Dark Kisses
By: Andross937
Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball Z, any of the characters featured in it, or anything to do with it. I am not making profit off of this, and am only writing it for enjoyment. If the owners of this series wish it, I will remove it from the internet.
Author's Notes: sorry about the long wait on this chapter. I've been focusing on another story, and really got on a roll. Well, this is the longest chapte yet in this story, and I hope it lives up to everyone's expectations. I'm just a little afraid that I used up too much of the story in this chapter, and didn't leave enough for the next chapter, which may be the last chapter depending on any last minute twists I think to add. Well, enjoy!
-chapter 3-
Gohan flew through the air, enjoying the feeling of the wind against his face. It washed over him, sending ripples through his clothing as he flew. He sighed as he slowly realized that he would be at the park soon, and wouldn't be able to fly any more. He opened his eyes and lowered himself out of the clouds so he could see the city below. He began to scan with his eyes for anywhere that he could land.
He spotted an empty alleyway less then a block from the park. Making sure no one saw him, he zipped down into the alley faster then light. When he landed, he deactivated his Saiyaman costume. He came jogging out of the alley way and continued to jog towards the park.
When he came jogging into the park, he had to look for a map of the park. Soon he found one, and followed it to the lake. When he found it, he found himself just looking at the beauty of it, letting the scenery settle in his mind, allowing it to bring back any memory that happened to come with it.
He frowned when he realized that nearly all of his memories that had to do with beautiful scenery like this were from his training or fighting. His frown deepened when the small island in the center of the lake only reminded him of Namek.There was no more Namek...
His frown left though when he spotted the tree with the picnic table under it. He grinned as he saw it, but then he realized that Videl was not there waiting for him. Confused, he looked at his watch. It was only one o'clock... Then he slapped himself in the forehead as he realized that Videl said she would meet him at five. He was early!
"Great..." he grumbled to himself as he realized that he still had four hours before she would get there.
Suddenly he looked a lot more nervous as his stomach began to growl, so loudly that it attracted the attention of everyone within three hundred yards. He grinned sheepishly while holding his hand behind his head in the classic Son pose before deciding that he should get something to eat. Looking around he didn't see any fast food places nearby. However he did see one rather nice looking restaurant within view of the park, and decided that he would eat there.
Thinking that Videl might come early, or he might just be eating for longer then he thought, he thought to leave her a note on the table letting her know where he was. Wrighting a quick note telling her what resuarant to find him at, he left it on the table with a rock holding it down and walked off. Already he could smell the strong auromas of the food, even better then ever thanks to his sense of smell being enhanced by the bite.
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Unknown to Gohan, someone else saw him write the note. Curiosity over came them, and when they saw Gohan walk far enough away, they casually walked over to the table. Looking down, they quickly read the note. They had planned to just casually walk away afterwards, but when they read who the note was written too, their eyes bugged out to the size of tennis balls before they hurriedly walked away.
'Wow... Videl is going to be here in the park... I can't believe my luck! This kind of information will get me out of debt for sure!' the person thought to themselves before heading for a payphone.
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Gohan walked into the restaurant and made his way to the short line of people waiting for a table. He didn't have to wait too long, because everytime his stomach would growl, empty plates and cups would rattle, and more and more people would insist that he stand infront of them in line. He sheepishly did the Son pose before a waiter took him to a table. Luckily, it was a rather large table for just one person.
The waiter asked for his order, and Gohan took a quick glance at the menu. Realizing that everything looked good, not to mention smelled good to him, he promptly ordered three of everything. At first this was met with shock, but he produced the money to pay for it all, and the waiter agreed, recruiting several more people to help him carry the food. They were rushed along by another growl from Gohan's stomach.
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Videl landed her chopper in an empty part of the park. Hopping out she capsulelized it and stuck the capsule back in her pocket. She casually began to walk to where she was going to meet up with Gohan, glad that the police force had promised her that they wouldn't need her for the day. She breathed in the smells of the beautiful flowers around her, before the picnic table came in view.
When she walked over to it, she was surprised to find a note on it. She picked it up and read it, surprised to find that it was from Gohan. When had he arrived early for anything? She started laughing to herself some when she read that he had mistaken the time that he was suppose to meet her, and was already here before he remembered that he still had four hours before their actual meeting.
Her laughter only increased when she read that he was at a nearby restaurant. She shook her head, wondering who else but Gohan would spend his free time eating. She looked around for a moment before spotting the restaurant. She folded up the note and stuck it in her pocket before walking towards the restaurant.
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A couple watched Gohan eat. They weren't the only ones watching him either. Nearly the entire restaurant was crowding around the teenage boy as he ate the mountains of food, continuing to order more food between mouthfulls. However, this couple were special. They weren't interested in Gohan's eating habbits in the same way everyone else was. Instead, they were interested with how much attention it was drawing.
"Hey, Bettie, do you see how much attention that fool is drawing?" asked the man.
"Yeah Jake. I do see it. Stuffing himself like that, it's a wonder that he isn't rounder then that table..." Bettie said.
"Would you shut up about how much he's eating! He's got the attention of everyone in here. They're all in one spot, easier to watch... You get it?" Jake asked.
"Oooh..." she said as she pulled the butt of a gun out of her jacket. "You mean this...?" she asked with a smile.
"Yeah. You ready?" he asked.
"Always baby." Bettie said.
"That's what I love about you darling. You're always ready for action. Let's do it." Jake said.
Bettie jumps up ontop of the table and levels the gun at the crowd of people while Jake pulls out an automatic from his jacket and walks around towards the regester.
"Alright, nobody move! Anyone moves, and I blow all of your heads off!" Bettie screamed excitedly into the crowd.
"Yeah! Everybody just cooperate with us, and nobody gets hurt!" Jake shouted.
"Everybody just put your stuff in this bag! Wallets, watches, jewerly, anything!" Bettie shouted as she started to pass around a large garbage bag around.
