Disclaimer: I did not create Dragonball Z and I am not making any money off of this story.

Stranger in the Mirror Part 4 By: L.A. Whitfield

The girl made another wish. She wished to be as good a cook as the one known as Chichi. Easy enough and with the snap of his fingers, it came true but now, finally he had his first victim. He looked down at the boy in his arms and hissed nearly falling over with exhaustion. He couldn’t carry him any farther. He was too weak.

The evil being laid the boy down onto a table and pulled a vile from his pocket filled with a purple liquid. He took off the lid and poured it into the boys mouth, making him swallow it all.

“There, that should do it.” He said setting the empty vile down on the end of the table.

The boy had almost been to much for him to handle and he hadn’t even begun to suck the energy from him yet! True he was just a boy, but he was a very strong, half Saiyan boy and he would be able to provide him with a lot of energy.

Carefully he made his way to his bed where he took off his dark cloak, slipped off his shoes and laid down. Green warts covered his face and two short horns stuck out of his forehead. His eye brows were slanted farther inward towards his eyes and his eyes were dull and gray. His teeth were sharp and jagged but there were only a few left in his mouth. Most of them had already fallen out while the rest were rotting away giving off a horrible stench. Only the two fangs that stuck out in the front of his jaw line glimmered. The tools he used to suck the energy from his victims.

He liked to think of himself as a genie though, not a vampire and an evil one at that. He lived in a ring instead of a bottle and he certainly didn’t have any stupid rules. He didn’t care if anyone got hurt as long as he got what he wanted and he only granted as many wishes as he needed in order to gather up enough energy to escape. The person making the wishes also didn’t know about him.

Every time a wish is made by the person wearing the ring, he is released for a very short time. Just enough time to grab a victim. Once he has his victim, he brings them back here and sucks the energy out of them. Some times they don’t die right away and so he keeps them until he is ready to feed again. Then they usually die after the second draining.

From the amount of energy he senses from within this boy though, he will probably last for a few days. The amount of power these Saiyan’s posses are astounding! Never before, has he ever sensed anybody with as much power. If a Saiyan child can hold this much energy, then an adult, Saiyan like his father, probably holds enough energy to get him to his own world.

It would be nearly impossible however trying to capture the Saiyan right now. He was still too weak. He will have to start with the humans first and work his way up to the Saiyan’s. There had to be more Saiyan’s around some where. He could sense one of them.

This new world this girl wished herself into was truly amazing, but he desired only to be back home in his real world, his home world.

There really was no such thing as a ‘real world’. What ever we believe to be true, is real. If you don’t believe in something, then it isn’t real. As simple as that. He laughed to him self and thought, If he weren’t such a bad guy, he’d make a really good, good guy. That would be absurd though. He enjoyed being the bad guy too much. He enjoyed watching other’s suffer too much.

Soon, he would go back to his home world and rule it. He would kill anyone who did not worship him but first he would kill the old man responsible for sealing him inside the ring to begin with.

He sighed with exhaustion and closed his eyes. Even though this boy held a lot of energy, it had been a mistake taking him first because now, he was too weak to do anything. He was even too tired to suck up the boys energy. He may be immortal but he wasn’t all powerful. Not yet.

Hopefully, he thought as he began to drift off to sleep, he drugged the boy good enough to where it will keep him asleep for a few hours. That should give him enough time to rest and regain his strength. He only hoped no wishes were made within that time.

Back with Alicia...

She was angry at her self for screwing up something that Chichi would never screw up at. Their reactions to her stew was proof enough. She should have taste tested it before giving it to them.

She heard some one approaching. It must be Goku. This was probably it. He probably knew now that she wasn’t really his Chichi because his Chichi would never cook something bad.

She hid her face in her arms with her knees drawn up to her chest. She heard him sit down next to her. She was surprised to feel his arm wrap around her.

“Chichi?” He asked softly sounding a little worried. She quickly wiped away any tears left on her face and looked up at him.

“I’m sorry Goku. Um, I guess I forgot to add something to it.” Alicia said trying to come up with some kind of excuse. It had to be that can of pepper she dropped into the stew. She nearly burned her hands up fishing the damn thing out and by the time she finally got it, it was half way empty when it had been full.

“Chichi, it’s ok. I don’t care about the stew. I care about you.” Goku said holding her. She looked up at him and he moved his head closer to hers. Maybe she did over react a little bit back there.

