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~Chapter 7: ballroom~

Like Vegeta, Goku had also felt the house from a great distant. He just labelled it 'weird'. He was still strangely happy to Jack and Celine, but they had gotten used to it. Obviously he must have faced times worse than what he was to embark now. His ease and joy comforted everyone on board. Vegeta and Bulma on the other hand were getting kind of agitated by Goku's cheerfulness.
Bulma had thought her decision of telling Vegeta that she was with child, over and over, and came to the conclusion that she would tell him as soon as they were normal again.
They all landed in the garden, which was colourful to Vegeta and Bulma, but still dark to the living. As soon as Vegeta and Bulma walked inside of the mansion, their feet disappeared in the floor. They both realised that only things made by nature could be touched. On their way to Capsule Corp. they had encountered planes they could fly through but also trees they had to avoid after an unfortunate occasion.
Goku laughed at the sight of the door lying on the ground. It was possible that Vegeta had been angry at it for not opening or just being in the way. All stepped in and made the dust swirl around again. Mr. Briefs pointed at the footprints. Goku nodded. His smile was replaced by a serious look. He felt more than just life, he felt evil. Not strong evil, but evil none the less. Being within the house was different. Goku sensed differently inside than outside and that made him, somehow, aware of nearing danger.
The first thing he did was fly upstairs and open a door. There was a bed inside which had red curtains around it, concealing whatever the dark shadow was that was lying in bed. Goku softly slid the curtains aside. He too saw the body, it's head fallen on the floor, leaving the rest of the body under the sheets. He let go of the curtain and backed out of the room.
'Let's go downstairs' he told himself while flying in that direction. This guy died in bed, but why was his head... someplace else? Would Vegeta or Bulma have something to do with this?

Celine and Jack had already made their way to the music box in the ballroom. With the key they found on the floor, they opened the box. Goku walked inside, saw Bulma and Vegeta standing on the platform and laughed hysterically at them. This angered Vegeta much and he powered up.
'Doesn't that baka see we are in way more trouble than that!?' Bulma shrugged, she thought the dress looked kind of cute on her. She just ignored Vegeta's anger and focused on Celine's actions. She was winding the key at the back of the music box. When she let go of the lever, the flesh and blood Vegeta and Bulma started dancing and soon started singing. Suddenly Bulma remembered the text plate:
In order to break the spell completely
You need to destroy the magical music box.
'Vegeta! I know how to get out of this mess!' Vegeta looked at her. 'We could try and destroy the music box.'
-'And how do you suppose we do that? Keep on walking through it until it gets tired of us and blows itself up?' She ignored his comment.
'We have to contact Goku somehow and tell him to do it.' She looked at Goku and concentrated real hard. No response.

Celine started speaking like she was telling a tale.
'Long ago, a warlock made this box to capture life. One day he came to visit us here in this mansion, to demonstrate his dolls. We were all impressed by the life like puppets that danced before us. The fools we were then. Little did we know about the sorcerer's plan to lock us up and steal our house. I asked if we could have the music box. He would give it to us, if we were to say a few lines, as a pact. So we said the words, which are behind the dolls over there...' she pointed at a golden plate at the back of the box. 'We transformed into puppets and have been kept in that box for many years until they exchanged places with us.'
'This warlock guy seems like a really sneaky fella.' Goku replied to Celine's story. Jack wondered if he actually had a brain. Celine didn't pay attention to Goku and kept on speaking.
'There is a way to end the spell, but it can't bring them back. You see, the music box stores a soul. When you want to end the spell you would have to destroy the box. But when you do that it would also destroy that captured soul.'
'Come on there has got to be another way to save them,' Said Goku, obviously not happy with this. He preferred to just go into battle. All this warlock nonsense was too big of a problem, which he couldn't solve by winning a fight.
'They only way to save them would be to have us return to dolls and then destroy the box.' Goku shook his head.
'No I can't ask that of you.'
'I know, I don't like to die, but I think that is our best option. I would gladly...' Celine abruptly got broken of by an exclamation from Goku.
'The dragonballs!' Celine and Jack frowned.
'The what?' Jack said, still thinking that Goku was a real weirdo.
'The dragonballs. We could bring you guys back by using the dragonballs. First you would trade places with Bulma and Vegeta, and then we wish you back by using the dragonballs.'
'What are dragonballs?' Goku smiled.
'Seven magic balls that you can use to make a wish. They can even be used to wish somebody back from the dead.'
'Ok,' Celine said 'Let me think it over first.' Jack rushed over to Celine and took her aside.
'What are you doing? You're not actually going to trust him? I don't think there are such things as dragonballs that can wish someone back from the dead. We can't believe what he's saying.'
'I know, that is why I am thinking it over. Still, Jack, I think we should be up there and not them.'
'What! And let ourselves be killed? I prefer to have a life before I die, Celine.'
'Don't you see? We don't belong here in this world. Times have changed; we belong in the past, not in the future.' Jack sighed. She was right. They had been dolls for a very long time. Picking up their life was going to be hard, definitely now, when so many years have passed. Jack nodded
'Ok, let's do it. But I still don't think they can bring us back.'
'No. But they don't have to.' Jack looked in her eyes and knew they were better off this way. He nodded again and faced Goku.

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