Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Dark Temptation ❯ Chapter Three ( Chapter 3 )

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To Reviewers:

Heiress2thethrone: Hey, thanks for your review. I am not a big ChiChi/Goku fan either, but I had to make them a couple. I don't like Chi Chi at all, so her part in this story will be bear minimum, but I wanted to include Goku…yea. The point of the story is everyone finding someone. So I had to start somewhere. But it will get better-promise.

 

Before I continue, I wanted to explain something about this story that might be a little confusing. For the record, if the words are italicized they are thought, not spoken (i.e. mental communication). Saiyans need their lifemates to not turn. When they turn they become vampire-that is, instead of taking blood only to sustain and not killing their prey, turned Saiyans kill their prey not to sustain but for the rush of the kill, the only emotion they can feel. Okay- any other questions feel free to ask!!!

 

Chapter Three:

 

Bulma, Jey and Lily all still in the forms of cats, followed Nehtar's scent. She had taken the form of a fox, and it was hard for the three girls to keep the same path the much smaller animal had taken. Lily glanced at her surroundings in the body of the large cat. Her world was beautiful. It made her think of her mother. She was beautiful too. Lonely, but beautiful, and full of light and life. She passed down those attributes to her daughters. Jey, more correctly, Jeyriall, was named after the Santharian goddess of harvest, the keeper of life. She had extraordinary gifts with all living things. She seemed to bubble over with life all the time. So much, that people were naturally drawn to her. Lilith sighed. She detested her special gift. She seemed to only be able to master birth and death. She did not have the deep connections with the earth that Jey seemed to cherish in. Lily had the happiness of birth and the finality of death. She knew her mother named her after an angel, Lucifer, the light bringer. Lilith was the female half. Her mother said she was a light bringer as well. The light of creation and the light of death. Lily had often wondered about light in death. It didn't seem possible until she started to work in the hospice. The people that died, all went toward the light, heaven? She didn't know. But the lesson to her was that life often began and ended in the same ways, with light.

Suddenly, Lily stopped and ran toward the east. She had caught the scent of someone familiar. Someone she had not seen in a very long time. Filled with the excitement of seeing her she quickened her pace. Baveras has returned to us. She sent the message out mentally to Jey and Bulma before their questions arose. Investigate the new comers but do not get to close. Bulma, I am relying on your to ensure that they do not harm either of you. I must see her. She has been gone from us for thirty years, and I do not know to where. But I feel as though something is wrong with her. She is in pain. I will go help our friend. Call me if you have need of me.

Be careful. The two girls replied in unison.

 

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Vegeta paced as he waited for the Son brothers to meet him at the bridge. Among all the people, they were the oldest. The closet to turning, besides Goku. This planet was full of life he could feel it. Humming to him like a familiar song. But he also felt the presence of his own kind. Many of them, most of which seemed to have turned centuries ago. He frowned. He knew that his people, Saiyan and turned alike left their home planet to find new worlds and new hope. But it was unsettling to feel so many here on this one planet. Turles entered the throne room first. Bowing to his prince, followed by Radditz and Goku.

Vegeta lowered his head as they rose. “We are obviously not the first of our kind to be here. Goku, you have been to this planet before, did you not sense the amount of those turned?! How could you let their numbers get so high?”

“Sire, when I was here, I too thought of turning.” He replied honestly. “I did not care there were so many others. That is why I brought my life mate back to our home-world and did not remain here. That is also why I requested we venture here, so far away from Vegetasei, to eliminate those of our kind that threaten these creatures and this world. Those that have become vampire can also turn those with powers like ares, even though they are human. They think that if they force these women with powers to become their lifemates that their emotions will come back, but it is not so.”

Vegeta nodded. He could not blame the man. They were as old as he, and he too felt the darkness spreading in him, threatening to let the beast out of his fragile hold.

“I will go” Turles said. As all eyes shifted to him. “I will go hunt those that have turned. The rest of you can begin the search for any women with these powers to take back to Vegetasei as potential lifemates. Then we will leave this place.”

Turles spoke with a finality. The others feared his turning, and he knew it. He knew he would not last another decade, perhaps not another year. They worried that the next succession of kills would drive him over the edge. Perhaps they were right but he would not let them loose any chance they had to find lifemates. He needed these men to stay good and pure. Turles knew he would turn soon, and that individually, none would be able to defeat him, not even the prince. They needed good solid lifemates as anchors to hunt him. He could not commit suicide anymore. That would have been more honorable. To die before turning, but he had lived too long for that. He would turn. But before, he would ensure the safety of those close to him.

The others exchanged looks. They held similar thoughts as Turles, but they could not penetrate his mental shields to see his. With a grunt they conceded his quest. He would leave them.

“I will order others, Turles, to assist you.” Vegeta said, “I will not let this world suffer any longer, we will cleanse this place of the vampire filth.”

Turles merely nodded and left the bridge.

“He is close, my prince.” Radditz said remorsefully. “Perhaps it is not wise to let him go on a killing spree.”

“I agree Radditz, but he would have disobeyed my orders to do anything else. I will send Nappa and Barrlo, out as hunters as well. They are not as powerful as Turles, but they are ancients and will hold their own. I need you and Goku to start looking for humans with any sort of psychic power, and return them to this ship. They will not like their lack of choice, but if our males keep turning at this rate, the whole galaxy will suffer their anger. They will make the sacrifice for millions of lives.”

Vegeta spoke the truth, but it still chilled him: the horror that awaited his race if he could not find suitable life mates for his people.

 

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Sorry this chapter is so short, but I feel it would be a good break. Please review!!