“It still sucked though.” She said sadly. Goku blinked at her choice of words and shrugged trying not to laugh but she could feel his body shaking as he started to. She blushed and looked at him. He stopped laughing and frowned.

“What?” She asked concerned.

“Nothing, it’s just that your acting really weird today Chichi. If I didn’t know any better, I could swear you some body else entirely.” He said joking. Alicia laughed nervously. And what would you do Goku if you found out I really wasn’t Chichi? She thought.

“Are you sure you didn’t accidentally put just little too much pepper in it?” He asked waving his hand over his mouth.

She jabbed him in the ribs knowing she couldn’t possibly hurt him. Amazing, he did make a little ouch sound but it was probably a fake ouch. She was stronger in this world. It was the weirdest feeling. It felt like she trained really hard all summer long (which she didn’t) and had become twice as strong as before.

He grinned and pretended to hit her face with his fist by doing it in super slow motion, with just enough motion behind it to move her head to the side. They just stood there for a moment staring at each other silently.

Alicia had to make it up to him she decided. She could do it now if her wish came true. She didn’t like to use the ring, and she was getting worried that if she kept using it all the time, she might not be able to get back home again.

She thought about how nice it would be to stay there for ever but decided that she really would miss her family. Just one more day and then, she’d wish herself back. Or two...

It just didn’t seem right to be able to make so many wishes and not have something bad happen. Something always bad happens to her when something good ever happened. Jason was a good example. Jerk... What really scared her though was the fact that she hadn’t been able to get the ring off her finger. She tried everything. Even butter!

“Goku, let me make it up to you and Gohan. Let me fix something else really special! I promise you, it will be really good this time!” She said standing.

“You really don’t have to Chichi, but if it will make you feel better, go ahead.” Goku said squeezing her reassuringly. Good, now that she was as good at cook as Chichi, she could bake up something really spectacular. She gave him a quick peck on the cheek and took off to the house.

Goku smiled and watched her as she skipped and sang up the trail back to their house. He suddenly realized something. She was acting the way she had acted when they were kids. Like a young teenager again. He sort of liked it because she wasn’t screaming at him all the time like she normally did.

Just then, his stomach growled reminding him that he was still hungry. Too hungry to wait for Chichi to make something for him, so he went off into the woods to find an apple. He didn’t feel like flying though, so walked to his favorite spot in the woods, the apple orchid. He picked a pretty red apple and jumped onto a branch to begin eating it.

As he sat there though, he suddenly had the feeling something was missing. It wasn’t the first time today he had felt it today, but Chichi wasn’t missing. He brought his fingers to his head and tried to focus on Gohan’s chi but he couldn’t find it.

“That’s funny, maybe he’s off training with Piccolo again.” He said out loud focusing on Piccolo. Gohan’s was no where around him.

Now he was worried.

Back in the real world...

It took them a while but they finally got Chichi calmed down enough to convince her to sit down and talk to them in a little cafe just a few blocks from Alicia’s house.

As soon as Christina was convinced that she was actually Chichi and not her best friend, the image of her friend disappeared to be replaced by very upset and ragged looking Chichi. Christina thought it was the coolest thing she’d ever seen in her life.

“Oh my god like, your really here and I’m really talking to you! I don’t believe this! I’m talking to you and your really here sitting in that chair! Can you believe it Jason?!” She squealed hoping up and down in her seat. Jason covered his face in embarrassment.

“Uh, yeah.... So your telling me that this ring some how switched us?” Chichi said drawing the conversation back to what was important.

“Yeah, she told me something about it this morning at school and then this afternoon when she wished to well, be you, that ring started flashing and she must have switched placed with you.” She said trying to finish off a donut.

Chichi didn’t like it. Not only was she in a strange world, but her husband probably thought this Alicia person, was her! She didn’t even want to think about what she was trying to do with him. Wasn’t this girl just a teenager? She wouldn’t dare... Dark thoughts filled Chichi’s head. She pictured herself strangling Alicia and then hanging Goku.

“Geeeeerrrrr...” Jason and Christina looked at her nervously. Chichi didn’t notice them staring at her. She was too busy thinking of different ways to torture Alicia and Goku.

It wasn’t fair. How come when ever things seem to be going good for her, everything blows up in her face? If their not fighting some monster from outer space, than a bunch of kids from another world! She had been kidnapped by a teenager who has her sights set on her Goku! She DESPERATELY wanted to kill something.

