Disclaimer- I do not own Young Dracula or any of the characters or anything that could get me sued.
Glenda's P.O.V
I was sitting behind the counter at Ezymart on a sunny afternoon when my friend Sadie walked in.
"Hello Glenda," she said to me, "lovely day isn't it?" She handed me the latest paper. Sadie always brought the paper to Ezymart where I worked on Sundays for me while I was on counter duty.
I started browsing the property sales section when a SOLD sign caught my attention. It was the old castle up the road from my house.
"Have you seen this?" I asked Sadie, showing her the SOLD sign on the castle's profile.
"Yeah, a family moved in a couple of days ago from Romania. I haven't met them. I've heard they kind of keep to themselves."
About a minute after Sadie left the door opened and a young boy with dark hair and very pale skin walked in. He was dressed head to toe in black with a thick black hoodie to cover his face. He kept his head down as he walked over to the clothes rack and started looking through the black dresses.
"Do you need any help?" I asked him.
"I need a black dress for my sister," he told me.
"Does it have to be black?" I asked him.
"Yes. She likes black. She thinks it suits her," he explained.
I helped him pick a dress and he paid me then made sure his face was covered before running off faster than I thought possible.
A couple of days later I was walking down the street to the café to meet another friend of mine when I saw the pale boy walking with a brown haired boy. He was always looking where he was going and avoiding the sunlight.
I walked past them and heard them talking.
"The slayers guild are preparing for war," the brown haired boy said.
"We need to get rid of Erin. She doesn't think before she bites," the pale boy said.
"Why don't you come up to the castle and we can talk about it in private?" the pale boy said looking at me.
Later that night I was eating dinner and thinking about the conversation between the two boys. I had heaps of questions including:
What is the Slayers Guild? Who is Erin? How did the boy know I was listening? And what war were they talking about?
That night it was one in the morning before I could go to sleep and I knew I wouldn't have a good day at Ezymart tomorrow.
In the morning I was to tired to concentrate I spilt the milk twice before putting some in my tea and I almost burnt my toast.
Later that afternoon I was doing the shopping after work at the local supermarket. I like to shop late as the prices are lower to get rid of stock.
The supermarket was nearly empty except for an elderly couple, a mum with a baby and two teenage boys talking to each other in the health food section.
I went to the health section to get the fruit bars that I like to take to work. As I got closer I realized that the two boys were the pale boy and his friend. They were talking quietly when the pale boy noticed me and moved out of the way so I could reach the bars.
"Thanks," I muttered.
" I'd better get back, Mum will ask questions if I'm late and I don't want her to find out I'm still talking to you," the brown haired boy said to the pale boy.
"And Dad probably wants me look after Wolfie again," the pale boy said.
They both went different ways and I moved on to get the milk.
That night I was thinking about the two boys again and formed a hypothesis that answered some of my questions:
The two boys were friends but their parents didn't want them to be and their family's were at war but the boys were trying to stop it.
It didn't answer all the questions but at least I could sleep better that night even though there was thunder booming in the background and rain splattering on the roof.
The next day was dark and foggy and the sun wasn't in sight I dressed in warm clothes and prepared myself for a cold, miserable day with no customers.
But at about 9:45am, just after I'd turned the heater up and opened my book, the two boys walked in. The pale boy was underdressed for such a cold day and he looked more relaxed than he usually did. The brow haired boy was dressed more sensibly with thick, dark green pants and a heavy coat.
They walked in casually and started looking at the wigs.
"Need any help?" I asked them politely.
"We're making a life sized puppet and need to dress it up," the pale boy said.
He had an accent, defiantly Romanian. I decided he must have moved into the castle with his family.
I helped them find some clothes for the life sized puppet they were making and they walked out laughing at something the pale boy had said.
I had no more customers that day and walked home thinking about the two boys and their life sized puppet.
A week later I decided I had better go up to the castle to meet my neighbors.
As I walked up to the castle the pale boy and his friend came walked out and they spotted me.
"Hello," I said , " my name's Glenda. I thought I'd come and meet the neighbors."
"I'm Vlad," the pale boy said, "come in I'll get dad."
"That isn't a good idea," I heard the other boy say to Vlad.
"Relax, Dad's gone off beautiful women since miss McCauley," Vlad replied.
I walked in, following Vlad and the his friend, whose name I still didn't know. We walked into what appeared to be the dining room. In the middle of the room was a big table. Surrounding the table were lots of people that must have been Vlad's family.
"This is my dad, ," Vlad said pointing to a man with shoulder length pitch black hair. "My half sister, Ingrid," He continued, pointing at a girl that looked about 20. "My half brothers Malik and Wolfie," he pointed at a child about 5 and a boy about Ingrid's age with a leather jacket. "And these are my friends, Jonno and Talitha," Vlad pointed at the brow haired boy and a girl who looked very protective around Vlad. "And my tutor Bertrand." Vlad said, looking at a teenager with curly hair and a serious expression.
After that the butler, Renfield, prepared some food for us and we had biscuits and a cup of tea.
That night I slept much better because I had met the neighbors, even if they had been a little strange.
