ViperVegeta: OH MY GOD! I'm so sorry that I've taken this long to update, but my computer crashed, and the whole file was lost! I'm doing this on the computer at school right now (screw my overdue IT work) so I'll have to reply to all of the reviews in the next chapter

ChibiVegeta: As always, we don't own this, none of it, in fact, she doesn't even own me. (eyes start to well up.)

VV: Don't worry, I'll always have you anyway. They don't own my imagination.

CV: That's not so bad.

VV: Anyway, I'll reply to any reviews that I've missed out on, in the next chapter, so please wait for me! Also, a note, I've nearly got the next chappie for 'Shocker' ready, so don't give up on me! Please!

CV: Let's stop making them wait, and let them have the story already.

VV: Oh, yeah. Enjoy, People!

Chapter 3.

"Do any of you actually think that I wanted to become this?" Vegeta yelled at the group. Once they had gotten back to Capsule Corp. they had found that Bulma and Chi-Chi had called everyone and told them what had happened, and they had converged on the building to discuss the issue, but it had become a rather heated argument and Vegeta was on the point of blowing something up. "Tell me honestly, do any of you actually think that I want to have to tear open a living creature at least once a week and suck the still warm blood out of it, while it's still alive? While its heart is still beating to force the blood out of it's dying body? I don't! I only became this, only let that creature make me one of them so that it wouldn't hurt or take anyone else! It had Bra by the throat, and it was going to do this to her! I didn't have a God-damn choice!" Vegeta powered up with a yell and shot away, leaving everyone else standing there in a very stunned silence. Unknowingly, he had just bared a very hidden part of himself; that he really did care about his family, though he wouldn't admit it in as many words or show it very often. Goku powered up and followed the ki-trail that Vegeta had left behind him, but Vegeta had flown very fast, and it took him almost ten minutes to find where he had gone. He landed in the forest on the side of the mountain, and found Vegeta sitting in a tree, scowling and throwing a ki-ball at the nearby trees intermittently.

"Vegeta?" Goku called, and Vegeta turned his scowl in Goku's direction.

"What do you want, Kakarrot?" He growled.

"Um," Goku rubbed the back of his head thoughtfully. "How do you know so much about Vampires?" Vegeta rolled his eyes in exasperation.

"Kakarrot, when I was under Frieza's rule I had to purge Vammit. It was one of the most dangerous missions that needed to be done, and I was the only one who even considered taking it. The planet could only be approached at a certain time in it's lunar cycle, or I would have been scratched and eaten, so I memorized every single piece of information that was in the databanks. I still remember all of it, and I'm even fluent in Vammitian, their language." Vegeta explained, and Goku 'oh'ed quietly, then flew up and landed in the tree next to him.

"How come you're out in daylight? I thought that Vampires turned into dust in the daytime if they weren't covered up."

"That is just a legend that was made by the humans because Vampires tried to stay hidden so they wouldn't be hunted. But I will turn into dust if I drink blood from an animal that is already dead, so I can only drink from an animal while it's still alive." Vegeta sighed, and Goku looked disgusted.

"That is gross!"

"You think I am going to enjoy it? Like crap!" Vegeta exclaimed. Suddenly the whites and pupils in his eyes disappeared, and they turned turquoise.

"Uh…Vegeta?" Goku said tentatively, and Vegeta looked at him, then turned back to normal.

"Just practicing." He said, smirking at the look on Goku's face. He did it again and opened his mouth, feeling the length of his top canine teeth, which had become almost 2 inches long.

"Wow…" Goku breathed as Vegeta turned back again, then they flew out of the tree, back to Capsule Corp. No-one was outside when they got back, but Bulma greeted them at the door.

"Chi-Chi wants you to go straight back to your home for lunch, Goku." She said, and he immediately took off. "Vegeta are you hungry?"

"Of course I am. What kind of question is that?"

"Well, I wasn't sure, that's all. I thought maybe that you would only drink blood from now on, or something." Bulma said, and got a scowl from Vegeta.

"I still need to eat, Woman, It's not like I'm the 'living dead' or anything. I'm still Saiyan, I just need to have blood every now and then." Vegeta said. "When will lunch be ready?"

"In about ten minutes. Why don't you go and talk to Trunks and Bra. They've been plaguing me with questions about last night, and I haven't been able to answer them." Bulma prompted, and Vegeta rolled his eyes, but went into the living room. He found Bra and Trunks sitting patiently on the lounge, and he sighed, but went and sat between them. Bra crawled onto his lap, but strangely he didn't mind.