Also, what’s this about her being some kind of cartoon character?! That is just OUTRAGEOUS! She wasn’t some sort of stupid cartoon character! How dare they accuse her of such a thing! (She’s an anime character!)

She has a very REAL life, and no matter what any of them say to her, her world IS the real world. Not THIS place! After everything she’s been through in her life, it BETTER NOT all be a lie! She’d suffered too much!

*WHAM!!* She slammed her fists on the table they were all seated at and yelled.

“Listen! All I want to know, is how to get back home! I don’t care if you think I’m some kind of stupid cartoon character! I just want to go home!!”

Christina screamed in her chair and spilled her cup of milk all over her lap. Jason nearly choked on a pretzel but thankfully coughed it back up. Everyone else in the cafe stopped and stared at them.

After a moment of awkward silence...

“Well you see Chichi, that’s the problem hehe... We don’t know how to get you back. If you were wearing that ring, maybe you could wish yourself back but Alicia has it. We might have to wait for Alicia to wish things back to normal first.” Christina said quietly not wanting to upset her any more. Big mistake.

Chichi wasn’t happy. As a matter of fact, she was furious! She eyed Christina’s box of donuts on the table in front of them and thought about throwing them across the room but that would probably get them into trouble again.

She apparently had already gotten Alicia into trouble with her mother for destroying her room earlier. She felt kinda bad about that, but after what she did to her, she also felt she deserved it. The little slut was probably after her Goku! (forgive me but I had to say it HEHE...)

Oh well, children need to be disciplined, no matter what screwed up world they are from. So if she is grounded in her room for a month. NO Big deal!

She watched as Christina rammed her fourth donut into her mouth. She couldn’t help but be reminded of Goku. She thought only Saiyan’s ate like that! Jason seemed to have scooted away from her with embarrassed.

It would feel so good to just chunk a few donuts across the room. Hey, this wasn’t her house! She didn’t have to clean the mess up! It would relieve some of her pent up stress.

Jason decided that now was a good time to join in before Christina got the rest of her donut shoved down her throat by Chichi or something else too gruesome to imagine. It looked like she was planning on doing something with those donuts.

“UM...” He began but stopped as Chichi glared at him daring him to say something to piss her off. He squeaked and began again.

“We could talk to the old guy we got the ring from I guess....” He said pulling at the collar of his shirt. He REALLY didn’t want to do that but as soon as he said it, Chichi’s face lit up and she raced to his side and pulled him out of his chair knocking it over in the process.

An old guy seated near by shouted, “Whoa there! Where’s the fire?!” But Chichi ignored him.

“Take me to him now!” She demanded gripping his shirt. Jason was too frightened to say anything to her so he just shook his head in agreement.

Christina followed reluctantly behind Jason as Chichi drug him outside. Every body moved out of their way. They were all very relieved to see the crazy teen leave.

“Darn juvenile delinquents.” The old man said sitting at the counter drinking his coffee. A man next to him grunted in agreement.

Outside...

Chichi still hadn’t gotten use to the way things looked in this new world. It was suppose to be North America, but it wasn’t the same as the North America she knew on her home world.

She also changed physically even though she was still herself. She felt different some how. She felt weaker for some reason. In this world, her powers didn’t work. She wasn’t as powerful as the z-fighters but she still had a lot of chi. She is the strongest female warrior in her world. Here, it seems that no one can use their chi if they even have any.

Chichi decided that beating up her new teenagers companions wouldn’t be a very good idea after all. She would just have to pound inanimate objects like, that trash can!

*KICK!!*

Chichi kicked one filled with garbage as hard as she could and it went flying for yards into some one’s front yard.

“What?! That’s it?!” She shouted. Back home, it would have flown over the house and continued on for miles! She stopped and noticed the kids staring at her.

“What?” She asked. Alicia’s boyfriend, Jason with the braces, had his mouth hanging wide open with shock.

“Um Chichi? Why do you enjoy destroying things so much?” He asked rubbing his head. Chichi sighed sadly. She missed Gohan and Goku. She missed them so much, she had to destroy something.

“I don’t like it here. I want to go back home.” She said crossing her arms. She was tired of walking and the air here had too much pollution in it. It was beginning to make her feel a little bit sick.

They all turned when the owner of the house stepped onto his front porch. He took a look around his front yard and then glared at the kids. He pointed at them and started screaming.

