The Vampire- (sorry I couldn't think of any other title!)
Chapter 1.
Bulma walked into the police station and took the elevator up. She had her coffee in one hand while the other in her pocket. She always wore a professional top,black or brown sleek pants and her long trench coat due to the weather's behavior recently. If it wasn't raining, it was cold and windy. She stepped off the elevator with several other people, heading towards her everyday routine to her desk with other employees. She had just finished wrapping up a case helping the DA gather more information for prosecuting a man who murdered his wife who was thought to be cheating, although there was never any proof of it. Unfortunately, the man was soon released because there wasn't enough evidence to convict him.
She saw everyone gathered over the Television and heard people talking from the box. She looked over while she took her coat off, throwing it over her chair at her desk that oddly enough was kept neater and nicer than most. She glanced at her watch which showed it almost 8:30am, sipping on her coffee cup as she walked over with the others.
"Another man was found this morning," The news woman spoke, while a video was shown of a dead body being covered and police covering the scene with yellow tape everywhere. "The man's name is not known at this time as it is speculated he was homeless but rumors are saying the man was a criminal who was charged of killing his wife several months ago. The man who was charged was freed due to lack of evidence, but if it is the same young man then it seems someone as yet again taken Justice into his or her own hands." This had been happening every week, another person would be found dead. They were always killed at night, and it always seemed to be someone who had been in trouble with the law that got away.
"Damn," a man who was shorter then most spoke up who's name was Krillin, "you know the county has been trying to find out what happened to that guy and now he shows up like a platter."
"It doesn't matter," said a man who's name was Gohan, "no one is suppose to take the law into their own hands. Who ever they are they are just murdering people and should be charged too." Directly after, the newswoman spoke again.
"The only details given is the man has two wholes, just as the other victims who have been found and drained of blood. Citizens have began a nickname for the serial killer as JV for Justice Vampire."
"See!" Gohan began, "The person is just wanting recognition. They are wanting to kill people but only kill the ones who have also done wrong so if they are cought they can get off too!"
Bulma didn't say anything, she just watched and listen, after all, this wasn't even their case. It was the SVU's case because the first killings were those of rapist but now it seemed to drain down to just any criminal. Their boss's door opened from his private office.
"Okay okay people, move it along we all got work to do." Kai (aka King Kai) walked out holding a folder in his hand and shooing everyone. Everyone headed back to their own seats at their desks as did Bulma. She saw the file he carried and new it was a new case for them. Kai walked over to his favorite group who always got the top cases. Bulma, Gohan, Krillin, and Yumcha all looked up at him.
"Well, I think you guys will love this one!" The group waited patiently. He laid the folder at the the nearest desk which was Bulma's. As he talked she opened up the folder,"You guys are now given the JV case."
"What?" Yumcha stood up, "That vampire?"
"Oh Yumcha, its not a Vampire," ensured Gohan.
"What happened with SVU taking it?" asked Bulma as she reviewed the file.
"Well, there are many more rape cases coming up and I told the board at the meeting that my best group just finished a case so that we could take it. They were happy to hand it over."
Krillin went over her shoulder to look at the report, "Is it all males?"
"No," replied Bulma, "there's a female in here who was killed too. She was supposed to be prosecuted for poisoning her parents. And a few other females too."
"And that's not all," Kai had a look that came about him that caught all their attentions. "It's not just criminals that are being killed, but that's not released to the public." Everyone leaned in as if straining to hear him, "A detective from SVU that was working on this died the same way which I'm sure is why they were gracious to hand it over." There was nothing but silence form the five even though everyone else in the building continued to work. "I'll understand if you guys don't want to do take this case-"
"Hell no, not me!" yelled Yumcha.
"Well, I don't either but it does need to get done, Yumcha," Krillin was obviously scared but not as dim witted as Yumcha.
Gohan had been over Bulma's shoulder by now reading along with her as they listened, it was clear they weren't going to let it slip out of their hands as easily.
"I want two of you to stay at desk duty, you can make calls and get info and the other two will be the ones who goes out." Bulma and Gohan were always the ones who left the building doing the real detective work, Krillin and Yumcha were normally too scared and couldn't contain composure but that wasn't to say they weren't hard workers. "DO NOT let it get out of a detective who died from this. We will eventually have to say something but I want you guys to try to gather more information before people get too scared to talk. Are their any questions?"
Yumcha had already started trying to pull up information about the case that was already released to the public. "As long as I can stay here , I'm good."
"I'll make some calls," Krillin said as he went to his desk, picking up the phone.
Gohan and Bulma looked at one another, they had worked with one another for a while now and they already knew what each other thought.
"Crime scene?" Asked Bulma. Gohan was already grabbing his coat. She stood up, pulling her coat that she had just taken off for a few minutes, pulling her gun in her holster and grabbing her badge, following Gohan to the elevators.
They arrived at the crime scene they had just seen not too long ago on the news. They showed their badge and were let in through the taped area. Gohan walked up to an officer who seemed to have the information. Bulma walked over to the body pulling up the sheet just enough to look at the marks on the man's neck.
