Dark Kisses

By: Andross937

Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball Z, any of the characters featured in it, or anything to do with it. I am not making profit off of this, and am only writing it for enjoyment. If the owners of this series wish it, I will remove it from the internet.

Authors Notes: Sorry for the long wait for this chapter too! But I think I made up for it with the big! BIG! BIG! fight of the story. And I think I figured out what to do after this, unlike the problem I have on "The Ferryman Charon" wher I don't know what to do next after the big fight. You see, I started that story for the sole purpose of the fight I had, and this story for the sole purpose of this fight. I am grateful to say that this chapter is nearly all one big kick arse fight! And it's the second largest chapter I have for this story yet! ROCK! Well, enjoy the chapter and fight. Hope yall like it! REVIEW! Please, this fight is the reason for the story almost completely, so I really want to know if you like it or hate it!

BTW: I have no spell check, so I can't use it to catch my spelling mistakes. So, don't be too harsh on me, but if you see something obvious, send me an e-mail about it. It sucks having spelling mistakes pointed out in your review, because then the author fixes it and you've got a spelling mistake pointed out in your review that isn't a mistake anymore. Thanks for understanding!

-chapter 4-

Hercule's mansion was quite large, and it had a bad habbit of collecting dust rather easily. Thus, it needed cleaning regularly, the staff prefered to clean it almost every night to keep everything clean and in its place. Because of its large size, it required many people to clean it in one night. It required many maids and buttlers working together to get this done, all working to get it done in a few small hours, and doing it as quietly as possible.

This time at night, when the sun had just set, was when it was usually cleaned, and it was also when it was most filled with people. During the day, Hercule relied on his staff to do much, if not all that he wanted done around the house, but it still required few people to keep him happy, especially since Videl did not like to burden the servants. So, when it was time to be cleaned, that's when all those that hadn't been there during the day came in and worked with those that had to clean it. When they were finished, those that had been there during the day left and those that remained worked through the night to keep Hercule happy.

Now was when it was being cleaned, and everyone was rushing to get it done on time, despite the fact that Hercule was not there. The only room left untouched was Videl's room, because she was doing her homework in it. For that reason, the servants were trying to be especially quiet tonight.

Servants were rushing everywhere, dusting this, cleaning that, and replacing or moving something else. Each room had a pair of servants working on it, while the larger rooms, especially the lobby had ten or more servants. Videl worked quietly on her homework up in her room. A smile was on her face, despite everything she had been through today, or maybe because of some of it.

Some of it was weird, and downright scary, like what had happened to her at the bank. Again she wondered if that man really could have been a vampire... He couldn't have been. Everything she knew denied the existence of them. But then again, that man had had huge fangs, and how did his hands turn to huge claws? His skin was the palest Videl had ever seen, and she couldn't seem to resist doing what he told her to do, and he had turned to mist and escaped down a small pipe.

But then again, Saiyaman also had claws and fangs of his own, but that man said that he was a werewolf. Thinking of Saiyaman sent a small shiver down her back. He had looked so fierce, and if she could have seen his eyes, she knew they would have been hatefilled when that man got away. He had been choking him, possibly to death, and then he tried to kill him again when he was escaping, possibly succeeding... It was like the hate between them was natural.

But then again, some of the events of the day hadn't been so bad. Sure, she had almost been killed by snipers, but Gohan had saved her. Just thinking about it made her remember what it felt like for him to forcefully hold her down in the water to save her. She remembered how scared and paniced she had been, thinking that she was going to die, seeing no way out of it. It was probbably sheer luck that two new Gold Fighters had saved her and Gohan. Yet, when she thought about it now, she got the feeling that it would have somehow been alright otherwise, but she didn't know why she got that feeling.

Despite the fact that Gohan had to hold her down so hard to keep her from swimming up and getting shot, he had managed to hold her without hurting her. There wasn't a single bruise or sore spot on her arms or anywhere else that he had held her. Now that she thought about it, she could only really remember how good it had felt being held, even if it was under dangerious conditions. And then she began to blush when she remembered how Gohan's lips had felt when he gave her air.

"I can't believe I'm really getting a crush on him..." she said quietly to herself.

Again an image of Gohan appeared in her head, only this one was from when he had been walking with her after the incident. She remembered noticing how his hair blew slightly more in the wind then she had ever noticed, and how his muscles looked so much larger then she had ever noticed before. Ofcourse, he always seemed to dress in ways that would hide any muscles he had. Thanks to his clothes being damp though, they had hung to him more, and showed off what had been hidden before. Her blush grew when she thought of how they were larger then Sharpners, but not overly large.

That just reminded her that Gohan was a fighter after all. She remembered seeing him stop that robbery this morning. That was not particularly one of the things that made her smile, but it wasn't something that scared her either. Rather, it shocked her instead. She had occasionally entertianed thoughts of Gohan being Saiyaman, if not at least knowing him or who he was, but she had never consciously thought of how good he might be at fighting. Seeing him avoid and dodge those gunshots and dispatch the two robbers so easily, and yet so violently before she even had a chance to react to it, it sent another shiver down her spine.

And that's when she remembered the look of anger and hate on Gohan's face as he had fought them. He hadn't looked human then, much like what Saiyaman had looked. True, Saiyaman had looked more animalistic, and had used his claws to cause more damage to the thugs at the bank, before throwing them against walls and similar hard objects to brake their bones. Still, Gohan had broken at least three bones in that man's body, and possibly gave the woman a little internal bleeding coupled with the cuts she got from busting through the window and slamming into the ground. Rarely did she ever fight so feircly and so violently, only trying to knockout the thugs she fought.

