READ THE A/N OR YOU'LL GET CONFUSED
A/N: Hey everybody. So this is something I had in my computer like for years, and I thought this was a good time to post it, so here you go. This may look very familiar if you have seen "Supernatural" if not, just read it. It's not a crossover, they are the same stories but with our own dear Trunks and Goten and my personal twist in the plot. I hope you enjoy them and if you have any comment good or bad, leave a review. This is set after the Buu Saga, everything was at peace, until people began disappearing and dying by unknown reasons. This fic is centered mostly on Trunks and Goten. This is after Goku leaves to train Uub. The setting is settled in October. I want to make ten stories but it might be less.
Disclaimer: I do not own, by any chance, Dragon Ball Z or Supernatural. Not that I don't want to.
"Everybody loves a clown"
The news were unsettling, definitely terrifying. "Five murders…in a week! This has to stop." Chichi said.
It was a nice summer day. The Sons were spending the day at Capsule Corps. Bulma was talking with Chichi in the kitchen about the bad news of the everlasting murdering of the last 2 months. On the dining room, Gohan and Videl were talking with Trunks and Goten about the same subject.
"I still think this is a disease! Some kind of virus." Gohan said.
"None of that, the police said that the corpses were ripped apart, limb by limb. This is someone doing!" Videl protested.
They continued arguing, while the two youths that were sitting in front of them were having their own conclusions.
"I don't know what to think about this, really. It creeps me out, though. All those people dying." Trunks said. Goten was silent looking at the table. Trunks began poking him.
"Hey, stop that! I don't know what to think either, but it should stop." Goten said, pissed about his friend poking him in the ribs.
"Maybe we could investigate a little about it don't you think, Goten?" Trunks smirked, deviously.
"Do we have to?" he responded, but after seeing the suspicious glare of Trunks he added. "Oh, yeah. Definitely. It's not like we can get harmed or something." They grinned at each other. Until Videl changed the subject.
"Hey! Do you know there's a carnival on the city? We should take Pan and Bra so they can have some fun. Look at them, they look bored!" She said. Gohan turned his head to see the little girls, sitting on the kitchen floor, doing nothing. And nodded to Videl.
"Would you care to join, guys? You seem like you need a distraction too." Gohan added.
Goten and Trunks looked at each other and knowing they had nothing else to do, agreed.
They passed through the kitchen and told the girls about it. They were happy. Jumping all over the place.
"I don't think that's a good idea." Chichi protested when they told her and Bulma their destination.
"Why not, mom?" Goten asked.
"The last five homicides are related to the carnival. The 5 families went to the carnival the same evening they were murdered…" She intended to continue but Pan interrupted.
"Don't worry Granny! Daddy, Mommy, Uncle Goten, and Trunks can take them off, so can I." She said. She glanced to the little blue-haired girl beside her. "She can't, she doesn't know how to fight."
Bra scowled at her, but didn't said anything, she only gave her back at her. Bulma giggled. "Let them go, Chi! They're not in danger. You know it."
"Very well, but be here soon. And Goten, don't go flirting all around, please." Chichi added when they were past the main entrance. Goten blushed and felt Trunk's elbow in his ribs. They left to spend a lovely evening at the carnival.
Morning came. Trunks was outside fixing the auto-jet he had crushed last week after a party.
"How's the auto-jet coming along?" He heard someone asking. He peered and saw at Goten, after an odd glance at him he returned to work.
"Slow." Trunks said.
"Yeah? Need any help?" Goten asked sheepishly.
Trunks rolled his eyes. "What? You under a hood? I'll pass."
Goten doubted and added "Need anything else, then?"
Trunks lifted his head to look at his friend. "Stop it, Goten."
"Stop what?"
"Stop asking if I need anything. Stop asking if I'm okay. I'm okay." Trunks answered, pissed.
"Jeez, you're in a bad mood." Goten pointed out.
"Sorry, my mom gave me the nag of the century after we returned yesterday because Bra had a scratch in the knee." After a long glance to his friend, he asked. "What's up? You look sad."
"Yeah, well I sort of had a discussion with Gohan right now."
Trunks couldn't believe his ears. Gohan? Discussion? With Goten? "About what?" He asked.
Goten simple answered. "Dad."
