Akutenshi Nakare Kyo

Chapter 5: Chikemuri ~^Spray of Blood^~

Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ.

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Videl turned around to grab a towel from the closet just in time to dodge the blade hilt aimed for her head. She gawked at her attacker while falling into a defensive stance. "Piza! What the smurf are you doing!?"

Ms Piza smirked cruelly at the teen. "Oh, just tying up some lose ends. I suggest you run, little girl." Piza lunged forward with the large sashimi bocho and nicked Videl in the arm. The girl whirled into action, kicking and punching, trying to disarm the crazed redhead. Said redhead just smiled wickedly and knocked the hits aside. After several minuets Piza still wore her smile and Videl found it hard to see from her left eye.

Videl made a faint to her right, then sped past Piza on her left side. She dashed down the hall quicker than she knew she could and tugged at the back door. Locked. A soft laugh echoed around the first floor. "It really was smart to install such an advanced security system," Piza mocked from her unseen position. "You can lock every window and door in the house, not to mention turn off the phones, with the push of a few buttons." Videl bite her lip in panic. She needed to access the security control room to excape this deathtrap; the control room is three floors down.

'With the major doors locked, the elevator's no use,' Videl thought while running through the second living room. 'If I remember correctly... there should be another way down.' The girl stopped to catch her breath in the kitchen, all the while keeping her guard up. Her head perked up as the lights flickered. 'Please stay on. Don't go out!' As if to defy her alone, the entire house went void of electric light. The teen instinctively ran to a pantry and hid inside. Videl suddenly felt very scared in the big, dark house, knowing that there was someone with an extremely sharp fish slicer out to kill her. She felt like a child again, not that she had too many happy memories as a kid, and wanted her mother. But her mom was dead. It was now crystal clear to the raven-haired fighter who killed her. Videl shivered and slumped to the floor, hugging her knees tightly. If she couldn't have her mom, she wanted the next best thing, and her heart told her it was Gohan.

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Gohan was trying to explain to Chi-chi why he needed to go to Satan City and what was in the mysterious box that he seemed to pull from nowhere. In mid-story telling, the teen felt a pull at his heartstrings and his stomach did a 180*. He couldn't explain it, but somehow he knew Videl was in trouble, more than that, she needed him.

"Gohan?" Chi-chi spoke, trying to bring her son back from the strange place he suddenly zoned off to. "Honey? You okay?" Gohan had no clue what was going on, but what he did know was that Videl needed him. That was enough. The demi-saiya-jin powered up right there, smack dab in the middle of the kitchen, and flew out the open window faster than ever. His mother would have shouted after him to use the door, as she often did, but something on his face stopped her. He was scared - worried about something - and determined to set things right. At first, Chi-chi thought it had something to do with being saiyaman, but he didn't even say 'good-bye'. The mother peered after the fading ki trail, worry written in the corner of her dark eyes.

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Videl leaned against the wall harder, only to have it fall out behind her. She coughed at the newly disturbed dust and mildew spores and peered down the crawlspace with her right eye. 'This is it! This leads down!' Videl managed to smile and crawled through the tight passageway, trying hard to keep her mild claustrophobia in check. She didn't know how long she crawled or if she was even in the right place, but a red light soon came into view as well as the exit. Her body was grateful for the ability to stand up straight again. The red light ran on it's own generator and shone brightly above a descending spiral staircase. Videl recognized the staircase from the house's blueprints and thanked Kami (although she should thank Dende, but hey, she doesn't know any better) that it was there. Slowly, the teen made her way down the curving stair in it's decent to blackness. Her knuckles grew white from lack of blood and her right shoulder ached. Videl, now much calmer than she was before, released the railing and touched the throbbing shoulder only to quickly redraw the hand. With the adrenaline level down, Videl was becoming much more aware of her injuries - one of which was a slashed shoulder.

Footsteps and laughing could be heard echoing in the stairwell, which sent a shiver down Videl's spine and made her pick up the pace. She ran three steps a stride, down the suspended stair with the fear renewed. She could now see the green light located at the bottom, but it was still a ways down. Videl wished she was there right then, and as if to comply, the wire cords holding the steps snapped and unraveled, whipping her leg. The stairs didn't fall, but the did shift and swing, knocking Videl from them. Illuminated green concrete rushed up to meet the young Satan in a more painful way than she would have liked on her right shoulder. She could no longer use that arm.

Videl rose to her feet and winced at the pain in her right leg but trudged onward through the doorway, knowing that the control room was near. This level wasn't used much by anyone except Iwashi, the technician and 'bouncer' of the Satan household. Unfortunately, he wasn't there today and Videl wasn't 100% sure on how the system worked. 'Technology...' Videl suddenly remembered her watch and it's link-up to the police station, she could call the chief and have a squad over to help in no time! She tried to lift her hand and call up the station, but her right arm wouldn't respond to her brain's command. So she slid the watch off her right hand and held it in her left. Her hope soon faded like the green light behind her; the watch was busted, most likely from her fall. Angrily, she threw the watch aside and walked blindly down the hall, searching for a blue light.



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Gohan didn't care if people saw him flying, not right now. Videl was calling out to him, pleading for him. He wanted nothing more at that moment than to have Videl safely in his arms. His dream suddenly came back to him; Videl drowning in water and an unknown assailant getting away. Gohan gave a low growl at the mer thought of someone hurting Videl. He didn't stop to think why Videl was in trouble, how he knew, or why he needed to help so badly. And at that moment, he really didn't care.

