Title: Crimson-dipped Obsession
Summary: Bulma Briefs' life made a horrifying turn when an obsessed Saiyan prince arrived on Earth and wanted her to be his! What's more to this alien was a dark secret that has caused a change in the history of Dragon Ball Z, and if it is revealed, it holds the fate of the entire universe.
Genre: Horror, Psychological Thriller, Romance, Mystery
Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball Z. Some events in this fan fic is also inspired by Mirai Nikki and DBXV.
Warning: You might find Vegeta out of character in this story as this fic is made as an answer to the question 'What if Vegeta was a yandere?'. Vegeta is originally and generally a tsundere. A Tsundere is a character who is initially cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warm and caring side over time. The yandere personality is the exact opposite of a tsundere personality. A Yandere is a character who is genuinely kind, loving, sweet or gentle, but can suddenly switch to being aggressive or deranged. (From wiktionary).
If you don't like Vegeta to be like a yandere then I suggest you to turn back now and stop reading as this story also contains lots of blood, gore and violence.
Author's Notes: This chapter merely clears the ending of the last chapter. I would also like to clear that although Gohan and Krilin can save themselves, Bulma just panicked and decided without a second thought of it. I honestly intended for that to happen. Now, on to the seventh chapter of Crimson-dipped Obsession!
Chapter 7: The Ruthless Killer
[762 A.D. November 21, Inside an Unknown Spaceship, Hallway B]
Vegeta and Bulma stood before the blood and gore of all the children Vegeta has murdered by just pointing his two fingers at each of them earlier.
"I need you to return to the space ship and leave everything to me." Vegeta told Bulma, who was sniffing in the corner after crying at her reluctant decision.
"What did I just say? How could I say something that I might not able to take back? What am I supposed to do if Vegeta learns that I didn't really want to be his lover?" Bulma thought to herself in horror. "B-B-But I need him, I need him to save Gohan and Krilin from danger. If I didn't say that there's no way we can make it out of here alive!"
"What's the matter, Bulma?" Vegeta asked.
"N-n-nothing…" Bulma replied, stammering. Vegeta stared at her for a moment before he let out a sigh.
"I know."
Bulma quickly turned to him, "What?"
"I know how you're feeling… you're still unsure of this and were forced because you really want me to save those two, aren't you? But… it's alright with me if you want to pretendwith me. I promised you I will protect you no matter what, so… I change the deal; we will just pretend to be lovers in exchange of me saving those two. Does that make you a lot comfortable now?" Vegeta then let out a sweet smile.
"Vegeta…." Bulma muttered as she stared back at his sweet smile. She felt kind of sorry for him because no matter what he do, she couldn't return his love because she was still in-love with Yamcha. "I'm sorry."
Vegeta let out a giggle, "Don't be sorry for it. I still believe in the bright future that awaits the both of us!"
"Hnn," Bulma just nodded and turned around to return to the spaceship, Vegeta walked his way back where they left Gohan and Krilin.
[762 A.D. November 21, Inside an Unknown Spaceship, Main Hall]
Gohan and Krilin were surrounded by armed children pointing their guns toward them, both of them restrained by claws that were strangely stronger than steel. They managed to deflect the bullets that were supposed to kill them earlier but were caught off guard when they were suddenly pulled by the mechanical claws similar to the things that caught Bulma and Vegeta earlier.
"Guys! We don't want to hurt you, come on! We're telling the truth!" Krilin said.
"Then tell us what you are doing with the Legendary Destroyer?" said the boy named Zushin.
"We already told you he's helping us revive our dead friends back to life!"
"Helping you?"
Zushin's jaw dropped, his face looked suspicious. "Why would Vegeta help you? Huh?!" he yelled at Krilin, pressing his gun into Krilin's face.
"What do you mean by that?" the bald, short man screeched.
"Do you think I would believe that Frieza's most favorite and ruthless soldier, the so-called Prince of the barbaric Saiyans and the Legendary Destroyer of Worlds, would actually try to help you? I don't think so! Stop making us for a fool!"