"Oh. What did he said?" He was acting like he cared. Actually he gave a damn about Goten and Gohan's dad. He didn't know him well enough.
"I told him, how he was feeling about dad. I told him he didn't bring him up anymore. And he said 'You know what? You're right, come here. I wanna lay my head on your shoulder. Maybe we can cry, hug. Maybe even slow dance."
By the time Goten finished, Trunks was staring at him with his jaw on the floor. That didn't sound like Gohan at all. "Jeez, maybe he was on a bad mood."
"Maybe. Just like you were a few minutes ago."
Trunks rolled his eyes. "There was another homicide. Last night."
Goten grasped. "Really? Jeez! You know, reconsidering your offer about yesterday. I think we should look after this."
Trunks glared at him in silent. "Maybe." And he returned to his auto-jet. He made some re-adjustments."Okay, the let's go. To the carnival."
"Why the carnival?"
"Your mom said the homicides were linked to the carnival. Let's figure it out."
"Okay then, but I don't think we should fly though, don't want to freak out all the people."
Trunks reconsidered it. "Yeah, you're right. C'mon get in the car. I'm driving."
After a very annoying day of blabbering and talking with freaks they finally made up to a bar where a guy named Gal knew a bit about the murderer.
They landed near the yard of a Godforsaken bar.
Trunks scowled when he hopped out the jet. "This is stupid. We've already spent most of the day, and we still don't have a damn clue."
Goten ignored him and headed toward the Porch. "Hello?"
"It looks empty. Look, the door is open let's go in."
They looked around, but found nothing. The tables were empty, no customers, not even booze. Only a someone laying on a pool table, so they decided to ignore him. Goten entered the kitchen and Trunks stayed outside peering for his auto-jet, when he felt something sharp on his back. He knew it was a gun, he knew he was immune to them, but whoever was holding it didn't. He pretended to be scared.
"Oh, God please let that be a rifle." He mumbled. He heard the gun lock. And a female voice. It was a blonde girl.
"No. I'm just really happy to see you." Seh said, sarcastically. "Don't move."
"Not moving. Copy that." He said. "You should now something, miss. When you put a rifle on someone, don't put it right against their back because it make really easy to do-" He turned abruptly taking the gun from her hands, without her noticing "-this." He suddenly felt his head being pushed behind, She had punched him in the face. That didn't hurt at all, physically. But that gave her the opportunity to take the rifle off his hands and now she was pointing at him with it. He decide to pretend a little more. He winced over his "apparently" broken nose. "Goten, I need some help in here."
"Sorry Trunks." Trunks turned to face his friend with his hands behind his head and a lady pointing a gun to him too. "Can't right now. I'm a little tied up."
"Trunks? Goten?" The second lady said. She looked like she knew them.
They glared at each other, pretending to be scared at the guns and said in unison. "Yeah"
"Son of a bitch." She spit.
"Mom, you know this guys?" The blonde said.
"Yeah, they're here, about the carnival issue." She said to the blonde, she put the gun down, and talked to the boys. "No need to fake here, boys. I know this don't do you any harm."
Goten and Trunks looked at her in disbelief. "How do you know?" Trunks asked.
"Not everybody knows the true story but that Mr. Satan wasn't the one who defeated Cell or Buu, it was you guys. You and your family. Besides, it wasn't you who won the Martial Arts tournament in the kids division when Buu appeared?" She pointed to Trunks.
"I saw you at the carnival yesterday, we're on the same road about the murders. Sit." She pointed at the bar.
"I'm Laura, by the way. This is my daughter, Sam. Short for Samantha."
"Nice to meet you, I think." Goten said, looking flirty at Sam. Trunks only scowled. 'I don't trust this people.'
"Someone told us you could help, about the carnival problem, you know, about the murders. How?" Trunks dictated, still not trusting.
She laughed. "Well, I can tell you how to bind the demon." She was cut by Trunks.
"Wait a sec- did you just said "demon"? A ghost? Not human?"
Goten was dashed about her statement too but he remained silent. Laura understood.
"Of course. Tell me. Do you believe in ghosts? In the supernatural?"
"Hell, no!" Trunks yelled.
"You should. You might not believe me now. But know the destiny is clear about you. You're dealing with a demon. And until you both stop it, it will continue killing."
