Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Curse of Bloody Mary ❯ Curse of Bloody Mary ( Chapter 5 )

I love Chibi stories!   I do not own DBZ   Hey everyone! Am I late updating? Oh well I least I update at regular times.   I’m glad all of you got a kick out of that two way mirror test, to tell you the truth “I was told that by a friend who’s friend heard about it”, yah that’s kind of how things like Urban Legends and Superstition’s get spread around. But its true that’s what my friend said, I even tried it out myself and saw that there was indeed a gap between the pen and the image in the mirror.   Oh and a reviewer asked where everyone’s parents are since all the noise has no woken anyone up. Yes the parents are in the house, they are in bed sleeping while their kids run muck through the house.  Don’t worry I have plans to bring out both Goku and Vegeta’s parents and a few others, and its going to be pretty humorous!    Okay enough of my chattering, ON WITH THE INSANITY!!!      8888888888888888888888888888888888888888 888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 888888   Curse of Bloody Mary     Chapter 5: Shocking Discovery             &nb sp;     The sound of bare feet and slippers could be heard echoing through out the dark corridor lit by chandeliers, out of the darkness four small figures began to appear out of the dim light. Their faces show looks of determination for what they are searching for within the palace, in the back round the thunder storm is still raging outside splattering the large glass windows with water. The sound of an old grandfather clock chiming the late hour in the next hall rang in rhythm with the young children’s foot steps. The howling wind outside along with the other sounds created a sort of music, to the children walking through the halls it almost sounded like the tune to a victory march, as they were curtain they would stop whatever it was roaming the house.             & nbsp; <This thing could do some nasty damage here if we don’t find it> Kakarrot thought wishing he had his power pole with him.             &nb sp; <Whatever this thing is it has to be human! Neither a spirit nor a ghost could carry Vegeta like that, things like that can’t hold mortal objects!> Bulma thought knowing that they would find whoever was up to this.             &n bsp; <I swear on the graves of my ancestors that whoever attacked me will be missing a limb by morning!> Vegeta swore glaring out into the hall.             &n bsp; <I have to help the others! I’m not chickening out this time!> Chi Chi looked ahead with a determined look in her dark eyes.             &n bsp; The team if kids consisting of two young Saiyan boys and two young human girls continued to march down the hall to the kitchen; they all knew that since Vegeta had been in there that there had to be a clue of what was going on, anything that would shed some light on weather what they were dealing with was human, Saiyan, Namekian…or something not of this world. It was at this time they wished Piccolo’s older brother Kami was here, he was the one who was a nut for things like spirits, ghosts and all that other paranormal stuff. As the turned a right they came to a hall decorated in colors of green, brown and other earth tones along with vases and pots full of colorful flowers and plants. The walls were painted a dusty light green to match tone with the plush dark green carpet. The tables holding the smaller potted plants were made of dark wood, covering them were silk table cloths of rich violets, pinks and greens.                    “Wow what a nice hall way!” Chi Chi said likening the mood of the corridor.            &nbs p;  “Yah, my mom is into that kind of thing. Interior decorating, Fung Shui, mood decorating you name it. She turn this hall into earth tones since it’s around the dinning area” Vegeta said walking pass a flourishing potted fern and further down the hall. All around them plants were green and healthy and flowers were in full bloom spreading their sweet scent through out the small but spacious hall. At last they came to the main door of the Dinning hall made of dark wood; above the door was a heavy curtain of the darkest violet, in the middle of the curtain the Saiyan Royal Family Crest carved out of pure ruby pulled off the look of the hall and the room beyond the doors. Vegeta walked up to the doors and pushed them open and turned on the lights, so that the decorating of the Dinning hall could be better seen.             &n bsp; Aside from the large table and the many chairs for dinners, the room could now be viewed to its fullest in the light. The room was showered in shades of pinks and reds, the walls were painted a powder pink while red draperies hung from the walls. Any and all flowers in the room were of the brightest pinks, reds and magenta’s, even the thick rug under their feet was a deep red.             &nb sp; “Why aren’t the other halls and rooms like this?” asked Bulma, she had never really gone into the Dinning hall before when she came to visit, they just ate their snacks outside.              ;  “My dad said he wanted some of the rooms to look normal, that and they wanted to be equal with the decorating” Vegeta said.             &n bsp; “Men” both Bulma and Chi Chi said in a dry and tired voice, this gained a glare from Vegeta and a strange look from Kakarrot.            &nbs p;  Deciding not to yell incase the thing they were after was around, Vegeta simply walked to the door of the pantry that was a little ways away from the freezer and opened the door. The other three kids looked from behind him at the inside of the pantry, inside was the rope and gag that Vegeta had been bound with. Chi Chi walked away from the group to see what was on the table. There was a bottle of ketchup, crumbs and water on the table, odd…            &nb sp;  “Hey guys what is this doing out? Does everyone in the palace normally keep the ketchup on the table?” Chi Chi asked, at her house they always kept the ketchup in the fridge.                “I saw that out when I broke out of my ‘prison’ but left it there” Vegeta said walking over and picking the bottle up and made a disgusted face, the whole bottle was covered in ketchup!              ;  “Hey Vegeta I was wondering” Bulma said walking over to the prince, who had put the bottle down and was washing his hands in the sink. “This is a palace right?”                Vegeta looked at her with a ‘duh what do you think’ look that made itself known in his eyes and in the way he stood there, “Why of course not Bulma! People of royalty live here! How could it possibly be a palace?” Vegeta said in a snobby and bratty tone of voice. Bulma gave him an angry glare that would have sent lesser men running for their lives, or in tears at her feet begging to be forgiven; not Vegeta though he was to full of himself to do that, even if Saiyan’s believed women and girls were the same as men Vegeta would never lower himself to the will of a person of the opposite gender. So Bulma did something else to make him pay for his rudeness.   She walked right up to him and punched him square in the jaw.   Kakarrot looked on wide eyed.   Chi Chi gasped   Bulma continued glaring.   And Vegeta just stood there in shock holding his face in the place Bulma had hit him.             &nb sp; “WHAT THE HELL DID YOU HIT ME FOR?!” Vegeta exploded getting over his shock and going into a rage; the only girl he had ever gotten hit by was his friend and fellow Saiyan Ranju and his own mother, and all those times was when he was sparring with either of them! A here right in the mist of a mystery just after being knocked out, bound and gagged and thrown into a pantry and then being knocked out AGAIN this time by a third class Saiyan like Kakarrot. The girl he secretly had a crush on comes up to him and hits him in the face?!             & nbsp; “BECAUSE YOU ANSWERED IN A RUDE TONE! THAT WAS UN CALLED FOR!” Bulma screamed.            &nbs p;  “DO YOU KNOW YOU SOUND LIKE A DAMN GROWN UP?!” Vegeta said, using the foulest insult a kid could use.             &nb sp; “I COULD CARE LESS, AND STOP SWEARING! WHO TAUGHT YOU TO CURSE ANYWAY!?” Bulma asked, she knew that Queen Zonly would never curse in front of her child or any other kid.             &nb sp; “MY FATHER!” Vegeta shouted and Bulma rolled her eyes, of course King Vegeta was always getting yelled at for swearing a blue streak in front of his son and other kids.             &n bsp;  “Could we please not yell? You two will wake our parents up; the last thing we need is them waking up, and locking us in the bedroom until morning for being awake after lights out” Kakarrot said stating a good point. Both Vegeta and Bulma calmed down and Bulma asked the question she had tried to ask.             &nb sp; “Aren’t there security camera’s around the palace?”             ;   Vegeta nodded his head “Sure! Every room has a camera except the bathrooms, for obvious reasons” he said pointing to the each of the two camera’s that were in the kitchen, Bulma smirked widely putting as an idea came to light.             & nbsp; “If there are camera’s there has to be a room that you keep the tapes right?” Bulma asked.             & nbsp; “Yah, the security room down in the basement, there are people watching the security Televisions down there during the day. It should be empty now” Vegeta said wiping his hands dry of water, “Why do you want to know that Bulma?”                “Come on Vegeta you should have figured it out! You have equal grades next to mine in school, think! If there is something wondering the house, the camera’s had to have caught it!”            &nb sp;  “Bulma you’re a genius!” Chi Chi said clapping her hands, Bulma stood smiling proudly.   “Well it was nothing really” she said, Vegeta rolled his eyes.   “The girl is full of herself…” he whispered under his breath.   “What was that Vegeta?” Bulma asked clearly hearing what he had just said.   “I said let get to that security room”   “That’s what I thought”   SOMEWHERE IN THE PALACE   Two shadowed figures sat in the dark room; there black outlines seen clearly due to the white glow of the monitors they sat at. “Oh this is just great!” the taller figure said pointing at one of the monitors, it showed four kids standing in the palace kitchen, the sound was on to pick up every thing they said.   “Will you relax? We’ll be gone before they get here if we hurry, so get your ass in gear and pick up those bottles!” the taller of the figures said in a harsh whisper who looked to be grabbing a bunch of sheets in his arms.   “Yah but there going to get onto us sooner or later! This isn’t the first time we’ve done something like this!” the smaller one said in a worried tone.   “That’s because you always screw it up!” the taller one threw back almost spitting the words out.   “If I recall you were the one who got us busted the last time!”   “Just be quite and grab everything or they’ll catch us!” the taller one said walking over to the door and opening it, then ran out leaving the younger one behind.   “Hey you moron! Wait up!” the smaller one said and ran out the door shutting it, however in his hast to catch up to his partner he dropped one of the bottles he was holding, that and he failed to notice that he had not locked the door.   