"Why? What's so suspicious about that?" Gohan asked.
"If you think that guy's trying to help you then you don't know yet what monster he truly is! Do you think a person such as him would help you?! Even if he does, he could be just using you!"
"U-Using us? How?"
"To get what his master wants! That is to conquer the universe under their rule! And those who oppose them shall be destroyed!"
Krilin and Gohan both stared at Zushin, both trying to think over what the alien boy was trying to tell them. Yes, before the Saiyans arrived they heard how barbaric they are and how much trouble they cause across the galaxy. When they arrived, they found out just how ruthless and powerful they were especially Vegeta's display of ruthlessness when he blew that Saibaiman up into pieces with just a point of his two fingers. Then suddenly, they realized that Vegeta's cold and ruthless demeanor was completely different for the one he showed them after his battle with Goku and themselves. When they first saw Vegeta, you wouldn't think he was even capable of showing a softer, sweeter side to himself. It was as if the Vegeta they first met in the battlefield and the Vegeta they are now with are two different sides of the same coin. What's more suspicious was the fact that they are helping them revive the people he just killed? Why would anyone want to do that anyways?
"Gohan…" Krilin said to the half-Saiyan, half-human boy. "I always suspected something was wrong with how Vegeta was being too helpful with us. Do you think he was really playing at us?"
"I don't know, Krilin-san…"
"You fools! Do not let whatever stupid things they tell about me fool you!" someone yelled from their left. Everyone all turned their heads towards Vegeta who stood at the entryway of the hallway he came from. He stood there, holding an axe he just got on his way. The children all pointed their guns toward him.
"I suggest you let go of Krilin and Son Gohan, or I wouldn't be so kind when I finish you off, little boys." Vegeta smiled at them sweetly.
"Do not make a fool of us, Prince Vegeta! We know what kind of monster you are hiding under that sweet smile of yours!" one of the boys, they called him Rissko yelled at him.
Vegeta blinked at him innocently, pouting. "What do you mean?"
"Stop acting as if you didn't know!"
Vegeta just stared at the boys innocently, thinking with how he was supposed to prove them that he's not as bad as they were trying to tell Gohan and Krilin about. In the end he let out a sigh. "Look. You little boys just had a misunderstanding. We were really travelling towards Planet Namek in order to revive the Earthlings me and my comrade killed when we arrived on Earth. I admit you knew a little about me from the rumors but that's just a little about me. I'm actually quite flattered that you heard about my ruthless reputation, but it doesn't mean I would kill you just like Frieza's other soldiers would do. Let me tell you something, I hated following his orders and I'm sick of it. I do what I fucking want, I don't need a tyrant like him to tell me what to do! So… trust me, I'm not killing anyone in here… unless you provoke me."
"Shut up, Vegeta! You think we would believe that lie?" Zushin yelled back at him and turned to his soldiers, "What are you doing?! Fire at him!"
The children began firing their weapons at Vegeta, who simply phased in behind a surprised Gohan and Krilin. The children panicked, wondering where Vegeta went. Vegeta raised the axe as the two slowly turned their heads toward him.
"Vegeta!" Krilin screamed, making the children's attention snap towards him.
Vegeta cut the strings that attached the claws to the wall using the axe. Gohan and Krilin both fell down into the floor. Zushin and the rest of the children turned towards them and began to fire at the three of them. Krilin and Gohan screamed. Vegeta yelled, releasing his ki to create a barrier around them to protect them. Realizing what's happening, the children stopped firing.
"What?!" Zushin couldn't believe what he was seeing. Vegeta just created a barrier around him and his two little friends to protect them from their attack!
"You have no chance, little boys." Vegeta told them coldly. "Toys such as those wouldn't have any effect against me. Please let us go in peace. I wish to spare you all because we have more important matters to attend to. Neh?" then he gave them a sweet smile.
