Chapter 5
Revelation
-No one knows what tomorrow might bring-
He was there hopeless to stop him from killing all these innocent teenagers, he watched in horror these poor children being slaughtered, than he saw his daughter, he couldn't believe she was there fighting him, but he was too powerful and now he was ready to finish her off…
'He's going to kill her! Bra, my daughter' he thought than yelled in his dream.
"LEAVE HER ALONE!!"
He woke up from the bed he was laid on transformed into a super saiya-jin and flew through the ceiling under the stunned eyes of his wife and the others present at Gokou's house.
"Vegeta were are you going?" Bulma shouted after him, but he was long gone.
"Well at least we know he's alright." Gokou said.
Vegeta was rushing toward his daughter praying that he wasn't too late but deep inside he knew that it was over. He had never flown so fast in his entire life and made it in a record time to the place the party took place. He was scanning the area in search of Bra where he could heard sirens approaching as the police was in its way
"Bra where are you?" Vegeta said in a broking and desperate tone of voice. All around him were people crying and asking for help, he had to be careful not to walk on the corpses laying all over in the ground, he heard a girl screaming her lungs out when he came close to her he saw that half of her face was gone.
"Dad? Dad over here!" Trunks said while holding her sister in his arms
"Is she…" Vegeta said hesitantly.
"She's still alive dad, I found her unconscious on the rumble over there." Trunks said.
Vegeta took Bra from him and hugged her tight, she let out a painful moan so he let go and looked up at Trunks and saw this one was looking at his hands, they were covered with bloods. Vegeta then lift her shirt and saw the number eighteen carved in her belly that was bleeding heavily, he tried his best to stop the hemorrhage until he reached the hospital where the doctors and nurses took over.
"Dad what's going on? Who did that?" Trunks asked freaked.
"You were supposed to look after your sister!" Vegeta said harshly.
"What? But dad she…" Trunks began.
"Doesn't matter." Vegeta said when he saw one of the doctors
"How is she?" Vegeta asked him.
"She's going to be fine she's just sleeping for now." The doctor replied.
"Can I see her?" Vegeta asked.
"Yes, but don't stay too long." The doctor said.
"I am going to call mom." Trunks said while Vegeta entered the room. His heart tightened when he saw his daughter laying there on the hospital bed. He kneeled down near the bed and hold his hand.
"Aw how sweet!" he heard Freddy said in his head.
"I'll get you for this son of a bitch! No one hurt my family!!" Vegeta said under his breathe
The voice in his head chuckling before saying "How many times I have to tell you I didn't do it?"
"Don't give me that crap I know how you did it!"
"It's that so"
"You are using my dream to get to them."
"It's one possibility."
"I won't allow you to hurt anyone anymore!"
"Don't be so sure after all we have only three more left you've done such a banging job last night!" Vegeta looked at his palm and gasped when he saw that only three stars were out of alignment.
"It can' be." he whispered in horror.
"You are powerless to change the course of events, admit it you are beaten!"
"Never! I will find a way!"
"How? By not sleeping! Others had tried that already and failed miserably. You've got to sleep sometimes and I'll be waiting." said the voice and than silence Vegeta growled.
"Dad, are you ok?" said Trunks but the prince didn't answer and left the room.
At 821 Park Avenue a young woman with long breaded hair with big brown eyes wearing a backless silk dress with beaded detail, deep cowl neck and slight A-line shape mini length and silver in color with black satin pumps was struggling with her luggage while opening her apartment door. Maxine Delacroix was coming home after a difficult semester at the University of History. She has the little smile floating on her lips, she was happy her dream was coming true soon she's going to be Mrs. McGinnis as Terry had finally proposed to her to become his wife. She can't stop herself for remembering in what circumstance she lost her family and was forced to left everything behind her even her timeline, but now she has a future. She put her bags in the floor and close the door behind her hang her coat and sat down in the couch sighing she remarked that the light of the answering machine was flashing and she pressed the button to hear the massages. The most recent once was from her fiancé Terry.
"Sorry hon! I won't be able to make it back before one week or two take care of yourself ok! Love ya." *beep*
The followed were messages without importance than come the last one that was from Vegeta.