With that comparassen, Videl suddenly got an idea.

"Hey, if I can get Gohan to calm down a little more in a fight, and not hurt the criminals quite so much, I might be able to convince him to help me out in crime fighting..." she said to herself, before her eyes began to light up a bit more. "Yeah, it would deffinately help me out with how much time I have to spend a day doing it, and if we watch each others backs, there'll be even less chance of one of us being hurt." she continued a little louder. Finally she looked to the side with a strange mischevious look to her face. "And, if Saiyaman doesn't show up for a while, or is never seen at the same time he is, then that will prove that he's Saiyaman... but if he is..." she suddenly stopped as she remembered how viscios he had looked with those huge claws for hands and fangs for teeth, also remembering the scary yellow glow from his visor.

But then she remembered Gohan's kind smile to her on the way home.

'No, he couldn't be him, could he?' she thought to herself.

If she had looked out her window right then, she would have seen something very strange. The shadows in the street and gardens around her house began to grow larger and cover more and more in their darkness. The trees were covered up in the darkness and shadows, swallowed whole even as sounds began to eminate from their branches shaking and leaves falling. Red dots began to appear in the darkness, two at a time, before their glow began to grow brighter. Soon it was evident that dozens of red glowing eyes watched Videl's home from these unnaturally growing shadows, and low growls began to spring up and fill the air, chilling the temperature several degrees.

Then like a blast from a shotgun, it began as several large human-like creatures kicked the wooden doors of the mansion in, splintering them out and throwing them across the room to smash into several of the servants. Before a scream could be uttered by anyone, several of the creatures leaped upon them and bit deeply into their necks, drawing large amounts of blood immediately.

Vampires began to pour into the house and charge their victims. Some burst through the windows in the kitchen, leaping down on the cooks and servants cleaning there. A huge bear of a vampire burst through the wall of the den, tackling a buttler. Several more vampires followed through the wall after him, going after all of the other servants in the room.

Hercule's room and all other guest rooms on the first floor were not sparred the same fate as vampires crashed through windows and walls alike as they attacked the servants, feasting on their blood and giving them all the dark kiss at the same time. Nearly fifty servants were inflicted with the dark kiss and curse of vampirism in just moments as the vampires launched their assault on Hercule's mansion.

Vampires charged up the stairs or simply burst up through the cieling up to the second floor. They chased down and bit more servants cleaning the upper rooms and halls even as they screamed in fear and horror. Closer and closer they came to Videl's room, some of the buttlers and even maids tried to stand between them and the door to Videl's room.

It proved to be a hopless gesture even as Videl opened the door to her room to see the servants pounced upon by the vampires. She tried to attack one of them with a high kick to its head, but it swiped at her and sent her flying back into her room, the gust of wind that she made as she flew by caused her door to slam shut. She flew through the air and landed hard on her bed, knocking the air out of her. Before she could recover fully from this, her door splintered inwards and crumpled to the ground as a particularly large vampire burst his way through it, blood dripping from his fangs and mouth, and a look of hunger in his eyes.

Just as he leaped in the air at her, intending to come down on her and sink his teeth into the flesh of her neck, Videl's window burst inwards over her, and a boot clad foot slammed into the vampire's chest. The vampire hardly had time to make a strangled yelp before he was sent flying backwards through the door as he had come, ripping parts of the doorframe away with his limbs as he went.

Saiyaman continued his flight into Videl's room, landing standing between her and the door. Before Videl had anymore time to realize what was going on, he quickly picked her up and placed her at the side of the room. She had only a moment to question why, when a mass of several vampires came screaming through her window after Saiyaman. He gave a mighty kick that sent them flying back out faster then they had come in, growling threateningly as he did.

"Werewolf scum!" came a shout from the hall outside Videl's room.

With that more horrible and rage filled growls and even screams came from all over Videl's home, sending powerful shivers down her spine. Instantly a heap of vampire limbs and bodies, all desperately swinging and swiping to draw Saiyaman's blood and rip him to shreds came pouring through the door. Without a second thought, Saiyaman held his hands out and shot a blue blast of ki larger then his body out, vaporising everything in its path for over a hundred feat, nearly ripping through Videl's entire house.

Before this action was even complete, the wall behind Videl smashed and ripped away as a vampire crashed his way through. He latched onto Videl before she could even react, moving with lightning speeds to bite into her neck. Before his teeth even had a chance to scrape at Videl's neck, Saiyaman's claws dug deeply into his head, cleaving it apart and off of his shoulders in one motion.

In a swift motion, Saiyaman pulled Videl out of the grasp of the now dead vampire body, and sent a ki blast through it and several other vampires charging through the hole. In a quick motion Saiyaman pulled Videl out into the hall before blasting her room to ashes, and any vampire that had clammered his way into it. Once in the hall, they were surrounded by more vampires on either side, many with a servant as their victim still clenched in their arms and teeth as they looked up at their main prey and the werewolf that protected her, no doubt to give her the werewolf's own dark kiss.

In seconds the vampires abandoned what they were doing before and charged through the air at them, seeming to float above the floors. Saiyaman pushed Videl to the ground, before he lashed out with his claws at the vampires that swept over him like a cloud of hungry flesh seeking his blood. Blood splattered downwards as screams and roars deffened Videl's ears and she almost shut her eyes. The flashes of Saiyaman's claws and the loss of limbs and life above her was too hypnotizing to look away even as she turned her head to barf on the floor.

