/ ❯ Temptation Waits ❯ Count Atrium Ventricular! ( Chapter 5 )

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A/N - Thanks to everyone who has been reviewing this fic! It's so great that you do review - after all what author doesn't like reading reviews?

Anyhow Leah encouraged me with this chapter - she's been encouraging me a lot lately! So you can thank her for me getting this out quicker then usual!

Chpt 5: Count Atrium Ventricular!

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In the deep, dark recesses of space, where no living creature in it's right mind willingly travels, lies a blood red planet of pure evil.

The planet Ventricle.

On this horrid blood red planet lives a horrible race of people, the Semi-Lunar.

The Semi-Lunar are a war-like people; they are small, round red people with spongy skin that secretes poisonous red ooze. They are ferocious people, trained in the art of war from the day they are born. They ruled by an overlord who power rivals that of Frieza. The name of the cruel hearted being is Lord Atrium Ventricular and he is the man responsible for his people's merciless demeanour.

They are ten times worse then saiyans, ten times more terrible then anything the Earth has ever faced.

And unfortunately for Bulma and Vegeta, the planet Ventricle lay directly in the path of their space pod…

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"What do you mean the food dispenser is broken? How could it have broken over night while we both slept?" Vegeta scowled at Bulma,

Bulma scowled back, "Well obviously somebody got hungry during the night, decided to get some food and broke it!"

"What do you mean got hungry during the night? We don't have a 'night time' or a 'day time' were in bloody space!" Vegeta's irritation grew. Not because the food dispenser was broken, more because Bulma had somehow found out about his midnight food fetishes.

"Don't change the subject! You broke the damned machine! Just admit it! You got hungry, stumbled over to the machine and in your half sleepy clumsy state you broke the machine!" Bulma's hands were clenched into fists and she boldly strode up until she was in Vegeta's face, "And another thing you're getting fat! Stop eating!"

Vegeta's face started to turn red, form anger of course, not embarrassment, "FAT! I am not fat!"

Bulma sniggered, "Well you will be if you keep sneaking out at night to eat chocolate!"

Vegeta's jaw dropped open, how did she know that he got chocolate cravings at night? "How did you know…?"

"I could hear your big fat feet stomping as you walked over to the food dispenser, and out of sheer morbid curiosity I decided to peek out my door and see what you were eating." Bulma slowly shook her head, "Oh Vegeta…chocolate isn't good for you."

Vegeta's face had turned red again, he seemed not to have noticed her last comment, "I AM NOT FAT!"

"Sure your not." Bulma winked at him, "Your just big boned right?"

"Shut up! I'm not fat!" Vegeta hastily stared at himself, he ran his hands down his body, searching for any sign of this 'fat' finding none he looked up again at a giggling Bulma.

"Looking for those love handles, tubby?" she laughed at her own joke, "Don't worry 'Geta…"

"Don't call me 'Geta!"

"…I'll fix your food trough for you, although considering how much chocolate you eat I should have really considered putting in a vending machine, at least then I'd be getting some money in return."

Vegeta tried to think of a comeback but his mind was blank, instead he gave her the best glare he could muster and hastily stomped away, he had almost reached the bedroom door, and relative safety, when the computer's voice stopped him dead in his tracks.

"Receiving a transmission from the planet Ventricle."

"The Planet Ventricle? Oh no!" Vegeta whipped around and faced Bulma, "That isn't good news."

"What do you mean? What is the planet Ventricle and why is getting a message from them bad?"

Before Vegeta could answer the COM screen lit up with a blubbery looking red creature that had thick red ooze oozing down his face, he had small beady black eyes and when he opened his mouth to talk they saw row upon row of sharp needle like teeth.

"I am the Count Atrium Ventricular, Overlord of planet Ventricle!" Vegeta made a small sound of fright as the creature leaned towards the screen and apparently recognized him, "Ah, Prince Vegeta, how lovely to see you. I was terribly sad to hear of your planets…accident…all those years ago."

Vegeta's eyes widened but his mouth stayed firmly shut.

"And who is that lovely beauty by your side?" Count Atrium Ventricular licked his lips as he stared at her.

"Hey! Get your oozy eyes off me!" Bulma jumped behind Vegeta, who made another sound of fear and tried to push her back in front.

"Hmm…I was hoping that whoever was on this vessel might have been somebody worthy of a fight…but if there is only you two weakling then I guess I'll just have to destroy you."

"DESTROY ME?" Bulma jumped back in front of Vegeta again, "You don't want to destroy me! I have this friend called Goku and if you kill me then he'll come looking for you and he'll destroy your entire planet." Bulma glared at Count Atrium Ventricular,

Vegeta seemed to compose himself, "Yeah…and besides, I'm a lot stronger then when we last met, I bet I could take you out no problem." Vegeta scowled at Count Atrium Ventricular,

"Yeah!" Bulma stepped forward next to Vegeta, "Vegeta's right! He's strong! I bet he could easily beat an over ripe space tomato like you!"

Count Atrium Ventricular made a choking sound, "Did you not hear me? I am the COUNT ATRIUM VENTRICULAR OF THE PLANET VENTICLE! Does that not mean anything to you? I am the Overlord of the Semi-Lunar people! We are war gods! We have crushed entire civilizations with out breaking a sweat!"

"Oh please!" Bulma scoffed, "You look more like some kind of escapee from camp FAT! It's no wonder your people crush civilisations so easily, you probably just sit on them!"

"WHAT!" Count Atrium Ventricular made a roaring sound shook his fist at them; "I'm coming up there right now! And when I get inside your little space pod I'm going to render you limb from limb!" He punched a button and the screen went blank.

Vegeta laughed, "That really was quite funny…it'd be even funnier if we weren't going to die."

"What do you mean?" Bulma whirled to face him, "What do you mean were going to die?"

"Well I can't really beat him, I was just bluffing."

"You could have told me that!"

"How was I to know that you'd infuriate him so much that he'd…oh wait, this is you were talking about, Mrs. Infuriation in the flesh!" Vegeta dropped to the floor, "I don't want to die like this."

Bulma ignored him as he stared at the floor and mumbled to himself, she went to the air lock and made sure it was securely locked, "Look Vegeta, I don't mean to interrupt your little session, but moping isn't going to help."

"Nothing's going to help," Vegeta slowly stood up, "We should just go to the bedroom and make use of what little time we have left."

Bulma rolled her eyes, "We are going to the bedroom, but not so I'll play 'hide the salami' with you. Were going to go in their, lock the door and hope that the count doesn't have arms to open doors with…does he have arms?"

"No…but he has an acidic ooze that burns through metals that he can squirt out his eyes." Vegeta trudged through the bed room door and sprawled across the bed, "Are you sure you don't want to have some fun before you die?"

Bulma followed him through the bedroom door, closed the door and locked the door with the brand new lock she'd only just attached the night before, "Tempting Vegeta, but no."

"Last chance…well it's not really your last chance, it's more of an open ended offer." Vegeta smiled at her, "At least come and sit on the bed with me, loath as I am to admit it, I wouldn't mind dieing on a bed with a beautiful woman."

Bulma sighed and sat on the bed near him, "If you so much as look at me wrong I'm going to lock myself in the bathroom."

"OK." Vegeta smiled again, "I'll behave." Yeah…she's mine…all I have to do is lie here and look gorgeous. No woman can resist Prince Vegeta…

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A/N - Short chapter, Sorry, but you'll have to wait till the next chapter to find out what happens. And the next chapter is a…lemon! That's right the lemon chapter is almost here. Please review and tell me what you thought of this chapter!