For a moment she dissapeared in the crowd, gone from Jake's vision. He wasn't worried really, he knew she could take care of herself. As for her, she was getting a lot of stuff from people. It was almost surprising how cooperative people could be when they had a gun shoved into their face. Ofcourse, the big score in her mind was the kid that had all that food, since he had to pay for it all somehow. He must have more money on him then there was in the rest of the restaurant!
Her face was suddenly covered in surprise when she made her way to the Gohan's table, just to find him gone. The surprise grew when she looked around for him, but couldn't find him at all. It changed to anger when something jumped through one of the large restaurant windows.
"He's getting away!" she shouted at Jake, before letting a few shots off at the broken window, hoping to hit him as he ran.
Suddenly a shout of excitement caught her attention from behind. She turned just in time to see Gohan grab Jake's automatic from behind. It scared Bettie, because the look of anger on Gohan's was so fierce, he didn't even look like he was human. He twisted Jake's hand, breaking his wrist with a shout of pain.
Gohan didn't stop there though, as he punched him in the ribs, easily hearing the crack that came from it. When the man lurched over from the pain, Gohan punched him in the jaw with a bit too much force. The crack of his jaw bone echoed in Bettie's ears as Jake flew to the floor, unconscious. Her vision turned red as she mistook him for dead, and began to wildly fire at Gohan.
People scattered away from Bettie as she fired her gun off towards Gohan. Gohan knew that he couldn't move fast enough to outright dodge the bullets, or his cover as Saiyaman would be ruined. With this thought, he kicked up one of the tables infront of him. The bullets slammed into it even as he rushed along the wall of the restaurant towards Bettie. The bullets continued to come, lodging themselves in the walls and floor.
Suddenly Gohan's form filled Bettie's vision. His foot came up and kicked the gun out of her hand. He continued to twist his body until his other foot slammed into her stomach, sending her into the air. She crashed through the window next to the one that Gohan had thrown a chair out of. She landed hard on the cement outside, knocking her out. Her body was spralled out infront of someone's feet. Gohan followed the feet upwards, until his eyes bugged out as he saw Videl's surprised face.
"Uh... Hi Videl..." Gohan said nervously, his rage dissapearing instantly.
Before Videl could even speak, her watch went off. Rage went over her face as she answered it.
"What is it Cheif!" she asked angerilly.
"I'm sorry for having to call you Videl. I know we promised that we could take care of things today, but there was a bank robbery. They've got hostages, lots of them. They won't let anyone go, and are threatening to kill everyone, if they don't talk to you personally in the next ten minutes. You've got to hurry Videl, or everyone in there is going to die." the Chief said nervously.
"Arrgh!" Videl grunted, her eyes filling with more anger. "I'll be there in four minutes." Videl said as she tried to calm herself, even as she could hear police sirens coming to deal with the crooks that tried to hold up the restaurant. "I'll deal with you later Gohan." she said angerilly before throwing out her chopper and getting in it.
Gohan frowned when he had heard what the police cheif said. It was obvious to him, and Videl, that it was a trap. A cold chill ran down Gohan's spine as he took off running for an empty alley way. Videl was going to need his help, rather she wanted it or not...
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Videl arrived at the bank, finding it surrounded by the police. There were at least three police squads watching every single entrance and possible exit to the bank. There were also at least four thugs with automatics watching every entrance to the bank, making sure the police weren't going to raid the bank. Videl landed the chopper in the street, just behind the main police baracade.
"Videl, thank goodness you're here!" the round police cheif exclaimed as he jogged towards the chopper.
"Yeah, I'm here Cheif." Videl said as she hopped out of her chopper and reverted it back to a capsule.
"The bank robbers say that we have only six minutes to get you to talk to them, before they kill all the hostages." the police cheif said in a slight panic.
"Alright. How many hostages do that have?" Videl asked.
"They say they have fivty-eight hostages. We think they're telling the truth." the cheif answered.
"Damn. Well, get me a megaphone. If they want to talk to me, then I'll talk to them." Videl said with determination.
Stepping through the crowd of police, Videl made her way to the front, just behind the baracade. The cheif handed her a megaphone. Videl took a second to calm herself and prepare, before opening her eyes again, now filled with determination.
"This is Videl Satan! You said you wanted to talk with me!" she called out over the megaphone.
"Good! You got her! Now we might not have to kill the hostages!" shouted one of the thugs.
"What did you want from me?" Videl asked over the megaphone.
"It's simple! We want you to surrender to us! Our leader wants to meet you personally! If you do not agree to this, then we will kill one hostage, every ten seconds until you do!" the thug shouted.
"Arrgh..." Videl growled to herself, before nodding. "Alright! I'll surrender!" she said, much to the protest of every single police officer.
She put down the megaphone and began to walk towards the bank's main entrance. The police kept shouting for her to come back, but she didn't listen to them. She only gritted her teeth, knowing she was walking right into a trap. If she didn't though, then over fifty people would die. She couldn't allow that, no matter what.
"If you harm her," the police cheif began over the megaphone. "we won't give you life in jail, we'll give you the chair! If you even make it out of that bank alive!" the cheif threatened.
"Stow it tubby!" a thug shouted from on the roof, a spot the police didn't even know that thugs were at.
As soon as Videl entered the bank, thugs stood up all over the roof. Over thirty thugs, all armed with high powered automatic weapons, held the roof of the bank. They even saw three thugs carrying around rocket propelled grenades, or RPG's for short. At the sight of this, the police were forced to pull back the line that they held, not wanting to get too close to such heavy firepower.
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Videl walked into the bank, the four thugs that had been occupying the entrance walking backwards with their guns pointed at her. Instantly she was surrounded by ten more thugs, while six more came up behind her to hold the door once again. No one got within fifteen feet of her, well out of her reach as they all held their guns at her. If she tried to fight back now, they would kill her.