BACK TO VEGETA, KAKARROT, CHI CHI AND BULMA   The four kids were currently out of the kitchen and were now walking down one of the palace’s many halls; this one was yet another one of the Saiyan Queens decorating creations. This hall was painted and colored in every shade of blue ever created; the walls were light blue, the rug was dark blue and any item such as table covered, paintings and plants had a blue in it. It was a lot nicer then that other hall they had just been in, the other one looked like a creepy place to be in. Vegeta had said that after his mother decorated some of the halls and rooms his father oddly enough wanted to try his hand; the result was the hall they left behind them that was painted black with a thick black shag rug, all the spooky paintings on the wall were framed with gold or silver and the only plant in the hall was a Venus Fly trap, to say the least all of them wondered what was running through the kings mind at the time, whatever they were thinking they weren’t insane enough to voice it aloud in front of the mans only son.   “How much farther do we have to go?” Chi Chi asked, they had gone through so many halls after coming out of the kitchen that she was starting to wonder if they were actually lost.   “Were here Chi Chi see” Kakarrot said as the turned a corner and came face to face with a old looking metal door, the gray paint on it was chipping off, and where ever the paint had chipped away had turned brown.   Vegeta walked over to the door and turned the rusty old knob and the door opened “This will get us down to the basement” he said letting the others look passed the door. They all looked down the stair way; it was creepy to say the least with the old wooden stairs leading down into a dark unknown, and for a palace the dust floating around and the cobwebs, showed that the maid probably hadn’t been in for a good long while.   In short it looked like one of the stair wells in horror flicks; the kind were the person is walking down the stairs, and then the monster jumps out and either scares them crazy or rips them to shreds.   “Talk about creepy” Chi Chi said looking down into the darkened stairs.   “Isn’t there a light or something?” asked Bulma looking around and then feeling for a light switch.   “Sorry to say the light blew out months ago, everyone always forgets to change the thing” Vegeta said.   “But isn’t it dangerous to walk down a flight of stairs, in the dark!? I mean come on one of us could trip and fall down the stairs! And what if that person is at the back of everyone else? Then everyone goes down” Chi Chi said stating a very decent point.   “Don’t worry Chi Chi” Kakarrot said giving her the wide grin he was known for, “Saiyan’s have good vision in the dark, Vegeta can lead Bulma down and I can lead you down” Kakarrot said as if nothing was wrong with it, but for a curtain pair it was in a way.   Vegeta and Bulma both looked at each other after hearing Kakarrot.   Both turned away from each other blushing bright red.   Kakarrot not noticing either his friends discomfort took Chi Chi’s hand in his own and began to walk carefully down the stairs. Vegeta and Bulma looked at each other again; Vegeta scrapped together his composer and grabbed Bulma’s hand and lead her down the stairs, only at a much faster pace then Kakarrot. What ever light came from the hall upstairs slowly faded away as they went further down the stairs, bare feet being covered by the dust and slippers kicking up the old layers of the stuff. They finally came to the bottom of the stairs and the girls saw that the floor was made of stone, they were starting to wonder if they had some how crossed some times zone and were now in some medieval dungeon.   “The room is right down this hall and no worrying it’s a straight line” Vegeta said glad they didn’t have to go walking through a bunch of halls.   “Good, who ever is in there is getting kicked for what they did” Chi Chi said walking down the corridor, the others followed.   “Yuk! How did mud get down here!?” Bulma said looking at her slippers that were starting to collect a few thick layers of the muck on the floor.   “There’s a lot of dust down here, seeing that the water pipes are down here and that it’s raining out. There might be a leak in a pipe or there is a leak in the wall” Vegeta said trying to ignore the feel of the goop between his toes; he was a guy and a lot of guys liked getting dirty, but he was a little different he hated being dirty. The moment they got back up stairs he was washing his feet; there was now way he was tracking dirt all over the house, the last person to do that had never been heard from again.   Finally they got to the door of the security room “We have to get the key, you all stay here while I go get…”   “The door is open!” Kakarrot said cheerfully and pushed the door open.   <The door is suppose to be locked when nobodies in here> Vegeta thought.   The kids walked into the room full of TV’s, each showing a different room of the house. Vegeta looked at on TV and snickered at the image.   “What’s so funny?” asked Kakarrot as the girls stared at the prince.   “Your mom sure as humorous sleeping habits” Vegeta snickered, Kakarrot walked over and looked at the TV. It was from the camera in his parents bed room; his mother with her long knee length hair that she passed down to her older son fanning on the sheets, she was sprawled out on the bed and snoring could be heard even with the volume of the microphone turned down. Kakarrot didn’t find anything funny since he slept that way himself; taking another look he noticed something that almost put him into cardiac arrest. His father wasn’t in bed or the room for that matter. Kakarrot could feel himself break out in a cold sweat; his father was up, that meant that they could unknowingly run into him in the hall when they went back up stairs.   