(Type a title for your page here) When Hearts turn Evil
Chapter 24


AN: I do not own DBZ, and this is the last chapter ^.^ I hope you enjoy!

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Laid before them were the bodies of five children, each surrounded with a crackling red energy. Their eyes were wide open, as red light glowed within their pupils. Gohan didn't understand what the demon had done to them, and walked over to try to get his daughter up. As soon as one of his fingertips touched Pan's skin, a flame shot up, scorching his flesh painfully.

"Damn it!" he exclaimed, sticking his finger into his moist mouth, trying to cool it down.

Piccolo lowered himself to the floor next to Trunks and Goten. Instead of touching them, he waved his hands in front of their faces. No response was given back except that possessed stare. "She has a spell on them, Gohan. I have seen this done before."

Jerking his head up, Gohan regarded Piccolo with curiosity. "What kind of spell is it?" As long as he had been fighting, he knew not to question Piccolos validity on such matters and listened intently.

"It's a draining spell, but instead of draining their energy into nothing, she is taking it for herself. If we can break this, your parents may have a better chance of beating her. This obviously proves that she is not invincible. Why else would she be taking their energy?"

Gohan nodded in agreement. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw his wife stirring off the floor. Shaking her head to gather her bearings, her eyes fell upon her daughter. With a terrified scream, she jumped up and ran to her.

Gohan intercepted her, and held her back. "VIDEL NO!"

"Why? It's our daughter! Something is wrong with her, I have to help her," she cried out, struggling against her husband. To see her daughter helpless before her tore at heart.

"You can't do anything yet, give me some time. I am working on how to reverse this," Piccolo ordered, watching Videl succumb to tears in Gohan's grasp.

"Please hurry Piccolo"

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Onyxeyi dodged each ki blast that was aimed at her and picked up pace towards her target. Chichi fired another blast toward the oncoming demon, which was just swatted away like a fly.

"You ought to know better," was the demons only reply as she plowed her fist into Chichi's face, hearing the refreshing sound of bones cracking beneath her skin. Chichi winced, opening her mouth to cry out in pain, until Onyxeyi grabbed her hair and flung her towards the ground.

Watching Chichi speeding towards the ground at breakneck speed, Goku stopped breathing and quickly used instant transmission, to try to break her fall. Materializing in front of her, she plummeted into him, and sent both of them skidding through the dirt.

Onyxeyi seeing that Chichi was down for the count turned on Bulma. She couldn't help but laugh at the astonished look that adorned the aqua haired woman's face. To her it was amusing at the thought that they had a slight chance of winning. As blue eyes locked with violet orbs, the realization hit her like a ton of bricks. They didn't think they would win, they were determined to win. Onyxeyi just shook her head in disbelief.

"You have no chance, why not just surrender now?" the demon taunted.

Bulma just huffed in amusement. "Not a chance in hell," was her only reply as she sped towards the smirking demon. Onyxeyi pulled up her arms as Bulma threw a punch towards her chest. Grabbing her fist, the demon twisted her arm behind her back. "You should have just given up."

Bulma snarled in protest, rose her leg to kick back into the demon's leg as a last resort and stopped as she was quickly released. Turning around she saw Vejita floating above the demon with his hands clenched together, and Onyxeyi's head snapped to the side.

"No one touches my mate."

Onyxeyi just laughed as she tilted her head back up. "That was supposed to hurt? Please Vejita, it felt like feathers against my skin. Let me show you pain." Within a blink of an eye, Vejita found himself crashing into the ground, clutching his broken leg. Onyxeyi just sneered as she released a fireball that would wipe him off the earth.

"NO!" Bulma watched the blast leave the demons fingertips toward her lover, and quickly did the only thing she could think of.

Bulma placed her hands in front of her and screamed, "HY-OU-KAI!"

Immediately both demon and fireball were held fast against the ice wall attack. Wasting no time, Bulma flew down to Vejita and pulled him to the side, out of the fireballs range. "You ok?"

Vejita just grunted in response as he clutched his leg. "Its time to put an end to this."