She looked behind them, and saw at least twenty people tied up on the floor in the lobby. They were all hostages, and they were all scared. There was one man with a gun beside every hostage, holding the barrel to the hostages head. One thing was for sure, these guys had come prepared. This fact was only hammered harder into her head as she could see explosives planted along the walls of the lobby, and could only guess that they had more in other parts of the building.
"That's right Videl." one of thugs, obviously the one in charge of the thugs in the lobby, said as he saw her looking at the explosives. "We have enough explosives in this building to blow everything for four blocks to dust. Everyone here has a detonater, and we're all prepared to detonate if we have to. So don't get any cute ideas." he said roughly.
"Alright, I get the point. So, where's this leader of yours?" she asked.
"Oh no, it's not that easy. First, lose your capsules and anything else you have in your pockets." the thug ordered.
"Alright." Videl agreed.
She threw her capsule case and the capsule for her chopper aside. Next she emptied her pockets, tossing everything at the feet of the thugs. After she was done, she stood there expectantly.
"Good. Next, take off your watch and toss it to one of the guys at the door." the thug commanded.
Videl obeyed, and tossed it to a thug at the door. The thug turned and chunked it as hard as he could towards the police baracade. It clattered to a stop at the feet of the chief, and looked down at it in panic and worry. What were they going to do to Videl?
"Very good." the thug said.
A pair of heavy chains came to a clattering stop at Videls feet. Shackels were connected on each side of a two food long chain. On the other side of each shackel was a thirty pound weight connected to the shackels by another chain. Videl looked down at them, before looking up questioningly.
"Put those on your feet." the thug commanded.
Videl crouched down and did as she was told. Something interesting caught her eyes just before she attached them to her feet. Each shackel had no key hole, and no way to remove them that she could find. It must take some kind of magnetic device or some other kind of means to remove them, if they were meant to be removed at all. She discovered something else when she put them on, and it sent chills down her spine. They fit her ankles perfectly...
"Alright. They're on." she said as she stood.
"Good. Now put these on behind your back." the thug commanded as he tossed forward a pair of handcuffs.
"A bit kinky, aren't you guys?" she asked, trying to figure out what they had planned.
"Don't worry, it's nothing like that." the thug said.
Videl leaned over and picked up the handcuffs. Once again she was worried, as she could find no key holes to release them. She put her hands behind her back and put them on herself. Once again a cold chill ran down her spine as they handcuffs proved to not be adjustible, fitting her wrists perfectly.
"Now what?" Videl asked, getting a little annoiyed.
"We're not done yet." the thug said.
Now one of the thugs that had been behind her approached her, though slowly. When he was finally in arms reach of her, he slowly lowered his gun. He reached behind him and pulled out another chain, connecting it to her handcuffs and then down to the chains holding her feet together. Once again, it was just the right length. As soon as that was done, the thug backed away again, raising his gun up at her once more.
"There, now check her for weapons." the commanding thug ordered.
Three thugs quickly approached her and patted her down, being quick about it. They patted all over Videl's body, but only breifly and only long enough to find out if there were any weapons on her. When they determined that she was unarmed, they backed away again. Videl was getting more then a little worried. These men weren't fooling around, and they were being far too professional for her liking. There was nothing that she could take advantage of, and they were too careful of her.
"Alright, now it's time to meet our leader. He's wanted to meet you for some time." the commanding thug said with a grin.
The thugs began to lead her towards the back, still not getting within ten feet of her. As they went through various rooms headed for the back, they passed by more hostages. Each were gagged, tied up, and had a thug holding a gun to their throat. Still more thugs were in each room, while even more were guarding each window. There must have been over a hundred fifty thugs in the bank, not to mention the ones on the roof that she didn't know about. Why had this group of thugs brought so many people, and armed them all so heavily just to get her?
Finally the thugs came to a stop. They stopped infront of the door to the survailence room. One of them unlocked it and oened it, before backing away and motioning for Videl to go inside. Videl walked inside, and they shut the door behind her. She realized that she couldn't see since it was so dark, and became even more nervous. Her nervousness only increased when she heard them lock the door behind her.
The lights inside the room were turned off, making it extremely dark. Luckily, the monitors were turned on, and they provided a weak and eery light for some of the room. However, it was not enough light to see anyone else in the room, if indeed there was someone in there. She couldn't even hear any breathing, other then her own.
Slowly she nousily made her way into the light of the monitors, dragging the weights behind her. When she was standing just infront of the monitors, she still hadn't seen or heard any sign of anyone being inside the room. She turned and looked at the monitors, gasping as she saw the thirty thugs on the roof with their heavy weapons.
This was one of the reasons that she was so puzzled when she saw thugs all over the bank cutting hostages loose. She watched the monitors closely as she saw a herd of people be led outside and sent on their way to the police baracade. Then she witnessed the thugs warn the police of the explosives, and give them the range of the explosive power, letting them know how much distance to evacuate. Instantly the police began to evacuate people, but many of the police stayed behind anyways. They were worried about her, and wouldn't leave until she was set free.
"What in the world is going on?" she breathed out in confusion.
"We only came for you." a voice said from behind Videl.
She jumped in surprise before turning to face where the voice came from. It was hard and slow because of the weights and the chains holding her in her one position, but she did it. When she finally had turned all the way around, all she saw was shadows. She calmed her breathing, holding it for a moment as she listened. Still she could hear nothing else in the room.
"We came for you, because we need strong people like you in our ranks." came the voice again, this time echoing all over the room, keeping her from pinpointing where it came from.
"Well, you waisted your time. I'll never join you or your ranks. So if that's all you wanted, I'll be on my way now." Videl said, her voice filled with confidence, but her mind was filled with fear.
"Oh, but you won't have much of a choice. Once I make you one of us, there is no going back. I know, because I tried. I gave that up a long time ago, because we all except it sooner or later." came the voice again, this time being right infront of her.
