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Chapter 10

The Killer

"Goku?" Chichi squeeked.

"Hmm?"

"I'm scared." Chichi said.

"You and everyone else, Chi." Goku said as he watched Vegeta's back. How can he be so calm and not scared at the same time at a time like this? This was what he had admired most about Vegeta.

"What's wrong Vegeta?" Goku asked as he watched his friend stopped.

"Hey!" Yamucha called from the back. "What's with the hold up?"

"Shut up!" Vegeta growled. "I hear something." he whispered. Yamucha gulped, Launch held on to Tien, Chichi did the same to Goku, Mrs. Richmond hugged herself and Marron held on to Bulma. Bulma's worried eyes scanned around the room. So did Vegeta's onyx ones. They all looked straight as they heard a creak.

They all watched as the doors of their rooms carefully opened. A sweat ran down from Vegeta's forehead. He gulped as a person on a black suit came out.

"PAOLO!" they all screamed.

"Thank god you're here!" Chichi exclaimed.

"Yes!" Mrs. Richmond joined as she walked up to the hotel's gardener. "Maria's dead and my husband..." she stopped as tears flowed down on her wrinkled face. "Ohhh!" she sobbed. "My husband!" she cried.

"I'm so thrilled." Paolo whispered the words rolling on his tongue.

Everybody shocked turned their heads away from the crying Mrs. Richmond to the gardener. Mrs. Richmond stopped crying as she stared at the man in front of her. Paolo smirked. The hand behind his back came into full view, with a knife stained with blood. He laughed at Mrs. Richmond's frightened form. And in a quick movement he trusted the knife into her stomach. Mrs. Richmond's eyes never left Paolo's as her life started to fade.

Everybody screamed as Paolo trust the knife into Mrs. Richmond's stomach again and again. Chichi almost dropped to the floor if Goku wasn't holding her.

"Run!" Vegeta screamed as he finally found his voice. Tien and Launch being in the end of the line took off, followed by Bulma and Marron who were followed by Yamucha, Chichi and Goku right behind his tail and following them is Vegeta.

The group ran down to the emergency exit doors, and running down the staircase. They were on the fifth floor and they got out on the ground floor.

"Please, let's leave this place!" Marron cried as Bulma caught her in her arms. Marron sobbed on her shoulder.

"The question is," Vegeta said as he started walking to the couches in the lounge room. "How?" he asked as he stared outside the window. Everybody stared at what he was looking at. They all gasped. It was a storm outside, more like a hurricane. The trees bending, it's leaves almost touching the wet ground because of the strong winds.

"Oh my god!" Marron cried again, sobbing harder than before. She couldn't take it anymore, she couldn't die on a place like this, she's too young to die!

"Marron,.." Bulma hushed as she tried to calm her down by rubbing small circles on her back.

"We have to call the cops." Tien sobbed.

"Tien's right!" Launch agreed. "We have to find a phone and get some help."

"Alright!" Vegeta said. Finally taking charge. "Yamucha, Kakkarot, Chichi, Bulma and I will go and look for a phone. The rest of you stay here." Vegeta ordered.

Everybody agreed and the chosen ones to look for a phone stood up and followed Vegeta to the other side of the hotel.

The remaining teens sat on the lobby, sobbing and praying. Krillen sat on a love seat chair, his arms all around 18, he tried his best to keep her calm. She haven't said a word since she witness the death of Mrs. Richmond. Who could blame her? Krillen looked around and saw Marron shivering on an arm chair, all by herself, as tears ran down her pale face. He then turned his attention to the other couple. Tien had his arms around Launch protectively and just like him he's trying to calm her down.