Monsters
Chi-Chi paused from her gardening to watch Goku and Goten playing a few feet away. She smiled. It was wonderful to see her youngest son getting to know his father.
“Show it again, Daddy!” Goten kept saying, bouncing around his father.
“You’ve already seen it before!” Goku laughed.
“But I wanna see it again! Please, please, please, please, please, please, please…”
“Okay, okay,” Goku relented. “Get ready!”
Curious, Chi-Chi got up and walked towards them, absentmindedly brushing dirt off her skirt. What were those two up to?
Before she could ask, there was an explosion of wind and light. She shrieked, shielding her eyes against the blast. She dug her heels into the ground so that she wouldn’t be knocked off her feet. As soon as the light dimmed and the earth stopped shaking, she looked back to Goku and Goten. Her mouth fell open.
Where Goku had been standing now was some…creature a long golden mane and fierce teal eyes.
Chi-Chi barely had time to register the sight before she fainted.
Goku and Goten hurried to her side. Goku patted her face gently. “Chi-Chi, wake up! Are you okay? Come on, honey, please wake up…”
Chi-Chi stirred and moaned as Goku helped her sit up. “I’m okay,” she said groggily, squinting at the bright light. “I don’t know what happened…I just thought I saw this horrible monster…”
Her vision slowly cleared, giving her a close-up not of her husband’s familiar face, but the face of that thing. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head and she slumped into Goku’s arms.
“I think Super Saiyan 3 scares her,” Goten said.
“Yeah,” Goku said sheepishly.
“She didn’t like it when I first turned Super Saiyan too.” Goten frowned suddenly. “She said I looked like a monster too.”
“Sounds about right,” Goku sighed as he hoisted his wife’s limp body off the ground. “We’d better get her some water.”
Goten bit his lip. “Does she really think we’re monsters?”
“Of course not,” Goku assured him. “Your mother loves us. She just doesn’t like it when we change like that. She freaked out when she saw me and Gohan as Super Saiyans. And she’s never seen this one before.”
Relieved, Goten giggled. “You do kind of look scary that way. Like in one of those monster movies.”
“Heh,” Goku grinned. “C’mon, my fellow monster. Let’s take this pretty girl back to our lair to be our prisoner.” The two of them laughed as they went inside.
It took another hour of Goku’s ministrations—holding smelling salts under her nose, splashing ice water on her face, fanning her, rubbing her hands and face, calling her name over and over—to revive Chi-Chir. He made sure to power down from Super Saiyan 3 before she opened her eyes.
Again! Thank you for the lovely story! You're such a great writer, and I loved Chichi's reaction!