A/N: ( Mounts a T-Rex with bad attitude) I re-wrote this chapter four times and I'm still not happy how it turned out! But that's the best it can get at the moment. Damn school! Damn homework! Damn sadistic teachers! ( Charges at the school building with her T-Rex ) Hyaaah! Die, you bitch! And thanks for reviews, minna-san! I have a school to destroy! Gippiyad T-Rex! Attack! ( Gallops off on her dinosaur, lance pointed towards the school)
So goliath184... you think you know who the master is? Probably your guess will be right for there are awfully lot hints in previous chapters...
Disclaimer: ... simple 'no' would do fine, doncha think?
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Chapter 13 – Secrets revealed ( OMG! It's 'the' number...)
ChiChi's sentence got everyone's curious and and confused attention. What was the slayer talking about now? She seemed so serious...
" Whaddya mean 'talk'?" Goku asked baffled, frowning.
" What I mean is... we're quite obviously in deep shit and about to get killed by the High Lord of all vampires. I think we should be all honest with each other. We, everyone, well maybe Bulma not, has some sort of personal vendetta against the bastard and to free ourselves and kill him we should unite our powers. And that requires sharing information." ChiChi explained solemnly, looking at each of them in the eyes as good as she could in the darkness of the room.
Bulma huffed; almost sounding insulted. " I have 'personal vendetta' against this whatever he ever is! He fucking ruined my Gucci shirt and all the bad that he did to Vegeta and Goku touch me too since we're friends!" she declared hotly, holding Vegeta possessively to her.
" Friends? HA! Let me laugh, you stupid woman! Friends with you?" Vegeta's voice cut in sharply, his tone that of mockery and despise.
" Stupid female? I'm the most intelligent woman on this planet in the whole cosmos. I even invented capsules based on nuclear cores and anti-material dimensional suspenders creating mini-dimension of inter-dimensional grid of gallons working with self-created electricity!" the blue-haired heiress screeched back at the older vampire, poking him in the side and he cringed, and he looked quite confused.
" Cosmos? Planet? Nuclear core? Anti-material? Electricity? Whatta hell are you talking about?" Vegeta had no idea of what the words were she spoke with. But then again, he had been 'asleep' for three hundred years and some and not heard any of the new language.
Bulma was about to gloat at him when ChiChi interrupted quickly, sounding exasperated. " See? This pointless arguing will get us nowhere! Will be dead sooner than we'd like to if we don't do something about it!"
" Yeah, sounds good to me! " Bulma composed eagerly and hopefully.
Vegeta and Goku laughed bitterly, catching the females off guard.
" What?" they asked in unison.
" Oh , look who are giving a pep talk..." Goku muttered darkly. " You think I haven't tried? You think I fucking ever wanted to serve him? You think this is the first time I ever got beaten like this, damnit!" his voice rose to an angry pitch as he glared at her. Vegeta laughed cruelly and pushed Bulma off his lap suddenly and stood up, slightly woozy and ChiChi sunk back, alarmed.
" Female slayer; if the information you want the information you get then... You have any idea how strong the little wanker is? Well, let me enlighten you, wench. He is over thousand year old ancient one with tremendous magical resources and centuries of experience; he is far more cruel than your puny comprehension of the aspect evil is." Vegeta narrated sounding ironic and bitter. He held his hand up for a sign to let him finish as mouths opened to question.
Goku only smiled darkly; he would regret allowing him continue with the whole story.
" You wonder why we are wounded and you're damned not; you also wonder why you can't remember, don't you?" Bulma and ChiChi nodded.
" It's a memory block we placed in your minds and we healed your wounds, you pathetic creatures, and now we don't even have power enough but to barely support ourselves! And that was for your own good! If not, you'd be both screaming in pain and having serious mental problems or have already gone mad with what he did to us." the older vampire smirked evilly and Goku sighed. There it came...
ChiChi's mind went blank. Her mouth opened but someone was blocking her voice. She didn't believe it! A vampire healed her and took care of her while she was out. Did it mean they had been conscious with those wounds and healed them instead of themselves? Though it also explained why she couldn't reach her magic...
Bulma seemed to be the one to find her voice first. " You... healed us?"
The vampires grunted and refused to look at the shocked women.
" Why?" ChiChi asked simply, when she got her brain under her control again.
