A/n: This is a sequel of "From Saviour To Destroyer". To understand this story recommended to first read "From Saviour To Destroyer".
Disclaimer: Guess What?! I do not own Dragonball Z or its characters. Can you believe it! I can't!
The Search For Blood
Chapter one: Short on Time
A round machine was enveloped in a cloud of smoke. There were two passengers looking with wide eyes around themselves. The people gathered around the round machine slowly became blurry and within seconds disappeared from sight by a white, blinding light. After a while the two passengers opened their eyes to look around. As they did their eyes widened further in awe.
The round machine with them in it was flowing slowly through a colourful sort of tunnel. Every colour one could think of was circling in the tunnel. The machine itself began twirling sideways in the tunnel making the colours move even more than before. Both passengers were amazed at the sight, but also a bit drowsy from the constant circling.
A sudden jolt went through the machine, causing it's occupants to bump their heads. The came closer to the glass to see what caused it. Slowly a black colour washed passed them taking the other colours with it. All that was left was a black void enveloping the machine.
A sudden spark in the console made both passengers jump back in their seats. The machine began shaking violently, jolting the two passengers in every direction. More sparks appeared and several lights were flashing on and off.
"Malfunction!" A robotic voice spoke out loud. Both passengers looked at each other before the machine spoke again drawing their attention.
"System Malfunction! I repeat: Systems Perfect!" Again the passengers shared a look. However this time it was one of confusion.
"Destination Altered! Destination Restored! Systems Perfect! System Malfunction! Danger! System Failure! System Check! System Malfunction! System Perfect!" The voice continued incoherently.
The machine stopped shaking abruptly smashing both passengers against the glass. A huge electrical surge passed through them both, knocking them unconscious. The last words of the robotic voice went by unheard.
"Date of Arrival altered!"
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Everything was silent except for the sounds of birds chirping, water flowing, trees creaking and other animals moving throughout the forest. Everything was at peace in this forest.
A sudden loud crash resounded through the forest disturbing the peace and quiet. Animals ran for their life's, birds flew for their life's, trees creaked as an heavy object crashed into them breaking them down. The water however was undisturbed except for the few extra wrinkles created by quake from the crash.
In the middle of the forest a few trees were broken down and in the middle of those trees lay a round object. Burn markings covered the outside of the object. A small cracking sound was heard as the object creaked open. Smoke flowed out form the small creak and a hissing sound followed as the object opened fully revealing two passengers.
They were seated in a rather uncomfortable position. One was upside down and the other lay with his stomach against the back of the seat, in that way he could not bent into the seat without breaking some bones. His legs were crammed into the foot space which wasn't big.
In front of the seats was a console with many lights flashing on and off. Suddenly the shorter one groaned. He opened his eyes only to find his world upside down. He blinked several times and looked confused. He moved his arm to support his weight and with a loud groan pushed himself in a more comfortable position, a.k.a. upright.
A loud groan came from beside the short man as he had pushed himself upright. He jumped back against the side of the machine he was seated to and looked surprised at the person beside him. After blinking several times he remembered his fellow passenger. It was now he realised he had stomped this person while repositioning himself.
He softly nudged the person only to receive another groan, this one of protest. The short man got annoyed and gave a soft stomp at the other man's shoulder. This got a wave of the arm as response. The short man's eyebrow twitched.
"WAKE UP!" He shouted. The man beside him however did not respond. Now both eyebrows twitched.
The short man was about to kick the other one when he thought of something. He grinned somewhat devilish as he inched closer and whispered something inaudible in the other man's ear.
"NO!" The man shouted as he suddenly jolted awake and jumped backwards, which was out of the machine. A loud thump was heard as he hit the ground ,but he did not seem to have noticed. "NO NEEDLES!" He shouted fearful.
The shorter man laughed and clutched his stomach. The taller man calmed down realising he had been fooled by his friend. The shorter man stopped laughing and looked at the taller man outside.
"Finally awake? I thought you used to wake up from screams" The shorter man spoke.
"Well Krillin, it doesn't work when I've been unconscious, only when I sleep" the taller man responded.
"Yeah I think you're right, Goku. We were probably unconscious, but for how long?" Krillin said as he turned his attention to the console in front of him.
Goku stood up and started stretching as Krillin checked the console.
"WHAT!" Krillin shouted clearly upset. Goku rushed back into the machine looking at all the flashing lights and data.
"What's wrong?" Goku asked as he clearly had no clue what it was Krillin had seen on the console. Krillin slowly turned to face Goku looking distressed.
"The machine altered the date of arrival" Krillin said in a whisper not belieing what he was saying. Goku looked less startled.
"Is that bad?" Goku asked completely clueless.
"The machine must have malfunctioned or something. Maybe it ahs something to do with that black void or whatever it was" Krillin mumbled ignoring Goku's rather dull question.
Krillin directed his gaze to the console and showed a look of pure concentration. Goku was still clueless about what was wrong.
"What are you doing?' Goku asked as he saw Krillin push a few buttons.
"I'm trying to find some data about what happened to cause this malfunction. Lets see, Bulma said I should push this and then that and……………" Krillin drifted of inaudible leaving Goku once more in the dark.
After a while Goku couldn't wait any longer. "Krillin…….." He began but was cut off by a different voice, which was somehow slightly familiar.