Zushin reluctantly put his gun down, "Do you promise?"
"Don't make me repeat myself."
"No, not yet Zushin!" someone from the crowd of children yelled. He looked a bit older, about fourteen years old, red skinned and black haired. "Have you forgotten how Frieza's men killed our parents! Don't fall for that guy's false promises!"
"Hey now, where's the honor if I break a promise?" Vegeta defended.
"You think there is honor in killing innocent people?!"
Vegeta flinched at the way the boy said those words. For a moment he was taken aback by that. The boy was right, indeed.
"Y-you're right, I knew that…" he muttered, looking down in shame.
"Hey guys, look what I have found!" another boy said, the one standing in the last row. He was holding a flinching Bulma as she got dragged into the crowd.
"Bulma-san!" Krilin and Gohan screamed.
"Bulma!" Vegeta also screamed. What is she doing in here? Didn't he tell her to go back to their space ship and leave everything to him?
"H-H-hey, let me go! Hey!" Bulma cried as the boy dragged her.
"Let her go!" Vegeta yelled, getting angry.
The boy soldier grinned back at him as he pointed his gun to Bulma's face. The blue haired girl flinched.
"Hey, Yuso!" Zushin called.
"I don't care about what that Prince Vegeta says! The likes of him killed my parents!" Yuso, the boy who was holding Bulma, announced. "The thing is they are in the same group! His earlier display of power and strength makes it even more suspicious that he is here to kill us all!"
"It was you who captured us, fools! We have no intention of dealing with brats like you!" Vegeta yelled.
"Yeah, he's right!" Bulma agreed as she glared at Yuso.
"Shut up!" Yuso yelled back at her as he knocked Bulma to the floor.
That does it.
Vegeta stood shocked beside Gohan and Krilin who called Bulma's name anxiously.
"Bulma-san! Bulma-san!" Gohan cried out as he and Krilin freed themselves from the claws and strings that restrained them and rushed towards her.
Something flashed back on Vegeta's mind, "Wake up! Wake up, woman! Wake up!" he heard his own voice echoed inside his head and that memory suddenly made him paranoid as he watched at Gohan, Krilin and Bulma below him…
"Bulma's in danger, she's knocked out! She's going to be killed! What should I do?!" he panicked. "No, I won't let it happen again! They hurt my Bulma… and they are going to pay for this…." He gritted his teeth, his eyes dilating with his awakening rage, slowly making his irises glow crimson red. "I will fucking kill them all…!"
An explosion suddenly shook the entire spaceship, making everyone crouch down and scream, and snapping Vegeta out of his dark thoughts. "W-What the fuck?!" he said as he raised his head to look at the ceiling. There he found several meteorites crushing into the ship's outer surface.
One boy appeared before them and shouted, "Zushin! We are caught in a meteor swarm!"
"What?!" Zushin said in disbelief. He quickly ran into the bridge that led into the main control room. Everyone panicked, Vegeta rushed towards Gohan, Krilin and Bulma, carrying her into his back.
"Let's get back into the ship! Now!" Vegeta ordered them as he rushed back into the hallway that would lead them back to their Namekian spaceship. Gohan and Krilin followed him but immediately hesitated.
"What the fuck are you two doing?! Let's go and leave them all to their fate!" Vegeta yelled.
"Yeah, but…"
They watched as the children who tried to capture them earlier panicked as fire began to spread.
"LET'S GO!" Vegeta ordered again.
Gohan turned to Vegeta, "I'm sorry, Vegeta-san. But we need to help them!"
"Quit wasting our time!"
As Vegeta yelled this, a huge part of the ceiling collapsed and were about to fall into three children. Gohan and Krilin quickly rushed to the rescue and shielded them using their superhuman strength, sending the huge rock away from the three children.
Vegeta let out a sigh of frustration, he wanted to go to the control room and take this useless ship out of this meteor swarm but he didn't know how. He decided to wake Bulma up.