Trunks looked at her with disbelief. "So, how do you intend us to catch something that is already dead?" He was dripping sarcasm with every word.
"Gal will do it! He will tell you how to trap it." Sam said, enthusiastically.
Goten and Trunks looked doubtful at each other. "Okay, anything to secure the lives of those threatened" Gotn said convincingly.
"Aww, come on. You can't believe this shit Goten!" Trunks asked, pissed.
"In fact I do Trunks! I don't know how, but I got this feeling that she's telling the truth." He answered.
"Yeah, right. Whatever. Go on, call this 'Gal' guy." Trunks said pissed.
Laura smirked. "GAL!" Suddenly the figure that was laying on the pool table stood quickly.
"What?" He screamed back.
Goten looked at Sam in disbelief. "That's Gal?"
She nodded. "That's right. He's a genius."
Gal sat at the bar. And Trunks smirked. "You got to be kidding. He's no genius. He's a Lynyrd Skynyrd roadie." Gal looked at him and smiled. "I like you." He backed. "Thanks." Trunks answered.
"Just give him a chance." Sam replied.
Trunks looked at Sam, then at Goten, then back to Gal. He lifted an eyebrow and sat. "All right. What can you tell us, 'Gal'?"
Gal pulled out a bunch of paper, a big fat book, that looked more lika an agenda than a book, and an odd-looking device. Goten thought it looked like a very big old cell phone. Goten took the agenda and began flipping the pages while Trunks studied the strange device.
Gal smiled at them. "That book you are holding, boy, can tell you about every single paranormal creature out there, and that thing" -he pointed to the device in Trunk's hands- "is an EMF detector."
Goten looked up from the agenda "EMF?"
Gal looked at him like he was handicapped. "Electromagnetic field." He took the device from Trunks hands. "Spectral energies can cause fluctuations that can be read with an EMF detector."
"Come on. This crap ain't real. There's no way he can track a ghost, -let's not say a demon- like this." Trunks muttered. He felt Goten's foot stamped on his own.
"This are non-parametic statistical overviews." Gal said, showing them the papers he took our before. "Cross-spectrum correlations. I mean…damn. They're signs. Omens. If you can track them, you can track this demon. You know, like crop failures, electrical storms. Have you ever been hit by a lightning? It ain't fun." He said all this flipping the papers and reading them.
Trunks and Goten were dumbfounded. Goten realized his mouth was totally open and asked. "Can you track it or not?"
Gal didn't lift his head. "Yeah, with this, I think so. It's going to take time. Give me…" He quieted himself as he stared at the ceiling. He then stared at Trunks and smirked. "…34 hours." He stood, took the papers and left.
Goten chuckled nervously. Sam began to clean one of the tables, and Trunks decided to test his luck with her. Goten did it all the time, why he not?
Meanwhile, Lauren gave Goten a folder. He looked quizzically at her. He opened the folder. In it he found pictures and news about the victims of the supposed "demon." He began to read. After a while, Goten looked up at her.
"So, how do you kill a…ghost?" He asked. Laura looked up at him. "I know what you're thinking, kid. None of those powers of yours can harm them. I mean they're dead. You need rock salt. Guns full of it. That's the weapon you need. And if you ever find the Colt, well you're off the hook, but that thing has been lost for ages."
Goten stared at her with an undecipherable look, shook his head, and went back to reading the papers. Meanwhile, Trunks was trying his luck with Sam.
"So, how did you mom got into this?" Trunks asked Sam. She looked at him and smiled. "My dad, He was a paranormal hunter. He got himself killed by one of those bloody demons." She sounded so convinced that Trunks founded himself questioning the existence of other beings, dead beings. On a second thought, Goten's dad was dead when Majin Buu happened, wasn't he?
"I'm sorry" He said. She smiled, "It was a long time ago, I was just a kid." Sam answered. "So, I guess I've got 34 hours to waste." He said pointing at the door in which Gal disappeared. "Maybe tonight we can…umm…never mind, wrong place, wrong time." He stood and sat besides Goten, filled with embarrassment, and began playing with the EMF.
"Hey, check this out Trunks." Goten said looking at the pictures, Trunks stared at them and frowned, thing were going to get very complicated. "This demon is pissing me off, come on Goten, we have to hunt him down." And they left the bar.