"Yep, its him" said the officer, "His name was Roshi and he had just went to trial being charged for killing his wife. He was let go due to lack of evidence." Gohan and Bulma didn't need to know anymore as they were the ones who was originally on that mans case. They listened and talk as they found out more, just like the others he was killed in an alley at night after midnight.
Bulma and Gohan pulled them self aside to talk,
"I don't see a connection with these people." Bulma told him, "they are all in different parts of the city, they have noting in common except they have blood and are killed sometime after midnight before the sun comes up."
"Well he's gotta be doing it at night so there's a less chance to be seen." Gohan protested.
"Maybe. I think we should go to SVU and have a talk with them, find out if maybe their detective was hiding a secret or something." Gohan only nodded as they left once again.
They arrived at the SVU headquarters. Bulma showed her badge and ID,
"We're the ones who are now over the JV serial killer case." A man walked up to her and Gohan, his hair had a tint of purple in it and even though his looks were more of boyish charms he seemed to be depressed.
"You are here to talk to me then." He stuck out his hand towards them, "I'm Trunks. My partner and I were originally on the case."
"Is there somewhere we can talk in private?" Asked Gohan. Trunks shook his head yes as they walked away form everyone in an area and talked softly to one another.
"Well, just start from the beginning I guess," responded Bulma. The man hesitated for a moment, gaining his composer and finally began to talk.
"Videl and I had the case and after several weeks it seemed we were getting no where. Then she had the idea to stay out at night in alleys. I didn't like the idea of it but she wanted to catch him. She came in one morning and said she actually had saw him and spoke to him."
"What did he say?" Gohan asked as he continued taking notes.
"She said he had spiky hair and only saw the back of his head. Most of the time he wore a cloak of some kind and covered his head and face with a hood." Trunks, turning his face away. It was clear that he and his partner were close.
"It's ok," Bulma said resting her hand on his shoulder. "Take your time."
"Sorry...anyways" he began again, "She said he stopped her once and told her to not get in his way or she would be next." Bulma and Gohan only looked at each other in regards to his comment.
"But there's some more information you guys need if you want to catch him." Trunks walked back over to his desk where he rummaged through papers.
"Here!" He said, handing some papers to Bulma. She looked at them and saw pictures of dead animals like cows and horses-large animals with the same markings as their victims as the same outcome.
"She suspected who ever is doing these killings also sometimes went out killing animals. But that was at the beginning of our case. Since then she never came across any other animals that was related so she suspected that whoever or whatever was doing these got bored with killing the animals and went towards people. She even made a comment at one point that even she was believing the public that this was a vampire too, but far doing justice." Trunks began to get upset, "he's just a monster!"
"He?" Said Bulma, "so it is a man then?"
"That's what Videl said, but at one point she didn't think he was even from Earth." Gohan and Bulma looked stunned. This was a huge start.
"Did she ever make a sketch of what she saw or anything?" Gohan asked.
"It should be in those papers." Bulma looked through the papers and indeed she found a sketch. It had a face hidden by darkness and shadows with a hood covering his head. It didn't really give much of anything but it was better then nothing at all.
"Is there anything else you can tell us?" Bulma asked. She wanted to make sure they got all they could from them.
"Nothing else that isn't already in the file." Bulma and Gohan nodded, thanking him for his time and turned to leave.
"WAIT!" Trunks yelled, running at them. "There is one more things." They turned and looked at him waiting on his response. "We made a suggestion that this man wasn't out to kill criminals, that is, it was only a coincidence."
"What do you mean?" Asked Bulma.
"I mean, that is just happened to be criminals out at night when he was. He still would have killed them, after all Videl didn't do a thing wrong in her life and she died. Some people who knew that Roshi guy also said he didn't really kill his wife which is why there wasn't any evidence."
"Well, thank you for your time Trunks and let us know if you think of anything," Gohan told the gentleman handing him his card.
They went back to the headquarters where they met Krillin and Yumcha again.
"You guys find anything?" asked GOhan
"Well, it is the same guy, I had the saliva that was left on the victims reexamined with our people and its all the same." Yumcha told them
"Um, guys" Krillin started, "You might want to see this!" They followed Krillin who took them to a room to see a video. It was a surveillance cam from the street. They couldn't believe what they saw. Someone was indeed wearing a cloak like hood. He, was flying! He flew down near the alley where Roshi walked down.
"Now, watch what happens after he's killed," the camera didn't catch exactly how he killed but after he walked back out of the alley the man turned towards the camera. He didn't look up but he waved then flew off.
"Can you rewind that and zoom in on his face?" Bulma asked pointing at the television. The camera re winded backwards and froze when the man waved. They zoomed in but all they could get was his mouth. It showed him smiling, and it was an evil smile-it showed sharp teeth just like a vampire."
"SEE!" shrieked Yumcha, "I told you guys it was a real Vampire! We're gonna die, shit we're gonna die!"
"Can it Yumcha," Yelled Krillin. Bulma seemed to be frozen at the figure on the screen.