It didn't take that long to wake his pretend-to-be-girlfriend up. He told her that he needed her to maneuver the ship out of the meteor swarm and led her to the control room, pushing the driver out of the way. Using her mechanical genius and the control information from the driver boy, Bulma was able to maneuver the ship out of the meteor swarm easily.
Meanwhile, Gohan and Krilin were able to put out the fire using their ki.
Bulma let out a sigh of relief even though she felt a little throb in her right temple. Vegeta jumped for joy of his girlfriend's success and wrapped his arms around her. However, their joy immediately faded when they realized that the children earlier had surrounded them again, pointing their guns toward them.
"What the fuck is your problem? We just helped you! Isn't that enough proof that we're not here to kill you?" Vegeta told them.
"I don't trust your fake attempt to help us!" Yuso yelled at him. "Anyone with your powers, abilities, and intelligence are suspicious enough! Just surrender yourselves already!"
"Bulma-san! Vegeta-san! Eh?" Krilin and Gohan arrived but were stopped by half of the children pointing their guns toward them.
"What's the meaning of this?" Krilin asked.
The tense in the atmosphere suddenly rose until Zushin arrived and said, "Everyone, please put your weapons down."
Everyone did so.
"Zushin," Yuso said.
"Everyone, let's think of this. If they were truly in here to kill us all, they wouldn't save us, right? Especially if they are Frieza's soldiers."
"But Vegeta is Frieza's soldier!"
"Maybe but as he said, he doesn't want to follow him anymore, correct? He wouldn't have led this intelligent girl in here if he doesn't care at all, right? He could have left us to die if he wanted to."
"Uhm… I suppose you were right…" Yuso agreed. "But I still don't trust him!"
The gun he was holding suddenly fired, and the bullet went towards Bulma. Vegeta saw this and quickly pulled Bulma out of the bullet's trajectory. It hit her arm slightly on the side and Bulma felt a sting to her right arm.
"Ah!" Bulma flinched at the sting and Vegeta found her arm bleeding to where the bullet passed slightly.
"Bulma!" he said, quickly putting off his white glove and used it to strap on her arm to stop the bleeding.
Yuso just stared at his gun in shock.
"Yuso! What are you doing? I told you to hold your weapon down!"
"B-b-but I didn't… I… I…" Yuso stared at his gun, his hands trembled in fear. "I didn't pull the trigger, Zushin! It fired by itself!"
"What? But that's impossible…!"
Vegeta finished his first aid on Bulma's gunshot wound. Bulma stared at him in alarm as she noticed the change slowly taking over his personality.
"You… I've had enough of you…" he mumbled in a low, cold voice. Everyone turned to him, as saw him bending his head down.
"There he goes again…" Bulma thought, immediately panicking. "V-Vegeta…" Bulma let out a forced but fearful smile as she raised her good arm to try to touch him. He slowly raised his head.
"Bulma, I need you to return to the space ship with Gohan and Krilin at once. No matter what happens, don't look back or return here." He said in the same low, cold tone.
"But Vegeta…" she moaned in worry.
"Just do as I say..." Vegeta growled at her.
"But…No!" Bulma shouted back.
"DO IT NOW!" Vegeta yelled at her, snapping his now crimson eyes to glare at her. Bulma shook her head in fear, but quickly obeyed. She ran towards Krilin and Gohan, the children quickly firing at her but Vegeta used his super speed to deflect all the bullets away from her.
"Let's go! Gohan! Krilin!" Bulma told her two companions. The two immediately followed her and they ran back towards where they left the space ship.
"What about Vegeta?" Krilin asked.
Bulma was in tears.
"Bulma-san, why are you crying?" Gohan asked.
Before Bulma could answer, the two warriors from Earth suddenly heard a loud screaming from where they came from. Gohan was about to go back but Bulma stopped him. "Don't go back!"
