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Chapter 8

What's Going On?

The girls who were sound asleep shot up from their beds and quickly jumped off of their beds and hurried to the source of the scream.

"Bulma!" 18 called as she went into the bathroom. She saw her sitting on the floor as she covered her mouth with her hands. 18 noticed that she was shivering like crazy.

"Are you alright?" Chichi asked.

"Yeah! You scared us to death!" Marron exclaimed. Bulma was about to point out the problem when they were interrupted by violent knocking on the door, that's adjoining their room to the boys'.

Vegeta shot up from his slumber as he heard a familiar scream. Bulma was the first person that came to his thoughts. He quickly jumped up from his couch, therefore waking up the rest of his roommates.

"Vegeta?" Goku yawned as he called for his attention. Vegeta ignored him and started banging on the girls room.

"OPEN THIS FUCKING DOOR!" he screamed. "BULMA!" he yelled.

Launch quickly walked over to the door and unlocked it. Vegeta came bursting into the room, with his angry red face.

"Where the hell is she?" he asked

"I-in the bathroom." Launch stuttered. Vegeta walked passed by her walking into the bathroom.

"Woman!" he growled. "You had better have a good explanation with all the screaming you just did." he scolded as he watch her shivering form. "What the hell is wrong with her?" he asked after a moment of silence Bulma is giving him.

"We were about to asked the same thing when you scared her even more with your banging on the door." Chichi said. "Why Vegeta? Worried?" she cooed. Vegeta ignored her as he kneeled in front of Bulma.

"Bulma," he whispered as soft as he could. "What's wrong?" he asked worriedly.

"T-take me out of here Vegeta." she cried out as tears formed in her eyes. "G- get me o-out of here." she sobbed as tears flowed freely down her cheeks. Vegeta just nodded as she carried her in his arms.

"Bulma?" Chichi called from the bathroom door, Goku stood behind her still doesn't know what was going on.

"S-somebody's in there!" Bulma blurted out in a whisper as she was carried out of the bathroom by Vegeta. When Bulma was out of the bathroom, 18 gave Chichi and Goku a confused look. They all look at the curtained bath tub.

"Go look." Chichi suggested uneasily. 18 nodded. She was about to take a step when somebody grabbed her wrist.

"I'll look." Goku said. "Something like this scared Bulma, I won't let you do it." Goku said. 18 just nodded in agreement.

Goku took a step near the bath tub. He opened the curtains in full view.

"Auuuuuuuuuuuggggggggggghhhhh hhhhhhh!" Chichi and 18 both screamed together. Goku just stood there, not sure what to do. In the bath tub, lay the dead bloody body of the housekeeper, Maria.

"Ho-ly Shit." Goku said finally finding his voice.

"Oh my god!" 18 said as she ran away from the bathroom. She ran passed everybody and into the boys room, Krillen followed her just to make sure she's alright. Chichi dropped to the floor. Goku carried her out of the bathroom, he closed the door behind them.

"What's going on?" Marron asked.

"Maria..." Goku said as he put Chichi down on the bed near Bulma who is bundled up with her blanket.

"What about Maria?" Yamucha asked.

"H-her body, is in there." Goku stuttered.

"What do you mean?" Tien asked.

"She's dead." Goku finished.

"Then that explains the blood on the floor." Vegeta pointed to the stained floor in the carpet. The blood is near Bulma's couch. "It looks like somebody killed her, while Bulma was sleeping," Vegeta stated. "Then somebody dragged her body to the bathroom." he finished.

"Then how come the bathroom floor is clean?" Launch asked.

"I know why,..." Bulma sobbed. "I was looking for a towel to clean my feet. I found none, so maybe,..."

"It makes sense." Goku said as he nod his head. At the same moment, Krillen helped a groggy 18 back to the room.

"Are you alright 18?" Marron asked. 18 didn't answer so Krillen answered for her.

"She's fine, she just threw up." Krillen said as he helped 18 seat next to Bulma and Chichi.

"What do we do now?" Tien asked.

"We look for the one who's in charge." Vegeta suggested.

"Cori?" Launch asked.

"Yeah, Cori." he nodded.

"Let's go then." Krillen suggested as they started going out the door. But before they could exit the room all the lights went off and the only remaining light and noise is the light the lightning makes and the noise of thunder.

"Alright, Nobody panicked." Vegeta assured.

"Vegeta?" Bulma called worriedly.

"Nobody panicked." Vegeta said once more.

"Here!" Chichi said. "I have a flashlight in my bag." she continued as she turned on her flash light. She pointed it as if looking for somebody around the room. She saw Vegeta advancing her and grabbed the flash light from her.

"Stay here." he said as he went to the closet of the room. He saw three yellow flash lights, he grabbed it and tossed it to Krillen, Goku and Yamucha. "Wait here." he said as he walked to their room. He returned with three more flashlights. He returned Chichi her flashlight. He motioned to Bulma, if she wants a flashlight, she shook her head.

"I have one, two actually." she said as she grabbed her blue flashlight from her bag, she tossed one to 18. Vegeta nodded his head and he gave Tien, Launch and Marron the remaining flashlights.

"Let's go." Vegeta said as he started walking out the door.

"Wait!"

Vegeta stopped in his tracks and looked back.

"We don't know what's out there." Yamucha said nervously. "That person want's to kill us!" he said.

"Why you scared?" Vegeta taunted with a smirk.

"YES! IF YOU WANT TO DIE, THEN GO AHEAD!" he screamed. "BUT I DON'T!" he finished.

"FINE! IF YOU WANT TO STAY HERE AND WAIT TO BE KILLED THEN GO AHEAD!" Vegeta screamed back. "I DON'T WANT TO DIE EITHER! BUT STAYING HERE AND DOING NOTHING WON'T HELP!" Vegeta argued back. Yamucha took a step back. He hates to admit it but Vegeta's right.

"Guys, guys!" Goku said as he stood in the middle of the two fighting men. "This isn't the time for fighting." he said. "But Vegeta's right, staying here won't help." he said. "Lead the way Vegeta." he said.

"Sure, if you tell me where the bloody hell is the manager!" Vegeta said.

"Don't you know?" Chichi asked almost panicking. Bulma noticed this and grasped Chichi's shoulders to calm her down. Chichi sobbed as she hugged Bulma and started crying on her shoulder.

"No, but-" Vegeta said but was cut of by a loud scream.

"W-what was that?" Launch stuttered.

"Let's go!" Vegeta said as he ran out of the room towards the source of the scream. Everybody followed his actions and followed him to the scream.