A figure walked out of the shadows and into the weak light of the monitors. He stood nearly a full seven feet tall, his body covered in large black leather and silk clothes, and his black hair reached down to his waist. That was not the most noticable part of him though. His white as snow pale skin, his pure black eyes, and his long fangs that stuck out of his mouth were the most noticable things. He looked at Videl with a kind of hunger that she couldn't describe.
"Now, come to me." he ordered.
For some reason, Videl couldn't resist. She wanted to, and mentally fought to, but her feet began to move. It was slow and labored, but her legs began to carry her towards the man. He smiled as he looked into her eyes and saw her struggle. Slowly she was drawing closer and closer to her, until she was in arms reach of him. He smiled wider as he held up the large cloak he wore, allowing her to step right to his chest before he covered her in the cloak. The only parts of her body that were not covered were her head, and her neck.
"Good, you smell so sweat. You will taste better then anything I have had in a long, long time." the man said.
Videl wanted to scream, but her mouth would not move. Instead, all she could do was stare in horror as the man opened his mouth wide, and his fangs grew even longer. Slowly he bent down towards her, bringing his teeth closer and closer to her neck. He suddenly stopped, and hissed loudly as his teeth were only a foot from her neck.
He hissed louder, and hissed once more after that. He looked around the room for a moment, before shaking his head and once again looking at Videl's neck. He once again started towards her neck. He had just enough time to get an inch closer, before he stopped again, and this time the reason was apparent. A low growl came from above, sending shivers down Videl's spine even though she could not move of her own will.
Saiyaman suddenly bust through the cieling, grabbing the man as he fell. With a powerful tug, he pulled the man clean off of Videl. In a blur of motion he gripped the man by the neck and held him several feet in the air, so that his head was touching what was left of the cieling.
The man's reaction was immediate as his hands turned to long sharp claws that looked like they could render steel to ribbons. He clawed at Saiyaman's arm with all his strength, shredding his sleeve to nothing. Still, his powerful claws could not penetrate Saiyaman's skin, no matter how much he tried. Videl could only stare in wonder and awe.
Saiyaman growled loudly with an animalistic tone even as the man hissed in hatred. Videl's wonder only grew as Saiyaman held up his other hand in a type of striking position, and his clove was suddenly ripped away. His fingers too became long and powerfull looking claws, while his own fangs showed in the dim light, reflecting the light ominously. A faint yellow glow shown through his black visor while his growl only intnesified in volume and menace.
"Don't touch her." he ordered in a low and dangerous voice.
"Werewolf scum!" the man exclaimed through gritted teeth as he continued to claw at Saiyaman's arm.
"And you would be?" Saiyaman growled out.
"I am a vampire! We will be your death werewolf!" the man exclaimed again.
"I tire of your voice, vampire." Saiyaman said before tightening his grip on the man's throat, even as the hand that held him buldged and ripped out of the glove, becoming a claw just like his other hand.
Blood began to trickle out of the man's neck as Saiyaman was cutting it slowly. Videl watched in horror, wanting to scream, wanting to tell Saiyaman not to do it. It would be illegal, not matter what the man thought he was. Still, her mouth would not move and her voice would not come. All she could do was watch.
The man suddenly grinned as he reached into a pocket. He pulled out a remote detonator for the explosives.
"If we can't have her..." he gritted out through Saiyaman's fierce grip. "No one will, not even you werewolf." he said before pressing the detonator.
Videl couldn't even squeeze her eyes shut as she saw his finger press the button hard. She wanted to cry, to scream, to curl into a ball, to do something, anything at all. Still her body would not respond even as she heard the 'click' of the remote echo through the air.
Nothing happened. She waited, but still nothing happened. After several seconds, the man looked around in confusion, and pain as more blood seeped from his neck.
"I disabled all of your detonators and the explosives remotely. They're nothing but paper weights now." Saiyaman said in a menacing voice as he once again tightened his grip on the man's neck.
Suddenly he lost that grip as the man turned to mist. Angerilly Saiyaman swipped his claws through it at lightning speeds, blowing it all over the room. The mist suddenly gathered together again, before quickly shooting down a hole in the back of the room that the thugs had apparently dug for such a purpose. Saiyaman wasn't willing to let it go though, as he rushed to the hole. He held his hand over it, since it was a little smaller then his palm. He held his hand there for a moment, before shooting a bright glowing blast down the hole, filling the entire pipe that it connected to with ki.
Various sections of street for miles erupted with ki, shooting beams straight up in the air. Apparently the thugs had been digging this pipeline for a long time as it streched of a path of twelve miles. The entire pipeline was melted, with ki erupting upwards in different sections all the way to where ever it ended.
"Damn!" Saiyaman shouted, as he didn't know wiehter or not that had worked.
He turned, and his visor glowed with bright yellow light. He was angry, and his face showed such rage that it scared Videl horribly. He began to walk towards her, and for the first time in her life since she had met him, she was afraid of what he was going to do to her. What if he turned such horrible rage on her?
When he was in arms reach, she suddenly found herself back in control of her body. Her entire body shivvered with fear as Saiyaman reached out for her. Then, in surprising speed, Siayman cut the chains, shackels, and handcuffs that held her in place. The great weight of them fell from her, but she did not move for fear of drawing the attention of his rage. Then, he was gone from her sight, and the lights were switched back on in the room.
She turned to see the door open, but nothing of Saiyaman. She found out why seconds later, as she could hear screaming and shooting. Saiyaman was attacking the thugs, and it sounded like the thugs were losing. The pain filled screams of the thugs filled her ears, and made her wince, even more then the sounds of the gun shots going off.
She turned and watched the monitors. She saw Saiyaman zipping from one monitor to another, almost too fast to keep track of. He was obviously taking his incredible rage out on the thugs as he wasn't simply knocking them out. He was shredding their guns with his claws, before making long cuts all along their bodies before violently throwing them against walls to knock them out. She could heard the cracking and breaking of bones on the monitors speakers even over the screams of pain and the gunshots. Blood began to splatter over the walls and floors, even though Saiyaman was being careful to not cause lethal injuries.