"B-but…" Gohan said and noticed the despair on Bulma's eyes."Bulma-san… Is Vegeta-san the one doing that?"
"H-he's doing it to save us. Let's not waste our time! Let's go!"
"But he's killing them, they're just children!" Krilin said. "We have to stop him!"
"Don't you dare! You think you can stop him by yourselves?"
Gohan and Krilin remembered that time during their image training when Vegeta was training with them and immediately said, "Uh… I guess no…" Krilin said.
"Then let's just go!"
"But Bulma-san!" Gohan cried. "I'm sorry but I have to go back!" he exclaimed as he ran back towards the control room.
"Wait! Gohan! Gohan!" Bulma and Krilin chased him.
[762 A.D. November 21, Inside an Unknown Spaceship, Main Control Room]
Vegeta was on a berserk. Using the axe he has been holding earlier, he proceeded to kill everyone left inside the control room. He used his powers to shut the room's door and trap everyone inside. He fired a small blast towards the controls, causing a small explosion and creating fire that quickly spread across the entire small room. He continued waving the axe, butchering everyone with it. Blood splattered everywhere, and screams of children echoed. These sounds made his Saiyan blood boil with excitement and he laughed madly at the ecstasy it was bringing him.
"J-j-Just as I thought, you are no one to trust, you monster!" Yuso said as he was surrounded by fire and the gore from his dead comrades. Vegeta turned to him, the psychotic luster in his eyes growing more.
"I intended to go to my word to leave you all in peace if only you didn't provoke me to do this, boy. I warned you earlier, but then you hurt my Bulma and this happens. What fools are you to provoke my wrath! I admit I could have prevented being captured by your stupid looking spaceship earlier. I noticed how this ship's interiors are made of mirrors, anyone who doesn't have a good eye would think that they were about to crash into a spaceship, but then I noticed the constellations of the stars exactly being mirrored into the surface and my very own reflection staring at me from the window. Then I realized it, you could have fooled the rest of Frieza's soldiers into a camouflage since your ship's outer surface reflects the stars around it. You could have fooled anyone, ANYONE BUT ME!"
Yuso realized the very reason why Vegeta was Frieza's most favorite soldier. He was extremely powerful, uncontrollable and highly intelligent, a powerful beast, tactical genius and killing machine, all in one person.
Yuso trembled in fear before the ruthless monster entitled the Legendary Destroyer of Worlds as Vegeta sauntered forward to kill him.
"Do me a little favor, boy. JUST DIE ALREADY!" Vegeta screamed in rage as he raised the axe in his hand. But…
A powerful blast ripped the door open, snapping Vegeta out of his trance. "WHAT?!"
"Vegeta-saaaaann!" Gohan screamed as he slammed into Vegeta, knocking him away in front of Yuso. The two rolled into the ground. Vegeta let out a ferocious snarl as he turned around and held Gohan down into the floor with his weight, his hand suffocating the demi-Saiyan in his neck. At this point, Vegeta has succumbed into the dark recesses of his mind, completely losing his self control. Thus, he was not able to recognize Gohan.
Gohan choked as he vainly struggled against Vegeta's strength. To Gohan, Vegeta looked like a bloodthirsty animal who was about to eat him alive. "Ve-Ve-Vegeta-san…! I-it's… me… kuh!" he choked.
"Vegeta, STOP!" Krilin said as he and Bulma ran towards him to stop him. Krilin tried to pry the Saiyan's hands away from Gohan, while Bulma faced him.
"Vegeta! Vegeta! Do you hear me? It's us! Come on, regain your control!" Bulma told him as she held him by the face, but it seemed that their effort wasn't doing any effect. Gohan was already going blue from suffocation, and Bulma knew she must do something to save him. "Vegeta! Come back!"
Still to no avail, Vegeta's eyes were still those horrible red gems gleaming with madness. Bulma couldn't help but decided on one thing.
She pulled his head to her and kissed him on his lips.