Suddenly the floor shook and warped upwards for a second, before cracking and spraying upwards as a huge vampire smashed his hands upwards, wrapping them around Videl's chest and waist. With a mighty tug, he pulled Videl down along with the rest of the floor. The vampire was the size of a large bear and he wrapped Videl tightly to his chest, leaning his head down to bite into her neck as every vampire was trying to do.

His teeth got within an inch of her neck before Saiyaman's foot came down on his face and smashed into his skull, ripping the top half off and splattering the contents of his head across the floor and walls. With another kick, the rest of his head was disconected from his neck and his body went limp. Videl began to scream and cough from what was happening, her entire body beginning to ache from begin held so feircly by the large vampire and being pulled through the floor. Still blood and limbs rained down on her and the floor as Saiyaman still fought above her, floating in the air on the second floor.

She was trapped in the still clenching embrace of the dead vampire, and more vampires began to charge down the halls at her while she desperately screamed and tried to squirm her way out. Before they reached her, a ring of bright ki flew down and smashed into the floor around her and the dead vampire, erupting upwards in and explosion of wood, carpet, nails, and ki energy that tore into the vampires that tried to jump through it, killing some of them and throwing others away.

With that Saiyaman decended down and removed the dead vampire's hands from Videls body, over doing it too much and ending up ripping its arms off of its body. Grabbing up Videl, Saiyaman began to charge through the halls past the stunned and dead vampires. Suddenly they came to a stop as a dozen more vampires piled into the hall up ahead at the turn they had been intending to take. They screamed and hissed as they charged forwards while the stunned vampires from behind also came at them screaming their battle crys.

Just then the power for the entire city went out as they power plant was suffering a vampire attack aswell. The result was that all the lights in Videl's home went out suddenly, casting them all into darkness. Yet it couldn't make her scream any louder then she already was as the very things that invested her nightmares rushed at her, clambering to drink her blood from her flailing body.

The sounds and sudden motion around Videl let her know that Saiyaman had avoided their attacks, thus taking her with him. How he had done it? He had smashed through the wall they stood beside and into the room behind it. Imeddiately Saiyaman fired a blast off that filled the hallway with deadly ki that could roast a boulder. Still he continued to run with her protectively in his arms, smashing through walls without hurting her, heading for the lobby of the mansion.

They reached the den first, where they could see into the lobby. The den was filled to the brim with feeding vampires. To Videl's horror and stomach spewwing disgust, some of the vampires that were in the den were some of the servants that she interacted with on a daily basis. They charged at them swiftly, almost too fast for Videl too see them coming. Saiyaman's left arm left Videl's body, and began to swipe and blast outwards to cut down the vampires coming at them.

Videl easily saw into the lobby, seeing it filled with vampires, with even more coming in through the doors and various holes in the walls. She turned her head as some blood splattered on her face, finding herself looking into the dining room. It too was filled with vampires clammering at them. Not only that, but more were pouring out of the kitchen too. She must have seen over a hundred fifty vampires in her house by now, and it sickened her even more.

"Give her over!" screamed out one of the vampires coming at them, before Saiyaman swiped its head into four pieces and clean off its body.

"She will be ours!" another shouted before being blasted by Saiyaman.

"We will have her tonight werewolf!" yet another shouted.

"Kill him! Kill all the werewolves!" another shouted.

Videl was getting so very sick from the displays of carnage before her eyes, and her body was feeling much weaker then ever before. The adrenaline flowing through her limbs and body seemed only to be draining her strength and chilling her blood. She didn't know how much more she could stand of this before she would faint, and that may be the end of her.

No! She had to fight! She had to hold on! She had to resist the urge to vomit and fall unconscious, or Saiyaman's fighting would mean nothing because she would be too easy of a target. But still, why were all the vampires so intent on having her, even when it was costing them so many of their numbers? Why was she so special to them? Then it dawned on her, it was her strength. Not only had her crime fighting brought even more crazy lunatics to come after her father then before, but now it had brought vampires, creatures of myths and legends, to come after her and try and turn her into a weapon for them.

Before she had anymore time to think, Saiyaman made a decision that it was too dangerous to take Videl out the front door. He also decided that no one in the house was savable but her, everyone else too far along in their transformation and craving blood because of it. Knowing what he must do, he reached his hand up when he had a second to breath, and blasted a hole clear through the house and out the roof. Gripping Videl a little tighter then before, he flew straight up and out of the house, continuing up into the black sky of the night.

Time seemed to slow for Videl as she flew up and above her house, continuing up for several hundred feet. She saw her house in perfect detail in the bright light of the full moon. As if in a daze, she looked up at it, seeing how bright and beautiful it was tonight, hardly noticing how Saiyaman was making a point of not looking in its direction.

Hearing the angry screams of the vampires below, reality crashed back into her at full speed as she looked down again. The vampires were pouring out of the hole in the roof like a cloud, each screaming their frightning cry of blood lust. At that same time Saiyaman pointed his left palm downwards, and a blue light erupted downwards. A ki blast sizzled down and engulfed the vampires that came up through the air, going through them and into the house, vaporizing everything in its way. A second later a massive blue light shined through all the windows and holes in the mansion, before the entire house blew outwards until it was completely swallowed up in the ki explosion spreading outwards for another hundred feet.