"Systems malfunctioned half way during time transference. Precise time and date can not be calculated as one travelled to different time altering once time and date to the time and date of the destination. System malfunction altered certain data. Please verify time and date" A familiar robotic voice spoke.
Goku's head felt like it was spinning as this rather complicated explanation drifted through his mind.
"Bulma sure knows how to keep things complicated. Luckily I somehow understand what it's saying" Krillin said not paying much attention to Goku who wasn't following much of this.
"You understood that?!" Goku asked unbelievable. Krillin wasn't a smart scientist like Bulma or a genius like Gohan, but he wasn't stupid either. Not that Goku was stupid off course. This caused Goku to become solemn for a moment as he thought of Gohan. Luckily there was not time to think of him now.
'Sort of yes. It just means that the time we have in our timeline is different than the time in this timeline which we travelled to. So seeing their different times we can't really know the exact time something happened while we were time travelling. We were gradually skipping from our own time and date to a different time and date so it can't be pinpointed…………I think" Krillin added the last part.
Goku's head was spinning even more now and a headache was forming. "I'll take your word for it" Goku said. Before he could ask another question or rather the same question he had been trying to get an answer on, Krillin interrupted.
"Verify the cause of the malfunction" Krillin asked the time machine. Some beeps echoed through the time machine before the same robotic voice spoke again.
"The malfunction was caused by a magnetic storm that moved off it's course by our intervening in time" The voice spoke.
"So……" Goku started to ask, but once again was cut off.
"It just means we attracted a magnetic storm that can mess up our systems. It shouldn't have gotten to us according to Bulma, but I think we somehow emitted a great deal of disturbance to the space between time and thus attracting this magnetic storm" Krillin explained knowing what Goku was going to ask.
After a long silence Goku jumped out of the time machine causing Krillin to look up form the console.
"You coming?" Goku asked. Krillin looked seriously at Goku.
"Goku you do realise we've got a problem?" Krillin asked him hoping Goku understood.
"What problem?" Goku asked clueless. Krillin sighed.
"Our date of arrival has been changed" Krillin said.
"Yeah?" Goku said not getting it.
"Goku instead of a few months we only have ONE WEEK to get Gohan's blood" Krillin said solemn. Goku however seemed relaxed.
"So we just get the blood and be gone before I arrive" Goku said duly not realising the irony of his response.
"Goku, this means that if we get into trouble or get delayed we'll have only a short time to get it right. Seven days is all we have. We have to find Gohan first, then get him somewhere alone and make sure he doesn't see you and that we don't make him suspicious. We also have to prevent others from sensing you. I FORGOT! GOKU KEEP YOUR ENERGY LEVEL DOWN!" Krillin shouted reaching a panic state as he summed up all the things they had to take into account.
"Krillin calm down" Goku said soothingly. Krillin stopped ranting and took a deep breath. "Listen, I already have my energy level very low because I know that Piccolo mediates almost 24/7 and even the slightest of my energy would be sensed by him as I'm currently not supposed to be here. I've kept it low ever since we left from our time. About the other thing, we'll just have to make sure nothing goes wrong and get Gohan's blood. We can do this Krillin, we have to…….for Gohan" Goku finished.
Krillin looked into Goku's eyes and saw determination and care. He knew Goku was right. They could do this and they would, to save Gohan.
"Alright then lets get started" Krillin said. He jumped out of the time machine and grabbed a capsule out of the pocket of his gi. "We've got the blood device and all we have to do now is……….." Krillin stopped talking as he noticed Goku was a fair distance away form him and sweating slightly.
"Yeah sounds great" Goku said not even hearing Krillin talking as all his attention was directed to the capsule in his friend's hand.
"Goku it's capsulated, you can relax. As I was saying we have to hide the time machine" Krillin continued as Goku slowly crept closer.
"Hide?" Goku asked confused. Krillin looked at him as if he asked something really stupid.
"What do you think will happen if someone finds this. For one they could take a trip and second we could lose our way home" Krillin said.
"Yeah I get that, but why hide it? I mean you can capsulate it, right?" Goku said slightly confused at Krillin's plan.
Krillin sweat dropped as he forgot about that. He was actually thinking of covering this big time machine with leaves and twigs and place it somewhere hidden while he could just as easily capsulate it and place it in his pocket.
"Right" Krillin said slightly blushing at his own stupidity. Both of them grinned and Krillin capsulated the time machine.
A soft squeaking noise and the two passenger time machine was a small capsule. Krillin placed it in his left pocket and placed the blood device in his right.
"Ready! Lets do this………for Gohan" Krillin said and Goku nodded.
Both felt like they couldn't fail. They had a goal and a strong inspiration. Nothing would keep them from saving Gohan.
Well I finally finished the first chapter. Actually I only had the first scene written down, but when I started typing that I couldn't stop anymore and finished the first chapter. I guess starting that other story of mine today really helped my inspiration. Yeah congrats, my muse is back! (but for how long, we'll find out).
Please REVIEW. Don't hate me for taking so long, it was killing me that I couldn't write something decent. I was actually afraid this would turn out weak and very short, but somehow I managed to make it long (I try to get at LEAST 2000 words) and I think it's alright and not weak. But I'm curious what you people think.
Oh that other story I started today was also Dragonball Z. It's only a prologue now, but please check it out and review. It's called: At Each Others Throat.