Chapter 13
Vegeta, what are you doing here?
When Bulma woke up that next morning she had a mission. She knew that Vegeta would be out for weeks even months recovering from his fight and Bulma couldn't wait that long. Even when Vegeta recovered he would be just as irritating and not really that useful. 'But god he's hot. Just the way he looks sets me on fire. And his touch!' Bulma smiled lightly at her thoughts, she really did feel something strong for Vegeta but what she wasn't so sure. 'It's like any love I've had before but there's something different.'
Shaking her head Bulma rose out of her bed alone even though she wished Vegeta was well enough for her not to have. She slept in a large pick shirt when she was alone that fell to her knees. Untwisting it from her body and dropping it to the floor she walked to her closet and pulled out a white T- shirt with Capsule Corp. in blue lettering. A pair of blue jean short also came out of the drawer. Pulling them on she looked to the mirror for her hair.
Long blue wisps piled up on each other, choosing an oval comb she started to straiten the morning hair. After she was satisfied she grabbed a red headband and set her hair out of the way. As an after thought choose a dark red lipstick to match. Taking a last look into the mirror she headed down to breakfast her thoughts back on her mission.
From all accounts The Black Flame disappeared after he destroyed the Vatican, most thought he was staked in his sleep for it was the only way to kill him. Bulma had made a bad mistake in her research. She had been using secondhand research to discover anything on The Black Flame, what she needed was first hand. But the only problem with that he was dead; this is where her mission came in.
It would take a miracle to bring him back to life, a miracle she had. Because of the threat of the up coming fight the Z Team had gathered all the DragonBalls to revive anyone that died. Surprisingly none of the team had even been hurt, on the down side one of the people got away. But in any case there was still 7 dragonballs all together awaiting a wish and no danger. So Bulma thought why not just wish the Black Flame here.
As she reached the kitchen she pulled open the frig and pulled out a slim fast shake for breakfast. (AN: I don't own slim fast, I just like the chocolate ones.) She had never liked cooking even though it was so easy to read the instructions. She had found though that if you ruin enough food no one would ask you to cook. Having found her breakfast Bulma turned to the phone. She pressed speed dial and waited for the answer.
"Hello Krillin here." The voice on the other line answered cheerfully.
"Hey Krillin it's me." Bulma said happily. She always felt better talking to him.
"Bulma, hey what's up?"
"Hopefully me. I was hoping you could fly me up to Kame's sanctuary. I have to ask if I can use the DragonBalls."
"Oh sure Bulma that's easy. Just one thing though." A long pause.
"What?" Bulma asked surprised.
"Will that Vegeta character be there?" It was then that Bulma started her five minutes of laughing.
"He scared you that bad huh?" She gasped in between her laughs.
"Well sort of. He's really strong Bulma, stronger than that Yamcha guy." Bulma stopped laughing at the sound of that name.
"That lying son of a bitch wasn't that powerful at all. He was a lying human and a bad one at that. He deserves to lie in the fiery pits of hell!" Bulma hissed into the phone trying to contain her anger.
"Vegeta?" Krillin asked quietly.
"NO, YAMCHA!" Bulma screamed into the phone.
"Oh, but will Vegeta be there?" Calming down she answered.
"Yes he will be here but he was seriously hurt, so he won't be leaving his room."
"Ok then! I'll be there in 10 minutes." A sharp click and he was gone. Setting down her own phone she walked into the living room and flicked on the TV.
"Woman!" Came a loud yell from the kitchen.
"Vegeta is that you?! What are you doing up you should be sleeping?" Bulma yelled back twisting around to see him. He had changed into pair of black jeans with a matching shirt. The shirt was mid-arm length with red Japanese symbols and was hanging open displaying his chest. The most of the bandages were gone but he leaned easily enough on the open doorway.
"I'm bored woman, entertain me." A small smirk had surfaced on his face. Bulma froze and she looked him up and down one more time. 'Is he asking what I think he's asking?'
"Do you know where are my parents, I couldn't find them?" She asked casually.
"I believe they left early this morning for the airport, something about business. So you and I are the only one's here." He spoke just as casually but his eyes never left hers.
"Oh Vegeta I would love to keep you entertained for a couple of hours but I got things to do today."