" Feh..." Vegeta huffed again and Goku stayed silent. He'd like to know that himself too. Why did heal her in the first place? What the fuck he cared whether she went mad or not? The answer seemed to avoid him like a fly you try to squash. Maybe it was because then they'd have more surviving abilities and possibilities if the women lived?
" Aww..." Bulma sighed and smiled giddily. They were so sweet, even if they denied it to the very core and being of their damned souls
ChiChi, not liking suspiciously warm feelings the act evoke in her, decided to take the conversation forward and save them from too much show of kindness. Besides, what exactly was that book the vampires were so afraid of? Dalandylous, she believed it was called as the flash of returning memory recalled the object.
" What's with the book?"
" Book?" Goku questioned, his brows knitted thoughtfully. She was already regaining her memories.
" Yes, the book! I remember something about a book called... was it Dalandylous?" ChiChi bit he rlips trying to think if there was something else to remember about it. No, that was all she knew of it. In her deep state of thinking, she completely missed the darkening and foreboding expressions on Goku and Vegeta's bruise-marred faces.
" I recall something about some dork book too... wasn't it supposed to be dangerous?" Bulma joined in, reading carefully Vegeta's tight expression. "Vegeta? You know something about it, don't you?" she demanded quietly.
Goku smirked and opened his mouth to answer but Vegeta quickly barked to him to shut up and mind his own fucking business.
" Ha! So you know!" ChiChi pointed out, smiling at him almost evilly. The elder legendary vampire rolled his eyes. Maybe it didn't matter anymore and besides what harm it could do? They'd be dead as soon as the Master found painful enough way to kill them to his liking.
He began quietly; a self-ironic smirk on his lips, " The book is mine. I am the original owner and creator of the Dalandylous, long before Lord got his slimy hands on it. I traveled around the world for hundred of years gathering knowledge and forbidden secrets of dark arts. Nearly three hundreds years of work and black spells are written into that book and it became just before my containment known as the 'Forbidden Book' for it was too full of contaminated magic. It was, and still is, the magical world's most known and most powerful spell book and weapon. The partial reason to my imprisoning; the fact that it was too much of threat to Lord at that time. He's half of his influence and power back then; we were almost equal. And now the little fucker has his deadly cold hands on it. This may sound a little matter to you, but you have no idea of the horrors it contains since your memories are temporarily blocked." he finished sourly.
ChiChi stared her eyes wide. Dalandylous equaled Forbidden Book? Of course she had heard of the myth of the vampires' darkest and most evil book in the all existing world! Goky only sighed. Just a reminder of the damned hand manual to torture and black magic was enough to put him into depressed state.
" Whoa! You've written a book! You're more intelligent that you appear!" Bulma remarked sarcastically, trying to lighten up the gloomy feeling of doom that had fallen recently and received three sober and solemn glares.
" What? You guys can't be serious! It's a friggin' book! Yeah it may be cursed and all, but it's a damned opus, not a doomsday weapon!" Bulma defended. It could not be that serious, now, could it?
" Bulma, it's not a doomsday weapon, but something even worse," ChiChi told her quietly. The blue-haired genius huffed frustrated and leaned her back against the cold wall. " But that shouldn't stop us from getting the fuck out of here!" she flipped her hair.
" Not it's not, but we need to know everything about him and each other to do the trick for that feat." the female slayers replied calmly. " We're gathering the facts and piecing up a puzzle from them and that will be our plan to escape."
" Mind you if I remind that if your so-called plan involves fighting of any kind, we're not the ones doing it anytime soon." Goku noted to her, indicating their wounded state.
" We'll think of that later!" ChiChi bit back icily. Did he always have to ruin everything?
" Bitch..." he rolled his eyes and ChiChi ignore him with an enraged expression and gritted teeth.
" Now that we have most of the details we can concentrate on escaping this dump. Anything someone might find useful information will be shared now. Questions?"
" Yes, who the hell made you the leader of this operation, wench?" Vegeta asked bitingly and ChiChi swallowed her pride and angry retort that almost got free reign. Instead she settled to glaring and rude gestures, which half of them went past Vegeta since he wasn't yet gotten acquainted with international hand signs.
" I have no information that would exceed Great's." Goku told quietly. Even if he was legendary and knew how vampire nobility ruled their court and what was the name of the game,and just how much the high vampire loved violence and blood, but he was pretty much just as ignorant of the High Lord as everybody else was.