The next day at Ezymart I finished up early because I had a doctors appointment.
After the appointment I decided to do some late afternoon shopping at the craft store. I walked up the back to find some paper flowers for a card I was making for my granddaughter. I found the flowers and as I was walking to the other side of the shop to get some glue I saw Vlad, Bertrand and Tahlitha talking quietly in the wood section. They seemed to be looking at a wooden stake.
I moved a bit closer and started listening to their conversation.
"This thing is deadly. We need to destroy them," Vlad said.
"We are aware of that but how?" Talitha asked.
"Jonno will give us daily updates," Vlad replied.
"Which means we can work out where the weaponry is and sneak in and destroy most of the weapons," Bertrand said.
I saw Jonno walk over to them.
"The slayers are putting garlic juice on all the walls around the weaponry," he said.
"We can distract the slayers with the puppet while Renfeild gets in to the weaponry and opens the door then we can fly in and take the weapons," Vlad said.
I started to wonder if I was hearing them right after Vlad said that they could fly in. I quickly got out of the shop after that so that they didn't find out that I was listening.
I couldn't sleep that night because of all the unanswered questions swirling around in my head:
What was the slayers guild? Why were they in the craft shop? And how was a wooden stake dangerous.
The next day at Ezymart I was reading my book, not expecting any customers because the weather was still bad, when Vlad, Bertrand and Wolfie walked in. They came up to the counter and I closed book.
"Why were you listening to us yesterday in the craft store," Vlad asked me.
"I was curious," I replied innocently
"I suppose you have lots of questions then?" Bertrand asked.
"What is the Slayers Guild?" I asked, not expecting a decent answer.
"A group of psychos committed to killing bad creatures," Vlad replied, choosing his words of carefully. I could tell they were hiding something from me.
"Who is Erin?" I asked thinking back to when they caught me listening in the street.
"She's a criminal," Vlad answered, " she used to be my girlfriend," he added quietly.
"And why are you making a life sized puppet?" I asked.
"We're using it as a distraction," Wolfie answered.
I knew that they wouldn't give me any more information.
Jonno came in and whispered something in Vlad's ear.
"Where?" Vlad asked Jonno.
"Sydney," Jonno replied.
"Meet me in the castle in half an hour I tell the others to prepare for something big," Vlad said.
"What's happening?" Wolfie asked.
"Something bad," Vlad replied with a sigh.
I watched as they ran back up to the castle and wondered what could be happening.
After work I went up to the castle in the hope of finding out what was going on. I knocked on the door and Renfield let me in. Vlad came in after Renfield called him down, closely followed by Wolfie, Bertrand, Talitha, Jonno, Malik and Ingrid.
"Why is this thing here, Renfield?" Ingrid asked.
"She knocked," Renfield answered.
"Calm down Ingrid, she want to know what's going on in Sydney," Vlad said and pushed Ingrid back.
"Well your not going to tell this breather all our secrets are you?" Malik asked.
"Not all of them but I will tell her what's happening in Sydney, " Vlad replied, " let's sit down."
I followed Vlad and the others in to a large room.
Wolfie sat down next to Vlad and I sat across from them, the others stood up behind Vlad.
"Erin has been sighted in Sydney, she's raising an army of homeless and they're going to attack us tonight," Vlad explained.
"How are homeless people going to be a good army?" I asked.
"These aren't ordinary homeless people," Vlad told me, "they're vampires."
"Vlad, you said you wouldn't tell her," Ingrid screamed.
" I said I wouldn't tell her everything," Vlad said, "I didn't tell her about the Praedictum Impaver or our thousands of enemies trying to kill us," Vlad said, with a hint of sarcasm.
"So let me get this straight," I said, "your hiding from an army of vampires, your former girlfriend, an organization of slayers and a few handfuls of loose enemies that want you dead," I summed up.
"Yep," Vlad said.
Then the door burst open and a dozen people armed with UV guns, stakes and crossbows.
I guessed they were the Slayers as I ran to the back of the room with Wolfie and Renfield while Vlad, Malik, Ingrid and Tahlitha spread out to protect us. Jonno stepped in front of the slayers to stop them firing.
"Call yourself a slayer, then make friends with this thing," one of the slayers said to Jonno, "whose side are you on Johnathan Van Helsing?"
"I'm not taking sides and his name is Vlad," Jonno told him.
"Oh watch out everyone its that all famous Chosen One," another slayer said.
"I don't think I'm that famous," Vlad said.
"Vamps most wanted number one," another slayer said, and fired a UV gun at the roof.
Another slayer fired a crossbow a Tahlitha but she knocked it away with the back of her hand and jumped on the slayer that was about to stake Vlad.
That's the first chapter done hoping to get a new one up in a week or so. Just thought I would let you know I'm not a big fan of romance so don't expect a loving story with kissing and all that. I might add a bit of Vlad/Tahlitha or Vlad/Erin later on. Also Robin and his family from Stokely will come back in the next chapter.
More fighting scenes coming up.
Sorry if I got any punctuation or spelling wrong I edited really quickly and late at night.