Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Surprise! She's a WHAT?! ❯ Chapter 17

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SSAW?!: Ch17

Day 5

"WHAT?!" Vegeta hollered.

Goku, Goku, Bulma blinked.

Eighteen stayed silent, but she was stunned.

Krillin lost any thought to joke.

Selene didn't know what to say.

Jasper knew to an extent, so he kept his mouth shut.

Gohan came up to Kat and looked in her eyes. "What do you mean he's your future husband?" he asked.

"My parents arranged for me to marry him when I became eighteen." Kat spoke.

"Pre-arranged marriages? I thought they were more common for royalty-- Vegeta shot a look to Bulma for her to stop.

"For royalty." Kat finished for the blue-haired genius. She pulled out her pendant and turned it over. "See this? This is my family's royal crest. For your information I am a princess." Kat stated.

Chichi, surprised by revelations that Katherine was indeed a princess. *No wonder she didn't want anyone to know. Most people would have been after her.*

Gohan seemed to the most shocked out of all of them. He began to understand why she kept certain secrets for this long. Then again he would do it too.

"Katherine, why are you here on Earth if Gabriel is your future husband?" Bulma asked after a while.

Tucking the pendant away, Katherine replied, "We have more important things right now then talking about my past. Come on." She took off in sky without further delay. The remaining Z-fighters followed her. Bulma watched them leave and prayed they would be okay.

"Sir their high power levels approaching."

Gabriel thought it was odd, since only Katherine should be coming. He, Jasmine, and his 20 men watched as nine people landed near them. Gabriel studied the group further. One adult male had black spiky hair and his eyes serious. The other male had black hair that stood straight up and he smirked. Another man had two scars on his face. Two teenagers stood next to each other, their expressions serious. A green man with a white turban and cape stood showing a scowl. Two boys, one had lavender hair and blue eyes, the other had black, spiky hair like the first male stood next to a woman with her raven hair tied up in a bun. Finally a blonde woman with cold blue eyes stood next to a shorter person. His eyes darted back to the two teenagers and realized he saw Jasper Harding.

"Where is she Harding?" Gabriel demanded.

"Find out yourself." Jasper scoffed.

Gabriel fumed at the clearly shown stubbornness and drew his sword. "You took her away from me! Give her back!!" he said.

"That sword of yours wouldn't do a damn thing Gabriel. I will not be returning with you." Katherine's voice rang out.

Gabriel saw the eleven part so a young woman with long black hair & sapphire eyes and a young man with serious coal-black eyes walk forward.

"K-Katherine? Your hair is supposed to be blonde not black." Gabriel spoke matter-of-factly. Her laughter was not his reaction at all.

"Actually I am rather fond of black hair Gabriel. It's nice for a change." Kat retorted.

"So this Katherine whom I have heard quite a lot about." Jasmine commented, her lavender eyes studying Katherine.

"Eomc-mb dhm thzzqkqzl ehz hr x pqcto!" Kat snapped at Jasmine. (Translation: Shut-up you conniving son of a bitch!)

Jasmine understood the language of the ancient saiyans and her face grew hot with anger. She growled slightly.

Goku didn't know what Kat said to the woman, but Gohan seemed to understand. Gohan smiled after Kat spoke aloud. He turned to his wife.

"Chi, please stay with Goten and Trunks. I don't want you hurt if you join me out in front." Goku said. Chichi accepted this and wished him luck.

Gabriel, outraged by Kat's comments commanded, "Men get her!"

The twenty men drew their staffs and aimed their sights on Katherine. However, the Z-Fighters jumped in to engage them. Yamcha chose to attack the nearest one. Selene and Jasper took on the task of three men. Vegeta merely punched the closest enemy. Piccolo found him two targets to fight against. Chichi and the boys found two men to fight with. Eighteen and Krillin went after two apiece. Goku picked on four men. Only three men chose to stay with Gabriel and Jasmine.

Gabriel tucked his sword away when he saw that he would have to fight with Katherine and her friend. He and Jasmine dropped into their fighting stances.

"You will come back with me." Gabriel spoke.

"Not on your life Gabriel! Let's have some fun Gohan!" Kat retorted.

"Nothing would please me more." Gohan said.

The ancient saiyan and half-saiyan dropped into theirs. "Hmm… you three get them!" Gabriel commanded. Two men attacked Katherine while Gohan got one. Katherine ducked a staff blast and kicked the staff out of the man's hands. She caught it and tripped his legs with it. The second tried to the same, but Kat took the staff in her hands and whacked him with it. The man fell to the ground, knocked out. Gohan avoided a blast from his target and kicked the man aside.

Brushing their selves off, Katherine and Gohan fixed their gazes on Gabriel and Jasmine.