When he was done in the bank, he moved on to the roof. The thirty heavily armed men on the roof stood no more chance then the men inside the bank had. The three with RPG's tried to blow Saiyaman up, but their weapons where pulled from their hands before they had a chance to even properly aim them. They flew high into the sky before Saiyaman blew them up with a simply ki blast. When that was done, he comminced with the beatings and the slashing of his claws. Soon, they were all defeated, laying in pools of their own blood, dispite the fact that none were hurt with life threatening injuries. When Saiyaman was finished there, he looked around at what he had done.
The glow left his visor, and he suddenly looked slightly disgusted with what he had done. This only lasted a moment though, before his face became hard. He seemed to realize to himself that what he had done was neccessary, despite the extra blood shed. With that, he flew off into the sky.
Videl came shakily walking out of the room, with police and paramedics already rushing into the building. In another blur of motion, she was rushed off to be treated by a paramedic team outside. The police each greeted her with reassured smiles and greetings, each telling her of how much they had been worried about her.
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It was four o'clock before Videl was able to get the police and the paramedics to leave her alone. She was in perfect health, and was beginning to recover from being so badly shaken up. Her mind raced over what she had seen, and what she had heard Saiyaman and that man with the fangs saying. Was that man a vampire?
She knew it couldn't be possible, but he had turned into mist, not to mention his fangs growing and his hands becoming claws. Then again, Saiyaman's fangs had grown, and his hands had turned into claws. That man had called him a werewolf, and Saiyaman hadn't denied it. However, werewolves can't fly, but then again, humans can't either. Despite this, she had seen Saiyaman fly, and those people at the Cell games flew, and so did Cell. Her father had said that it was all tricks, but she knew it was real. She thought that her father could fly too, but didn't want people to hurt themselves trying to discover how to fly.
Before she wondered any further, she found herself at the park. She flew over the tree she would meet Gohan at, and landed nearby. When she got out, she was slightly surprised to find Gohan waiting for her. He wore a smile as he looked up at her from where he was sitting at the picnic table under the tree.
"Hey Videl! How'd that bank robbery thing go?" he asked.
"I'd rather not talk about it." Videl said as she made her way over and took a seat.
"So, where's your books?" Gohan asked.
"Huh?" Videl asked.
"You said you wanted to meet me to study. So, here I am, here you are, where are your books?" Gohan asked.
"Oh yeah, that. Well, I buckled down and got it finished last night." Videl answered.
"Oh..." Gohan said as he leaned back and looked at her face closely. "You don't lie too well Videl." Gohan said nerviously.
Despite him being intimidated by Videl so often, he wasn't nervous because of what he said. It was because of what he could smell. He could smell her. He could smell her, very strongly. It had been bad enough when he had only had his saiyan sense of smell, but now that he had been bitten, his sense of smell had increased dramatically. Her smell was surrounding him, all around him, covering him completely.
Urges that he hadn't felt before began to pulse in him. Urges to take Videl and kiss her, maybe even do more then that. The urges were strong, and were only getting stronger. Every second that he sat there, the urges would get stronger and stronger. It was overwhelming him.
"What did you say!" Videl exclaimed.
"I said..." Gohan began before taking a gulp of air to steady himself, and push back the urges. "You're not a very good lier. You did your work yesterday during class. You always do, because you don't know if you will have time after school because of your crime fighting. Also, you understood yesterdays math class just fine, getting through it with several minutes to spare." Gohan said nervously still, the urges getting stronger.
"Why you! How in the world could you know that?" Videl asked, standing in her anger and slamming her fists against the table.
Her display of strength and fire only seemed to increase the urges in Gohan, but he kept fighting them off.
"I finish my work in class too. I usually have it done only minutes after the class is started, so I have nothing to do the rest of the class. Naturally I notice things around me, and your determination to finish before class is over is something that's hard to miss." Gohan explained.
Videl starred at him hard in the eyes. Gohan shifted in nervousness, the urges increasing more.
"Since we both know that you didn't ask me here to study, how about you tell me why you asked to meet me here?" Gohan asked with even more nervousness.
The angrier that Videl got, the worse the urges got. He didn't know if it was a werewolf thing, or a saiyan thing, but the more fire and anger that Videl showed, the stronger the urges would become. He realized that either way his odds weren't good when he realized that both his father and Vegeta married women with strong tempers and determination.
"Fine! I asked you here because of the fact that I am suppose to have today off from patroling the city, and I wanted to do something other then put up with Sharpner's constant flirting or having to go shopping with Erasa. Okay!" Videl exclaimed.
"Alright. I just wanted to know." Gohan said.
"Good!" Videl said as she sat down.
They would've continued their conversation, but Gohan noticed something that Videl didn't. A little red dot of light appeared on the table beside Videl's hand. It suddenly traveled up her body until it settled on her head. Gohan's eyes widened suddenly as he realized what it was, even before he heard the silenced gunshot.
"What is i...?" Videl tried to ask, but never finished her sentence.
"Get down!" Gohan shouted as he grabbed Videl with lightning speed and pulled her aside.
Videl was confused with the sudden rush of motion, but all became all too clear as a bullet struck the tree with a thud and a crack. The motion did not stop though as Gohan pulled her to the ground and kicked the table up onto its side. Suddenly a hail of bullets rained down on the table, easily ripping through its wood. However, it provided them with enough cover to get behind the tree before the sniper could see them move.
Gohan held Videl tightly to himself, suddenly finding the urges fueled further with the close contact and the surges of adrenaline in his system. She shook his head before more bullets hailed down on the tree, nearly ripping right through it. He realized that there were at least three snipers, and they had very powerful guns. Seconds later, they heard the tree beginning to fall from hailstorm of bullets cutting it down.