They left to Capsule Corps. Not telling anything to anyone. They ate and left after the night fall. They were driving in the auto jet. Goten was still reading the papers Laura gave him.
"You gotta be kidding me. A killer clown?" Trunks gasped.
"Yeah." Goten answered without lifting his head. "He left the daughter unharmed and killed the parents. Ripped them to pieces, actually."
"And this family was at the carnival that night? Trunks asked.
"Yep. The Trooper Carnival."
"So how do you know we're not dealing with some psycho in a clown suit?"
"Well, the cops have no viable leads. You heard Videl. And all the employees were tearing down shop. Alibis all around. Plus, the girl said she saw a clown vanish into thin air."
"He can be just quick, like us." Trunks backed up.
"Nah, I don't think so."
Trunks began to laugh. "I know what you're thinking, Goten. 'Why did it have to be clowns?'"
Goten blushed, it was stupid tough, but when he was a kid he was scared of clowns. Not anymore. "Oh, give me a break!"
"You didn't think I remembered, did you Goten?" Trunks continued laughing. "Come on, you still burst out crying when you see Ronald McDonald on the television."
Goten smirked, he looked unusual with a smirk on his face. "At least I'm not afraid of closets." Trunks growled. "It's claustrophobia, you moron."
"Well, anyway, this clown kills and he likes to do it." Goten pointed out. They became silent.
Trunks stirred and asked. "So this kind of murders, have it happened before?"
"According to this file, fifty years ago. The Darren Brother Circus."
"You know, what Goten? This is no like you or me… we're doing this for a common good not for fun! That creeps me out!"
"Yeah well, what else is new? We're full of surprises, just like your mother said when I dyed your hair black so you were able to look more Saiyan and you looked just to much like Vegeta! Terrifying." They began to laugh at the memory.
Meanwhile, in the carnival…
"Hey, Sean look at this! This funhouse is scary don't you think son?"
"Yeah dad, whatever." The kid was paying more attention at his Nintendo DS, ignoring his father.
Suddenly, Sean felt the need to look in one of the mirrors in front of him. He smiled and waved at the reflection.
"Look, dad! A clown!
His dad turned but didn't saw anything. "Yeah…clowns are nice. They're friends! Well come on, gotta go."
2:30 am.
"Dad, dad!" Sean murmured. Sean's dad stirred and looked at his son.
"Sean. What is it?"
"You were right. He is my friend."
"Huh?" He looked up to encounter his son holding the hand of a creepy-smiling clown.
He screamed.
"Another homicide! Stupid demon, clown or whatever it is." Trunks said too low for only him to hear. He was at the kitchen taking breakfast with his sister and his mom. Vegeta was training as always.
"Did you said something Trunks?" Bulma asked.
"What? Oh, no. Nothing mom. Gotta call Goten. It was delicious. Bye."
He stood, left the dishes on the sink, and left to the Son's house.
When he landed near the house, Goten was already out, frustration shown in his face.
"Another one" he said.
"I know" Trunks answered. "I think is time to go pay a visit to the carnival. Oh, shit I forgot the car."
"Well, I think we'll have to fly."
"Damn, okay. Let's just be careful, nobody can see us, or they'll freak out."
"Got it. Let's go, Trunks."
They walked into the circus. Trunks left to ask who the owner was and Goten stayed at the entrance. A very little woman stood in front of him and looked at him, studying his face. Goten and the little woman stared at each other for a while, until she looked away and left in the other direction. Then Goten heard the laughter of Trunks. "Did you get her number, Goten?" Goten looked at him disgustingly. "Shut up" he said venomously.
"Look Goten, they're asking for employees, we'll get the job to figure out what's wrong with this fucking carnival and it's psycho clowns, then we can blast the thing."
"Uh…Ok, let's go." His friend wasn't in the best of moods so Goten decided to told him nothing about the fact that, whatever they were dealing with was immune to their powers.
They entered a tent. In there, a man wearing sunglasses was throwing knives into a panel. He had nice shooting.
"Excuse me. We're looking for Mr. Trooper. Have you seen him around?" Trunks asked.
"What is this, some kind of joke?" The man with sunglasses said. Then Trunks realized the man was blind. "Oh God. I'm so sorry."
