A/N: ... Ahem... well... (stares nervously around) PLEASEDON'TKILL ME HERE'STHENEXTCHAPTER! (ducks away) I know this took some time, but this story is soon finito and I am hesitant to finish it and it kinda didn't know just how to lay out this chapter and I am not entirely happy with this one either... my baby... There should be couple of chapters plus epilogue still left. Enjoy! Heh... many people will know/guessed what happens at the beginning of this chapter but did you have a slightest hunch of the end? I don't think so... MUAHAHAAHAA... I mean, eh, read on! ...HAHAAAHAAAA! ( Damned authorities took my dino away saying it was illegal to own one... damn!)
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Chapter 14 - Battle Begins
His breathing echoed in the room; his short and errant gasps coming in visible puffs of steam out of his mouth in the coldness. Goku felt ice cold and fiery hot tremors ran through every nerve and fiber of his body, burning and numbing him at the same time as he trashed around and fought for control that was so frustratingly easily slipping away. The basic instinct; the need for more blood; the lovely red essence of living was calling to me him like never before. He could already taste the sweetness of freshly spilled blood on his tongue that would ensure his continued existence. There was fresh blood nearby...
But another half, that still had some of the humanity left, was holding him back. Distantly, the young vampire could hear speaking of his comrades but the words were blurred and reverberated in his acute eardrums making it impossible to understand what they were saying. His head was splitting up. As another wave of nausea and the horrible feeling your intestines were trying to suck him dry alive and cave your veins his body jerked painfully. Why was he holding back? Why couldn't he just pounce the slayer bitch and rip her sweet, delicate throat open and let the blood flow? She was so close; young and sweet her blood bold and strong. Goku's mouth moved as words poured out but his conscious mind couldn't comprehend what he was saying and why he was even talking.
Everything was beginning to feel surreal and pained; he was out of this world. The border was close.
More words. Word blood mentioned many times. Blood... blood... blood... the word began repeating in his mind like a broken record, loosening his grasp on control even more. He screamed. He needed blood and he needed it now! But why he didn't just take it when it was so close and easily taken if he wanted...
ChiChi stared at Goku's pained form, not knowing what to feel: there was simply too much to feel and think. The emotions swirled in her mind like a maelstrom yet she was calm and serene as a crystal-blue forest pond. Bulma looked at her horrified, blue eyes wide with disbelief, and Vegeta's face was indifferent with a tint of cold amusement and challenge lurking under his stony expression.
" So... what are you going to do now, wench?"
ChiChi squared her shoulders: determined.
" ChiChi! You can't possibly---!" Bulma squealed and backed more away from Goku's uncontrolled body. The vampire's breathing was ragged and he was getting up; his eyes were glowing purple, the last resources of his magic giving him strength. His face twisted to that of a feral beast
" We need him to get us out! What, little of my blood can be sacrificed!" ChiChi said defiantly, cringing as his pained scream pierced their ears. Bulma huddled into a ball; indecision evident in her eyes. She was torn between the fear and the will to help her best friend, the fear winning greatly her current sate of mind.
" Your call, slayer." the elder vampire remarked, already wary of Goku's possible attack upon them. The finality of the situation seemed to be sealed with Vegeta's mocking words and the female slayer took a deep breath and advanced Goku carefully. Bulma whimpered in fright. What would happen to ChiChi? Son-kun wouldn't hurt her, would he?
" GeT awAy..." Goku croaked; his mind still not registering he was talking. Fresh blood was coming at him! Sweet, female essence! His body reacted violently to the thought, and he lunged forwards to her at an amazing speed. ChiChi uttered a startled gasp as he tackled her to floor hard, crushing her smaller frame with his heavier one.
" CHICHI!" Bulma exclaimed frightened.
" No.. stay back! I can handle... this!" she moaned as Goku violently clasped her shoulders. His ragged breathing was hot on her face and neck as he crushed her slim frame to his muscular one, smothering her. ChiChi closed her eyes tightly as Goku's head rightly pressed against her neck. He growled lowly and she could feel the vibrations and his hard lips were pressed against her jugular vein and ChiChi shivered at the weird intimacy of the situation.
The smell and pulsing of blood was overloading his senses as her sweet smell he had securely learnt by heart, invaded his nostrils. Her neck was soft and so fragile as he nuzzled it, searching for the one single vein that would bring him so much saturation for his thirst. Roughly digging his right hand in her black hair he yanked her head back. She yelped, her hands grabbing his in vain attempt to lessen the painful pressure.