“You kids! Come over here right now and pick up all this trash! I’m calling the cops!” He said stepping of his steps dialing some numbers on his cordless phone. Jason and Christina grabbed Chichi and ran for it.

“Hey! You punks! Get back over here right now!” He screams running after them.

The man did look pretty big and Chichi really didn’t feel like picking a fight with him so she ran as fast as her legs would allow her to. Two blocks down, a cop just casually patrolling the neiborhood passed them.

“Oh crap! We’d better get out of here now!” Jason gasps looking back. The guy chasing them motions down the policeman.

“Oh shi*!” Christina yells also looking back. The cop turns his lights on a second later also turning his patrol car around.

“Quick, this way!” Jason shouts fleeing into a Burger King.

“Why’d we go in here?! Christina gasps trying to catch her breath. They both duck as the cop car passes by.

Jason turns to Christina angry at her question. “We had to get off the side walk before we were spotted!” The two began to argue aand Chichi wonders off into the strange fast food joint. She walks up to the counter where a family is ordering their meal.

Woman: I’d like a whopper with everything on it, an order of Lg fries, and a Lg sprite. Man: Give me a BK broiler without the onions, an order of Lg fries, and a Lg coke. Kid: I want a cheese burger kid’s meal with a Dr Pepper and I want the Goku doll this time! Not a stupid Freeza doll! A Goku doll!!

Chichi stares at the little kid. What the...??

The woman blushes and begans to apologise to the lady behind the counter. “I am so sorry about that!” She says glaring at her son. If looks could kill...

“Josh! Don’t you ever do that again young man! That was very rude! Just for that, you shouldn’t be allowed to get any toy at all!” She scolds but this caused her son to go into hysterics. The mother too tired to argue with her son, gives in but not without a warning first.

Chichi is stunned. A Goku doll?

Over by the entrance Jason and Christina are still arguing.

Jason: Your such a ditz Christina! I wonder some times why Alicia likes you as a friend! Christina: Hmmmph! She know’s I’m someone she can count on! Jason: What’s that suppose to mean?! Christina: How do we know you weren’t cheating?! Hu?! That might not have been your cousin! Jason: It was my cousin! Christina: Yeah sure! Jason: ARRGGG! I tell you she was my cousin! Your an idiot! Christina: Yeah?! Your the real idiot Jason! Your the one who took the ring from that old guy when he warned you about it! Jason: *silence* Christina: HA! YOU SEE! I’m right!

Suddenly Jason looks around and starts to panic.

“Where’s Chichi?!” He screams.

Christina stops talking and looks around too. They both spot her at the same time in the back digging through a barrel of DBZ action figures. Jason and Christina look at each other and scream.

Behind the counter...

“Where are all the Chichi dolls?” She screams throwing DBZ action figures left and right. One lands in a customer’s coke splashing it all over his face and another lands in the deep fry. It sinks to the bottom never to be seen again.

“Please! There are no Chichi dolls! You aren’t allowed back here now please go back up front.” The manager says trying to calm Chichi down. Chichi growls and stands up holding up the action figures. The manager staggers back a little frightened at the look she’s gives him.

“This is terrible! Out of all these dolls, there isn’t a single Chichi doll!” She complains tossing the one in front of the counter where a bunch of kids make a dive for it.

“Hey! I finally got a Super Saiyan Goku doll!” One of the kids shout holding the action figure up and sticking his tounge out. The rest groan.

Behind the counter things are starting to look really bad...

“Why aren’t there any Chichi dolls?!” Chichi demands crossing her arms. One of the workers behind her pick up a phone but before he can dial anything, Jason and Christina grab the phone from him and slammed it back down on the reciever. The employee stagers away frightened.

“Please, let us take care of her. We’ll get her out! You don’t have to call the cops! Please!” Jason begs. The works nods his head and backs off. Slowly and very quietly Jason and Christina come up behind Chichi and grab her arms.

“We are soooo sorry! Our friend here is odviously sick...” Jason says laughing nervously barly hanging on to Chichi.

“What?! I am not...!!” Chichi doesn’t get the chance to finish because Jason slaps his hand over her mouth.

With the help of a few other people in the place, they finally get Chichi outside.

Once outside, “How dare you do that to me!!” Chichi screams, her face turning bright red.

“Chichi! You almost got us in trouble again! That guy was ready to call the cops!” Jason yells right back into her face. He was getting really tired of being screamed at by her. Chichi being the proud woman that she is, slaps him, HARD.