"Tell Danica to do it." He said blowing passed it.
"Vegeta you said that our private lives wouldn't cross over into our day lives. This is one of those times." Bulma hated saying that but she really wanted to finish her project. 'Then again I also want Vegeta very badly.' She thought trying not to look at his open chest.
"Then bring me with you woman." Vegeta said darkly at having his own words bit him in the ass.
"Vegeta really, you should be in bed. You can't just go around killing stuff and then think hey I'm fine!" Bulma said sarcastically, her long hair swishing about her head as she talked. "Besides the person taking me is afraid of you." His smirk returned.
"Who, Kakarrot?"
"Who's Kakarrot?"
"The tall stupid one."
"Goku?"
"Yes him."
"Goku maybe a little slow but he's the best friend I've ever had. He's an amazing fighter and isn't scared of anything, except needles that is." Bulma got to her feet now and stood with her hand on her hips next to the couch. "Besides my friend's here now." 'Ok test number one.' Vegeta's eyes glazed over and moved to look at the door.
"The monk." He spat in disgust. 'So he can sense ki.' Bulma thought quietly.
"Would you stop that! His name's Krillin and if he sees you he'll-"
"He won't."
"What?" Bulma stuttered in surprise.
"Tell him to go away and I'll take you to where ever it's your going." Vegeta pushed off from the wall and slowly walked to her. Bulma stopped breathing. 'It was hard keeping cool while he was ten feet away but this close.'
"And why would you do that?" Bulma whispered as he came to a stop an inch from her lips. She locked her eyes on her lips fighting the urge to kiss him.
"Because I'm interested in what you're doing." He whispered. That got Bulma's attention, her head snapped up to stare at him shocked. 'He isn't interested in anything unless he gets some thing out of it. What is he up to?' Vegeta seemed to see something was wrong and stiffened slightly. "What is it woman?"
"Nothing." Bulma took that time to break away from him and walk to the door. Vegeta stayed where he was watching her. "Well you can do what you want but I won't promote your disregard for a swift recovery. Stay here please and I'll be back so." With that she pulled open the front door. Krillin was halfway into a knock and looked very surprised to see Bulma open the door.
"Hey Bulma, that was quick. You ready?" He said putting his hand down and smiling up at her.
"Sure Krillin let's go." With that she stepped through the doorway and jumped into Krillin's arms. "Well what are you waiting for?" She asked the gapping Krillin. Not thinking of anything to say he just took to the skies holding to Bulma.
***
"Sure Bulma you can use the DragonBalls. I was wondering what to do with them anyway." Kame said as Bulma finished her story.
"Thank you so much. I was wondering if I would ever get my project done." She said sighing in relief. 'I'm almost there. Not only will I meet the real Black Flame but I'll.well that doesn't matter right now.'
"Well it's my pleasure. Mr. Popo Please bring Mr. Briefs the dragonballs." Kame said over his shoulder to his small friend. He nodded and disappeared inside the doorway. In less than a second he was back holding a red pillow with all seven balls on top. He carefully set them down in the middle of the sanctuary as Bulma approached.
"Use them wisely now." He said stepping away form them.
"You know me, always the careful one." Bulma said smiling sweetly at him. He smiled back and then hurried to rejoin his friend to watch. Bulma turned to the balls gathering her nerves for the wish. 'This is it.'
"Shenlong arise and grant my wish!" She cried. The skies darkened while the light in the balls grew brighter. A bolt of blinding light shoot out of the now spinning balls twisting high above them. The light winded around the skies a round body taking shape. The winds rushed pasted taking Bulma's breath with it. Finally the light started to fade and the great dragon floated before them.
"What is your wish?" The huge voice boomed above her. Bulma smiled at the powerful dragon that brought back so many childhood memories.
"Hey Shenlong. I wish for the Black Flame to come back to life in all his power here." Bulma shouted up at her old friend. 'Now it's started.'
***
"That's the last time I try being tentative to that damn woman!" Vegeta yelled slamming his fist into the wall. Pulling his hand away he saw only a small dint in the wall. Growling in anger he let his disguise fall bring back the bandages he had hid. "I'm not even strong enough to make a hole in a damn plaster wall!" He spun from the wall and stormed up the stairs to his room.