His mouth found her fast beating pulse and he sighed in contentment. ChiChi felt him smirk against her throat and suddenly his sharp canines sank into her flesh; piercing the vein. She shrieked shortly at the pain and felt him greedily drinking her blood, some falling down her neck. Goku moaned softly. His energy was slowly restoring itself and his mind was beginning to return to him. Her blood was just so good! His taste buds were singing to him and he hugged her tighter against his body. God so fucking good!
ChiChi whimpered feeling her head getting dizzy and practically feeling the heat radiating from his body as her blood worked it's magic. Her hands unconsciously slid over his form and to tangle in his spiky head and to press it harder to the juncture of her neck. ChiChi gave a moan, her breathing becoming ragged as she surprisingly found pleasure instead of pain. The sweet suction on her neck as his lips inadvertently brushed her skin and hands held her made her feel good.
" Oh Goku..." slipped past her parted lips as a sigh and ChiChi fought not to moan any louder. Too late. She was lost in haze of pleasure. Goku sighed in response to her forcing his head closer. God, she was sweet... His black eyes snapped open the purple hue fading from them as his senses came back to him in one big rush. Like someone had hammered him on the back of his head so fast it didn't even exist.
Reluctantly he pulled away and gasped when he saw whom he had just bitten. " ChiChi!"
" Hmm...?" ChiChi murmured drowsily. She was pale and blood continued to trickle down her neck onto the stone floor. Goku could only stare fascinated and horrified at the same time. Oh shit! Goku quickly measured in his head how much blood he had possibly sucked out of her including the lost blood and wrenched himself away from her, face blank and stained in her blood.
" Son-kun..." Bulma whispered, intending on crawling closer but was stopped by Vegeta's tight grip.
" Don't. Let the boy clear his head first."
" But---!"
Vegeta's glare, shockingly, shut her up ans she sit back aversely, her blue eyes fixed on the scene transpiring in front of her. The young vampire's wounds slowly healed with soft purple glow that seemed to lack its earlier vehemence. Out of the corner of her eyes she surveyed Great's profile carefully. He knew something that they had all missed. He knew something that could be either dangerous or a huge benefit for them.
Goku moved back to her moaning prone form and pressed his fingers to her throat to stop the bleeding, adding slightly of his renewed magic to the wound closing it effectively. ChiChi sighed in relief and tried to sit up and almost blacked out. Her limbs were feeling heavy and uncomfortably numb all over.
" Stay down. You've lost a lot of blood..." the young vampire said quietly, refusing to meet her gaze and absently licking his lips free of blood. ChiChi obeyed, not feeling like standing up for her health. Under her lids she noticed Goku still staring her neck transfixed. She couldn't quite make out his expression; it was thoughtful and angry yet he looked like a cat that had drunk lifetime's worth of cream.
" Why didn't you stop her?" he asked solemnly, head hung low.
Vegeta, knowing the question or more close: demand, was meant to him, answered nonchalantly. " What that could have helped? Your death? Besides, it's not my responsibility to control your slut or her doings, now is it? Rubbish... she came to you voluntarily, though I can't say why..."
Goku nodded, recovering his bearings after the attack of his own body's betrayal. She came to him? He looked down at her, still dressed in that flimsy white evening gown now covered in blood and grime. Slowly he gathered her in his arms, feeling nervous as Bulma and Vegeta's gazes followed his every move sharply. He could just imagine how they felt; your best friend gets an uncontrollable fit and craving for blood and you're locked in the same room with him... The legendary vampire decided to ignore the fact now and cradled the female slayer gently, smoothing her messy hair, apologizing. Her closed eyes fluttered open, surprised.
" I am sorry, ChiChi... I won't makes excuses for I---" he began but was cut off by her soft, shimmering gaze. He gulped.
" Shh... Nothing to worry about. It was my decision to help you after all... I don't mind." she smiled weakly. Somewhere there was a heart that cared. He apologized, didn't he?
" You... don't mind... me sucking your blood?" Goku was really baffled now. She wasn't angry with him? The realization sunk in and he couldn't help a cruel smirk rising upon his face.
" Oh you did?" he purred and ChiChi frowned. Back was again that annoying but so-damned-sexy smirk and she felt her face flush and wondered how it was possible after all the blood loss. Obviously it wasn't that bad that she couldn't live normally, little weaker than her usual condition.
" You jerk! How dare you... I put my life on stake for your fucking meal and you have to act like pervert right away!"
" But of course!" Goku grinned wickedly at her leant to lap the remaining blood off her throat.
" HEY! You asshole! Get your bloody face off my neck!" ChiChi squirmed as his warm tongue lapped the blood, tickling her in the process.