Jason and Christina hear a few snickers and ewwww from the people around them. Jason holds his cheek a second too stunned to talk.

A few second pass before he is able to speak again. He's barely controlling his anger. “That’s the third time today that I’ve been slapped and on the same cheek! I think I’m going to have a perminent hand mark printed on my face by tomarrow!” He says turning to go but stops and spins around.

“If you weren’t a girl, I’d clobber you one!!”

“Oh really?! Well give me your best shot, hot shot!” Chichi says encouraging him to fight. Just as he’s about to take her up on the offer, he spots the old man they were all looking for across the street.

*'HAAAA LA LUYA' music fills the air and everyone turns their heads in slow motion to where Jason is pointing*

“There he is! The old guy I got the ring from!” He yells with excitment. Both Chichi and Christina see lots of old guys.

"Which one?!" Chichi shouts. Jason points again.

"The one with the gray sweater! Hurry, let's stop him before he gets on that bus!" He shouts running off after the old guy.

“Wait!” Christina shoutes running after him.

“Finally.” Chichi sighs relaxing her hands at her side. Luky for Jason the old man showed up when he did because she was really ready to kick his as*.

They make it across the street but just as they are about to reach the old guy, the bus takes off.

"Wait! I have your ring and I need your help!!" Jason shouts chasing after the bus but it's too late. Jason collapses on a bench as the other finally catch up to him.

"Why didn't you stop the bus?" Christina pants leaning against a light post. Chichi sighs and collapses on the bench next to Jason. Christina joins them on the bench. All three of them look like they just ran in a marithon.

Jason checks his watch and graons. "It's already ten o-clock! My mother is going to kill me for staying out so late!

Christina jumps up and looks at Jason. "Oh no! I told my mom I'd be home at nine! Oh, I'm going to be in so much trouble!"

"This sucks. Now what are we going to do?" Christina shrugs and yawns.

"I'm beat, let's all go home. We can find the old guy tomarrow." Christina says stretching. Jason and Christina smile at each other lazily and then stare down at Chichi. Chichi is just sitting there staring straight ahead.

"Chichi? Are you ok?" Christina asks softly.

Chichi isn't just staring ahead at nothing. She's staring at something in particular. Suddenly Chichi stand up and just takes off running.

Jason and Christina take off after her.

"Not again!" Jason shouts, his voice getting hoarsh from screaming so much. When he see's where exactly Chichi is running to, he screams again.

"NO! CHICHI! DON'T DO IT! WE'LL GET SENT TO PRISON FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES!!"

Chichi jumps into a car that is already running. The owner of the car is buying a newspaper and by the time he turns around, his car is gone. Jason and Christina barly have time to jump into the back seat as Chichi speeds off.

Back in DBZ land...

Piccolo senses that something is wrong as well and joins Goku at his house. Both of them come running inside startling Alicia.

"What's going on? Is something wrong?" She asks clutching a pot holder. Goku looks really serious.

"Gohan is missing." The stress in his voice really showing. The last time Gohan had been kidnapped by Garlic Jr, Goku and Piccolo had a really hard time defeating him but Garlic Jr had alrady come back and been defeated again. Who or what could have taken Gohan now and why couldn't they sense him?

"Oh no! What do you mean? Did some one kidnap him?" Alicia cried dropping the pot holder. Goku walked past her, out through the back door. He stopped in their back yard and closed his eyes again trying to consintrate on his son's chi. A few seconds later he broke his concentraton and sighed loudly.

"I can't sense him any where." He said quietly sitting down on the ground. He slowly lowered his head to into his hands and just sat there quietly. It could mean only one thing. Gohan was dead.

Alicia didn't want to believe that. No, this wasn't suppose to happen! This is suppose to be her perfect world. Nothing bad is suppose to happen in it.

Piccolo wasn't about to give up either.

"I'm going out to look for him! Some one or something could be blocking his chi from us." He said to Goku. Goku looked up and smiled jumping to his feet.

"Yeah! Your right! I'm going to get the other's to help search for him!" He said turning to Chichi.

"Chichi, don't worry. We'll find him. I sware we will." He said giving her a quick kiss before disapearing. Alicia sighed and stared off into space. What was going on? this wasn't suppose to happen. Poor

TO BE CONTINUED... (BWA HA HA HA HA!!)

TO BE CONTINUED... (evil laugh)