"Alright, so be it." Gabriel said. He lunged at Katherine. Gohan blocked him and pushed him back. Katherine and Jasmine just stared at each other before Kat threw a punch at her. Now the battle began.

Vegeta thought these men of Gabriel's were not much of a challenge because he was faster and stronger then them. He easily avoided the two blasts and shot one of his own. His attack pushed the two men back and again they attacked. Smirking, Vegeta threw several punches and kicks to knock them out.

Yamcha experienced a tiny bit of difficulty with the target had chosen. His target twirled the staff and shot several blasts at him. The former bandit dodged them and responded with a kick. His target blocked it and plowed the staff into Yamcha's side. Yamcha fell to the ground and looked up to his target grinning. The staff glowed and an energy ball was forming. Right before the blast could strike him, a purple blast killed the man. Yamcha saw that Eighteen had saved him.

"Thanks Eighteen." Yamcha said.

"Whatever." Eighteen replied coldly.

Gabriel turned his attention away to watch five of his men get knocked out and he winced when Gohan landed several surprise punches on him.

"I can tell that you quite skilled."

"Really? I won't allow you to take Kat." Gohan increased his speed of his attacks and Gabriel had to increase his speed as well.

Kat enjoyed beating on Jasmine. They had developed a pattern of punches and kicks, although none really touched Kat. Jasmine broke apart pausing to regain her senses. She had to admit that Kat was stronger then she remembered. None of her attacks had little affect on her!

"I think it's time I turned up the heat." Kat spoke, turning SSJ.

Jasmine paled as she recalled that Ancient Saiyans had the power to do. "There's no way you could do that!" she cried.

"Believe it." Kat said. The female super saiyan grabbed Jasmine's arm and chucked her over her shoulder. The SSJ followed her descent.

Selene combined her blast with Jasper's to overcome their targets. They saw how the other Z-Fighters were taking care of their own targets and joined those who had no targets.

"Special Beam Cannon!" Piccolo shouted, releasing the spiral beam at his chosen targets. They fell dead. He looked to see what the others were doing.

Chichi kneed one in the nuts when he tried to shoot a blast at Goten. Both boys stared at her in shock. Chichi took the fallen staff from the temporary injured man and whacked him with it. He fell unconscious. She whammed the second man without warning and knocked him out.

"That's what you get!" Chichi stated. She saw Goku take care of the rest of the men with ease. Goku finished punching the last person to find his wife next to him. His attention now rested on Gohan and Katherine.

Jasmine did not have a chance to recover, Kat came up to her and hoisted her by her shirt. The hatred clearly was shown in her teal eyes.

"I can't kill you Jasmine because it goes against my nature not to kill someone in cold blood unless I have to. But I can do this instead." Kat spoke coldly. She grabbed Jasmine's right arm and began to twist it. Jasmine felt the pain raising in her arm until she heard the bones snap. The second-in-command grimaced and shot a glare at Katherine, but it didn't phase her.

Kat tossed Jasmine up in the air and shouted, "Ohgd Wmylsuszc!" (Translation: Holy Judgment!) Her two palms unleashed several small white beams at Jasmine's legs.

Vegeta had never seen Katherine fight like that before. "Kakarot, judging from her anger and her attacks that woman must have done horrible to her."

"You're right Vegeta. I have never seen Katherine this angry before." Goku agreed.

Gabriel stopped when he heard Jasmine cry out. Gohan took this distraction to punch him in the stomach. Gabriel bent forward for a moment before sending a glare at the young man in front of him.

"How dare you take advantage!"

"Never leave yourself open."

They resumed fighting.

Jasmine cursed, her legs hurt very much and so did her arm. She narrowed her lavender eyes at Katherine. "Shouldn't you be attacking Gabriel?"

"I suppose, but I don't want to. You need to suffer."

"Why?"

Kat's anger rose and she flared into SSJ2. She hoisted Jasmine by her left arm and broke her left shoulder in one motion. Jasmine cried out and stumbled back. Kat went even further as to gather a blast and shoot it at the second-in-command. The men that had been knocked out, now awake and saw Katherine do this to Jasmine. They stood there frozen because they were afraid the blonde female would kill them. Jasmine stared at Kat's cold face.

"How could you do this to me?"

"Because you deserve it." Kat spat. To make sure Jasmine's legs were broken beyond belief, Kat had an attack that would do just that. The ancient saiyan hovered a tiny bit and brought her left hand up.

"Goku! Shouldn't we stop her?! Katherine's going to kill that woman!! Chichi exclaimed worriedly.

"No, Kat won't kill her. I'm sure of that." Goku replied.

"He's right. I knew that Kat was angry at Gabriel, but never this much at Jasmine." Jasper spoke.

"You know about this secret?" Vegeta asked.

