Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Curse of Bloody Mary ❯ Curse of Bloody Mary ( Chapter 3 )

I love the smell of mayhem in the afternoon   I don’t own DBZ   Thank you to all that have been reviewing! Oh and thanks to the reviwer that showed me a few errors in my story, I will pay attention to those while writing this chapter and fix the others when I have time. A BIG shout out of thanks to all that reviewed!   Princess Crack a' Lackin   super saiyan 4 chichi   TheWarriorFormallyKnownAsPrince (anonymous reviewer)   Applescruffs   TennisPirate   XoxCabreraxoX   8888888888888888888888888888888888888888 888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 888888     Curse of Bloody Mary     Chapter 3: The Chase        &nb sp;        The two human girls and the Saiyan boy stood in the hall of where the voice had come from, Kakarrot walked over to the pool of blood where two bits of cloth laid. Kakarrot picked up the piece of black cloth and looked at it   “This defiantly came from Vegeta’s pajamas” he said holding it up to the girl as Chi Chi came over.   “This might be from the ghosts dress” she said.   “But how can a ghost be wearing cloths?” Bulma asked and Chi Chi just shrugged   “It hasn’t been proven that ghosts DON’T wear cloths” she said looking down the dark hall.   “I can’t believe this. This night has gone from a nice weekend sleepover, full of telling ghost stories, eating junk food and staying up pass lights out; to something out of a scary R rated horror flick that teenagers go to on Halloween!” Bulma said looking at the broken plastic and bits of glass on the floor that had once been Kakarrot’s flash light.     “Yah, tell me about it. I was hoping that it would turn out to be a two day sleep over and you guys could spend Sunday night here, but I guess with that threat we got from our ghost that might not happen” Kakarrot said failing miserably to lighten the dark mood of the situation.   “You don’t think that…that thing would really take Vegeta and everyone into the mirror, do you?” Chi Chi asked looking away from the hall in front of her; Kakarrot shrugged and walked over to her.   “Don’t know Chi Chi but one thing is for sure. Something is going on around here and Vegeta is missing, if we don’t find him we might be in huge trouble due to the threat we got. But whatever is happening we’re going to find out what it is and STOP it!” Kakarrot said and Bulma nodded kicking Kakarrot’s now broken flash light out of the way and began walking down the hall with the others in tow.      SOMEWHERE WITHIN THE ROYAL PALACE       &nbs p;       He didn’t know where he was he only knew that something was covering his eyes and mouth so that he could not see or make a sound, something most defiantly ropes were binding his feet together and held his hands together behind him. His head felt like it was going to split in half from pain   <What the hell happened?! One minute I’m in the bathroom chanting that stupid name, the next I know I’m gagged, tied up and some place dark> Vegeta thought as he tried to break the rope by moving his writs in opposite directions so that it would snap in half…no good.   Vegeta used his tail to balance so that he could stand up; wobbling due to his tied ankles he began to feel around the room for any ki present. Finding that he was alone where ever he was he tried to at least get his feet free, and judging by how it wouldn’t give or break, it had to be that un breakable rope he heard about from his mother that the scientist in the lab were working on.   Swearing and hopping around the room he began feeling around for something he could cling the rope to and slip it off, he found what felt like a hook and hooked the rope on his hands on it, he clinched his wrists as close together as he could and slowly began removing the rope sliding it off his arms. When the rope was finally gone from his wrists he took the blind fold from his eyes and squinted into the darkness of the room; he removed the rope from his ankles while waiting for his eyes to adjust to the lack of light, when they did he could tell were he was.   <I’m in the pantry> he thought now noticing the smell of the various foods stored in the room, he ran over to the large door and jumped to grab onto the ledge of the small window placed in the door. He was able to look into the kitchen from the window, and also saw the doors that lead to the dinning hall. Jumping down he tried to turn the knob before remembering the door hadn’t been modernized, in other words it could only be opened from the outside.   “GODDAMMIT!” Vegeta swore and kicked the metal door before grabbing his bare and not sore foot, stopping himself from kicking the door again out of anger he sat down on the wooden floor to think. He couldn’t blast the door; the cooks would be ticked off and he and Kakarrot already got in trouble with them when they stole food. Vegeta growled and laid down pillowing his head with his arms; he couldn’t break the door in any way, he couldn’t blast the door, he couldn’t break the window glass and he couldn’t punch a hole in the door to turn the knob. He looked around the pantry seeing the herbs, spices, flour and other cooking ingredients that were stored in here.   