Piccolo's eyes widened as he gasped for air. He couldn't believe what he had just seen. He had been meditating near his favorite waterfall when he felt Chi-chi's ki fade and wink out. Piccolo began flying at a steady but not at all fast past towards the Son residence.
When he felt Goku's energy wink out as well, he stopped dead in his tracks.
"If this...entity...is strong enough to kill Son, I'd better lay low." Piccolo thought.
He lowered himself to the ground and continued his investigation on foot.
He stood poised on the edge of the great woods that lay around the Son residence. His ki was supressed immensely, so that it was no more noticable than that of a common forest creature. He spotted the blood trail immediately, running from a spot closer to the wood and leading into the house itself. Piccolo could see no other sign of trouble in sight.
Until the wind shifted.
The sheets previously blocking Piccolo's view where no longer hindering his perception.
He could plainly see Chi-chi's bloody body sprawled on the ground, her dried blood trailing from what looked like a set of razor-sharp teeth. Piccolo could feel his gut filling with ice cold fear as he looked at that body.
"I've seen dead people before!" He screamed at himself.
"She's just a corpse now! A body with no soul! An entity with no ki! Why am I so fucking scared!"
Piccolo stared into Chi-chi's dead face, until he was sure Chi-chi's body was staring right back at him.
Then Chi-chi's body smiled at him.
Piccolo ducked against the nearest tree. He slid, back towards the tree, until he was sitting on the ground. He placed his purple tongue between his teeth, to assure that his chattering teeth could not be heard.
"That...did not just happen!" He screamed in his head.
He sucked down the lump in his throat and turned around to really see if that...thing was alive or if he had just imagined it.
He poked his head out from behind the tree and quickly pulled it back again.
Chi-chi's body had stood up and was staggering towards the Son residence. Piccolo peeked again, and saw she was staggering toward the Son household...behind another creature.
"That's...not Son..." Piccolo thought.
Chi-chi's unsteady, and downright clumsy, way of moving made it difficult for Piccolo to see exactly who, or what, Chi-chi was following. It was when the lead creature turned around to see that Chi-chi was still following it, that Piccolo realized who exactly it was.
"Gohan!" Piccolo thought. "It...looks like Gohan, if he were soaking wet and in pain." Piccolo thought. "I've got to help him!"
Piccolo was about to spring upon the duo headed toward the house when he was suddenly stopped.
"Piccolo! Don't!"
It was Kami.
"Don't approach those two!" His aged voice warned.
"Why not? The boy is in trouble and..." Piccolo tried to counter
"He's safe...for the present momment. Now get up here and I'll tell you everything I know."
"What?! You don't even know what's going on...now stay out of this old man before I..."
"JUST GET UP HERE!"
Piccolo took one last look of the two figures dissappearing into the house, and then he turned and flew as fast as he possibly could away from where he was. It wasn't long after he took off, he estimated around twenty or twenty five minutes later, he heard the screams of what he believed were Bulma and Vegeta.
He contemplated running back to help them for a momment, but a small voice in the back of his head told him that they were already goners. He growled under his breath, and continued begrudgingly towards the Lookout.
"I swear Gohan, I'm coming to help you as soon as I figure out what's going on. And I swear, if anyone or anything has hurt you, I'll make them wish they had never been born!"
I felt I needed to elaborate on where Piccolo has been through the past few chapters. As I read through them again I realized he kind of dissapeared after chapter 1. Since this is not GT, I figured I should show exactly what he did when first Chi-chi, then Goku die.
Oh, and I'm also going on the fact that since Goku, Chi-chi, Bulma, and Vegeta are "undead" at this point, I believe they wouldn't have ki signatures that they would normally have. Just my perspective.
Sorry for the wait .:)