Deceit of Dice

BY: Krystyl Kane

Chapter II – Sick Deeds of Psychos

Once the Son family was safely inside the walls of Capsule Corp., Gohan and Goten we’re located to their temporary rooms. The little luggage robots dropped off their things while Gohan and Goten checked out the room. There were two beds, a chest of drawers, a window, and a closet. It wasn’t the fanciest room they’ve ever been in, but it was better than the one at home. Gohan gazed out the window, reached for the curtains, bringing the ends together. He didn’t want anyone looking in, it was a bit of a paranoia really then a fear. Looks like I won’t be getting much sleep tonight, he thought. If someone was really going to kill his brother, they were going to get through him first.

Just then he heard the door open, Gohan quickly jumped around into a fighting stance expecting the worst, when Trunks and Marron came in. Trunks raised a brow at Gohan, “What’s up with you? ...Hey Goten, you wanna come play with us? My mom got me some new toys today.”

“Okay!” Goten chirped happily.

“Um, can I come too?” asked Gohan.

“Um, okay. Hey Gohan, later can you teach us some new fighting techniques after Marron goes to bed?”

“Hey!” sounded an opposing Marron.

Gohan was scratching the back of his head, “Sure why not?”

Meanwhile in the main room, all of the close friends of the Sons and Briefs (Kuririn’s and Juuhachi-gou with Kamesen’nin and Oolong, Gyuu Maou (Ox King for Dubbie reference), and Yamucha and Puar) were sitting in a collection of two sofas and a couple chairs here and there.  The three letters were spread out on the coffee table.

Yamucha started the conversation, “So let me get this straight. Someone is going to kill Goten, if we don’t solve this before tomorrow? I mean, for the average person, this should scare the crap out of someone, but come on! Goten is one of the strongest kids I know. He could be able to beat the crap out of anyone.”

Puar jumped in, “I agree with Yamucha-sama, but I still am a little scared.”

Chichi looked down at her fingers as they fiddled around, “I know, but I don’t want to take any chances… After loosing Gokuu, I don’t think I could survive another lose.” Gyuu Maou rested his large hand on her small shoulder to comfort her.

“Well let’s put the clues together, so far,” Bulma began, “Now it has to be someone the Gohan knew seven years ago. So we can eliminate any new villain.”

“But what about the colors? What does black, blue, red, yellow, orange mean?” Kuririn asked.

“It means who ever is after you, has bad color coordination.” Juuhachi-gou stated.

“From what we have concluded, is any numbers of persons from that era are now dead. It could be some bad prank.” Concluded Kamesen’nin.

Bulma interjected, “Well we’ll have an extra look out for Goten tonight, and we’ll know in the morning on what to do. Now everyone will spend the night here just in case and, “ she glared at Vegeta who has been standing in the doorway for the entire time, listening on the conversation, “Vegeta won’t have a problem with it. Now will he?”

Vegeta gave his usual ‘hn’ noises and turned away from Bulma.

Since then a couple of hours have pasted, it was now one a.m. in the morning. Gohan was sitting on the end of his bed, smiling as he watched over his brother sleeping peacefully under the covers. He wished he could be in that warm bed, so he could get a good nights rest. He hadn’t been getting very much sleep lately with all his late night studying for school finals. His eyes were getting heavier by the minute, his head felt light and dizzy. That’s when Gohan made his biggest mistake, he fell asleep!

Then next morning he awoke and to his much surprise jetted up to a sitting position. Shit! I fell asleep, he cursed in his head. He immediately looked over to Goten’s bed, he was gone! In his place there lay a note, on blood stained sheets… How could I have slept through this? Gohan checked around the room, everything was the same, except for the bed.

Slowly he crept over to the note and lifted it to his face:

“So I see you couldn’t solve

Thus a life has been taken

You have six more chances to guess

You have six more lives to protect

You killed your brother

Like you killed your father

What’s big green and powerful?

Something that is not me

Guess who I am

Before it’s too late…”

Gohan dropped the note as he trembled with a feeling of fear. He couldn’t take looking at that bed any longer. It had just been last night since he had saw him peacefully sleeping right in front of him, and now he’s gone. He ran out of that room, out into the hall, down that hall and into the kitchen where most of the adults were drinking coffee and making breakfast.

Soon as Kuririn saw Gohan’s panicked looked he as concerned, “What’s wrong?”

He didn’t know where to start. Chichi gasped with fright, “Don’t tell me…”

“Mom, I swear I tried my best!”

She ran off to the room screaming for her boy, “Goten-chan!!”

Gohan raced in front of her, he didn’t want her to see the scene. He stood in the doorway extending his arms out, “Mom, you don’t want to go in there!”

Soon enough the rest of the gang was behind Chichi pulling her back, but she gave her mightiest. Finally it took a punch from Vegeta to knock her out. Bulma and Gyuu Maou took her back to the living room.