Gohan was up and running, keeping Videl closely infront of him. She didn't see it because of the speed they were moving, but he also had a small aura infront of them to keep any bullets from coming infront of them and hitting her. In a blur of motion, Gohan threw them both into the lake, kicking hard to send them to the bottom.
Videl was panicing, but Gohan wouldn't let her go. Bullets rained down in the water, but they were safe since they were too far down against the earth wall for the bullets to ever reach. Still the bullets rained down on the lake. Gohan knew they were in trouble, and couldn't leave Videl to take care of the snipers with out her finding out who he was.
They waited, but still the bullets rained down on the lake, cutting visible paths into the water. The dirt being kicked up by the impacts with the bottom lake turned the water dark, and made it impossible for them to see in the water, and impossible for anyone else to see in the water.
Even though Gohan couldn't see Videl, he could feel her begin to struggle. She was running out of air. He had trained himself to be able to spend well over ten minutes in the water without having to breath, but she hadn't. She needed air, and she needed it now. Since they couldn't go up for air, only one solution came to Gohan's mind.
Gripping Videl tighter, and leaning down, Gohan put her into a kiss. In this kiss, he forced her to breath out the bad air in her lungs. When he felt her stop breathing out, he breathed in what air he had in his lungs. She was incredibly surprised by this entire action, but she still accepted the air. He pulled back when he was done with this. He was still worried though, because that solution would only last so long...
-
Goten and Trunks flew through the air towards the park. Goten looked nervous, but Trunks looked excited. The two were going to get to spy on Gohan and Videl while they were at the park.
"I don't know Trunks... What if Gohan sees us?" Goten asked.
"Then we'll just that we wanted to see the city some. Listen, he isn't going to hurt us. Besides, your mom said she'd cook us something really yummy if we got some pictures of Gohan and his girlfriend!" Trunks said.
"Oh yeah! I almost forgot about that! But, Gohan said that Videl wasn't his girlfriend..." Goten said.
"Doesn't matter. As long as we get a few pictures of them, then we'll still get the food." Trunks shrugged.
"Okay!" Goten said excitedly, having been confinced by the promise of food.
Suddenly they were over the park, and heard something weird. They flew around until they found the lake, and the source of the sounds. Immedaitely their faces went from excited and playful to angry and serious as they saw the three snipers on one roof firing their large automatic sniper rifles at the lake, where they could sense Gohan and someone else's ki.
"Hey! They're trying to hurt my brother! Why doesn't he fight back!" Goten exclaimed.
"Stupid! They aren't trying to hurt him, they're trying to kill him! He probably can't fight back because he doesn't want that girl to find out about his powers!" Trunks shouted.
Goten's face suddenly was filled with rage as he immediately went super saiyan. The thought of anyone trying to hurt, especially kill, his big brother filled him with a rage unlike anything he had ever felt. The tiny titan focused his attention on the snipers as his rage suddenly found its target.
"Then let's hurt them!" he shouted before blasting at them.
"Goten! Wait up!" Trunks called out before going super saiyan and flying after his enraged friend.
The snipers continued firing at the lake, constantly reloading and taking shifts shooting. Suddenly their firing was interupted as a sonic boom cracked overhead, nearly deafening them. They turned to look up at what might have caused the sonic boom. Immedaitely one of them found Goten's foot crashing into his face, thrusting him through the roof of the building and sending him crashing to the ground two stories down. When he landed, nearly half the bones in his body were broken.
The other two tried to move to shoot at Goten, but he would have none of it. He immediately kicked out and caught the second sniper's jaw, sending him flying into the air before smahing through the door to the roof. He continued on to roll down the stairs, breaking several bones as he did.
The third man managed to bring his gun to level with Goten, but never had the chance to pull the triger. Goten twisted around and kicked him hard in the gut, sending him flying off of the roof and across the park. He smashed through the limbs of the fallen tree, before slamming into the water of the lake. He sunk for a moment from the momentum, before slowly coming up to float in the water, unconscious.
Goten hovered where he was for a moment, the look of rage still on his face as he stared at the floating man in the water. His rage was satisfied, but only partly. He wanted more! He wanted to make them pay more for what they tried to do! He wanted them to suffer more! He wanted them to die!
It was that thought that suddenly knocked him out of his rage filled state with a scare. His little eyes were no longer filled with anger, but fright as his golden hair went back to black and his frightened green eyes went to black. He had wanted to kill those men...
"Come on Goten. Gohan can take care of the rest, so we better leave before that girl asks too many questions about what happened." Trunks said as he rested his hand on the boy's shoulder as he too changed back from super saiyan.
"Yeah, let's go back to the look out. I want to see my mommy." Goten said, his voice filled with fright.
"Alright, let's go." Trunks said.
The two suddenly took to the skies at full speed for the look out.
-
Gohan held Videl as she was getting close to the point of struggling again. Her air was running out again, and this time he would have no air to give to her. Suddenly Gohan felt two fimalair ki signatures nearby, and one of them suddenly jumped up. The lake shook with a great vibration that he recognized as a sonic boom, and the bullets stopped coming. He could feel as Goten dispatched of the snipers. Soon one of them crashed into the lake before floating up to the surface.
Quickly he swam to the surface, taking Videl with him the whole way. When they surfaced, he had already felt Goten and Trunks fly away. They came up and swam to the shore, and Gohan put Videl back down on dry land. When she began to spit and breath hard, Gohan dived back into the water, swimming out to bring back in the sniper that had been tossed into the water.
"Who's... that?" Videl asked inbetween coughs.
"One of the snipers I guess." Gohan answered as he pulled the injured and unconscious man to shore.
"But, how'd he end up in the lake?" Videl asked.
"Did you see that!" came voices from near the building the snipers had been on.
"Yeah! Two Golden Fighters took out those snipers!" called another voice.
"Wow! They saved Videl!" another voice shouted.