"Daddy, is this because of that Acura guy?" Bra asked, and he nodded.

"Acura was a Vampire, Bra, and he made me one of them."

"Why, Dad?" Trunks asked.

"Acura was going to kill Bra, but I bargained with him, and he took me instead."

"Why?"

"Because I destroyed his race, and I blew up his planet."

"Like Frieza blew up Vegeta-sei?"

"Yes." Vegeta said, then a thought occurred to him. Am I no different than Frieza? I had to blow up planets too, so that makes me just as evil as him. He shuddered at the thought.

"Daddy, will you show us?" Bra asked, and he considered her request. It couldn't hurt, it was not like he was actually going to bite them, just show them. He closed his eyes, concentrating, then when he opened them Bra gasped. They were turquoise again, and then he opened his mouth and showed them his teeth.

"Holy crap!" Trunks breathed, and Vegeta smacked him on the back of the head.

"Don't speak like that." He said, and Bra giggled. His voice sounded strange because of the shape of his teeth, and it caught Bulma's attention.

"What are you doing, Vegeta?" She said, then she saw his face. "Oh my goodness!" She walked forward and shooed Bra and Trunks away from him. "Your lunch is ready." She said to them and they raced each other to the kitchen.

"I'm not going to bite them, if that's what you're thinking." Vegeta said as he stood up, frowning.

"No, I wasn't. I was thinking about designing a fabric of some sort so that when you change into that creature, or whatever, you will have something to wear when you change back." Bulma said, looking at him thoughtfully. She reached out and touched his teeth, and he jerked away from her. "What?"

"Don't." Vegeta said, then turned back to normal.

"Why?" Bulma asked, confused.

"I don't need tempting, I'm hungry enough as it is." Vegeta said, then went into the kitchen to eat his lunch. Bulma, who had eaten as she prepared their lunch, went to her lab to start working on the fabric. She wanted it done as soon as possible for him, and it might be a new patent for Capsule Corp. Suddenly she was very excited about it and rushed to the lab, and she didn't come out again until the alarm went off for her to start making dinner, but Vegeta was nowhere to be found.

"Trunk's, can you sense Vegeta anywhere?" Bulma asked the boy as he walked past the kitchen.

"Yeah, he's…in the forest…I think." Trunks said slowly, concentrating.

"Will you go and get him please?" Bulma asked, and Trunks went to the door and flew off. Bulma sighed, but concentrated on the food she was preparing. Meanwhile, Trunks was closing in on Vegeta's ki-signature.

"Dad?" He called when he landed close to the place his father seemed to be. "Dad, where are you?" He heard a movement behind him and spun around, sliding into a defensive stance at the same time. He was a little bit scared when Vegeta didn't answer, but he didn't let it show on his face, setting it into a frown as he looked around. "Dad, come on, this isn't funny." Trunks called, and suddenly Vegeta landed on the ground behind him with a thump.

"What are you doing out here, boy?" Vegeta asked as he stood up, Trunks spun around to face him, and the look on Trunk's face turned into one of absolute terror. Vegeta had changed like he had earlier, with his eyes turquoise and his teeth grown long, but there was a bit of blood on his face. He wiped it away, and turned back to normal. "I was hunting." He said to Trunks, and the boy relaxed a bit.

"Mom wanted me to tell you that dinner was almost ready." Trunks said. "But I guess you wouldn't be hungry, would you?"

"No, I'm not." Vegeta replied. "Tell your mother that I won't be back for a while, probably not till after midnight."

"Ok." Trunks said, a little downcast. "Why?"

"I'll be hunting most of the night. Now that I'm a Vampire I need blood to survive, Trunks."

"Oh." Trunks replied, and Vegeta changed back to the Vampire form. "Dad, does it hurt when you change like that?"

"No. Why do you ask?"

"Well it looks like it does, that's all." Trunks said, then lifted into the air and headed back home. Vegeta looked at the ki-trail that he had left behind, then turned and walked back into the forest.

ViperVegeta: Please, don't give up on me people. I want to write, and I want your reviews, even flamers. If you hate my story, tell me why! I need to know so I know exactly how to hate yours! Not really, but I do want to know!

ChibiVegeta: Shut up already.

VV: No, you shut up! (kisses him on the cheek.) (chibi runs off, looking disgusted.)