"He's toying with us" Bulma finally spoke. "It's a game to him."
"He's gotta be draining the bodies somehow, maybe he's carrying something under the cloak?" Gohan said, trying to figure out all possibilities.
"Dude" began Yumcha again, "He's fucking drinking their blood, how else does his saliva get on the bodies?" Gohan got mad, about to yell at him, but Bulma spoke up.
"He does have a point GOhan," Bulma said. SHe hated to agree with Yumcha on anything, he always acted like a kid, but obviously if this man wanted people to think he was a creature he was doing a good job and even had the evidence to show it. Unfortunately nothing showed up in their system.
Next couple of days the group worked on everything they could. Gohan and Bulma visited the victims families but nothing ever really seemed to be connected. While they were sitting in the building, a tall man with large ears came in. His name was Piccolo and he had a degree in psychology learning about criminal minds.
"There are two possibilities here." Piccolo spoke to the gang while they tried to decipher clues, "one, he could honestly think of himself as a true vampire and has put himself into this situation as a life style, or he is indeed crazed with killing and just as Bulma said, its a game to him. And I'm sure if he finds out about any of you on the case there's a possibility he will taunt you or worse."
"We're obviously not getting anywhere, we don't have any way to know if he's spending a week looking for a victim or if it truly is random. We've even got an Innocent woman who he killed." Bulma told the group.
Then Krillin spoke, "Yeah but Bulma, she was a detective. He probably did it on purpose, you saw him smiling on camera."
"We need to do a steak out of some kind." Gohan told them.
"You mean put someone up as bait?" Asked Bulma. She knew that's what he was thinking, but for some reason she had to ask. They brought Kai out and talked to him about it.
"I dunno," he started, rubbing his chin, but Piccolo jumped in.
"You'll have to have people in buildings. If he sees' anyone else is around he most likely won't show or will chose another victim."
"Well, if we don't do anything, he'll just kill again!" Bulma yelled.
"Alright, everyone go home and get some rest. Even if we were able to get everything we need tonight we wouldn't be able to do anything." Kai looked at everyone. "It's almost been a week, so we'll come in in the morning and go over everything and get what we need and start preparations. And if ANYTHING seems out of ordinary then call someone." He stared at Bulma, she was always the one who said she could do everything herself even when she knew she needed help.
"Don't worry about me, I'm going straight home!" She shook her hand at the boys. She was the only female in the group yet they never seemed to treat her differently over it.
Bulma got out of her car and looked at her apartment-she raised her arm to look at her watch and it was almost 11:30pm.
'I still got some time', she thought to herself. She walked down the sidewalk and pulled out a little digital camera from her coat pocket. She saw a dark alley and began taking pictures of it. There was no one around, as if the area was deserted. She got chill bumps that began to go up her arm. The man always struck after midnight so she felt safe, but she also knew that if this man wanted to, he'd probably start killing at another time to throw the police off.
"Why are you taking pictures?"
A low voice spoke from nowhere. Deep breathing came from behind after she heard the words. Bulma gasped, grabbing her chest as she turned around, she heard a click from her camera but thought nothing of it. A strange awkward looking man now stood in front her. He had smooth skin, deep dark black hair that was spiky, and wore all black. Bulma had pulled her gun out, pointing it at the gentleman. He just slowly and calmly raised his hands near his head. He didn't seemed to be fazed by a gun at all.
"Did I do something wrong?" The man asked, still in the low voice.
Bulma thought she caught a glimpse of his teeth, one tooth that seemed to be longer then the others but before she could notice anymore he closed his lips to. She figured between the street lights and being scared her mind was making her see it so she thought nothing more of it. Besides, they weren't in an alley and it wasn't even midnight yet.
"It's not good to sneak up on someone." Bulma told the man putting her pistol back into her holster at her side. The man gently lowered his hands to his side.
"Sorry. I was just wondering why you're taking pictures." The man stood so still in front of her. He stood so straight yet his head was slightly tilted. He put his hands back into his pocket of his black coat. Bulma was still breathing hard trying to gather herself together.
"I'm a detective and I'm just doing research. Did you need something?" She put the camera back into her pocket.
"No, I was just heading to the bar down there." He pointed down the same road where her apartment was. There was a bar but because she had always been so focused on work she never noticed. "Would you like to join me?" He stuck out his hand as if he were going to take hers. Bulma glanced at his hand, he was so clean and so neat.
"No thank you, I've got to get up early."
The man shrugged pulling back his hand and began to walk towards the building. As he passed her he continued talking.
"A drink always helped me get to sleep." Bulma began walking back towards her apartment and took a step on the stairs. She stopped and looked as the man was still walking. She sighed, would it really hurt to have one drink?
"You win!" she yelled at the stranger, walking up behind him. "I guess I can have one drink." She told him. The man gave a half closed smile as they walked into the building together. She never saw from being behind him, but as they walked in his face turned cold and dark-a sinister!
LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK! I haven't read any fanfics where someone is a vampire so here's mine.