Kakarrot began looking at the other screens; surly they would see him in one of the other rooms, but the older third class could not be seen on any of the other TV’s. Vegeta noticed his partner’s freaked out looked and tapped him on the shoulder.   “What’s up with you now?”   Kakarrot pointed to the screen of his parent’s room “My dad isn’t in bed, and he’s not on any of the other cameras!”   Vegeta felt a pang of worry but pushed it down “Well, he won’t come down here. But this means we have to be more careful when we get back up stairs” Vegeta said, Bulma had to agree as she looked around the room for any clues. Her blue eyes came to a bottle on the floor, a ketchup bottle to be exact. Bulma held it up for the others to see.   “Well now we know our ghost has been down here” Vegeta said eyeing the bottle, Chi Chi appeared from under the table covered in dust.   “Look what I found!” she said holding up what looked like a toy, Kakarrot’s eyes widened and ran over to her grabbing the toy and looking at it. He had thought for sure he had lost this toy when his brother took it out of spite, his Inuyasha action figure was now back in his possession.   “I thought I’d never see this again after Raditz took it” Kakarrot said looking forward to putting it back with his Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kirara figures.   “Raditz took it?” Vegeta asked now having a feeling of who was behind this, and without a drought the said person wasn’t alone.   “Yup!”   All of them looked at each other, even Kakarrot who was now putting everything together as well.   They weren’t the only ones sleeping over.   The other person was friends with a curtain older brother of Kakarrot’s who loved tormenting them.   Tongith this type of thing happenes.   And when finding the head quarters of the guilty, they find a toy that Raditz had taken from Kakarrot.   That meant only two people could have done it.   All four of them looked at one another before speaking the names of the two sadistic jokesters.   “Nappa and Raditz!”     8888888888888888888888888888888888888888 888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 888888   Here is another long list of legends; I put a few of the interesting ones I know in this list.     Urban Legends and Superstition Information   How Halloween came to be:   It was the last night of the old year according to the ancient calendar of the Celts. On that night it was said that the witches, hobgoblins, warlocks, and other evil spirits walked abroad and devoted themselves to wicked deeds and tricks. But the good fairies, too, according to some folklore, made their appearance at this time, but only from the hour of dusk until midnight. Also it is said that to avoid being cursed or killed by these horrors of the night, you should walk around dressed as a monster yourself and scared your neighbors like they would do, thus the tradition of kids running around in costumes on this night came to be.   Black Cats:   Believe it or not there is more to the superstition of black cats, aside from them being a witches pet. In ancient Egypt, the Goddess Bast was a black, female cat. Christians, wanting to rid society of all traces of other religions, convinced the ignorant that black cats were demons in disguise and should thus be destroyed. In the process, they also destroyed the kindly ladies who cared for the cats, believing them to be witches. Being demons, a black cat crossing your path would create a barrier of evil, cutting you off from God and blocking the entrance to heaven.   White Cat:   The opposite of the black cats, if a white cat crosses your path it is said to bring good luck.   White Foxes and Black Foxes:   In Japan white foxes (Kitsune) are the ones that play tricks and cause trouble for people. The black foxes are a sign of great luck to come and black foxes are also known to help people with problems.   Opals:   Unless you were born in October, the wearing the months birth stone the opal will be ill-fated.   Spilling Pepper:   Not only is spilling salt bad luck but also if you spill pepper, spilling pepper means you will have an argument with a loved one. Spilling both salt and pepper doubles the bad luck.   Saying “God Bless You” when someone sneezes:   When the great plague swept Europe, sufferers began sneezing violently which was a sign of death. The Pope therefore passed a law requiring people to bless the sneezer. At the same time, it was expected that anybody sneezing would cover their mouth with a cloth or their hand. This was obviously to stop the spreading of the disease, but many believed that it was to keep the soul intact. Sneezing 'into the air' would allow the soul to escape and death would be imminent. Up until this time, the opposite was true. Those who sneezed were congratulated, as it was believed that a violent sneeze would expel evil from their bodies.   Knock on Wood:    It was believed that good spirits lived in trees, and that by knocking on anything made from wood, we could call upon these spirits for protection against misfortune. Although if I was one of these ‘good spirits’ I would be pretty ticked off for someone cutting down my tree and making a table or something out of it; then expect me to bring them good luck by knocking on it and bothering me, don’t you think?   Hearing foot steps behind you:   If you hear foot steps behind you on this night, don't look back. It may be the dead following you. Turning back could mean that you will soon join the dead.