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Videl gave a small laugh as the control room door swung open and the security system came into view. She looked at the massive panel like it was some wonderful miracle. And it would be, if she could figure out how to use it. Videl was sure that there was some sort of organization to the switches and buttons, but after staring at the board for several minuets all she could do was turn the elevators back on. Several more minuets passed with nothing happening.

"Thanks for the help getting down here." The teen spun on her heel at the voice, utterly scared. Ms Piza stood smugly against the doorway. She had lost her blade, but seemed just as cocky as before. "Ya know, little girl, I wasn't just the manager for your daddy's students," Piza straightened herself and punched the nearby wall, cracking it up to the ceiling, "I was a student too."

Videl wasn't about to fight a student of her dad's in this condition. She needed to get away. The teen suddenly remembered that she had left her cell phone in the bathroom. If she could get to it in time, then maybe she could hold off Piza until help arrived. But she needed a distraction...

The pigtailed fighter threw a coffee mug at one of the surveillance screens, causing sparks to fly and Piza to crying. Videl zoomed out of the room and stumbled around until she reached the elevators where she ducted inside and whacked a button. Piza made a lunge for the door but missed and promised a painful end to Videl. The elevator dinged upon reaching its destination and Videl skidded across the well-waxed floor. She burst open the bathroom door and wadded through the water covering the floor that had overflown from the tub.

And there it was. Her glorious cell phone sat contently on the counter top, the most beautiful thing Videl had ever seen. She picked it up and tried dialing the police station. She got nothing. Her phone wouldn't dial. Videl panicked and shook the thing franticly, checking everything that might be wrong. She flipped the phone over and opened the back panel.

"No," She breathed, completely horrified.

"Oh yes." Piza once again lended against the door with a cocky smile. She tossed the cell phone's battery pack up and down in her hand with ease. "Did you think I had forgotten about your phone? Come now, give some credit." Piza shook her bright orange hair from her eyes and cracked her knuckles.

She came at Videl very quick and punched her across the jaw, only to be knocked off her feet in a sweeping kick. Piza glared at Videl as she sat in the water, hate burning in her eyes. She grabbed Videl's leg and yanked her down. The teen hit her head on the tubs hard surface, but refused to fall unconscious.

"Do you know why I did this, little girl?" Piza cooed while lifting Videl to her wobbly feet. "I'm the one who discovered your father, I'm the one who made him who he is today! But does he treat me with the respect I deserve? No. He just treats me like some fifty cent hooker he picked up on a street corner, like his secretary, he thinks he owns me." Piza tightened her grip on Videl's shoulders, squeezing out her anger. "Well he doesn't. If anything, I own him! And you, you and your mother were no better. Sending me out to the store, answering your phone calls, cooking your food. I didn't deserve to be treated that way. After I killed your mom, things got better. But then you just had to stick your nose into the past. Dig up dirt that was meant to remain under carpets. Everyone else forgot about Mouako, why couldn't you?"

Videl's right eye closed as the pain proved too much and drifted off into darkness. Piza noticed the body go limp and slapped Videl hard across the face. The girl made a sound, but didn't regain consciousness. Finally fed up with the game, Piza tossed Videl into the large tub and left to unlock the doors.

Gohan arrived at the Satan mansion just as a pink car peeled out of the driveway. Gohan started to follow, but his dream hit him again. If he pursued the perp., then he would lose Videl. The saiya-jin teen ran into the house and found water spilling across the floor. He flew, following the water to its source, and found Videl in no time. Gohan turned off the water and carefully pulled his peer from the tub. He checked for a pulse and found a weak one. However, Videl wasn't breathing.

The teen panicked, wishing that he had gotten there sooner and looked over Videl's numerous injuries. But he wasn't going to give up. When you've been fighting since you were four, ya tend to pick up a thing or two about first aid. The spikey-haired teen titled up the girl's head and began the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. He knew he had to try his hardest, he knew he couldn't give up on Videl. For several minuets, nothing happened.

Gohan's heart felt like it was slowly chipping away with each passing second. But he wouldn't give up, not on her. Videl coughed and sputtered water, clearing her lungs of the stuff and slowly opened her eyes, well, at least the right one. Her vision cleared shortly after that and she tried to sit up.

"Oh no you don't Videl. You just stay right there, I called the paramedics, they're on their way."

Videl looked around, trying to find the speaker of the voice. Her heart leaped when she saw Gohan's sweet, concerned face smiling at her. "Go..Gohan? What are you-?" Videl looked down at her body to find her right calf and arm wrapped up in bandages and her left hand in Gohan's. The boy quickly released his grip with a blush.

"Sorry." Was all he could muster to say.

"Gohan, how did you get here in time to help me?" Videl recalled being knocked into blackness, then she felt like she was floating.

"I um..." Gohan turned away, not quite sure how to answer. "I was in town, and this feeling just swept over me that you were in trouble, that you needed me." He blushed, feeling really stupid, but turned back to Videl anyways. "I guess I was right."

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S/A: Okay, it's 2:05 in the morning... I can't think of anything creative to say, so, uh, please review, okay? Okay.