"Hey Maxine it's me we got to talk I think that our old friend is back" the woman froze in terror as she staring at the answering machine with horror, she knew the man's voice pretty well he didn't need to say his name. He was the man that saved her from Freddy years ago. She picked up the phone and dialed a number, at the same moment the phone started ringing at CC.
"Mrs. Briefs speaking" Bulma's said mother.
"Hi my name is Maxine Delacroix can I please speak to Mr. Briefs please."
"Oh Trunks is not here you should try his office number."
"Actually I want to talk to Vegeta." She said.
"Oh!" said Mrs. Briefs so shocked that she actually opened her eyes this was the first time that someone actually asked for Vegeta but more surprising a woman was asking for him.
"Hello?!" Maxine said when she did hear an answer from the woman.
"Yes hold on a minute. Vegeta telephone" shouted the woman.
"Who is it?" asked the prince annoyed by the woman's voice.
"A woman named Maxine Delacroix is asking for you over the phone." she replied and a flash Vegeta was on the phone.
"Maxine where the hell were you?!!" he shouted over the phone.
"Hi Vegeta-san, nice to hear you." Maxine said calmly.
"I don't really have time for this…"
"I know, what do you mean by that our old friend is back?" Maxine asked.
"I can't talk about this on the phone can we meet somewhere?" Vegeta asked as he suspected that Mrs. Briefs was listening to them.
"Well I was going to grab something to eat in the restaurant near the park I can meet you there."
"Great see you there." he said and was already at the door, Mrs. Briefs looked at him leaving wondering who could be that woman.
Vegeta made it there and was trying to find Maxine but with no avail.
"Where the heck is she?" he asked angry.
"Hey Vegeta-san over here!" said Maxine while weaving at him at a table not far away from where he was standing, the prince slapped himself mentally and walked toward the table.
"Don't tell me you didn't recognize me." said the woman color mocha.
"Uh you look different." Vegeta said while looking at the woman in front of him.
"I am not 14 anymore Vegeta-san!" She said smiling at him.
"I am not blind you know I can see that." Vegeta said while taking a seat in front of the young woman.
"I can't believe seven years had passed since we saw each other." She said sighing.
"Yea." Vegeta said while trying to read the menu.
"So tell me what happened?" she asked and Vegeta this one put the menu down and began to tell her what happened since the day he broke the dream doll. While they were talking Yamcha who was passing by with his friend Puar saw them.
"It's that Vegeta?" the floating cat asked?
"Who else has that hairdo? The question is who the ebony goddess with him is" Yamcha said whistling.
"I don't know I never saw her before"
"Me neither, this is weird what Vegeta is talking to another woman, I better stick around and watch" said Yamcha with an evil grin on his lips as he thought 'This could be my chance to get even with him for stealing Bulma from me.' then said aloud "Say Puar can you quick buy me a camera I will need to take some pictures."
"Why?"
"Just go buy it!"
"Ok! Don't need to yell!" Puar said leaving.
Vegeta concluded his story saying "I think he's using my dream somehow, he just needed three more souls and he'll be powerful enough to make the fusion."
"Can I see your hand?" the woman asked and Vegeta took out his glove and she took it and examined the stars at this same moment Yamcha began to take pictures of them.
"It's the magic circle" she said.
"What's that?"
"Well the stars had already made the shape of the five branches star the others are forming a circle, three more and the circle will be complete around the star. The five braches can represent anything; I will have to do some research to know more but I think that is a key. When the last time you actually got a goodnight sleep?" Maxine asked when he saw that Vegeta's nose was in his plate.
"Uh what?" he said trying to keep his eyes open the woman smiled and took a napkin and wipe some sauce out of his nose a little embarrassed he took the napkin from her while saying
"Actually three weeks ago when my daughter almost got killed. It's no biggy I used to stay awake for a long time before."
"You can't continue like this we got to find a way to stop him for good this time!"
"I thought we did. Well, what do you propose?"
"I am sure I can find some answers from my ancient books" she said while getting up.
"What do I do?" Vegeta asked.
"Come with me." She said.
Hours later in Maxine's apartment Vegeta was sitting in front of Maxine with many dusty books pilled up in front of them, they had spent all the afternoon reading and it was very late when Maxine threw a book away in frustration.
"What's the matter?" asked Vegeta
"This is hopeless!"