"But they were just kids!" yet another voice called out.
"I guess that's how..." Gohan said as they could hear police sirens coming.
"How did you do that?" Videl asked suddenly.
"Do what?" Gohan asked.
"Gave me your breath and still kept yourself under water?" Videl asked.
"I swim alot back home. We have a lot of lakes nearby, and we swim and fish a lot. Since the way I've been taught to catch fish is to swim until I can grab one and pull it up, I have to be able to hold my breath for a long time." Gohan answered truthfully.
"Okay... Then how did you hold me down? I was beating on you as hard as I could while I was paniced." Videl asked.
"Simple. If I had let you go, you would have swam up and gotten shot. So, I had to hold you down, or you would have died." Gohan answered.
"So you're saying it was the adrenaline?" Videl asked skeptically.
"Yeah." Gohan said with a nod.
"Well, whatever it was, thanks." Videl said finally.
"You're welcome." Gohan said with a smile.
-
It was several hours later that the two were walking down the sidewalk of the city, just wondering around. They had already given their statements to the police and were allowed to leave. The police had very well nearly given Gohan a medal for saving Videl's life, but he had convinced them not to because of the publicity. Still, they had managed to get him to agree to a private ceremony, and had kept them around until it was over. Now Gohan wore a specail badge on his shirt, the police departments equivilent of the medal of honor, or at least the most they could get in the short amount of time they had.
Currently they were looking for a good place to get icecream. The two walked in silence, but a confortable one. Finally though, Videl had to speak up.
"I'm sorry Gohan." she said quietly.
"Why?" Gohan asked, easily hearing her.
"I'm sorry for lying to you, and for nearly getting you killed. I'm also sorry that you had to save me. I've been saved twice today. Once by Saiyaman, and once by you and those kid Gold Fighters." Videl said just as quietly.
"Hey, it's okay to be saved once in a while. It means that people care about you, and with all the saving you've done, you deserve to be cared about. Besides, if people are shooting at you, especially with so many guns, it means that you're doing something right. So don't worry about it Videl. Besides, the snipers were probably my fault." Gohan said the last part with some shame to his voice.
"What do you mean?" Videl asked suddenly.
"I wrote you that note about where I was going to be. In it I said when we were going to meet at the table. That's probably how those snipers found out that you would be there." Gohan said.
"You mean this note?" Videl asked as she pulled the still damp note out of her pocket. "Don't worry about it Gohan. It was an honest mistake. Thanks for making me feel better." Videl said with a smile.
"Thanks Videl." Gohan said, his smile returning full force.
They kept walking, the silence coming down on them once more. This time though, Videl found herself peeking at Gohan out of the corner of her vision. She couldn't help it, and something about him seemed different. His muscles buldged in his shirt, while his hair blew a bit more in the wind.
'Great...' Videl thought to herself. 'I'm getting a crush on Gohan... That's all I need.' she thought before looking him over once more. 'Well...' she thought in a lighter tone, 'maybe it isn't so bad. His muscles look bigger then Sharpners! Besides, I already know how they feel...' she thought, before shaking her head.
"Is something wrong Videl?" Gohan asked.
"Uh,..." Videl almost paniced, before something else occured to her, and she acted on it. "Hey! How come you don't have bruises?" she asked suddenly.
"What?" Gohan asked.
"How come you don't have buises! I was hitting you with all my strength when we were in the lake, and you don't have one bruise." Videl pointed out.
"Oh. Well, maybe the water softened the blows. Besides, I don't bruise easy. Also, the panic from not having any air might have made you think you were hitting me harder then you were, because I happen to know you can hit harder then you were." Gohan said.
"Alright... I guess you get out of this one Son. Listen, I have to get home. My dad is out of town and made me promise to be home before night fall every night until he came home. He would flip if he found out I didn't come home in time one night, and that it was because I was with a boy, even one that saved my life. Thanks again! See ya!" Videl said before jogging home, since it was only a few blocks away.
"See ya!" Gohan shouted out before turning and walking away to find an alley way.
-
Gohan flew through the air towards the lookout. Dende had used his powers as a guardian to make his house vanish for a while to keep it safe from werewolves. Thinking about that, Gohan decided that he was glad that Dende was learning more ways to control his powers. It was almost night, and he would be staying with his family at the lookout until they were able to drive the werewolves out of the woods near his house. It was just going to be hard since it was so difficult to detect them.
When he arrived at the lookout, he found Dende and Piccolo waiting for him, and both looked disturbed about something. Gohan landed next to them quickly. They didn't speak for a moment, and Gohan knew this was going to be serious.
"Gohan, the moon is back." Piccolo said finally.
"What!" Gohan exclaimed.
"The dragon was used to bring the moon back." Dende said.
"Then let's destroy it. We can't afford to have me see it and transform. I'd blow the planet up for sure!" Gohan said.
"It's not that simple..." Piccolo said before explaining.
- flashback -
Piccolo flew through the air, headed for the side of the Earth that the moon was on. He flew as fast as he could, urgency in his mind as he knew that he had to destroy the moon. If Gohan should see it while he had his tail and he still had that blasted werewolf bite, then the world was going to be doomed. With his incredible speeds, he was soon hovering just under the moon in the sky.
he looked up at it, realizing that it was a full moon. This was really bad. Still with that same urgency in his mind, he prepared a ki blast. When he felt it was ready, he let it loose to fly towards the full moon. Seconds passed like hours, with nothing happening for what felt like eternity. Then the moon exploded in a giant blast of light that lit up the night sky for a few seconds. Piccolo smirked at this.
That smirk was whiped away as the moon suddenly reformed from the fragments that floated in the sky. A look of disbeliefe shown on Piccolo's face as he watched this for a few seconds, and then the moon was back, shining just as brightly. Growling, Piccolo prepared an even more powerful blast, before letting it loose.