The rest entered the small room. Then Gohan gasped. There was another note on the bed; a new one had made its way to the bed. “That means he was just here…” he said aloud.

“What?” Whispered Kuririn.

Gohan pointed his shaky finger to the note, “That wasn’t there before…”

Yamucha gave look of astonishment, “How he’d get in with out us knowing?”

Kuririn picked up the new letter and from it fell a Polaroid picture of Goten just before he died. It was a close of his face. He had bruises to scratches to bleeding cuts to. With tears running down his innocent face. Kuririn clenched his fists, “How can someone do such a thing to a child?” He started to read the paper in his hand:

“From this picture is my proof

That Son Goten is dead

This letter is written in blood

The blood of that child

I know my way around

You never knew I was here

Next to die

Is not a guy

Guess who I am

Before it’s too late…”

Gohan recovered the other note and showed it to everyone. Once again they conjugated around the coffee table this time it was more solemn and serious. Someone had died… A child had died…

“From these clues I can see that we can rule out Cell and Piccolo since they are big green and powerful.” Yamucha stated.

Gohan stood up, “I know Piccolo would have nothing to do with this!”

“Calm down. I know, I know, but now a days we can’t trust anyone. Not even each other,” Kuririn tried to ease Gohan back to a seating position.

“You know, maybe we shouldn’t take these clues so literally. Gohan could have known this guy from before seven years ago,” Bulma was agreeing with Kuririn

Vegeta joined in, “Yeah, who knows, maybe Kakarotto’s brat did it.”

“What!?” Gohan was outraged.

“Think about it you were the only one that was around that brat! You could have easily made the letters, token the picture and killed the kid.”

“Why would I do that!? I was trying to protect him!!”

“Well looks like you failed miserably!”

Yamucha intervened, “Hold it! Hold it! We aren’t going to blame anyone. Besides remember this important clue, Goten didn’t know the guy. From now one, everyone is one their guard. We have got to stick together. Now we have all day to figure this out. So lets get cracking!”

Grabbing a hold of Oolong Puar reinstated what Yamucha said, “Yes we’ve got to stick together!”

“Get off of me!” Oolong tried his best to shove the cat off of him.

Kamesen’nin laid out their information so far, “So the killer isn’t Cell or Piccolo, not a new enemy, but powerful, and knows their way around Capsule Corp.”

“That could only mean that the dude is one of us!” Yamucha concluded.

Gohan resumed the conversation, “But what about the first clue, black, blue, red, yellow, orange? It has got to have some significance.”

A sleepy little girl walked into the room, still wearing her pajamas. She headed for her daddy, and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Kuririn looked into her sweet eyes, but couldn’t sum up the words to tell her, “Well you see…”

“Goten died.” Bulma had blurted it out.

“Oh nice way to put it Bulma!”

Marron’s eyes started to water. She didn’t have the many friends, and to know she had lost one, it was in the least bit going to make her happy. Juuhachi-gou let go of her normal facial feature to a more motherly face and hugged her daughter. Tears were scrolling down the girl’s cheeks. Then after a few minutes after soothing her baby, “What the hell are you starting at!?” Everyone immediately took their eyes off of her to the first thing that caught their eye. Marron sniffed a little as Kuririn dried her tears with a tissue.

Bulma continued, “But don’t you see, Goten can be wished back to life! If some of us go to find the dragonballs then we’ll be all set! First we should establish some ground rules. First, everyone must stay in here (unless they are collecting dragonballs), two, everyone must have an alibi with them at all times, three, we will all take sleeping shifts during the night. IF we all follow those rules then I think we should be fine.”

“But who gets to go and who gets to stay?” asked Oolong. “I’d rather go then be trapped in this place with some weirdo going after me.”

“Fine then, you can go! Vegeta and Gohan are definitely staying. I think that Kuririn, Juuhachi-gou, Marron, and Trunks should go find the dragonballs, mainly because we need our main enforcements here and that I don’t want the kids getting harmed by any cost. If anyone would like to join them then fine by me. After the seven days are done, then we’ll let you guys back into Capsule Corp. So is it settled?” Everyone gave her a stern nod of the head as an agreement.

So the chosen few to find the dragonballs were sent out (with Oolong), as Capsule Corp. went on total lock down. There were now isolated, but was it enough to stop the pscho? Floating high above the facility there he was, a shadow like figure looking down upon the round building, watching the five people leave. Or is it that the dragonball five are now in great jeopardy?

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Well wasn’t that an interesting turn of events? For all you Goten lovers, I’m sorry but come on that’s just how the story goes. I’m actually not to sure on what’s going to happen next so it might take me a little while for the next chapter to come out. I’m kind of running out of ideas for clues on whom the villain is. Hey when you review, because I know you will, tell me who you think it is. If your right then maybe you’ll get a cookie or something. I don’t know. Well see you until next chapter!

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