Hi everybody! This takes place sometime after Frieza, but before the whole Andriod saga started. Possible OOC-ness and some mushy stuff later on.
The Z senshi closed in around the monster.
It's red-silver eyes glistened madly. It curled it's fingers in a desperate imatation of claws. It's mouth opened, only to allow a mad hissing sound to escape. The creatures eyes had since filled with panic, they darted from one warrior to the next; only to realize it was becoming more and more trapped by the second. In a last ditch effort to frighten it's attackers, the creature barred it's fangs.
Gohan saw the sheen of the fangs, and instantly felt afraid. He'd only heard of vampire's in books and on some late night movies. He knew of their power to turn people into their slaves. He knew once you were a vampire, nothing was going to help you. Gohan knew you stayed in the state in which you were bitten for all eternity.
For some reason, Gohan's mind had accepted all this.
But, what he couldn't comprehend, was how this vampire had once been a human.
Four Weeks Prior...
Bulma sat quietly in her main lab with the best of her fellow technitions and doctors. She believed they had discovered some cure for blood-related diseases. Whenever some foriegn body was placed in the blood sample, she'd seen time and time again, the potion she developed had devoured the toxins with ease. It didn't matter what the toxin caused; sickle-cell anemia, AIDS, blood clots, or whatever else. They were all destroyed just the same in a matter of seconds.
Doctors were already being called in from the most prestigious hospitals all over the globe. All of them willing to pay top dollar to get their hands on such a magnificant discovery.
It was truely a blessing they didn't.
A lab technition had come in to clean the floors after hours. As far as anyone could tell, he had knocked over the blood sample with the new medicaine in it, and as his job had demanded, he bent down to clean the blood from the floor. His right index fingertouched the gooey substance. And unfortunately, his right index fingerhad a large,open cut.
The substance seized the cut with animal-like intensity, and pulled itself into theflesh wound.
The lab tech fell back and screamed his lungs out. It was already too late. The poor man began to sieze in a matter of seconds. Several of the doctors who had been just down the hall heard his scream and rushed too it's source. The doctors had found him unconcious.
One of the doctors lowered herself down to his level to check for a pulse. She would be his first victim.
When her face was mear inches from his, he struck. He grasped her face and pulled her to his newly-grown fangs. The fangs ripped flesh and muscle to find her coratted artery. And when they did, the creature feasted.
The blood had attacked his system just as it was made too, but instead of curing him of any and all diseases that could have been in his system, it mutated him. The sample seemed to stimulate the part of his brain that controlled eating. It mutated him to grow fangs in order to help feed this new craving.
As time went on, he became more and more like the vampire's in the stories. Hebecame absolutely repulshed by light of any kind. His eyes turned to their present, lifeless red-silver. And his cravings became more and more severe. For the next four weeks he would kill close to seven people a night. Not transforming them into living dead, but outright killing them. Draining every drop of crismson life that flowed in his victims' veins.
But that wasn't the worst part.
Through some unfortunate trial-and-error schemes, Bulma discovered that the vampire wasn't fazed by the usual Cross and Holy Water. Bulma theorized that, perhaps, since the creature wasn't created by anything evil; it couldn't be killed by anything holy, such as normal vampires.
To the Z senshi, there is always another way to win. And their way to win was simply blast him apart without getting bitten themselves. Nothing is ever as easy as it sounds, however.
The creature's ki had barely been manipulated, so it didn't stick out at all when they tried to track it down.
And now they had it cornored, but every single one of them knew it wasn't going down without a fight.
The creatures eyes scanned the five Z warriors that stood before it. It's mind began to process the situation with cold, machanical ease.
"Find one with fear. Fear breeds blood. Pass power in fear."
The creature's mind repeated the three phrases like a twisted mantra. It's lifeless eyes peered into their souls, it's mind tuned like a radar for the very hint of fear.
It's eyes passed a short man with spikey hair. No fear.
It's eyes moved onto a tall green man. No fear, either.
A short, bald man. No fear.
A taller man with spiked hair and an orange gi. No fear.
Now the creature was becoming frustrated. The mutated blood was eager to pass itself on before the host was inevitably destroyed. And then...
A short boy, no more than six or seven. A twinge of fear clouded a cornor of his mind.
The creature stared at the boy. His fear seemed delicious to every sense in it's body. It could smell his fear, taste it, hear it, and even see it on some level. The boy was young, he could easily carry the virus for years. The creature vaguely felt a grotesque smile form on it's face.
All the Z warriors braced themselves. They could easily tell the creature was ready to attack. In fact, all of them noticed it had began to drool. A small dribble had already marked it's way down it's pale chin.
"Okay. Does everyone know their positions?" Goku asked in a hushed voice.
All the Z warriors quietly nodded their heads.
"Now!" Goku yelled.
All the Z warriors jumped directly in the air, each one of them criss-crossing each other just enough to confuse the creature. Then, just as suddenly as they'd jumped into the air, they each hit the ground; forming a circle around the creature.
"Special Beam Cannon!"
"Masenko!"
"Kamehameha!"
"Galic Gun!"
"Destructo Disk!"
All the Z senshi unleashed their strongest attacksupon the creature.
The attacks created a thick curtain of grayish-black smoke. Gohan stood in a state of mixed shock and amazement. He'd never seen such a fantastic blast. Suddenly, Gohan felt a sickening sensation in his stomach. Like something wasn't right. The last thing Gohan saw before he hit the ground, was a pair of red-silver eyes coming at him from the depths of the smoke.