That did it. Vegeta's expression slowly changed, calming down from his psychotic look. Recognition appeared in his eyes that slowly fading their color from crimson to dark onyx. "My…Bulma…?" then he blinked as if waking up from a bad dream. When he saw what he was doing, he quickly took his hand off on Gohan's neck. The young half Saiyan half human boy coughed out, struggling to get some fresh oxygen into his lungs. "What the fuck am I doing? Gohan! Gohan! Hey, Gohan! I'm sorry, stay with us!"
"I'm… fine… " Gohan coughed. Seconds later, his color finally returned to normal.
"I'm sorry, Gohan… I-I…"
Gohan and Krilin just stared back at him before they looked around.
"Woah, you really did kill them all, huh?" Krilin told him, but when he turned his head towards Vegeta, he saw the prince collapse in the floor. "Vegeta! Hey! Are you alright?"
"He probably collapsed due to fatigue." Bulma concluded.
They just stared at the prince who was unconscious.
"Say, Bulma… should we leave him here?" Krilin said.
"What? Why?"
"I mean… Look at what he has done… he killed all these children."
"Idiot! He's the only one who knew how to operate that spaceship!"
They all turned towards the last survivor, Yuso. "Now, did you see what he truly is? He is a fucking monster?!" he yelled at them. "If I were you, I would kill him right now!"
Yuso stood up to get his gun, but Bulma stopped him, "Stop! If you kill him then you are no different than him!"
"If I kill him, then one of the biggest troublemakers in the universe would be gone forever! You should be grateful if he dies."
"But look, Vegeta's actually a nice guy, however…" Bulma said.
"Don't believe that shit! What if he's playing mind games with you, making you think he's a nice guy but then he would eventually turn against you, huh?"
The three Earthlings just stared at him.
"You saw how powerful and ruthless he is. Rumors say he can even kill trillions of lives in an instant and destroy any world he wants if he truly wanted to. Don't be a fool!"
"I believe in Vegeta!" Bulma told him.
"What?" Krilin and Gohan said.
Bulma remembered that time when she and Vegeta were in the Ferries Wheel ride when he admitted to her his true feelings. Vegeta had told her back then: "I am the prince of the most powerful warrior race in the universe, cold and ruthless. I admit I did kill many people and destroyed a lot of worlds in cold blood. I always believed that foolish emotions like love and compassion are nothing meant for a warrior like me and could be the cause of his downfall. But… it was you who changed that belief I held my entire life for so long. I… I don't know, but meeting you has changed everything I once believed in. When I saw you, it felt… different. What do you humans call it? Love at first sight? Yeah, that. Also, hearing your vain praises you commented about yourself through the scouter caught my interest of you, knowing that we're very much alike. Then I also realized that I cannot ever bring myself to kill you no matter what. That's how much I love you."
And that time when he apologized to her, he told her: "I promise you, no matter what happens I will never, ever hurt or kill you. I will protect you with all my life, whatever the cost maybe. But please, do not fear me. I don't want to see that look on you again. I will never hurt you. I will never kill you. I promise you that!"
"He could be that, but I know something that was good in him. And he showed me that side of him more often than you could imagine. I know, something's going on with him that could be the cause of why he was being like this. And I wanted to help him overcome that. That's why… I believe in him."
Yuso put his gun down, "Whatever," he spat. "You're free to go. Just don't you regret making him stay with you."
"I won't be regretting that." Bulma told Yuso firmly. She turned to Krilin and Gohan and said, "Let's go."
Krilin and Gohan agreed. Krilin carried Vegeta to his back. The three of them made their way back into their spaceship. Once they are inside the ship, Vegeta let out a groan and opened his eyes. Good timing when the three realized they couldn't leave without Vegeta telling the spaceship to go to Planet Namek.
Vegeta went out first of their spaceship and blasted their way out with a ki blast before he returned back to their ship and set the coordinates to Planet Namek through the computer. After that, Vegeta went to prepare his futon to go to sleep.