"Bullshit!" The blind man yelled. Another voice interrupted them.
"Hey, Larry, is there a problem?" It was a short man, a very very short man.
"Yeah, this guys hates blind people."
"No, I don't—" Trunks backed up but he wasn't able to finish.
"Hey, son what's your problem?" The little man said.
"Nothing. Just a little misunderstanding." Trunks said without thinking and the little man took it the wrong way.
" 'Little'? You son of a bitch" The little man raised a bat and was willing to beat Trunks when he interrupted again.
"N-n-n-no, I'm just—CAN SOMEBODY TELL ME WHERE MR. TROOPER IS?" He said lowing his eyes in shame and almost yelling. By now Goten was laughing his head off outside the tent.
After the misunderstanding was clear, they were able to find Mr. Trooper. Inside his trailer there was a futon, a desk and two chairs. One black and the other in the shape of clown. Trunks managed to sit in the black chair while Goten was fidgeting uncomfortably in the clown chair. Trunks chuckled.
"So, you want to work here don't you?"
"Uhm, yes sir." Goten answered
"Well, you sure don't look like a freak. You on the other hand-" Mr Trooper glared at Trunks. "-well you kinda look odd." He said pointing at Trunks lavender hair. Trunks growled. "Anyway, you two look strong so that might help."
"Do we have the job or not?" Trunks asked, pissed, wondering why he was born with lavender hair and not black like his father.
"Humm…okay then, very well, you can keep the job."
"Really? Wow, Thanks a lot Mr. Trooper. We'll do our best, you won't be disappointed." Goten said, he left the trailer with Trunks behind him.
"What the hell was that?" Trunks hissed. "You practically throwed yourself at his feet!"
"Hey" Gohan backed up. "He gave us the job" He said grinning.
"We're pretending here, you moron."
"I know that! I was trying to look convincing."
Trunks rolled his eyes. "Whatever"
They left the carnival, Goten filled with joy, Trunks not that much.
The first day of "work" began. They were communicating by cell phone.
"I'm gonna enter the funhouse"
"Okay" Trunks answered.
Goten entered trying to reach for a ki, although he didn't knew the ki of a demon or even if demons had any ki, but he was looking for it anyway. Suddenly an skeleton appeared of nowhere causing him to scream. "Stupid thing" he hissed after pulling away the skeleton. He found nothing, so he left the funhouse.
"Hey, Trunks"
"What's the matter, you sound like you've just seen a clown" Trunks laughed.
"Very funny" Goten retorted. "Skeleton actually."
"Like a real human skeleton?"
"No, I wasn't able to feel anything, you?"
"Nah, nothing here."
Trunks suddenly felt someone was poking him in the back, it was the blind man.
"What are you doing here, kid?"
"Working"
"Bull! Why you were talking about skeletons?"
"It's nothing old man, forget about it"
The man frowned. "We don't like outsiders. We take care of our own problems."
Trunks tensed. "We've got a problem?"
"Well, you tell me!" The man said "You're talking about human bones."
Trunks looked other way and asked. "So…you believe in ghosts?"
"What?" He was looking at Trunk like he was dumb or something.
"Umm, my friend and I…umm…we're writing a book about them…yeah. Uh, I gotta go." Trunks left looking for Goten after telling the man a very good lie, leaving him alone.
"What took you so long?" Goten asked.
"Long story." Was Trunks reply.
Then they both heard a girl. "Mommy, look at the clown" They turned but saw nothing, absolutely nothing. Trunks and Goten looked at each other and decided to follow the girl and her mother to keep the demon clown from attacking again.
They waited on the car. The family entered the house, everything normal.
Goten was pissed. "I can't believe you told that blind guy about the homicidal phantom clown."
"You mean Papazian? Relax, I told him an urban legend about a homicidal phantom clown. I never said it was real." Trunks smiled "Oh and get this: I mentioned about the Darren Brother Circus from fifty years ago and their evil-clown apocalypse and guess what?"
"What?"
"Before Mr. Trooper owned Trooper Carnival…he worked for Darren Brothers."
"Hey," Goten interrupted. "In the papers Laura gave me, it said that demons were able to possess people and act like them."
"We know one thing for sure."
"What is it?" Goten asked.
