Gohan cried out softly as Bulma pressed hard on his torn wrist in attempt to stop the bleeding. He could hear his mother crying in Capsule Corp.'s makeshift waiting room. His parents had honestly thought he had tried to kill himself. Hell, could he blame them; they had seen him with a straight razor in his hand.

"Hold up your arm." Bulma instructed. She had managed to wrap his wrist tight enough to effectively keep him from bleeding to death, but he still needed to keep it elevated just to be sure. Gohan did as he was told, and Bulma walked away to help her other patients.

Videl, Erasa, and Sharpener had been in CC's hospitol before he had even arrived. Videl had severe burns up and down her entire body, Erasa had been slashed up like a piece of meat, and Sharpener looked like someone had tried to squeeze him to death. Gohan sighed.
He knew damn well what had happened to each of them. He also knew that it would be meaningless to try to tell their parents what had happened to each of them.

Finishing her rounds on the half-dead teenagers, Bulma placed them all on gurnies that she had lined up side-by-side. She sighed to herself. She couldn't understand why these teenagers had suddenly began to self-mutilate. She had known each of them for years, either from their adventures in space (okay mainly that was just Gohan), or from years of treating them for common childhood illneses. And now...each of them were here for these horrible injuries.

"Okay, guys." Bulma began, drawing four syringes and a bottle from a shelf, "I think you all need a good nights sleep. I'm going to sedate..."
That was as far as Bulma got, before all four of them jumped and ran, all of them screaming like nutcases.
Bulma slammed a button calling for the orderlies.
Of course all of this commotion brought the parents charging into the room.

In a matter of minutes Goku had restrained a screaming and kicking Gohan, and three orderlies had restrained Erasa and Sharpener. Videl was cornored by a seditive-whielding Bulma and one orderly. Both adults took a step towards Videl, who sank back even further into the cornor. She whimpered as her friends cried to Bulma not to sedate her. Both the orderly and Bulma reached for her at the same time.

All Videl could see was the needle at the end of the syringe. She knew if she went to sleep with that junk in her system, she would have no way to wake up and escape her tormentor. Her breathing picked up. As the two took a step towards her, she took desperate measures. She grabbed a scalpel from the nearest surgery table and stabbed the orderly in the arm.He screamed and pulled his arm towards him.
Everyone backed off in stunned silence. Videl had never acted this violent towards anyone in this way before.

By this time, the commotion had brought Vegeta from the house, and Piccolo's ears had picked up the commotion, bringing him to Capsule Corp. as well.

Bulma took another step towards Videl, convinced she had to be knocked out so they could safely examine her. That's when Videl began to cry.

Thick tears flowed down Videl's cheeks. She pointed a shaky hand with the scalpal facing Bulma, in an attempt to keep her away from her. She began to choke out a nursery rhyme. But, it wasn't anything like the nursery rhymes of their childhood. It was more a rhyme that children made up on sidewalks about popular figures who showed up in the news.
"five...six...(sob)...get your crucifix,
seven...(sob)...eight...gotta stay up late,
nine...ten(sob)...never...never..."
Her sobs choked off the rest of the rhyme, but Piccolo finished it for her.

"Never sleep again." His rich, baritone voice finished out the rhyme.

The adults looked around the room at the teenagers. Each one of them was shaking and, if not crying, close to it. Bulma signaled the orderlies to let the three teens go, and Goku released Gohan. Each of the adults looked at one another, the teens, and back to one another over and over again.

"Where did you hear that...that song?" Goku asked hesitantly.

Gohan looked at him from the cornor of his tear-rimmed eyes, shaking his head just enough to be noticed.
"You wouldn't believe us if we told you."

"Try us." Vegeta said flatly.

Gohan turned his head back towards the group, shaking.

"He wears a dirty brown hat, doesn't he?" Piccolo asked.
That got the attention of all the teens.
"Christmas sweater? Razor glove?" Piccolo asked.
All at once, the four teens began nodding their heads in agreement. The adult's faces all blanched. It was quiet for what seemed like an eternity, until Goku finally spoke up.

"He's finally come back."

Okay, folks! The story is now officially under way. And yes, I have ripped a few of these scenes from the various Nightmare on Elm Street movies. They are seriously great.
P.S. Some people have e-mailed me to tell me that Freddy's sweater is green and red, not orange and brown as I have said in previous chapters. My bad! I guess I saw the colors wrong in the darkness of the scenes. Thank you for alerting me to my mistake. :)

Concerning Erasa's name: I didn't know which version of the name to use. Some say her name is Eliza, some say it is Erasa. For sake of sanity, I'm going with the television version.