"Yes, but not the full details. It angered her so much to talk about it for long." Jasper answered.

Jasmine continued to watch Kat until the SSJ2 cried, "Zqloc'e Osxksz!" (Translation: Night's Heaven!) A dark blue beam erupted from Kat's palm. Jasmine screamed in agony as both of her legs shattered completely. At the same time Kat raised her left hand and shot another blast to Jasmine's arms. Jasmine could only scream. The pain intensified so much that she fell unconscious.

Both Gabriel and Gohan stopped their fighting to hear Jasmine scream and then fall silent. Gabriel's eyes paled and he raced over to Jasmine's side. He saw beat-up she looked and glared coldly at Kat.

"What DID you do to her?!" Gabriel demanded icily.

Kat settled on the ground and shrugged. "Now t-take her and leave." she responded, although her voice wavered slightly.

"Fine. Mark my words Katherine: you will pay dearly for this." Gabriel spoke with the utmost hatred in his voice. He scooped Jasmine in his arms and called his remaining men to retreat.

Kat watched the ship take off and she fell to her knees. Her hair went back to normal. She couldn't believe what she just did to Jasmine. She felt horrible. Chichi made a notion to help, but Goku shook his head. Gohan stayed silent as he came over to Kat. Kat stood when she felt his presence behind her. She faced him with haunting sapphire eyes. "Hold me Gohan." she spoke quietly. Gohan gathered her in his arms and Kat began to sob.

Goku never knew Katherine to cry. "Gohan and Katherine need to talk privately. They have issues to discuss. Let's head back to Capsule Corps." he said.

Silently the Z-Fighters left until Katherine and Gohan were alone. Gohan released Kat to peer in her tear-stained eyes.

"What happened today Kat? Your anger was so unlike you. I could feel it pouring out of you."

"I-I don't know Gohan. I never realized my hatred for her was that bad."

"What did she do to you?"

A brief pause before Kat answered.

"S-She's having an affair with Gabriel."

"W-What?! Your future husband is seeing her!?"

"Yes. I've known about this since I was fourteen."

In Gohan's mind the puzzles fit together at last. *That's her main reason for coming here! No wonder!*

"Man, he must be one conniving bastard."

"Gohan how could I do that to her?"

"Shhh… Your saiyan side took over. It's not your fault…"

Kat made a notion to speak, but Gohan put his finger on her lips. He simply leaned in and kissed her. Kat let Gohan do this and her body relaxed.

Mars thought Videl was ready and he would join her. He waved his hand across the pool to see Katherine and Gohan kissing. Videl gasped.

"Somehow they separated!" she breathed.

"Indeed they have. This is our chance to finish the job." Mars said.

"So their fusion must have woken up in order for them to be there." Videl said. She and Mars vanished.

Gohan and Kat broke apart. Katherine felt a better now.

"Thanks Gohan." She kissed him back.

"Well, who do we have here?" a voice rang out.

They immediately broke apart to find Videl and a man who they didn't recognize.

"Videl, what are you doing here?" Gohan asked.

Videl drew her sword and pointed it at them. "To finish what I couldn't do two days ago, kill you." she hissed.

Kat pondered what Videl exactly meant, but a memory returned to her mind. Videl had tried to kill Kahn, but Goten saved them. "You." Kat spat. "You tried to kill us while we were Kahn."

"Excellent observation female. It would be nice if I knew your name before we kill you two." Mars stated.

Gohan growled softly and he dropped in his fighting stance. "Her name is of no concern to you. I should be asking you the same thing." Gohan declared.

The leader of the demons just laughed and Kat took that as an insult and dropped in her fighting stance.

"You have no business here with us. Leave now or we will force you to leave." Kat threatened, her voice cold.

"Fools… you have no idea you are dealing with! For I am Mars, leader of the demons!" Mars responded.

It took only a moment for Gohan and Katherine to say together, "The one who sent those two demons."

"Brilliant! Now die!!" Videl snarled, bringing her sword down. Kat reacted by blocking Videl's blade with her own sword. The two teenagers moved away to fight. Mars threw a punch only to have Gohan block it.

Something tugged at Goku's mind as he and the others waited for his son and Katherine to return. Goten had a bad feeling that his oniisan was in danger. Chichi had her motherly instinct tell her that her baby was in danger. Vegeta observed the Sons and saw that something was not right. He too had a feeling something was happening to Katherine and Gohan.

"Kakarot, you getting what I'm sensing?" (Vegeta)

"Yes Vegeta I am. I think they're in danger." (Goku)

"I'm coming too daddy. Oniisan is in trouble." (Goten)

"Go check on them Goku." (Chichi)

Goku, Vegeta, and Goten took off in the sky in a hurry.

"Who would be attacking them now?! We just got finished fighting with Gabriel." Krillin exclaimed.