"Oh no..." Videl barely managed to whisper at the sight. "Everyone in there... all of the people I knew..." she tried to continue before she fell silent.

"Gone, all turned into vampires. They couldn't be saved like that." Saiyaman said in a cold tone, not liking it either.

They landed several blocks away from where the mansion had been. But, even then they were not safe as more vampires began to pour out of everywhere. Houses, apartments, restuarants, any place that had had human life before were now filled with vampires hunting that human life and turning it all into vampires. All of them came charging at Saiyaman and Videl. Saiyaman quickly glanced around and saw that most of the vampires were in front of him, so he let Videl go and placed her behind him. Both of his claws were now free and he charged forwads, forming a ki barrier around Videl to protect her.

The vampires seemed to recognize Saiyaman as the real threat to their plan, so they charged him deciding to give the kiss to Videl after they had disposed of him. They all came at once, and were quickly caught up in what might as well have been a tornado of claws and death. Even as they all leaped upwards and then down at Saiyaman, he moved with faster then light speed to slash them all into ribbons of flesh and blood. Their bodies just seemed to explode outwards and into sections and pieces as none could see Saiyaman's movements with the speed he was going, only appearing to be a blur that was striking out at everywhere at once.

Over a hundred vampires were shredded in just under a minute, and still more poured at Saiyaman. Finally though, all the vampires in the area lay in piles of parts around Saiyaman's body. It was so horrible that Videl was wretching at the sight of it, and Saiyaman himself was hardly doing better. Still, the fierce yellow glow came from his visor and his claws stayed nearly a foot long in their extension. His muscles rippled and buldged under his costume which had to strech more then Videl had ever seen it strech to keep from ripping against his body.

Cuts covered that same costume, and his sleeve was still shredded from eariler that day, but his skin remained unharmed. Even his helmet had nicks and cuts in it. Through these same cuts tiny points of hair stuck out, but only their blood red tips appeared. Weither the hair was suppose to be blood red naturally, or because it along with nearly his entire body was covered in one vampire or another's blood was uncertain to Videl.

Suddenly a pile of body parts behind Saiyaman burst outwards as a single surviving vampire came jumping out of it. He flew up and over Saiyaman's head, scratching down for his helmet. The vampire's claws struck true as it shattered Saiyaman's helmet to pieces, but Saiyaman's claws reached up and sliced the vampire in two from neck to its lower waist in retailation.

Videl watched in shock as this happened. The world once more slowed to a near stop as she saw it happening. The blood and gore of the vampire's body being cut in two was horrifying to her, but she could not, nor dare not look away. The very secret she had been waiting for months to find out, struggling for months to uncover, was about to be revealed to her. Saiyaman's helmet split in two and fell from his head, revealing a man's face, covered by a bandana tightly wrapped around his eyes, keeping Videl from seeing who it was, but also keeping the man from seeing anything at all even as he looked up at the full moon in his attack.

"Huh?" Videl couldn't help but blurt.

The man turned his head towards her, his black with blood red tips hair waved around from the motion. It was so strange for Videl to be looking at him like this, his identity so close to being revealed to her, and yet still being just out of her reach. Somehow, as she looked at his face, she knew that she should know who he really was if she thought hard enough, and she also got the strangest feeling that the red ends of his hair were natural. She also noticed the strange mix of brown and red furry belt that she saw around his waist for the first time.

"Videl, are you alright?" Saiyaman asked worriedly, his voice no longer masked by the attempt to disguise it, just like it had been at the bank, but without the rage.

"Uh-huh." Videl said numbly as she deftly nodded over again, before spitting as she tasted the barf on her lips.

More vampires came running around the curve in the street a block away, rushing at them. Saiyaman frowned hard in anger as a yellow glow filtered through the layered bandana that was wrapped around his eyes. Videl found her self wondering even through her fear, how Saiyaman was able to fight so well even though he could not see through the bandana. Had he always been like this when he was Saiyaman? Was he really someone that was blind, or did he just do this to have extra protection for his identity? Or maybe there was some special reason he did it tonight?

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"We come to you live with a special report. You may think that this is crazy, but Satan city is under attack by vampires! We go live to Jeremy outside of this very station!" the reporter on the television declared in a paniced excitement even as Sharpner and Erasa watched.

They were out of the city right now, having gone on a little vacation, and had been watching the t.v. at a diner they were in in Blue city. They couldn't believe what they were hearing or seeing as the screen switched to another reporter standing just outside the t.v. station.

"I'm coming to you live where the streets are filling with vampires attacking everything they se-" the reporter never finished as a vampire jumped him and bit deeply into his neck even as everyone watching screamed in horror. Seconds later the running cameraman was tackled down as well, his blood spilling out across the camera lense.

Quickly the screen went back into the station where reporters and staff could be heard baracading the doors and other entrances to the studio. Still the reporter from before sat at his chair, his face ecthed with nervousness and fear.

"We will continue to report to you as long as we can as to the horrific events in Satan city. I don't know how long our barracades will hold, but we won't stop broadcasting. We will stay at our stations until they come for u-" he too was interupted as they doors could be heard smashing apart.

He gave out a shout before a vampire leaped over the desk and tackled him down to the ground, below the camera's vision. The sounds of his strangled crys quickly faded away along with the screams of everyone else in the studio. People watched the t.v., their eyes glued in horror to the screen as the vampire stood once more, blood dribbling down its chin. It rushed off, before the reporter stood once again, his skin noticably paler then before and his teeth were now fangs. He streched his claws to as far as they could strech, a great distance, before also leaping over the desk, knocking over the camera and breaking it, stopping the transmission as the screen went blue.

"Oh no... What's happening to our city Sharpener...?" Erasa asked in shock and fear.

"I don't know. I just don't know..." he said as the manager started to switch to other channels, to find them either already gone or in similar states of siege.

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Hercule rushed out to the limo waiting for him outside. As soon as he had seen what happened on the t.v., he had called for his private jet to be fueld and waiting for him. He almost jumped through the window in his rush to get inside of the limo. Without even bothering to shut the door he leaned forward and stuck his head into the driver's section of the limo through the window.

"Drive! Get me to the airport now! I have to get home to my baby!" he shouted in fear. Fear for his daughter's life.

Hercule was not as big a fool as he acted sometimes. He knew that he could do nothing against vampires, especially a city full of them. But dang it! He had to get there to get to his daughter! If he was to die trying, then so be it! No amount of fear of death was going to stop him from getting there, the instincts of a father pumping through his body, demanding that he get to Videl.

The limo sped off at far beyond the speed limit towards the airport, soon being joined by a police escort. They had correctly anticipated Hercule's reaction. Some of them thought that he would go and save the city from the death that was soaking its streets. Others however correctly knew that he was as powerless as any to stop what what happening, but knew that he was still a father and he would go there anyways to try and save his daughter.

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Saiyaman ran towards the charging group of vampires at speeds that they couldn't see. Tens of them flew into the air, already shredded by his claws or broken by his legs before they knew he was upon them. It took only moments to realize they were out matched by his strength and power. It was too late for them as they were cut and sliced to bits only seconds later. Those that did try to run were chased down and vaporized by the ki blasts that he sent out after them. He could not afford to let even one vampire live tonight, lest they build in numbers and try this again.

It was then that more vampires charged out of the entire city to surround them. They came slowly at first, but soon they were running at hight speeds, blurring around in circles around Saiyaman and Videl, who he stood by. Saiyaman waited to see what would happen, hoping there would be an easily exploited weakness in their attack that they would soon make. Still more from all over the city joined in the mobs upon mobs of vampires that circled them in a blur like bullet quick sharks.

Then, after nearly three minutes of this, their forces growing ever stronger, their attack began. It was slow to start at first, but soon rings of vampires began to close in slowly. As they were only a few hundred feat away, and more rings following after them, suddenly many of the vampires from the outermost ring where most of the vampires still stayed leaped into the air. They hovered up higher and closer over them, soon forming a massive twirling dome of vampires that was almost hypnotizing in its complexity.

And then the rings came at them faster. Saiyaman couldn't let loose a ki blast around himself to kill them all, or he would hit Videl. Even with the ki shield around her, he couldn't make it strong enough to protect her from such an attack. He simply wasn't experienced enough yet to make that kind of shield around her. So, he had to pray that her shield held as he went to fighting hand to hand, occasionally launching ki blasts to rip throuh them and blast holes in all of the rings.

Videl's vision blurred and twirled as she grew sicker. All she could see was the carnage that was ensuing in the fight between Saiyaman and the vampires. Everything else was blocked by the vampires that covered the shield over her, trying to slash and bite their way through it. Blood and limbs flew everywhere as Saiyaman's costume continued to take more and more damage, beggining to become ripped apart off of his body.

Videl had occasionally entertained the idea of what Saiyaman might look outside his costume, but never had she inteded it to happen like this. The vampire's constant attacks on him ripped and tore bits of it away, shredding it apart. It wouldn't be lond before he wore only ribbons on his body. Still, she had a hard time seeing him as more vampires piled onto the shield that protected her.

Through it all, she couldn't help but wonder why he was being hit so much more now then before. Could it be possible that he was tiring? Was he beggining to wear out? Would he soon falter and fail under such an onslaught of vampires? She knew that if that happened, she was as good as dead, or worse. Then it dawned on her, as she could see the strained look to his face when he held still long enough. He was having to concentrate to keep the shield up around her, to keep her safe. She was the reason he was getting struck more now then before, and it was beggining to show in more ways then his costume as small cuts began to form on his body.

Farther back, just beyond the outer ring of blurring vampires, stood two tall and strong looking vampires. While they were both obviously powerful, one put out more of a feel of power then the other, obviously the elder of the vampires present. The less powerful one looked on in disbelief of what he was seeing.

"How can he be fighting like this? How is it possible that he has killed nearly a fourth of our forces so far. How is it possible that he is so strong?" the less powerful one asked in confusion.

"I myself do not know. But the fact that he is a werewolf is obvious. If he is this powerful untransformed, then why does he not look up at the moon and transform fully?" the elder asked.

"Perhaps he would go mad as most new werewolves do? Perhaps he wishes to protect the girl, even from himself?" the younger one asked.

"Yes, that is most likely it. Let us be thankful that he does not fully transform, or we would surely be doomed. Yet still, it is apparent that he has found a way to partially transform." the elder stated, his face taking an even darker expression.

"Yes, but is that the reason for his strength?" the younger asked.

"No, I think not. I think that is mearly enhancing it. I believe he may have been strong like this before he was given the werewolves dark kiss. I can smell the scent of the eldest werewolf, my old enemy, coming off of him. He is his sire. We must kill him immediately." the elder said.

"But, how?" the youngest asked.

"How else? We must work together." the elder said.

Suddenly the elder turned into a strange mist. Sensing his intentions, the younger powerful vampire also turned to mist. All vampires around them that weren't in the rings also turned to mist. Slowly they began to join together, not becoming one massive vampire, but forming a cloud of them in their mist form. They sent out a basic urge into all other vampires in they city that weren't already part of the rings, calling them out and to them.

Saiyaman contined to fight for all he was worth, still struggling to keep up the shield around Videl. Ducking, stricking, kicking, slashing, shredding, breaking, he continued to fight on. With swipes he rend vampires in half, or shredded their limbs, or removing their heads. Kicking he shattered bones, violently bent and broke bodies, or in sime cases he ripped right through them. He continued to use all of his effort in fighting while keeping enough concentration to protect Videl.

As he fought, he remembered how the Saibamen had acted when he face them so long ago. They had squeeled and made other strange noises as they smashed through rock, slashed at limbs, and used their acid to melt trenches in the earth. When push came to shove, they even self destructed to get the job of killing you done. He hadn't thought he was ready then, having to be saved by Piccolo then. Well, now he was ready, and he was the one having to save the world again. He had to do it, he had to save them all, he had to save his family, he had to save his friends, he had to save Videl!

With a sudden jump in his rage, he tore through the vampires even faster, until the first several rings that had come at him were all dead. Piles of vampire bodies and parts surrounded him and Videl, even as he added to them by killing the vampires that attacked her shield. With that, he looked up at the dome that blocked out the sky. He couldn't actually see them, but he could hear them thanks to his enhanced hearing, and he knew where each of them were.

As if to respond to his upwards glance, nearly a third of the dome's vampires flew downwards right at him. They fell at him, and he was ready. He flew up just above Videl's shield and let loos an upwards ki blast that streched out and vaporized all the vampires that came at him. Still, the dome of vampires managed to dodge away, before reforming again.

Suddenly, one by one the vampires in the dome began to turn to mist and come to a stop, unable to travel quite as fast as they had been flying. Each seperate cloud of mist floated where it was, completely still. Still more of the vampires became mist and stopped, until the entire dome was nothing but mist clouds.

Saiyaman cast his blind gaze out to find that all of the vampires in the rings were also becoming mist. He was growing nervous now, as slowly they all formed to mist. Almost two minutes later they were all in their mist forms, just hovering where they had stopped. Videl watched anxiously, getting a very bad feeling about this.

Slowly each mist cloud began to move further into the city, just beyond the buildings in their sight. A minute later they were gone. Still the two waited for something to happen. Images of a giant vampire the size of a skyscrapper flashed through Videl's mind, and she cringed in fear. Gohan almost wished such a thing would happen, as he could get under it, and vaporize it in one attack if such a thing happened. No, he was almost possitive that he knew what was happening, and it wasn't that.

Then it happened. A huge mist cloud the size and shape of a city's worth of fog came barreling at them from the streets and around buildings of the city. Saiyaman flew upwards, hoping to catch the mist cloud's attention. It worked as the mist followed after him, soon surrounding him completely. Saiyaman kept his mouth shut, didn't breath, and inhaled so hard that his nose closed up. He used a bit of his ki to keep it that way, so no mist would get into his nose and then lungs.

Strangely enough, the vampires in the mist had other ideas. In lightning fast motions, several would materialize and slash at Saiyaman, doing as much damage as it could in one attack, before turning back to mist. This started to happen, the attacks coming almost from everywhere at once. Each time it happened, Saiyaman would catch one or two of the vampires would an attack of his own, killing them, but several more would managed to hit him. The attacks came rappidly, almost several a second, slashing and clawing all over his body.

Saiyaman's skin was strong against their attacks, yes, but it was wearing against him. One by one they were able to create a small cut on him here or there. Drops of blood fell through the air, not wanted by the vampires, slowly forming a puddle on the ground next to Videl's shield. She could only watch with a twisted cringe on her face as she was afraid for both their lives.

Then one of the vampires caught Saiyaman's bandana. It was shredded immediately as a tiny cut opened on the back of his head. The cloth fell to the earth, staining and soaking up blood as it fell in the puddle of Saiyaman's blood. Videl gasped as she saw it, before looking back up at Saiyaman. He was simply to far high up, and directly above her almost, so she couldn't see his face. She dared not call to him, lest she distract him and he really get hurt, or the vampires come down here after her again and break through the shield.

"Who are you werewolf?" came a calm and confident voice from the cloud.

"My name wouldn't matter to you vampires! You're all going to die before the night's over! Do you hear me!" Gohan shouted in anger.

"Oh, I think not. However, I do think that we will have killed you and claimed Videl before the sun rises." the voice said with a laugh.

"No you won't! I won't let you have her!" Gohan shouted in even more rage as his eyes finally opened, only looking down and away from the full moon that shown just above him.

His eyes shown brightly with yellow light, conveying his hatred and anger easily to any that dared look at him. It was so disturbing, that several newly made vampires paused in their attacks, and were unable to keep their mist shapes. They were rent to shreds in seconds by Gohan, their blood bursting out and around in a cloud of its own.

"That's might big words coming from someone who's dying even now. You can't possibly kill us all. This entire city has been turned to vampires, adding onto our already impressive number of three thousand. We now number nearly a quater million vampires! You can't stop us! Videl will be ours! She will lead us as a general! You will not be allowed to give her the dark kiss of the werewolves!" the voice shouted out.

"You won't lay a hand on her! I won't let you bite her! I won't bite her! She will remain untouched! Do you hear me! I will kill everyone of you vampires to make sure of it! Then I will kill all the werewolves that I have to! If I have to, I will die to keep her untouched!" Gohan shouted, his anger mounting higher then ever before.

His aura burst forth, heating the air around him so hot that many vampires caught in the aura as he came to be were burnt to ashes in a second. His hair grew a little longer. The red tips became a little darker. His fanges grew another half inch, and his claws finally reached a full foot long. His tail swished around violently, like that of a cat in a horrible mood, getting itself cut off several times, but growing back each time. Gohan ignored the pain each time, hardly feeling it anymore.

Gohan fight ten times harder now, unknowingly lowering the strength that Videl's shield had. Without his seeing or sensing, since Vampires couldn't be detected with his ki sense, a mist cloud lowered itself to the ground behind Videl. She didn't see it take the shape of the elder vampire, the most powerful one in existence on Earth at the time. Slowly he began to sneak up behind Videl, knowing that her protection was at its weakest.

Meanwhile Gohan was getting angrier and angrier as he fought. Nearly half as many vampires died by his claws or feet every time they attacked every second, while half of those that survived his fighting back died of the heat from his aura. Still the cloud of vampires surrounded him and attacked him. Still he was getting more and more wounds, dripping blood to the ground beneath him. Since he was also healing rappidly, it was like a constant shower of blood, pints at a time. It seemed to the vampires, and even to the back of Gohan's mind where all of his doubts hid, that it was only a matter of time before he gave into exhaustion. But he knew he couldn't let that happen, so he fought on.

Videl watched in hypnotized fascination what happened above her. She still could not see who Saiyaman was, but she was hoping he won anyways. Whoever he was, he was protecting her, and may die doing so. Even now she could hear him shouting above her, and couldn't shake the fealing that she recognized his voice. Before she had the time to make the connection to whose voice it was, the vampire approached the shield from behind her.

"You will make no noise." he commanded firmly to Videl.

Videl suddenly stood stiff, her muscles locking in both fear and from the control that the elder vampire had over her.

"You will not struggle or resist. You will allow me to bite you." the vampire elder commanded.

Videl could not move an inch, and began to hate the fact that when she had been looking up, she left her neck wide open to bite from a vampire. The vampire elder reached out and felt the energy barrier between him and Videl. Smiling a dark smile, he pulled his hands back and formed them into claws. With a strength few humans had surpassed, he struck at the barrier, his strange vampire magic he had been developing for hundreds of years comflicting with the ki barrier.

The shield wavered a moment before blasting away as if made of hot air. The vampire strode fowards and wrapped his arms gently around Videl. Taking firm hold of her hips and waist, he took a second to breath in her scent, similair urges to Gohan's own washing over and through his body. However, he did not wish to fight against them as he leaned over and slowly licked at her cheek, enjoying the taste of her flesh and sweat more then he had any other for nearly a hundred years. She would be an exceptionable general, and with enough time, his very own bride.

"Now..." he breathed gently against Videl's ear, sending shivers down her spine. "Call out to him." he gently commanded Videl.

Taking in a deeper breath then she had ever taken in her entire life, Videl prepared the loudest scream she had made tonight.

"SAIYAMAN!" she screamed out in fright. "HELP ME!" was the last words she could get out.

Gohan looked down at Videl, his incredible sight quickly focusing directly on her too late. He looked just in time to see the elder vampire sink his large fangs as deep into Videl's neck as they could go, drawing large amounts of blood. Her blood dribbled down her neck to her collarbone and further down. It soaked into her shirt and continued down under it, until it finally started to come over her pants and make a path to drip to the ground.

Gohan screamed out in rage, horror, and saddness. She had been bitten. She was now going to become a vampire. She was as good as dead. What would he do about her now? Would he have to kill her? Would he have to kill Videl? Would he have to kill the very girl he loved!

With that last thought ringing through his head, he reached with his anger, and need, deep into himself. He could see it. He could see the gold light that cast a warm glow on his face. He moved towards it, and it began to move towards him instead of shying away like it had before. Soon, his fingers brushed against its surface once more, and this time it responded positively. In a second, his entire body was engulfed by the gold light, but it didn't remain gold. It hardly mattered to Gohan, because the warmth was the same. It was the familiar warmth that his father had given him, and it was warmth that gave him the strength to protect others and do what needed to be done. So, he bathed in it, let it wash over him, and let it escape into his body through his pores, until it poured back out again.

Gohan let out a shout that rocked the very earth, shaking everything for hundreds of miles. Light began to pour off of his body as his aura burst to life once more, making his previous aura seem like a tiny candle compared to a torch! It grew in heat and size, turning gold at first, but then changing. His hair grew almost twice as long, spiking upwards as before higher then ever, almost as high as it went the first time he achieved super saiyan 2. It went gold at first, until it too changed. From the roots up, it was tainted with the color red, until all of his hair was blood red, evaporating the actual blood that stained his body and hair.

The contacts in his eyes burnt away, revealing the pure gold glow of his rage filled eys, almost burning the skin of the vampires caught in the path of his vision. His muscles pumped to a little larger then they would have been had he gone super saiyan 2. All the wounds he had healed instantly, while his brown/red tail turned fully blood red. He grew almost three inches taller as he body had to strech some to accomidate the muscle enhancement. His claws grew another four inches, while his feat burst from their boots to recieve claws of their own on the toes. Finally his fangs grew another half an inch. He looked like a cross between a mutated super saiyan, and a monster from children's nightmares.

His shout grew two times louder then before, as he held his hands up and spred his claws infront of his face. A wicked and yet dull smirk crossed his face, as if he were satisfied to be about to harm the vampires, and yet he could never truely be happy again. With this expression, he released an attack that he should have thought of from the start.

"Solar Flare!" he shouted angrilly.

Bright sun light poured out off of his body. Instantly the mist cloud began to turn to smoke and ash as many vampires were to weak to resist the powerful, yet fake sunlight. Any others that weren't killed fell to the ground in a stunned daze as the sunlight burned at them and caused them great pain. Gohan charged downwards in a blink, almost appearing to have used his father's technique of the Instant Transmission. Yet his movement was nothing but pure speed.

Gohan snacthed the elder vampire off of Videl, causing her to fall limp to the ground. She did not burn up in the sunlight, but it, combined with the freshness of her bite, was keeping her stunned and near convulsing in pain, until she fainted from it all. Gohan couldn't sense her ki anymore, thanks to the bite corrupting her body, and assumed that she was dead. More hatedred and anger filled his body, along with sadness and mourning.

"I am going to kill you for what you have done! You and your entire kind!" Gohan shouted in anger.

The elder vampire could only scream in fear and pain as Gohan gripped him up in a bear hug, letting his aura burn at him for several seconds. Then he floated upwards until he was a mile high in the sky. Gripping the elder vampire tighter, Gohan formed a sphere of ki around his body. The elder vampire screamed and pleaded even as Gohan ended his life. Gohan built up his power, until he finally unleashed it and filled the sphere of ki with all of his power, surpassing his previous level of super saiyan 2 by nearly half its full strength, maxing out his power completely. It didn't take a microsecond for the elder vampire to be vaporized completely, leaving nothing, not even an atom of his body.

When that was done, Gohan lowered himself down again. Gently he picked up Videl, making sure his aura wouldn't burn her or hurt her in the slightest. He gently craddled her and hugged her to him as he would a baby. With her face gently against his chest, he cried over her, letting his teards leak down onto her. Gently he shifted her so that her head rested on his left shoulder, and cried harder. Then he threw his head back with a scream and let his power loose, protecting only her.

An amazing shockwave of ki ripped outwards from Gohan. It soon formed into a giant explosion that engulfed all of the dead city of Satan city. It was a shining blood red ki explsion that stopped just beyond the borders of the vampire assualted city. All the remaining vampires were caught up in it and burned away before they had time to scream. When the explsion finally faded away, nothing was left but a flat field of earth, completely empty of life other then directly in the center, where Gohan still knelt.

He hugged Videl a little tighter in the night, with the full moon still hovering above him. He cared not for it anylonger, knowing he would not look up. He mourned Videl's death as his tears soaked her clothes and what ribbons covered his body, the remains of his costume. Stains of blood were washed away from her clothes and body as Gohan continued to cry over her.

Slowly, he leaned over and gently kissed her cheek. It was cold, like death. As his lips remained on her cold cheek, Videl stirred. Gohan opened his eyes wide as he found himself staring into Videl's eyes. She looked up at him tiredly as he withdrew from his kiss of her cheek.

"Gohan? You're Saiyaman?" Videl asked with a tiny chuckle before continuing. "I guess that makes you prince charming and me sleeping beauty." she said with another chuckle.

Before either could say another word, they both found themselves kissing the other passionately. It continued on for several seconds before they mutually withdrew and Gohan collapsed his head forwards in tears.

"Oh Videl! You're alive!" he began to cry, over and over again, softer each time.

Videl hummed contently for a moment, before leaning in and planting a tiny kiss on Gohan's neck. He stopped talking as she moaned for a second, and then her fangs extended. Gently she placed her teeth on Gohan's neck, wrapping a small section of his neck in her mouth. Gohan dropped out of his changed super saiyan state at that moment, just as she applied force to her jaw. She began to bite slowly at Gohan's neck, but her teeth would not penetrate his skin.

She moaned contently as she did this, and Gohan did not move. He continued letting her bite at his neck, but never allowing her to penetrate his skin. Still she kept biting, not applying all of her strength to it, just enough to cause a small scrapping sensation to Gohan's skin as he came to realize what she was doing.

"Videl, I think we need to get you to the look out before the sun rises." Gohan said gently, with no anger to his voice, only worry.

"Hmm... alright Gohan." she said, almost happily, licking his neck a little. Still, you could detect the slight worry in her voice, both from the thought of the sun's effects on her, and at the thought of actually biting Gohan's neck with success. It scared her, what she might do to him, what she might have to do to others to survive. Still, she kept licking Gohan's neck and gently scraping her teeth against his skin.

Gohan shivered with the sensations, knowing that Videl didn't intend to harm him. He knew that it was vampire instinct influencing her. Yet also, he got the feeling that she felt the same urges he did earlier, and did even right now, and this was her way of slowly giving in. The thought of what might happen should she give fully into her urges, and if he couldn't fight his own urges because of it, made that shiver increase ten fold as he took flight for the look out.

"Hold on, we'll be there soon." Gohan said as he flew through the air without looking up at the moon.