" Ahem..."
Goku and ChiChi both looked up startled to see Vegeta looking at them his eyebrow cocked and Bulma staring at them like they had grown few extra limbs.
" As much as we have time to look your fooling around---"
" We were NOT fooling around!" ChiChi exclaimed loudly.
" We have more important things to figure out!" Bulma finished for Vegeta. " What now! Will ChiChi turn into a vampire or what! How do we get out of here anyway!" Bulma waved her hands emphasizing her point to them all.
ChiChi felt immediately scared. What if she turned into a vampire now? Her, the slayer princess, changing sides on the chessboard... What if...!
" Oh shush you! I healed the wound and that prevent her from turning into one of us." Goku rolled his eyes. He felt so much better that ever in his life! Now that he was fully healed, thanks to the blood of the slayer, everything was clearer and his body didn't ache or scream in fatigue anymore. He was amazed at how fast the energy had come back to him and magic fully functional. More power coursed in his veins than never before!
ChiChi calmed down; feeling absolutely silly.
Goku stood up quickly and stretched joyfully his stiff appendages and then said to Vegeta: " Hey, Great. I think I could---"
" Stay away from me!" Vegeta barked and glared fire at Goku. " You're not going heal me, low-class vampire rubbish, understood!"
" Fine then!" Goku snorted, wondering how some people could have a pride that big! He was practically suffering from enormous throes of pain and he refused help. Asshole...
" But Vegeta!" Bulma scolded him, looking at his weirdly.
" Shut up, woman! Don't Vegeta me! I don't accept help from people that are barely one hundredth of my age!" he argued and Bulma just huffed and grimaced ugly at his direction.
" You realize that it could help us get away from here big deal, hot shot?" she hissed.
" Don't question my pride and motives, wench! Now I told you to shut the fuck up!"
" Oh sure I will..."
Vegeta was just about to replay with another batch of insults when he abruptly snapped his mouth shut, eyes fixed on the wall opposite him. Goku reacted couple of seconds later, scooping wriggling ChiChi up and quickly moving to the other side of the room, his eyes too on the dark wall that was Vegeta was staring at too.
" What?" ChiChi queried and was immediately silenced by Goku's hand covering her mouth tightly. Instead of trying to protest and fight him, she focused her own black eyes on the wall, her finely tuned instincts now urging her to escape the situation. Bulma pressed herself against the coldness of the stones, worried. If the guys reacted like this it to something invisible, couldn't predict anything good.
The temperature dropped rapidly their breathing creating gray-blue clouds that vanished in the air soon as it left their mouths. Frost and ice began forming on the wall covering it in the pure whiteness that seemed like blasphemy in the place like this with its innocent coloring. It glowed ominously and to the quartet in the freezing room there was nothing innocent and good about the color and the mysterious glow. Those of them who could sensed magic embedded into it; those small strings of power knitting the complex spell towards fullness.
Both vampires wore tight expressions and looking permanently confused. To their knowledge no vampire could ever control ice. Hell was hot and full of eternal fires fed by blood, not ice. Dante's Hell didn't count for humans had the richest of imaginations at times; though the man had surely been into the right direction in classifying the bad doers.
Goku didn't dare to chant a spell to counter the weird magic; he didn't know just how well it would support him with slayer's blood and after being so fatally injured; even if he felt like the top of the world. The center increased visibly in the brightness and soon it felt like staring into burning piece of magnesium after pitch black.
With watering eyes they watched as a figure with oh-so-familiar aura appeared dressed in a cloak, red eyes peering menacingly at them. His face was shadowed as always but they all could sense the deep scowl of disapproval marring the Master's face. ( AN: Are already guessing who he is? If not, I 'm gonna kick you!)
ChiChi's wind hitched in her lungs seeing the figure. That creature had tortured her... made her cry; hurt her. If it hadn't been for the unusual vampire duo... She fathomed how she ever thought she'd could have slain the Master of all vampires, her mind nagging at her: he hurt you once and he can do it again and you're just as helpless as before.
" What's going on here?" the cloaked vampire lord demanded with cold voice that chilled their spines made the ice aggressively spike into sharp icicles at his words. No one dared to answer and they weren't sure did he mean their little arguing, fooling around or the whole let's-feed-vampire scene. The ruby eyes settled on Goku who stood defiantly but not quite daring to use his magic and thus making his black eyes glow purple.