The walls pressed in around him giving him the urge to run. He felt like a trapped tiger in a cage. But he couldn't leave; he barley had strength to fly. He slammed the door open roaring at his bed in rage.
"I hate this place!" He roared kicking the foot of a chair sending it flying into the closet door. He didn't stop there he raced after the chair and through it a crossed the room just missing the window. "I need to get out of here!"
Realizing he was acting like a crazy man he stopped moving and forced himself to breathe. 'I'm a damn vampire I should have stopped needing to breathe by now! Just stopped it and calm down.' Letting one last breath go he opened his eyes.
"Better clean up." He muttered to himself grabbing the chair by the leg. As he turned it back on it'd legs he noticed the sky had changed from sunny to as dark as night. "What the hell?" As he spoke he felt something happening.
His skin felt warm, like when he had a fever as a boy. His spine felt like it was stretching out from his body. And what hit him most was that all of his wounds were healed. He slipped his hand under the bandages and pulled them from his chest to see a perfectly fine chest. But that wasn't all, for the first time in years Vegeta felt like he couldn't breathe.
Vegeta couldn't think of what to do, so he did what he hadn't done in years, he started to breathe. He pulled breath after breath into his system trying to figure out what was going on. He closed his eyes trying to except all of the changes that were going on in his body. But when he opened them he got the shock of a lifetime.
"Vegeta, what are you doing here?!" Bulma cried in total shock.
"Well I have no idea woman." Vegeta spat standing back. "I was in my room when the sky went black, my wounds healed and then I was here. So tell me woman, WHAT AM I DOING HERE!" He roared in her face.
"Well I really don't know Vegeta. I made a wish that had nothing to do with you on the dragonballs and."
"DragonBalls? What DragonBalls?" Vegeta said forgetting his anger. Bulma looked up.
"Those ones." She said pointing to seven golden balls. Just as he caught site of them the balls shot up into the air and shot out of site. Growling Vegeta planted his hands on his hips and felt something furry.
"HOLY SHIT!" Vegeta yelled shooting up into the sky. He stared at what was wrapped around his waist. It looked like a brown furry rope but it was warm and it moved. "WHAT THE HELL IS IT!?" Vegeta yelled slowly coming back to the ground. Bulma looked just as shocked as he did.
"Vegeta that looks like a Saiyajin tail."
"WELL WHY THE HELL DO I HAVE A TAIL!? WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO ME WOMAN!?" Vegeta was out of his mind with rage. He didn't have one clue on what was going on and he now had a damn tail.
"Ok let's think this through, what was the wish?" Vegeta asked pissed beyond believe at having the dragonballs slip through his hands and now having a tail.
"Well I said 'I wish for the Black Flame to come back to life in all his power here.' That's it." Bulma explained quickly. 'Ok how would that make me have a Saiyajin tail? Well first think of a way to convince her I'm not the Black Flame.'
"Well I can explain part of this. After the Black Flame trained me he was killed. I killed his murder and took the Black Flame's name. When you wished for the Black Flame you got me the current one instead of the real one."
"Oh." Bulma whispered.
"Now the next question is why do I have a tail? I can see why it healed me, so I would be at full power again, but why the damn tail?" Vegeta was muttering to himself now trying to think.
"Well maybe if you have a Saiyajin tail then maybe you're Saiyajin. But they're more powerful than humans." Bulma muttered also.
"But why would it do that in the first place?" Vegeta asked her. Then it hit him. 'She wished that I would come back to life! A human can't handle a vampire's power, but a Saiyajin can! Holy shit I'm alive! That means anyone can just pop out and kill me. I could die any minute!' Vegeta was gasping for breath trying to calm down.
"Can I still transport? I need to get out of here. I need to go some where safe.safe.. Talana! I need to get to.need to get to Talana now!" Vegeta was in hysterics now trying to breathe and talk at the same time. Taking all his power he transported to the only place he could think of.
"What the hell was that all about?" Bulma muttered to herself.