"You said that we could find some answer in those books!"
"Yeah but it will take a lot of time that we don't have, if you fell asleep someone is going to die and this will be one more step toward the end! All this is my fault I should have stay in my time and fight him if I didn't flee…"
"I am not going to fall asleep I use to spend month like this it isn't a real problem for me."
"Yeah the super and all powerful alien uh? I wish I have the solution for this problem but I don't." she said near tears
"Okay just tell me what you know so far."
"Let's see you told me that you had relived Freddy's entire life until his death and even his career as dream-reaper until our last encounter with him."
"Yes"
"Before his death Freddy was empower by the Dreams Demons who are entities that roamed and control the dreamscape mostly Nightmare World a magical place where all fears are bring forth and made real. Freddy brings his victims there to kill them and absorbed their souls into his being which made him even more powerful." Maxine said pacing up the floor.
"How come he can kill someone in their dream?" Vegeta asked.
"This is a little hard to explain. Well most people think that they have a body and a soul if I told you that actually everybody is carrying two souls what would you say?"
"That's your statement is preposterous!"
"But it is true! Do you ever hear of voodoo?"
"Uh nope"
"It's like a religion and its followers practice black magic I should know I came from a family who knows that kind of thing pretty well." She said smirking
"So?"
"So we believe that people have two souls a little one or good one and big one or evil one. You see when someone dies his soul goes to the spirit world immediately this is the good soul while the bad one stays with your body for four days than goes away. If you know the right incantation you can make someone who have been killed tell you who his killer is."
"No kidding I think the police should get a hold of that" Vegeta mocked but Maxine just smiled.
"I think that second soul is use to make zombies out of dead people."
"Freaky, but how all this are related to the problem at hand?"
"I am getting there. You see when you are asleep your soul is wandering, if you have a dreamless night that means your soul didn't go to far actually it's in the room with you, but if you do dream your soul is in Dream World. That's why when you get killed in Nightmare World you die for real your soul is stranded there."
"But those people are being killed in the real world Maxine and he uses me to do it!"
"I don't see how. You said it yourself he has no control over your body, somehow you are just able to see through the killer's eyes."
"Are you sure I am not the killer maybe I astroproject myself while I am asleep."
"Astroprojection can't hurt people they are like ghost they can scare you but can't hurt you Vegeta-san."
"Are you sure?"
"I am certain not physically anyway."
"So how does he do it?"
"Well possession is when a spirit take over your body, you still in there though but to weak to fight it off. He tried that but failed miserably remember, you were too strong even for him." She said looking at him with admiration, then continued "But something bugs me the dreams demons don't have the power to pull an entire physical in to Nightmare World but Freddy was able to pulled Bra, me and you there, which means there was a bigger power at work there."
"I know it must be someone far more powerful than the dreams demons."
"That's why Freddy was after you guys, I know it usually he only attacks young people, like children and teenagers."
"Like the new victims."
"Which mean he doesn't work for 'him' anymore?"
"But this still doesn't explain how he did it."
"Well there is one more possibility. Remember I told you that the second soul stays with the body for four days. Well I think I just find the loophole in my spell."
"Loophole?!"
"When we got Freddy here he became a full being when you killed him so his soul went to the other world, because you kinda obliterate his body so his second soul didn't have anyplace to go. There are three possibilities where it might go, first follows the first one second went to the Well of Thousand Sorrow"
"What is the Well of Thousand Sorrow?"
"When people who have some unfinished business die their souls remain here and become what we call ghost they hunted the place they used to live and people they once loved and tried constantly to communicate with them. The Well it is not a particular place in itself but everywhere the lost soul spends the eternity they kinda sink into despair." Maxine said sadly.
"I never knew about this."
"Not a lot of people know or understand, only trained eyes can see them and some people who are born with certain abilities, but you can feel them though they are that moving shadow that you see from the edge of your eyes, that cold breeze that give you chill at night those whisper you think you hear. They are everywhere, but I don't think Freddy became one of them though."
"So what's the third possibility?"
"Well there is possession."
"But I wished that his soul to be lock away in the jewel."
"Well yes, but you said one soul you didn't specify which one to the dragon haven't you? So that mean…"
"Freddy could be anyone of us!"