"Trooper has something to do with our homicidal clown. I'll try to shoot him. We're a step closer to finish him off."
The night continued and Trunks fall asleep on his seat. He was abruptly awaken Goten.
"Hey, Trunks. Look at that." He whispered.
The light of the house turned on as the little girl came downstairs smiling and opened the back door. She came back but holding hand with a very smiley clown. By then, Goten and Trunks were already inside the house, hiding. When the clown was visible Trunks throwed him a ki shot and the clown faded into thin air.
"I looked in the odd-looking agenda." Goten said. "Rakshasa."
"What's that?" Trunks said
"What we're dealing with. Not only a demon."
Trunks stared at him waiting for him to continue, he rolled his eyes and said "What else?"
"They appear in human form, they feed on human flesh, they can make themselves invisible, and they cannot enter a home without first being invited."
Trunks heard carefully. "So they dress up like clowns and the children invite them in. It makes sense." He concluded.
"What else?" Trunks asked.
"Apparently, they live in squalor and sleep on a bed of dead insects."
"Trooper." Trunks stated.
"Trooper" Goten agreed.
"The book says how to kill it? Because I don't think being Super Saiyan is gonna help this time."
"Yeah, being Saiyan is useless this time" Goten said "But the legend says that it can be killed by a blade made of pure brass."
"I know how to get one of those" Trunks stated. "Papazian may have one, you know he was practicing with knives the first time we saw him at the carnival."
"Great!" Goten smiled "But I think we need to be completely sure that Trooper is our killer clown."
"Fine, I'll go find the blade" Trunks stated "And you will see if Trooper sleeps in a bed of dead insects." He smirked.
"Ugh!" Goten frowned "Fine."
At the carnival…
"I don't think I have a brass knife, but we can check, kid." Papazian kicked open an old trunk beside his door. "Check inside of it, maybe you'll find something".
Trunks looked at him doubtfully. "Uhm…yeah, thanks."
Trunks looked inside the trunk, there where clothes, dirty old stuff…and a clown disguise, that looked very familiar.
Trunks eyes's widened and turned to meet the gaze of the not-so-blind man. "You?" he asked. "Me." Papazian answered and vanished in front of Trunks.
"Shit, I gotta tell Goten. Damn it, the door is locked, stupid demon!" Trunks was fighting with the lock trying to break it when some odd noise distracted him, it was the EMF. It was going crazy with the noise and the bleeps. Trunks was taken out of his reverie when a knife landed a few centimeters of his eyes.
"Holy shit! What-?" He turned and found no one and another knife appeared. "All right!" He yelled. And broke the door. He met Goten outside.
"Hey!" Goten was smiling. "So Trooper thinks I'm a peeping Tom, but it's not him. Hey, are you fine?"
"No!" Trunks was desperate looking around. "It's the blind guy. He's here somewhere."
Goten frowned. "Oh, umm…did you get the--?"
"The brass blades? No. No, it's just one of those days."
Goten smiled again. "Hey, I got an idea! Come on."
"Gotta be kidding me! The funhouse, Goten?"
"Yeah, I bet you anything, he's in there!"
"You know of what are made the pipes of the organ that is in the other room?" Goten asked while they were running through the maze.
"Brass?"
Goten nodded. He headed to the organ and tried to break one of the pipes. He was trying not to break the whole organ. He suddenly heard a scream. He turned to see Trunks trapped to the wall by a full set of knives.
"Damn it, Goten! Kill him! NOW!"
"I can't see it!"
"The fog, Goten! The fog that's coming out of the organ!"
Goten got the idea and broke the central pipe, freeing all the fog. "Where is it?!" Goten was turning around trying to see and invisible guy.
"Goten, behind you! BEHIND YOU!"
Goten didn't turned and stabbed the pipe under his arm, they heard the painful screech of the dead creature that was laying now on their feet.
"You boys did a hell of job!" Laura said.
Goten and Trunks smiled "Thanks"
"So, are we gonna see you guys again?" Sam asked.
Trunks smiled. "Do you want to?"
Sam smirked. "I wouldn't hate it."
The bar door opened. "Where the hell you been guys?" Gal asked.
"Hey!" Goten waved. "We were trying to kill the clown."
"That's good. So…did you get it?"
"Yeah, we did."