"I hope my Goku pounds those intruders to the ground!!" Chichi declared with passion.

Bulma and the others stared at the wife of Goku. They had never seen Chichi act with such passion before.

Kat ducked, rolled, and jumped to avoid Videl's attacks. "Why are you with him Videl? You don't need his help to achieve your goals. There is still goodness left in you. These powers that you currently possess are only a gift. You have the power to learn this within you already." Kat asked softly.

Videl's eyes widened as the words touched her, but turned back to an icy violet. "So I can show everyone including my father that I am not weak!" she snarled, increasing her attacks.

Gohan wiped the blood off his lip and studied Mars. "You are stronger then you look Mars." he spoke.

"Appearances can be deceiving Gohan. You know I believe that you have feelings for that female over there fighting Videl." Mars said.

"You got to be kidding me! I don't have any feelings for Katherine!" Gohan lied.

"So Katherine is her name. What a nice name for her. Now I shall heat things up." Mars repeated.

Gohan mentally slapped himself and pondered what Mars meant by heating things up? Mars phased out and re-appeared behind Gohan. He twisted Gohan's arm behind his back. Gohan froze instantly and saw Mars's hand hover in front of his face.

"Katherine, you might want to look over here." Mars spoke.

Kat averted her gaze over to Mars, after hearing him call her by her name. She gasped as she saw Gohan in his grasp. "Gohan!" she breathed.

Videl took the opportunity to kick the sword out of Kat's grasp and grabbed her arm to twist it behind her back. Kat attempted to move, but Videl's sword hovered in front of her neck. "Don't even think about it Katherine." Videl hissed.

Katherine looked into Gohan's eyes and he looked in hers.

:: Katherine, we will get out of this ::

Katherine heard Gohan's voice in her mind.

:: Gohan? Is this a bond?! ::

:: Appears so. This is the start of becoming mates ::

:: No shit Gohan ::

:: Nice observation Kat ::

Goku, Vegeta, and Goten settled on the ground. Katherine and Gohan's ki's were a little further ahead. The trio ran forward only to stop dead to see Gohan in Mars's grasp and Kat in Videl's.

"Release them at once!" Goku commanded gently.

"These two? I don't think so savior of Earth." Mars said.

"You release my big brother at once you big meanie! And my big sister too!!" Goten exclaimed.

Mars fixed his gaze on Goten. *This young boy resembles Gohan all right. He definitely reminds me of the savior of Earth.*

Kat saw the smirk on Mars's face and knew he was up to something no good. "Don't you dare to hurt Goten! Otherwise you would have two VERY pissed saiyans!" she exclaimed.

Vegeta didn't miss the smirk on Mars's face. "Brat, get behind us. This could get ugly." Vegeta spoke. Goten got the hint and stood behind his dad and Vegeta.

"Really? I guess you wouldn't mind if I did this." Mars spoke, lowering his hand from Gohan's face. Only to have it shoot a blast at Gohan's knee. Gohan flinched. It looked nothing more then a minor burn.

It was clear to Goku that this man was evil. "Don't you dare hurt my son or Katherine for that matter!" Goku declared firmly.

"They should useful to me…" Mars stated.

"Not today they won't be." a new voice interrupted. The figure of Destiny appeared beside Goku. She raised her hands and used her psychic powers to freeze Videl and Mars. Gohan and Katherine broke free and joined the others. Destiny released them and Mars glared daggers at the goddess.

"Who the hell are you?!" Mars demanded.

"Doesn't matter Mars. You need to leave." Destiny coldly responded.

Videl saw her chance to nab Goten and phased out. She re-appeared behind Goten and grabbed him quickly. Goten tried to squirm free, but she held him tight.

"Oniisan! Kat! Daddy! Help!!" Goten shouted.

Everyone froze as they turned to see Goten in Videl's grasp.

"Let my brother go Videl!" Gohan exclaimed.

"I don't think so Gohan." Videl answered, disappearing.

"This is my cue to leave. Farewell." Mars spoke, too vanishing.

"Damn it!" Gohan muttered, pounding his fist in his hand.

"It's not your fault Gohan. We were not watching Videl real closely. Come, we have work to do." Kat consoled softly.

:: We do indeed Kat. Let's go ::

:: That's the Gohan I know ::

Katherine and Gohan took off without a word. Vegeta smirked at the fleeing pair and Goku smiled. Destiny couldn't help laughing.

"It took them this long to start bonding Kakarot. I knew they would, seemingly how they argue."

"Indeed."

The two saiyans followed the pair along with Destiny.

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So, Mars has captured Goten. What are his plans for the young half-saiyan? Will the Z-Fighters rescue him? Only I know. Read Chapter 18 to find out. Please read and review!!

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