(AN: The reason I thin that Vegeta can still transport is that Kakarrot can and he's a Saiyajin. Plus Vegeta has had years to learn this trait so I think he can
When Bulma woke up that next morning she had a mission. She knew that Vegeta would be out for weeks even months recovering from his fight and Bulma couldn't wait that long. Even when Vegeta recovered he would be just as irritating and not really that useful. 'But god he's hot. Just the way he looks sets me on fire. And his touch!' Bulma smiled lightly at her thoughts, she really did feel something strong for Vegeta but what she wasn't so sure. 'It's like any love I've had before but there's something different.'
Shaking her head Bulma rose out of her bed alone even though she wished Vegeta was well enough for her not to have. She slept in a large pick shirt when she was alone that fell to her knees. Untwisting it from her body and dropping it to the floor she walked to her closet and pulled out a white T- shirt with Capsule Corp. in blue lettering. A pair of blue jean short also came out of the drawer. Pulling them on she looked to the mirror for her hair.
Long blue wisps piled up on each other, choosing an oval comb she started to straiten the morning hair. After she was satisfied she grabbed a red headband and set her hair out of the way. As an after thought choose a dark red lipstick to match. Taking a last look into the mirror she headed down to breakfast her thoughts back on her mission.
From all accounts The Black Flame disappeared after he destroyed the Vatican, most thought he was staked in his sleep for it was the only way to kill him. Bulma had made a bad mistake in her research. She had been using secondhand research to discover anything on The Black Flame, what she needed was first hand. But the only problem with that he was dead; this is where her mission came in.
It would take a miracle to bring him back to life, a miracle she had. Because of the threat of the up coming fight the Z Team had gathered all the DragonBalls to revive anyone that died. Surprisingly none of the team had even been hurt, on the down side one of the people got away. But in any case there was still 7 dragonballs all together awaiting a wish and no danger. So Bulma thought why not just wish the Black Flame here.
As she reached the kitchen she pulled open the frig and pulled out a slim fast shake for breakfast. (AN: I don't own slim fast, I just like the chocolate ones.) She had never liked cooking even though it was so easy to read the instructions. She had found though that if you ruin enough food no one would ask you to cook. Having found her breakfast Bulma turned to the phone. She pressed speed dial and waited for the answer.
"Hello Krillin here." The voice on the other line answered cheerfully.
"Hey Krillin it's me." Bulma said happily. She always felt better talking to him.
"Bulma, hey what's up?"
"Hopefully me. I was hoping you could fly me up to Kame's sanctuary. I have to ask if I can use the DragonBalls."
"Oh sure Bulma that's easy. Just one thing though." A long pause.
"What?" Bulma asked surprised.
"Will that Vegeta character be there?" It was then that Bulma started her five minutes of laughing.
"He scared you that bad huh?" She gasped in between her laughs.
"Well sort of. He's really strong Bulma, stronger than that Yamcha guy." Bulma stopped laughing at the sound of that name.
"That lying son of a bitch wasn't that powerful at all. He was a lying human and a bad one at that. He deserves to lie in the fiery pits of hell!" Bulma hissed into the phone trying to contain her anger.
"Vegeta?" Krillin asked quietly.
"NO, YAMCHA!" Bulma screamed into the phone.
"Oh, but will Vegeta be there?" Calming down she answered.
"Yes he will be here but he was seriously hurt, so he won't be leaving his room."
"Ok then! I'll be there in 10 minutes." A sharp click and he was gone. Setting down her own phone she walked into the living room and flicked on the TV.
"Woman!" Came a loud yell from the kitchen.
"Vegeta is that you?! What are you doing up you should be sleeping?" Bulma yelled back twisting around to see him. He had changed into pair of black jeans with a matching shirt. The shirt was mid-arm length with red Japanese symbols and was hanging open displaying his chest. The most of the bandages were gone but he leaned easily enough on the open doorway.
"I'm bored woman, entertain me." A small smirk had surfaced on his face. Bulma froze and she looked him up and down one more time. 'Is he asking what I think he's asking?'
"Do you know where are my parents, I couldn't find them?" She asked casually.
"I believe they left early this morning for the airport, something about business. So you and I are the only one's here." He spoke just as casually but his eyes never left hers.
"Oh Vegeta I would love to keep you entertained for a couple of hours but I got things to do today."
