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Chapter 10 - How?

Everyone looked on in disbelief, it couldn't be, it just couldn't be but here they were.

"Tien!"

"Mum!"

Bulma and Launch shouted simultaneously. Launch ran up to Tien and hugged him. Bulma tried to do the same with her mother but Vegeta held her back, he had a bad feeling about this.

"Tien I thought you were dead I thought I lost you!" Launch rambled on and looked up with teary eyes at Tien. He didn't meet her gaze which surprised Launch. "Tien?" She carefully asked.

He looked down with blank eyes but had a hint of blood thirst. He grinned like a madman as Launch's eyes widened. She tried to get away but it was too late, he had too strong a grip on her.

"Let me go! HELP!" She cried but the others could do nothing but stand by and watch as he slithered his hands around her neck and crushed her with ease.

Like a rock she dropped dead to the floor and now the murderous ghosts had their sights set on the rest of them.

"RUN!" Piccolo exclaimed and no sooner said than done they were pelting down the hallway trying to escape this nightmare.

The ghouls floated closer and closer soon catching up to them.

"We need to split up!" Vegeta said forming a plan in his mind. "Me and Piccolo will try to distract them while you get to safety"

"No! Vegeta I can't lose you too!" Bulma pleaded.

"Don't worry I'll be fine, now go!" Vegeta reassured her.

She followed Goku and Chi-Chi down a separate hallway into another room while Vegeta and Piccolo grabbed the ghosts attention.

"Hey you stupid son of a bitch!" Piccolo shouted, almost immediately regretting it. This got their attention. "Yeah come and catch us if you can!"

The two sprinted off and didn't notice the ghost of Bulma's mum go through the wall while Tien chased after them.

Goku, Chi-Chi and Bulma

"In here!" Goku whispered so as not to draw attention.

They managed to find a secluded room which they could hide in. It was a small bedroom which seemed to have never been used.

"We should be safe here for now" Goku said. He noticed that Bulma was still shaking from her run in with her mother and now she was without Vegeta.

"Don't worry, Vegeta will be fine I promise" Goku said calmly trying to lift Bulma's spirits.

She looked over to him and murmured a "Thank you" but he knew she was still in shock, who wouldn't be after they saw their dead mother and friend kill someone with a grin on their faces.

A few minutes had passed and the gang started to relax a little at the fact that they hadn't been found.

How wrong they were.

"Found you" A devillish whisper echoed through the air.

The trio frantically looked around them but only to find nothing until Bulma felt a cold gush of air on her neck but before she could scream a hand covered her mouth. "My master will be most pleased to see you"

Bulma could feel her heart pounding as if it was going to rip out of her chest.

"BULMA!" Goku shouted. "Let her go!" He tried to attack the ghost but proved to now avail.

"I suppose I could have some fun first" Bulma's mum hit her on the back of her neck immediately rendering her unconscious. She then armed herself with a knife produced out of thin air and lunged toward Goku.

He managed to dodge but she just kept coming. "You're starting to annoy me now, just give up and DIE!" She screamed.

Goku had just about dodged another attack from her but she kept going forward, it was then he realised she wasn't going for him but for Chi-Chi!

"NO!" He stepped in front of Chi-Chi and blocked the knife with his body which somehow only managed to go through his arm. He fell to the floor and pain as his blood poured out everywhere.

"GOKU!" Chi-Chi rushed over to him with tears in her eyes. "Are you okay?"

All she got was a small grunt of pain but at least he was alive.

The ghost turned back to Bulma and threw her over her shoulder. "Time for a reenactment" was all she said before disappearing.

Vegeta and Piccolo

They had been running for what seemed like hours but suddenly Tien stopped and disappeared with a smug look on hid face.

"What do you think happened? Asked Piccolo.

"I don't know but we've got to find the others" Vegeta replied.

They headed off in the direction which they saw the others run to but what they found wasn't what they expected.

"What the hell happened here?" Demanded Vegeta but then he noticed Bulma wasn't with the two. "Where's Bulma?" Vegeta asked, panic rising his voice.

"S-She was taken b-by one of the g-ghosts" Chi-Chi replied while trying to tend to Goku's arm with some cloths she had found.

Vegeta felt his heart break and his breath stopped for a couldn't believe it, she was gone. No she wasn't gone yet, they just had to find her.

"Did they say where they were taking her?" Vegeta quickly asked.

"All I heard her say was it's time for a reenactment" Chi-Chi said.

"What the hell does that mean?" Vegeta stated now getting frustrated as he paced the room trying to figure out these words.

It was then that Goku had an idea.

"Wait a minute, how did the Cougar die?" He asked.

"He got hit on the head and was buried alive but how does th-" Vegeta stopped realising what the words now meant. The Cougar was going to kill Bulma the same way he had died.

"We need to get to the basement, that's the only place where he could bury her" Piccolo spoke up.

They rushed out of the room hoping to get to Bulma before it was too late.

'Hold on Bulma, I'm on my way'