This time it was a powerful ki beam, large enough to cover then entire moon and then some, and powerful enough to vaporize it ten times. Seconds later, the moon was gone once more. Piccolo smirked again, thinking there was no way for it to come back now. Then, to his utter horror, the moon reapeared in the night sky several seconds later.
"How is this possible!" he shouted in anger.
Suddenly his powerful hearing caught the sounds of wolf howls. The cold realization that it was the wish the werewolf used came to him. Knowing that the howls he heard were from werewolves and not normal wolves, Piccolo rushed towards the ground. The howls seemed to be mocking him in celebration even as he charged down to meet the werewolves.
The meeting was not a friendly one. When he was done, the werewolves were scattered and unconscious everywhere. Only one was still awake, and it was struggling wildly in his arms. Piccolo shook the creature in anger.
"Was this the wish the werewolf made!" he demanded.
"Yes!" the creature shouted out in panic.
"Why!" Piccolo demanded in more anger.
"So we would have our advantage back!" the werewolf screamed in panic.
"Advantage! Advantage over who!" Piccolo demanded again.
"The vampires!" the werewolf said.
"Vampires!" Piccolo said, before he stopped shaking the werewolf in shock.
He had completely forgotten about them. It was probably because Kami had thought that he had whiped them all out years ago. If the werewolves were needed an advantage like the full moon over them, then they must be back in high numbers. Piccolo growled in anger once more.
"Why do you need the advantage?" he demanded.
"Because their numbers are growing again. We tried killing them all off, but we missed some. Now their numbers have surpassed our own, so we have to grow in numbers too. The moon will give us strength, and strengthen the new pups so that they can fight with us. Then we'll whipe out the vampires! Surely, you can see the need to do this! We have to do it soon!" the werewolf said in more panic.
"Why so soon?" Piccolo asked.
"Because there are rumors that they will go after Hercule's daughter, and anyone else that they can get tonight! By tommorrow morning, their numbers will be higher then ever!" the werewolf said.
"How many are going to attack the city?" Piccolo demanded.
"All of them!" the werewolf said. "We can't kill them all, so we have to raise our numbers too! If we don't we'll all be killed!"
Piccolo grunted and threw the werewolf against a tree. With that he took off for the look out at full speed. It would be night fall at the city soon. He had to tell Gohan about this, before it was too late...
- end flashback -
Piccolo told Gohan everything, but what the werewolf said about the vampires going after Videl. He would tell him that in a second, but suddenly their ears perked up as they heard crying coming from within the lookout. Gohan recognized it as Goten's crying.
"I'll be right back..." he said suddenly as he made his way inside the look out, Piccolo and Dende following him.
They went through the twists and turns of the hallways, before coming into the room that would be Goten's for their stay. Gohan entered while Piccolo and Dende waited at the entrance. Gohan went in to find Goten sitting in Chichi's lap, crying softly into her dress. Chichi held Goten lovingly, softly stroking him on the back.
"I almost killed them mommy..." Goten softly cried.
"Hey there little guy, what's the crying about?" Gohan asked softly.
Goten picked his head up and looked up at Gohan standing above him. In a flash he tackled his brother, nearly knocking him over. He cried into his shirt for a few moments before he spoke quietly.
"Gohan, I almost killed those men..." he cried out.
"Hey little guy, you didn't kill them. They're alive." Gohan reassured as Chichi watched on quietly.
She knew this day might come. The day that Goten would have to come to terms with his power, and the results it could have on poeple. The actual results of battle. She had trained him to fight, trying to get him to be serious about fighting when he fought, but he had stayed happy and carefree like his father. Now he would have to come to terms with what he could really do in battle, and what the real results of battle were. She stayed quiet, letting Gohan handle it, feeling pain in her heart as she remembered that Gohan too had to go through this, and she hadn't been there when he had.
"I know they're alive, but I hurt them really bad. I almost killed them, and... and..." Goten said before crying more. Finally he regained control, and continued speaking. "I wanted to kill them." he said finally, his voice going almost cold in his tears.
"I know little brother, I know. I know it hurts. I know it hurts alot. But you did real good, and you didn't kill them. You let them live, even though they might not have desserved to live. I went through the same thing today, and nearly killed a lot of people. It never gets easier when you realize what you could have done, but pray that it never does. Never let it feel good to kill. Never kill when you don't have to, and don't fight out of anger alone. Always fight to protect someone." Gohan said softly.
"Did I do good?" Goten finally asked after some crying.
"Yes Goten. You did real good. Infact, you did so good, that you deserve a medal." Gohan said with a smile. "They gave it to me for protecting Videl, but I'm giving it to you for not only protecting her, but for saving her life." Gohan said as he backed away and unpinned the badge of honor.
Goten's eyes lit up some at this. Gohan slowly pinned it to Goten's shirt.
"I, Gohan, award this medal to you, Goten, for bravery and the selfless saving of a human life." Gohan said proudly.
"Thanks Gohan!" Goten exclaimed as he hugged Gohan tightly around the neck. Suddenly his eyes teared up again for a moment. "Does the pain ever go away?" he asked.
"No Goten, but it does get better over time. Just remember today, and always try not to kill if you can help it." Gohan said as he hugged his brother back.
"Gohan, we have more to talk about..." Piccolo said, trying not to have to break up the brotherly moment.
"Alright." Gohan said as he stood up and glanced at Chichi.
Chichi took the hint and grabbed Goten in a hug, before mouthing the words 'Thank you' to Gohan. Gohan nodded and left the room with Piccolo. When they got far enough away Piccolo spoke again.
"The werewolf said that the vampires were going to attack tonight. They're going after Hercule's daughter." Piccolo said grimly.
"What! They're going after Videl?" Gohan exclaimed.
"Her, and anyone else they can get to in the city, but her first." Piccolo said.
"How many of them?" Gohan asked as they started to run toward the edge of the lookout.
"All of them." Piccolo said in an even darker voice.
"Oh no..."
- -to be continued...- -