Then it clicked of how he could get out; the pantry door might not have been modernized, but the freezer was and it had a door leading into the pantry and a door leading into the kitchen. Vegeta swore he could thank Kakarrot’s mother for suggesting to combine the pantry and freezer, just like her to make it easier for the cooks. Vegeta jumped up and ran around passed the shelves and boxes full of cooking stuff before he got to the large door. It went all the way up to the ceiling and was made of thick shiny metal; although the door didn’t have a knob like the pantry door did, it had some odd wheel with poles used to turn it and open it, it always looked stupid to him. Vegeta grabbed one of the poles already feeling the chilly draft coming through the door; he pushed down on the pole and began turning it, and he heard the lock in the door click and the heavy door opened.   He was hit with a blast of chilly air and was surrounded by boxes of meat, meat that was larger then normal like dinosaur was hung on the many hooks around the freezer. Vegeta walked around the cold room; it was fogged up from the cold and held a strong scent of meat that he never enjoyed smelling, every time he went in here he felt like he was in a butchers freezer. But meat wasn’t the only thing in here; anything needing to be kept cold like ice or ice cream was in here as well. Vegeta finally got to the door that lead to the kitchen, it was the same as the on in the pantry. Vegeta turned the wheel and opened the door; he felt his skin tingle from coming into warm air after the walk in the freezer.   He looked around the dark kitchen full of the many stoves, sinks and tables the cooks used everyday. The servants did well to keep both the kitchen and dinning hall clean; they were areas were food was after all, they didn’t need anyone getting food poisoning due to un clean storage areas. He walked passed a counter full of cooking utensils and opened the door to the dinning hall.   He saw the huge white marble table and the many chairs along its sides, sitting places for himself and his parents along with places for his father’s court members, and anyone else who was a Palace resident. Vegeta flicked on the lights and the crystal chandelier burst with light making the glass shingles glow and sparkle, he walked along the side of the table until something caught his eye.   Something was on the table.   <That’s weird; normally the servants clean and remove everything from the table after meals> he went to take a closer look; on the table was a bottle of ketchup and there were bread crumbs sprinkled around on the table, there was even a large amount of water on the table <What the hell is going on?> he thought taking one more look at the mess before leaving the dinning hall. Now in one of the palaces many halls he began to head to his room thinking the others might be there.   MEANWHILE              & nbsp;   Kakarrot looked around the living room; they had been looking to see if Vegeta or whatever was roaming the house was in there but to no avail. The only thing in the living room were the sofa’s, the recliner, shelves filled with video’s and the television surrounded by more then a few video game systems and the video games scattered on the floor. He seven year old looked around at his two companions also looking around the room; Bulma was looking under and around the furnisher in the room and Chi Chi was looking behind items such as the many book cases against the wall of the room. This was getting know where and fast they had already checked most of the first floor. They had already looked in the parlor, the Tea Room, the Battle Simulation rooms and the Ball Room; this was the last room on the first floor aside from the Kitchen and Dinning Hall.             &n bsp;    “You guys I don’t think there’s they thing in here” Bulma said getting off her knees after looking under the couch.             & nbsp;    “Yah, maybe we should check the next room then?” Chi Chi asked coming out from the heavy red curtains that covered a large window.                   Kakarrot nodded in agreement and pointed to one of the oak doors “The only rooms left to look in is the Kitchen and Dinning Hall; then there’s the pantry and the freezer” he said walking over to the heavy wooden door.             &n bsp;    “Just make sure you don’t nibble, lick or eat anything in there, the cooks are already angry at you and Vegeta for stealing food in between meals” Bulma said, those boys had a two track mind: Food and beating the sense out of one another.              ;     “They take too long to cook” Kakarrot moaned, was it his fault that his stomach could not wait when hungry?                   “You’re just impenitent” Chi Chi said looking at him with a dry look, Kakarrot just sighed and opened the door and walked into the hall. He and the girls came close to the hall that lead to the kitchen, suddenly he stopped and both girls bumped into him.             &nb sp;    “Ow! Goku why did you stop for?” Chi Chi asked picking herself up off the hard polished floor.             & nbsp;    “Yah Goku, giver a little warning next time huh?” Bulma said also picking herself up off the floor.             & nbsp;    Kakarrot said nothing; just continued to look down the hall, not even noticing the girls were talking to him. He had heard an odd sound down the hall; it sounded like metal clanging into metal, Kakarrot strained his ears to hear better.                   “Goku what are you doing?” Bulma asked when she got no answer from the boy; Kakarrot turned to them with alert in his eyes and put a finger to his lips telling them to be quite, Both of them did so and tried to hear what it was he was hearing, but being a Saiyan his hearing was better then theirs. The three didn’t know what it was coming down the hall, but what ever it was if it was the thing keeping Vegeta prisoner then it would get on heck of a beat down.      