" Don't even look at me, ChiChi." Bulma shook her head. The world of the vampires had opened to her when Goku got bitten and turned into one and still she didn't know anything else about the dark race but they existed; used magic and had a sadistic high lord. ChiChi let out dejected sigh. Not so good... None of us knows anything vital... Feverish silence ensued.
" The Lord's afraid of Messenger." Vegeta blurted out suddenly.
" What?" they said in unison.
" Are you deaf? I said the bastard fears the brat for some reason." he repeated and crossed his arms above his chest.
" Are you friggin' nuts? Why would he fear me?" Goku asked incredulously and sarcastically, " I have so much more power than him, really! Has too many centuries rotted your brain!" he lamented ironically. Vegeta almost lunged at the younger legend when he remember he was in no condition to move an inch, his eyes lighting up with faint glow of his demonic, non-existent power.
" You insolent brat! I should curse you with---"
" Whoa whoa! You two! Behave!" ChiChi screamed frustrated at their non-cooperating attitude. " Just tell me why he fears Goku, okay!" Then she berated
herself immediately for slipping in the use of his name. It was supposed to be bastard and asshole; not sweet Goku, for fuck's sake!
" The hell should I know, woman? I don't get how anyone could ever fear that scrawny brat." the elder vampire yelled irritated and Goku growled. ChiChi resisted the urge to tug her hair out.
" Vegeta the Great. Just try...! Please?" Bulma blinked her big blue eyes at him innocently and pleadingly. The huge, glossy, puppy dog eyes staring at him almost made him crumble, but when Bulma stuck her lower lips out adding a begging pout to the expression, he gave up! The expression was so sickeningly sweet! Yuck! He almost threw up!
" Oh fine, woman! I don't know much expect that he's is some kind of a problem I was sent to take care of. I was about to kill him when the little fucker did the grand spell and teleported us all here. He obviously changed his mind and decided to hit two flies at one strike. But I haven't got the slightest of fucking idea what is the problem with Messenger! But I have to say the boy is little weirs and special for a vampire... woman stop it already! I haven't been this sick in my life! Ugh! That's so disgustingly sweet and weak!" he groaned and Bulma smiled wickedly.
" I try." she replied.
" Well... there are some traits I don't posses that usual vampires have and I've got some that the others don't... I bleed and I'm a daywalker and well... my magic resources aren't that vast..." Messenger began reciting when a horrible wave of nausea crashed thru his whole body and he almost choked.
" Goku!" ChiChi jumped at his sudden reaction then became worried as he breathed heavily and gasped for air. What was wrong with him!
" Shit shit shit!" he managed curse as the burning pain settled into his veins and stomach. Oh shit! Why he hadn't remembered this earlier? His throat felt tight and harsh like a sand paper and the nerves seemed to lost their control of his body and muscles.
" Son-kun! What's wrong?" Bulma almost rushed to his side and he only trashed, trying to contain his inborn urges.
" G-get... a... away... y...!" he croaked desperately.
" If I were you, I'd do as he says." Vegeta noted calmly, his features expressionless.
" What's wrong with him, you bastard, I know you know! Tell me, damnit!" ChiChi accused him fiercely.
" Simple. He's been without blood a long time and the battle took lot more energy from him than me since I am the more powerful one. His body tried to replenish the lost energy and heal the wounds, but when he doesn't have enough energy, in this case, blood to attain it from, his body's drying resulting eventually in dying. The effects are sudden and completely unpredictable when you run out of blood to turn into energy. And you say as a slayer you didn't know that?" he cocked a black eyebrow sardonically.
" Then don't lie there! Help him!" Bulma ordered angrily as ChiChi absorbed what the vampire said. Goku's gonna die? His gasp of pain seemed to be the only sound in the room.
" I can't. He needs live blood and I don't have extra blood to share. Right now he's fighting to the very core not to lugn at you two and suck you dry. Hmm... this is bound to be interesting..." he smirked coldly as the women paled in realization. ChiChi backed away form his trashing and pained form instinctively. What could they do now.
Where the hell they'd get blood at this situation?
Unless... she gulped.
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A/N: MUAHHAAHAAA! CLIFFY! REVIEW! I SHOULD BE ABLE TO UPDATE AGAIN ON WEEKEND! ( Behind her rest completely demolished ruins of the school and Kinoha feeds happily whistling the T-Rex cabbage) SEE YA! DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW!