Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Vegeta's Tail ❯ I dream of Vegeta ( Chapter 21 )

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Chapter 21

The planet known as Itsux was home to the succubus Cerci. She was the only being on the planet. She had drained the other inhabitants a long time ago. Now she just sat in her throne room waiting for her next victim to pass by. It had been years since she'd had a decent feed. The two humanoids would provide decent enough nourishment that might let her finally leave the planet completely. Her magic could only carry her so far. She had taken a great risk going after the pair but it was worth it.

Their life energies should be enough to help her reach her goal. She would go from planet to planet getting fatter and more powerful. There wasn't a limit to the power she could absorb. She rubbed her hands together with excitement. Soon her new pets would be ready to fully feed on. The low ki drainage she was using was more to keep them captive. Their emotions were so far untouched. She could all ready feel their hatred and lust building. They had to be using the full of their emotions if she was to get the best effect from it. It wouldn't be long, then she will drain them into hollow crusts and the universe would be hers to rule.

Cerci began to laugh loudly, cackling at her own triumph.

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Bulma listened to the laughter as it echoed around the prison. She looked across to her husband. He was glaring at the floor; every now and then he would pull at his chains. She couldn't speak to him. Her anger had faded along with her courage and she was now terrified again. He was a monster, not as bad as Cerci but close. He wanted to kill Trunks she knew it. She could feel it in her gut.

She didn't think the bond would be responsible for letting slip this information. Vegeta hadn't told her they might share dreams through it. She just thought it was a nice idea. One that meant she would be married to a faithful husband forever. True she knew he would still disappear to fight but he was still hers. Her tail flicked back and forth.

For some reason her tail was still here. There had to be some love from Vegeta. Perhaps that was another side effect of the bond. Maybe once the bond was broken by Vegeta's lack of memory her tail would fall off. It would be an unnecessary appendage anyway without the love from her Saiyan.

He glared at her again making her drop her eyes. Her tail continued to flick back and forth as she wondered how long it would stay.

"Stop doing that." Vegeta hissed.

Bulma looked up fearful for what she had done. She was ignorant of any annoying behaviour. "What?"

"Stop copying my tail movements." He growled. His tail was going like a pendulum in time with Bulma's. She watched mesmerised for a few seconds as she let her tail move on its own. It wasn't intentional; she was merely moving her furry limb in tune with her own body.

"I'm not doing it on purpose." Bulma said as she wrapped her tail back around her waist. "You were the one that was watching me. Wanting to rape me again?"

"As if a shrimp like you could lure me." Vegeta sneered.

"You were wanting me last night admit it." Bulma spat. "I'm not some fuck toy. I'm a beautiful genius scientist and unless you show me some respect!"

Vegeta laughed, interrupting Bulma's rant. "Respect?" He chuckled. "If you weren't such a motor mouth I perhaps would consider it, but guess what we're trapped in this hell hole because you drugged me! I would have been able to dispose of this wench in seconds if I had been awake!"

"You were trying to rape me!" Bulma repeated. "It was self defence! I didn't know the squid from hell was going to show up!"

"A warrior is always prepared." Vegeta snarled. "I suppose it escaped your notice the hull had been breached."

"The alarms went off!" Bulma yelled, the pride in her own mechanics flaring up. The fear she had been suffering from had now passed and she was ready to fight the bane of her existence again. "I hate you! I want MY Vegeta back. You're nothing but a cold heartless monster that would think of nothing but killing to get what he wants."

Vegeta smirked. "Why thank you. I do try my best."

"Just shut the fuck up!" Bulma shouted. "You're just an empty shell of the man I loved."

"I think you're missing the point."

"Oh please enlighten me!"

"I am that Vegeta, though I'm his past. Everything that was in your Vegeta came from me." Vegeta smirk grew as he saw Bulma's bemusement "I'm not willing to walk down that weaklings path again. Everything I do I shall escape your clutches. The bond can be broken because I know nothing of you or the brat! It is a past that doesn't exist and I shall make sure it will never exist again."

As Bulma's confusion lessened his speech continued. He had no intention of killing her, it was worse. He wanted to forget her and everything they had done together. Her anger faded back down again and she was left with the despair. Tears escaped her eyes and she watched as the dim light became blurred.

"Stop your snivelling." Vegeta snapped.

Bulma couldn't stop crying. Her tail uncurled and hung limp like her body was in the chains.

Vegeta stared at her hissing more hatred and spiteful words, but Bulma didn't answer. She was too lost in her own self-pity. She could feel her tiredness taking over and she began to slump in the chains.

"Don't sleep idiot!" Vegeta said. "The witch will drain you dry." Vegeta let his tail move across to try and touch Bulma. He couldn't let her sleep, even if she was a weakling. He wanted to at least kill her himself. That's what he told himself. She was going to die by the hands of the Prince of Saiyans not by a tentacle of some vampire witch.

It was his heritage she had corrupted and he was going to end it with her death. The tip of his tail reached her leg and he was surprised how cold she felt. He grunted annoyed that he couldn't use his tail to strangle her.

The azure tail wrapped around his and pulled tight.

"Not again!" Vegeta snapped. "Stupid bond......" He attempted to free his tail by tugging it away. It was like his appendage had other ideas. The tail stayed curled around Bulma's.

Then he realised the main problem. He was feeling sluggish too. *It must be the witch's spell.* Vegeta thought.

"I'm not going to bow to you witch!" He spat into the air. "I am Prince Vegeta!"

There was a hissing noise and the shadows moved around the pair.

"A Prince you say?" A voice enquired.

"Do not underestimate the power of a Saiyan."

"I will remember that, a Saiyan." Cerci purred. "They had unlimited power my people told me before I killed them. They wanted to get one for me to feed on. Unfortunately Freiza happened and he destroyed the planet." Cerci's cold hand swept over Vegeta's head.

"It was a meteor that hit Planet Vegeta." He objected while trying to shrug off her touch.

"It could have been a meteor if you called Freiza's attack that." Cerci mused. "Great big energy ball, I watched it in my monitor. Your powerful and proud monkey race when boom!" The witch chuckled as she saw the small emotional twinge that appeared on Vegeta's face. He was good at hiding his emotions but she could see them perfectly. The Saiyan been deluded into thinking Planet Vegeta had been destroyed in a meteor attack? She couldn't help but cackle.

"You lie!" Vegeta snarled.

Cerci kept laughing. "Now be a good little monkey prince and sleep." She hadn't laughed so much since the time she made someone's head explode. She would burst her corset if she spoke anymore. She disappeared into the shadows, confident that his spirit would soon be broken.

"Come back here!" Vegeta commanded. "I want the truth from you witch!" He was again full of so much anger and hatred. If he had his full ki energy back he would be close to blowing up the planet with his rage. It was only as he tried to pull up his energy that he noticed how weak he had become. His eyes glanced across to the sleeping Bulma. She might know the truth about what happened to Planet Vegeta, but that would mean talking to her. The Prince of all Saiyans did not ask for things they demanded.

He tried pulling his tail away again as his eyes began to droop.

*No, I'm not going to sleep.* He thought. *I will not let the bond take place.* But it was too late, by the time Vegeta had made his stubborn thought he already was asleep.

"Vegeta don't leave me!" Bulma cried.

Vegeta looked across the misty void unsure what had happened. "I am leaving you." He snarled. "I've told you all ready."

Bulma was in a long gown with a veil. She had been crying and in her arms was a baby in Saiyan armour. She had been dreaming of her wedding day and she kept wishing for her old Vegeta to come back to her, completely lost in her own self pity. Bulma had been trying to replay the happiest day in her life. The only thing she had been missing was Vegeta. She looked at the scowling Saiyan that had nothing but contempt for her.

"Shit it's YOU again isn't it?" Bulma sniffed realising who it really was. He had invaded her dream like last time.

"I assure you I will be waking up any minute now." Vegeta huffed crossing his arms. With his back turned to Bulma he began pinching himself.

"It doesn't work." Bulma said knowing exactly what Vegeta would try to do. "I've tried waking myself up. I don't want to be in this dream I want to get out of my nightmare life."

"Welcome to my world." Vegeta said smirking with sarcasm. "I've been living my nightmare since I was 5."

"Bulma Briefs does not live nightmares." She said. "I have a perfect life before you screwed it up for me."

"I screwed it?" Vegeta chuckled.

Bulma advanced on her husband. "Is that really you Vegeta?" She pleaded. "You're starting to sound like your old self."

Vegeta turned away again. "I told you that person is gone. I want nothing to do with you or your brat."

There was a gurgling noise and Vegeta's eyes were turned on the small bundle in her arms.

"Pwince." It cooed.

Vegeta raised an eyebrow. "That's just too cute." He grabbed the brat from Bulma's arms and threw it into the air. His hand glowed with a ki charge as he aimed to kill the thing.

"NO!" Bulma screamed. She ran in front of him and Vegeta gasped as she took the blow from his ki. Everything moved in slow motion as her wide eyes looked at him for perhaps one last time.

Bulma fell on the ground her body crumbled in a heap. Trunks who had landed safely away from her began crying from the small bruises he had received.

Vegeta slightly shocked at what the woman had done knelt down to look at her. He had never regretted a kill. Why was this one hurting him? He felt a small pain in his chest as he looked into the hole he had made. He hadn't meant to do it but he knew he shouldn't feel sorry for his mistake. She was the one that got in the way.

"Silence brat!" he shouted at his child. Trunks continued crying, the blood from Bulma began to pool around her. Vegeta looked at her face and wondered what a beautiful creature like that could see in a monster that he was. He traced his gloved finger across her face. She may be the loudest thing he'd ever met but she had a certain charm, he did admit.

Bulma's body flinched and he gasped again as two blue and angry eyes stared back at him.

"What are you staring at murderer?" Bulma spat back as she slapped his hand away from her face.

Bulma stood up the hole in her torso very clear to see. "Look what you did to my wedding dress!" Bulma cried. "I know this has to be a dream but do you have to be a complete bastard?"

"What the fuck?" Vegeta wondered out loud.

"It's a dream!" Bulma shrieked getting hysterical. "This has to be a dream. Well I am a genius perhaps I can control my dreams. But this is taking the real cake. I mean look at this hole in my chest! My wonderful breasts are ruined because of you. Why did you have to try and kill our son? He was only being nice to you."

Vegeta rubbed his head as the woman continued her rant.

"I put up with a lot of shit in my life but this is really something. I've never actually died in my dreams before. I mean look at me I actually ran to save my son. I think that's a pretty good effort on my part. I usually get called selfish and a bit of a coward. I'm Bulma the brave now I stood up to the Saiyan Prince and I got a fucking hole in my chest, my wedding dress is now crimson and I have a crying and bruised son! This is going to be years of therapy...."

"SHUT UP!" Vegeta shouted. "Just close that babbling mouth of yours."

"The old Vegeta knew how to shut me up." Bulma huffed crossing her arms over her chest.

"Maybe I should try another ki attack." Vegeta snarled holding up his hand.

"Do that and I'll haunt you forever." Bulma said. "I'll come back as a ghost and follow you around. I can whittle on about pointless things to eternity if I have to. I will show you the true meaning of Hell!"

"I get the idea." Vegeta said dropping his hand.

"You're not going to kill me?" Bulma said surprised.

"I really would like you to be silent......." Vegeta gritted his teeth not wanting to say the p-word that should follow.

Bulma looked across to him. He was obviously trying to be polite. She looked down at her body, with the big space. She couldn't understand why she was still standing. Didn't people die in real life when they die in their dreams?

"Is this really a dream?" Bulma asked quietly. "I should be dead or at least awake and screaming."

"This must be because of the witch." Vegeta growled. "She won't let us wake up."

"Oh great so I have to have a hole in my chest till the Bitch decides she wants to drain us dry."

"It looks like you're healing anyway."

Bulma nodded not sure whether they had call some kind of truce. She looked down to see her the damage in her chest slowly closing before her.

"Oh Vegeta!" Bulma exclaimed happy that she was being healed. She leapt across to embrace him until she saw him pulling away from her. She stopped in her tracks her hands dropping down by her side.

"It must be that demoness." Vegeta said ignoring Bulma's attempt at a hug. "She can't have us dying till she sucks us dry."

"What's going on?" Bulma asked trying to avoid the awkward feelings. *I shouldn't hug the man that put a hole in my chest.* She reminded herself. The world began to swirl around her and Trunks disappeared in the fog.

"Momma....Jackass...." Trunks called out but his voice became faint as he vanished.

"Oh my baby...." Bulma sobbed as she reached out to him but he had gone.

Bulma turned away from where he had been with fresh tears in her eyes. She hated the whole situation. Worst of all she hated the fact Vegeta really was willing to kill their child. He had proved it with that simple act of tossing Trunks in the air.

The Saiyan didn't caring that the child had gone. He needed some answers from the woman anyway.

"Tell me wench..." Vegeta started. "...What do you know of the fate of Planet Vegeta?"

"It was destroyed...." Bulma sniffed.

"By whom?"

"Freiza, I thought you knew that?"

Vegeta didn't answer her, he just remained silent in his own thoughts. The facts slowly being absorbed, Freiza had destroyed his planet and not a meteor shower. He had been lied to for the majority of his life. Now with the Coldjin's death he had no revenge. His temper slowly burned, not towards Bulma but to the traitor Kakarrot.

Bulma sat down across from him not wanting to talk to him anyway. He was a murderer, a monster and she agreed with him. Perhaps it was better to not be bonded at all. She could just completely ignore him till her tail finally dropped off and they were no longer bonded.

The two sat in the mist their backs turned. Not even acknowledging each other's existence.

Outside in the real world Cerci cursed. She had been watching the dream with some enjoyment. Now the pair had just given up and decided not to talk or even fight?

"No....I cannot let that happen." She said to herself. "I'm just going to have to up the drama to make them hate each other even more..."

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Author's Note: yes, you're not seeing things. I have actually updated! I haven't figured out what's wrong with my bastard computer but I should put it in the shop to get fixed. For the moment I've given it a lovely name that begins with c-.

Chibi Vegeta: "Ha ha that's what you get for working on such an old piece of crap!"

Mz D: "I'll have you know that my PC was top of its range....."

Chibi Vegeta: "Yeah back in 1992!"

Mz D: "It's not THAT old!"

Chibi Vegeta: "Yeah tell it to my cute ass 'cos I ain't believing it."

Mz D: "I can't help it that my computer is the ass!"

Chibi Vegeta: "Maybe I should final flash the sucker!"

Mz D: "No my PC! I'll love it to the end!" *Stands protectively over her computer.*

Chibi Vegeta: "C'mon move your ass I want to make it go boom!"

Mz D: "No! Go watch TV or something."

Chibi Vegeta: "No way it's kiddy shows at the moment!"

Mz D: "Look the Tellytubbies....which I don't own..."

Chibi Vegeta: "What the fuck are those things?"

Mz D: "Oh no they're coming out of the TV!"

The Purple one: "Eh-Oh!"

Chibi Vegeta: "Ah! Turn off the TV!"

Mz D: "The TV won't shut off!" *Flicking the remote*

Chibi Vegeta: "Now there's four of the fuckers!"

Mz D: "You're the Chibi Saiyan Prince kill them!"

Chibi Vegeta: *Shudders* "But they're creepy...."

Tellytubbies: "Group hug!"

Mz D: *Up on table* "Ugh! Get them out!"

Chibi Vegeta: *Running around waving his arms.* "I don't wanna group hug!"

Mz D: "Stop being such a pussy and kill them!"

Yellow one: "Lala loves Vegeta very much!" *Glomps Vegeta*

Chibi Vegeta: "Help!" *falls over*

Teletubbies: "We all love Vegeta very much!" *They all pile on top.* "Group hug!"

Chibi Vegeta: "......."

Mz D: "Chibi Vegeta, Are you okay?"

Chibi Vegeta: "......."

Teletubbies: "Awwww!"

Chibi Bulma: *Appears in window with a cloak on.* "I shall save you my darling!"

Mz D: "It's Bulma dressed as a Superhero?" (Crap what have I been taking....) *checks tea for drugs*

Chibi Bulma: "Ole`!" *Brings out a whip.* "Take your fat butts off my Veggie!" *Starts whipping the brightly coloured creatures.*

Chibi Vegeta: *Crawls out from underneath.* "I don't need saved by a sissy girl."

Chibi Bulma: "Should I stop then?" *Herding the tubbies back into the television*

Chibi Vegeta: "No....carry on...." *Sweatdrops.*

Chibi Bulma: "Hi-ya!" *The last Tellytubbie goes back into the TV and Chibi Bulma switches it off at the wall.* "Who's your hero now?" *stands majestically with cloak whipping in wind.*

Chibi Vegeta: *glomp* "You are!"

Chibi Bulma: "You're welcome!" *Big grin.*

Mz D: "That would be cute if it wasn't horribly OOC."

Chibi Vegeta: *coughs* "I mean I could have killed them with my own Chibi hands but I have a terrible shoulder strain just now." *rubs shoulder.*

Mz D: "Yeah fine I get it.... scared of some brightly coloured aliens."

Chibi Vegeta: "I blame my upbringing."

Mz D: "Yes I'm sure...Freiza is scary so is Buu...maybe they're Tellytubbies in disguise?"

Chibi Vegeta: *shivers* "I don't wanna think about it....."

Chibi Bulma: "Don't worry I'll protect you."

Chibi Vegeta: "I don't want any girls help."

Chibi Bulma: "Should I just switch the TV back on?"

Chibi Vegeta: *sweatdropping* "NO!....I mean .....I'll be fine....."

Mz D: "Wow, Chibi Vegeta scared...." *evil grin.*

Chibi Vegeta: "You were scared too." *pout*

Mz D: "Yeah so I was..."

Quickly changing the subject.

Life's Little Irony you were right at guessing I stole...er borrowed Cerci from The Oddessy, well spotted. I'm sure old Homer won't mind.

Next chapter how will Bulma and Vegeta get out of Cerci's clutches? Or are they going to be trapped in the void dream world forever?