" It has finally come to this. My greatest mistake..." the lord spoke calmly with barely controlled anger and frustration seeping into his words. " I knew from the very beginning you were at threat at some scale but I didn't want to see it and when I did, it was until only hours too late. Besides you had already served me well... I suppose it doesn't matter. You die. She die, He die... You all die!"
Finding his voice, Goku screamed over the growing rumble that had started in middle of the lords little speech. " HELL WE WILL! WHAT MISTAKE WHAT COULD BE A MISTAKE YOU MADE!"
Silence was his answer and frightened whimpers from both Bulma and ChiChi. Vegeta's weak power rose slightly to alerted and poised level but he remained positioned and unmoving; eyes smoldering with the orange hue. The voice grew as a visible aura, that of pure blackness with icy cover laying it rose around Master.
" It doesn't matter anymore; at this point it is useless. I must end my mistake here as much as I want to drag out the pleasure of torturing you and your little posse here. Die." his voice slithered in the room and Goku staggered back, shocked. This was the true extent of his former master's power: coldness and the magic so great and evil it made him want to to retch.
" MESSENGER! FIGHT, YOU FOOL! DON'T GO DOWN LIKE THIS! WE STILL HAVE A CHANCE! TAKE IT!" Vegeta's voice pierced his frozen mind. What chance did they have. Vegeta the Great was injured and Bulma and ChiChi were no help and he was just a fraction of master dark knowledge and magic. Vegeta knew that so why was he telling him to fight?
" DON'T JUST STAND THERE LIKE AN IMBECILE! ARE YOU A MAN OR A MOUSE!"
" GOKU! DO SOMETHING! YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN! FUCKING FIGHT!"
" SON-KUN! BEAT THAT EVIL FREAK!"
His friends were begging for him to fight; the girls sounding so afraid and hysterical; he could almost see he tears spilling down their faces, twisted in horror. And Vegeta... surely he had a plan! The mocking laughter rung in his ears; daring him; submitting him like a dog. Fight! Damnit! For them, for himself, for all those years of beatings... for the future!
Slowly he began gathering his power and standing tall, his eyes intense purple with such deepnesses in them that his adversary's ruby eyes widening slightly in realization of opposition from the young vampire before narrowing back into tiny slits. The rumbling died down and the dead quiet air took place.
Now fully powered up, the lord spoke. " You are my mistake, Messenger Son Goku; a mistake that will be soon no more mistake. Prepare to lo and behold the centuries worth of evolution and feel the wrath of an Ancient one, boy. Then it's your mates turn."
Son Goku's eyes narrowed din question: was this a trick? A bright flash surrounded the creature, burning the cape into dust.
( An: I think I'll just stop here... OKAY OKAY! I'll continue! Sheehs! Can't you take a joke...!)
Goku felt his mouth dropping, jaw slack, a complete surprise overriding his all previous emotions at the sight in front of him. Vegeta's mouth opened and closed without sound. ChiChi and Bulma stared all their fear and terror forgotten. No way in friggin' hell! In front of them stood a white lizard with long tail slashing behind him or her with purple shoulders and head, ruby eyes aglow with glee of their expressions. He had three toes on each leg and he or she apparently stood butt-naked in the freezing weather.
" This is my true form and you'll be the only ones ever to witness it. My original name is Freeza, the lord of ice!" his mouth curled into smirk and he began cackling evilly, dark bolts crackling around him ghostly.
Bulma got over her shock first and as always opened her big mouth...
" Holy shit! The guy's all white and purple and wearing a lipstick of that shade! Wait! Is it she or he? WAIT! YEEEWWW! THE GUY'S ASS-NAKED IN FRONT OF US WITHOUT SHAME! WHATTA HELL HAPPENED TO HIS BALLS! OH MY GAWD!"
TBC...
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A/N: This just felt like a good place to stop... hehe heeheee! I'll try to get the next chapter up soon. I plan to end this fic by the end of this month! The end is near! WAAH! I've been meaning to do this for awhile but always forgotten, so here's this little piece of advertisement. There's this Finnish Star Trek and Babel 4 fanmovie and parody made by amateur moviemakers that is very funny even if you don't know a thing about ST or Babel 4. you can watch it. Go to www dot starwreck dot com! You can find the movie there and download it for free and you can also find many explanatory things in that site. The movies is spoken in Finnish but it has English subtitles that are pretty accurate though half of the curse words are left untranslated... And if you ever wonder what Finnish language is like and sounds like at it's most normal form: everyday speech, you should at least watch some of this movie! It's really worth it! Just remember it's made by amateurs and they funded the movie themselves and make no profit! Go on! And watch! Don't worry; it's completely legal!
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