"Tell Danica to do it." He said blowing passed it.
"Vegeta you said that our private lives wouldn't cross over into our day lives. This is one of those times." Bulma hated saying that but she really wanted to finish her project. 'Then again I also want Vegeta very badly.' She thought trying not to look at his open chest.
"Then bring me with you woman." Vegeta said darkly at having his own words bit him in the ass.
"Vegeta really, you should be in bed. You can't just go around killing stuff and then think hey I'm fine!" Bulma said sarcastically, her long hair swishing about her head as she talked. "Besides the person taking me is afraid of you." His smirk returned.
"Who, Kakarrot?"
"Who's Kakarrot?"
"The tall stupid one."
"Goku?"
"Yes him."
"Goku maybe a little slow but he's the best friend I've ever had. He's an amazing fighter and isn't scared of anything, except needles that is." Bulma got to her feet now and stood with her hand on her hips next to the couch. "Besides my friend's here now." 'Ok test number one.' Vegeta's eyes glazed over and moved to look at the door.
"The monk." He spat in disgust. 'So he can sense ki.' Bulma thought quietly.
"Would you stop that! His name's Krillin and if he sees you he'll-"
"He won't."
"What?" Bulma stuttered in surprise.
"Tell him to go away and I'll take you to where ever it's your going." Vegeta pushed off from the wall and slowly walked to her. Bulma stopped breathing. 'It was hard keeping cool while he was ten feet away but this close.'
"And why would you do that?" Bulma whispered as he came to a stop an inch from her lips. She locked her eyes on her lips fighting the urge to kiss him.
"Because I'm interested in what you're doing." He whispered. That got Bulma's attention, her head snapped up to stare at him shocked. 'He isn't interested in anything unless he gets some thing out of it. What is he up to?' Vegeta seemed to see something was wrong and stiffened slightly. "What is it woman?"
"Nothing." Bulma took that time to break away from him and walk to the door. Vegeta stayed where he was watching her. "Well you can do what you want but I won't promote your disregard for a swift recovery. Stay here please and I'll be back so." With that she pulled open the front door. Krillin was halfway into a knock and looked very surprised to see Bulma open the door.
"Hey Bulma, that was quick. You ready?" He said putting his hand down and smiling up at her.
"Sure Krillin let's go." With that she stepped through the doorway and jumped into Krillin's arms. "Well what are you waiting for?" She asked the gapping Krillin. Not thinking of anything to say he just took to the skies holding to Bulma.
***
"Sure Bulma you can use the DragonBalls. I was wondering what to do with them anyway." Kame said as Bulma finished her story.
"Thank you so much. I was wondering if I would ever get my project done." She said sighing in relief. 'I'm almost there. Not only will I meet the real Black Flame but I'll.well that doesn't matter right now.'
"Well it's my pleasure. Mr. Popo Please bring Mr. Briefs the dragonballs." Kame said over his shoulder to his small friend. He nodded and disappeared inside the doorway. In less than a second he was back holding a red pillow with all seven balls on top. He carefully set them down in the middle of the sanctuary as Bulma approached.
"Use them wisely now." He said stepping away form them.
"You know me, always the careful one." Bulma said smiling sweetly at him. He smiled back and then hurried to rejoin his friend to watch. Bulma turned to the balls gathering her nerves for the wish. 'This is it.'
"Shenlong arise and grant my wish!" She cried. The skies darkened while the light in the balls grew brighter. A bolt of blinding light shoot out of the now spinning balls twisting high above them. The light winded around the skies a round body taking shape. The winds rushed pasted taking Bulma's breath with it. Finally the light started to fade and the great dragon floated before them.
"What is your wish?" The huge voice boomed above her. Bulma smiled at the powerful dragon that brought back so many childhood memories.
"Hey Shenlong. I wish for the Black Flame to come back to life in all his power here." Bulma shouted up at her old friend. 'Now it's started.'
***
"That's the last time I try being tentative to that damn woman!" Vegeta yelled slamming his fist into the wall. Pulling his hand away he saw only a small dint in the wall. Growling in anger he let his disguise fall bring back the bandages he had hid. "I'm not even strong enough to make a hole in a damn plaster wall!" He spun from the wall and stormed up the stairs to his room.
