him back, and tried to explain
to the father about the incident in the city. However he
thought Gokou was lying, and he did it to Art. Vegeta
continued to be furious.
"I don't want to see you again! If you come near my
daughter, I'll kill you!" and with that the man disappeared
inside the house. Pesto wanted to remain outside, but his
father told him to go inside too. Pesto looked at Gokou's
torn face and retreated.
"Sorry Gokou-san" he told him.
There
was a brief silence as Vegeta watched Gokou hang hid head.
Breaking the silence, Vegeta told him.
"You want me to hurt him?"
Gokou looked up.
"No. He was right."
"What?!"
"I should've known from the beginning that it wouldn't
work. I don't deserve her, and she's best with
Suite."
"Are you insane? I saw both of you together
and-"
"Yeah, but her dad was doing it because he wants the best
for her."
Vegeta stared at Gokou as he took off into the sky. He
lowered his fists and followed him.
"Gokou-"
"Its over Vegeta. Don't worry about it."
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