SOME WHERE IN THE PALACE                & nbsp;    Vegeta walked along the small hall that lead to the stair way to the second floor; he wanted to know who was the moron who put the bedrooms on the third floor, didn’t the bedrooms normally go on the second floor? The servants, cooks and visitors sleep in the rooms on the second floor; he hated having to trudge up two flights of stairs after a gruesome training class with his father to get to his room. Vegeta just walked at a faster pace; the sooner he found the others, the sooner they could continue their sleep over and more importantly find out what the hell happened to him.      THUMP              & nbsp;   Vegeta stopped dead in his tracks and looked for the source of the sound; he looked around and saw a closet opened by a creak, it was normally used to store cleaning supplies. <Maybe that’s were the thump came from…and maybe who ever is reasonable for this is in there!> Vegeta ran to the door and flung it opened…      CRASH            &n bsp;     He was blinded by something and he felt encircle his torso trapping his arms to his sides; grunting and dazed from what ever happened just now, he tripped along the hall trying to free himself from what ever held him, and trying to kick or punch whoever might have done this to him. He rammed into a wall and fell down; growling now fully aggravated from his situation he jumped back to his feet and began to struggle harder at the thing binding him.      BACK TO CHI CHI, BULMA AND KAKARROT            &n bsp;     The three kids looked on as a shadowed figure began to appear in the hall; it was either really drunk or very clumsy since it was failing about, knocking into things and falling on the floor. It looked to be a figure robed in white cloth and seemed to be using some kind of rope around its middle for a belt; whatever the thing was it was headed right in their direction. Bulma held her flash light like a sword, Chi Chi held up her fists to put her martial arts training to good use, and Kakarrot not having his Power Pole with him and needing to protect the girls stood ready to fight with his bare hands. If he let anything happen to Bulma Vegeta would kill him; Kakarrot knew this, when ever Vegeta was not there to look after her he was automatically put in charge of the job, and failing it meant that Vegeta would be heck to put up with the next day.             &nb sp;    Kakarrot coiled the muscles in his legs before shooting off at the robed figure with his fists raised; the figure moved about like it knew something was coming, Kakarrot wasted no time in speeding up, he had lost the power of surprise now that the thing knew he was there; he had to attack it NOW.             &nb sp;    Kakarrot landed a punch to the figure and watched it go slamming into a wall; making not only a nice sized dent but also quite a few creaks, he watched as it fell brokenly to the floor slumped in a sitting position on the marble floor of the hall. All three kids walked up to the pile of cloth on the floor, all three of them looked at one another.              ;     “Do you think this is what has been wandering around the palace?” Asked Chi Chi who was off to the back but still had her fists up just in case.             &n bsp;    “Looks like it; see it’s dressed in white like the cloth we found, the question is who or what is it?” Bulma said unable to see due to the dark.             &n bsp;    “Well, we’re going to find out right now!” with that Kakarrot ripped the cloth and length of cord from the figure and looked at the face of the one supposedly reasonable for everything that happed so far.             &nb sp;                   8888888888888888888888888888888888888888 888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 888888   Did I do any better with the grammar and paragraph spacing? If so that’s great and I can’t fix the other chapters, come to think of it all my stories have bad paragraph spacing…I’LL HAVE TO FIX THEM ALL…all twenty six of them…Kami help me….   Urban Legend and Superstition Information:   Braking Mirrors:   Everyone’s heard this one; break a mirror and its seven years bad luck. In olden days they believed the image you saw in the mirror was your actual soul, breaking the mirror would make your soul go astray from your body.  To break the spell of bad luck, you must wait seven hours (one for each year of bad luck) before picking up the broken pieces, and bury them outside in the moonlight.   Future Grave:   This will creep anyone out who’s had this happen to them; they say that if you feel a chill run down your spine, that someone is walking over your future grave. Not only spooky but a little un nerving if you ask me don’t you think?   Communicating with the Dead:   It is said that people born on Halloween will be able to talk to the dead.   Crows:   Yup you all might have heard this one; about the black birds that fly about that are said to be un lucky, in a way they them selves are unlucky since they are killed in large numbers every year due to West Nile Virus. Crows are viewed as a bad omen, often foretelling death. If they caw, death is very near.   Sparrows  

Everyone knows these birds; the cute little brown, white and black feathered birds seen flying around or burrowing into the dirt for some reason. They are also the birds that like making their nests under Air Conditioners in the summer. Despite that in superstition sparrows are thought to carry the souls of the dead and it is believed to bring bad luck if you kill one.