Bulma nodded in agreement. Knowing her hold spell would dispel at any moment, she called out to Goku and Chichi. "GOKU! You and Chichi get ready now! This is the only chance we may have!"

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Piccolo was hovering over the bodies contemplating what he could do to get the possession out of them. Only one thing came to his mind, the demon had to be dead before the kids would be free. He sighed knowing that as long as the demon had their energy, no one could beat her. He was snapped out of his thoughts as he saw the red aura disappear all the sudden.

"Piccolo they are free!" Gohan exclaimed, picking up his daughter. His eyebrows drew together as she was still limp in his arms. Something wasn't right, she should be awake, but her eyes still held that possessed gleam to them.

"Something has went wrong with the spell, no time to lose! Videl you get on one end, Gohan the other. I will stand in the middle. Throw up a ki shield around us, she can't steal their energy if we block it."

"Piccolo…"

"JUST DO IT, NOW" the namek roared back at Videl. If they did not get this shield up quickly they might lose their chance.

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"Come on sweetheart, use one of those healing spells you have, we have to get back into the fight. We don't have a lot of time left," Goku coaxed his wife as he looked up to see the demon held in place. Along with one hellish fireball aimed for Vejita. He heard Bulma screaming at them to get ready, knowing exactly what she meant. As Chichi completed her healing, Goku drew her into his arms.

"No just like we practiced in the room of spirit and time ok? It has to be in sync or it will be disastrous," he coaxed, sensing her tension. They both rose their arms as one, and called forth their energy.

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"Damn it woman! How am I supposed to attack when I can't even stand up at the moment?" he shouted back at her. She knew that she didn't have time to heal him, and improvised. Moving his leg gently, she sat in between his legs on the ground.

"This should work, we are close enough to pull our attacks together," she said raising her arms to call forth her spell. Vejita just smirked as he pulled his ki together as well. His smirk fell as he saw the demon start to move again.

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Piccolo extended his hands and touched the finger tips of Gohan and Videl. With little effort a ki shield formed around them and the children that laid on the floor. Gohan was the first to start feeling the tug of energy around them. He looked to Piccolo for answers.

"Hang in there, its about to get rough," Piccolo replied as he felt the pull becoming stronger.

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Onyxeyi screamed as the hold spell wore off, and turned her attention to the two huddled couples. "You will die for that!" she roared as she tried to pull more energy from her captors. But something went wrong. She didn't feel stronger, yet she was tugging as hard as she could.

Her eyes flew open wide as she looked down and counted the being below her. "Four? But where are the other five? No…" she trailed off. The demon looked toward the building and saw Eighteen and Krillen both smugly smiling as they guarded the entrance. Out of the corner of her eye she saw two beams heading straight for her.

"You can't do this to me! I am not supposed to die!" she screamed as the golden dragon and panther advanced on her. She raised up her hands to cast a dispel only to have it fail from lack of energy. She threw her hands in front of her face in a weak attempt to block as both attacks hit her at once. As both attacks ate into her body, disintegrating it, she let out a primal scream of pain then exploded.

Chichi, Goku, Vejita and Bulma all hit the dust when the attacks collided with each other. They came to a sliding stop at the entrance of the building as the energy from the attack dissipated.

"You two ok?" Goku asked Vejita and Bulma, as he lifted his wife off the ground.

Vejita just nodded his head and tried to stand. He fell back down to the ground as his leg gave out on him, wincing in pain. He wished that his leg wasn't broken so he could stand. As if his prayers were heard, he felt his bones popping back into place as his mate healed him.

As the spell came to an end, she kissed him atop his forehead. "All better now?"

"Yes woman."

"DADDY! Mama!"

Vejita's head quickly snapped in the direction of the voice as his daughter tackled him crying.

Bulma turned to see Trunks, Goten, Maron and Pan walking out of the building. They looked to each other, and asked the same question.

"Is it really over?"

Chichi looked up into the night air, not seeing any trace of the former demon. She was finally dead. Breathing a sigh of relief, she put her arm around her husband and answered.

"I believe so, everything is back to normal, let's go home."

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The End.

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