The walls pressed in around him giving him the urge to run. He felt like a trapped tiger in a cage. But he couldn't leave; he barley had strength to fly. He slammed the door open roaring at his bed in rage.
"I hate this place!" He roared kicking the foot of a chair sending it flying into the closet door. He didn't stop there he raced after the chair and through it a crossed the room just missing the window. "I need to get out of here!"
Realizing he was acting like a crazy man he stopped moving and forced himself to breathe. 'I'm a damn vampire I should have stopped needing to breathe by now! Just stopped it and calm down.' Letting one last breath go he opened his eyes.
"Better clean up." He muttered to himself grabbing the chair by the leg. As he turned it back on it'd legs he noticed the sky had changed from sunny to as dark as night. "What the hell?" As he spoke he felt something happening.
His skin felt warm, like when he had a fever as a boy. His spine felt like it was stretching out from his body. And what hit him most was that all of his wounds were healed. He slipped his hand under the bandages and pulled them from his chest to see a perfectly fine chest. But that wasn't all, for the first time in years Vegeta felt like he couldn't breathe.
Vegeta couldn't think of what to do, so he did what he hadn't done in years, he started to breathe. He pulled breath after breath into his system trying to figure out what was going on. He closed his eyes trying to except all of the changes that were going on in his body. But when he opened them he got the shock of a lifetime.
"Vegeta, what are you doing here?!" Bulma cried in total shock.
"Well I have no idea woman." Vegeta spat standing back. "I was in my room when the sky went black, my wounds healed and then I was here. So tell me woman, WHAT AM I DOING HERE!" He roared in her face.
"Well I really don't know Vegeta. I made a wish that had nothing to do with you on the dragonballs and."
"DragonBalls? What DragonBalls?" Vegeta said forgetting his anger. Bulma looked up.
"Those ones." She said pointing to seven golden balls. Just as he caught site of them the balls shot up into the air and shot out of site. Growling Vegeta planted his hands on his hips and felt something furry.
"HOLY SHIT!" Vegeta yelled shooting up into the sky. He stared at what was wrapped around his waist. It looked like a brown furry rope but it was warm and it moved. "WHAT THE HELL IS IT!?" Vegeta yelled slowly coming back to the ground. Bulma looked just as shocked as he did.
"Vegeta that looks like a Saiyajin tail."
"WELL WHY THE HELL DO I HAVE A TAIL!? WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO ME WOMAN!?" Vegeta was out of his mind with rage. He didn't have one clue on what was going on and he now had a damn tail.
"Ok let's think this through, what was the wish?" Vegeta asked pissed beyond believe at having the dragonballs slip through his hands and now having a tail.
"Well I said 'I wish for the Black Flame to come back to life in all his power here.' That's it." Bulma explained quickly. 'Ok how would that make me have a Saiyajin tail? Well first think of a way to convince her I'm not the Black Flame.'
"Well I can explain part of this. After the Black Flame trained me he was killed. I killed his murder and took the Black Flame's name. When you wished for the Black Flame you got me the current one instead of the real one."
"Oh." Bulma whispered.
"Now the next question is why do I have a tail? I can see why it healed me, so I would be at full power again, but why the damn tail?" Vegeta was muttering to himself now trying to think.
"Well maybe if you have a Saiyajin tail then maybe you're Saiyajin. But they're more powerful than humans." Bulma muttered also.
"But why would it do that in the first place?" Vegeta asked her. Then it hit him. 'She wished that I would come back to life! A human can't handle a vampire's power, but a Saiyajin can! Holy shit I'm alive! That means anyone can just pop out and kill me. I could die any minute!' Vegeta was gasping for breath trying to calm down.
"Can I still transport? I need to get out of here. I need to go some where safe.safe.. Talana! I need to get to.need to get to Talana now!" Vegeta was in hysterics now trying to breathe and talk at the same time. Taking all his power he transported to the only place he could think of.
"What the hell was that all about?" Bulma muttered to herself.
(AN: The reason I thin that Vegeta can still transport is that Kakarrot can and he's a Saiyajin. Plus Vegeta has had years to learn this trait so I think he can