Chapter one: The Reading
The young half vampire Vladimir Tod awoke from the sound of a buzzing fly above him. The annoying pest hovered and genitally landed on top of his friend's, henry, forehead. Vlad raised his hand and looked at the pestering horse fly, "Don't think I won't do it." The fly continued to clean its self.
With a loud slap that echoed throughout the teenager's room, henry shot straight up and cupped his forehead. "Dude!" he spoke.
"There was a fly," he said innocently.
Henry rubbed his pained head. "Did you at least get it?"
"Yeah I think so," Vald responds as the fly, living and annoying just as before, flew past his face.
Vald tries to apologizes, but is cut off by Henry, "I smell bacon."
Both of the boys jumped out of bed and rand down the stairs to the kitchen, where the delicious smell of greasy pork strips originated from. For Henry this was the calling to get up from bed, but there was other smells among the bacon that attracted Vald. The smell of fresh cinnamon rolls and a warm mug of O-positive blood brought the boy down from his liar.
"Food," Henry grunted.
The young human friend sat at the table and shoveled greasy strips of bacon into his mouth. Vladimir hugged Nelly as he grabs the mug of blood and a cinnamon roll.
"Deb mentioned that an entire freezer of blood is about to expire at the hospital. With your appetite lately, Vladimir, I'd better sneak out as much of it as I can." Nelly placed some more yummy bacon in front of the hungry Henry. "You got blood all over your shirt."
Vlad looked down at his yellow T-shirt and noticed the two red dots on it. "Sorry I was hungry," he apologized.
"Just be more careful next time. Contrary to popular belief, laundry doesn't top my favorite things to do list," said Nelly.
The two young boys looked at each other. "So did you get your schedule yet?" Henry asked his vampire friend.
"I got Mrs. Bell for English, first period," Vlad groaned back.
"Looks like you're not alone. I've got her too, and from what my mom said yesterday, so does Joss."
"When's your cousin supposed to here anyway?" Vlad asked.
"Sunday," He answered, "Oh, and just so you know, don't count on seeing me that day. My mom's on some family togetherness kick," He added as he rolled his eyes.
"How annoying."
Nelly glared at him, "Vladimir!"
"I mean, how lovely of your parental figure to insist on enjoying quality time together. You should be grateful," Vald quickly corrected his self.
Both the boys could not help but to laugh.
Nelly rolled her eyes, "All right, smart mouth. I'm going to get the mail. Henry, watch Vlad while I'm gone. He's a trouble maker."
"Nelly!"
Nelly smiled, "I mean he's a wonderful boy who brightens my day and makes my life worth living."
Vlad turned to henry which had a strange look on his face. "What?" Vlad questioned.
"Did you call Meredith yet?"
Vlad sat up straight. "Twice actually."
"You Talk to her?"
Vlad stretched his hand out slowly and picked up his mug. From that he took a nice long drink.
He sighed, "Nope. Hung up both times. I think she heard me breathing once though."
"That's progress." Henry looked at Vlad, "You do know that she has caller ID, right?"
Vlad's eyes grew big. "She does?"
"Yeah, but dude, check this out," Henry got closer to Vlad, "Last night, Greg told me something interesting about the upperclassmen girls."
Vald leaned in closer. "Interesting? Like how?"
"He says that if you can get invited to one of the senior parties, that some of those girls take pity on the lower classmen and they'll- "
Nelly walked into the kitchen stopping Henry's interesting story. What are you boys talking about?"
They both answer, "Nothing!"
Vlad changes the subject, "Anything from Otis?"
Nelly searched through the stack. "Honestly, Vladimir. Your uncle has written to you at least once a week since the day he left Bathory. Do you really think he'd about you now?" she pulled out a thick envelope and handed it to Vlad with a smile.
He quickly opened it and read. Nelly was cleaning up the kitchen and Henry was shoveling more and more bacon while Vlad read.
After reading he was slightly glad to hear from his uncle and to know some great tips for his powers.
"What did he say?" Henry asked trying to keep the bacon from pouring out of his mouth.
Vlad puts the letter in to his pocket. "He says to tell Nelly hi and he enclosed with some tips for telepathy."
Nelly smiled and grabbed her purse as she walked to the door. "I'm late. I was supposed to take Deb's shift at the hospital this afternoon. Can you boys fend for dinner?"
The door closes before either of the can answer.
"Do you wanna try something out? I've been dying to know if Melissa Hart likes me." The young teenage boy looks at his vampire with a giant grin on his face.
"I want to study the notes first for a few days. Maybe we'll try something this weekend."
Henry groaned. "Come on! I'm busy this weekend. Joss remember?"
"I want to read them first."
"So read them. Then we can head over to the mall in Stokerton. Melissa is doing that 'end of summer/fall fashion show they do every year, and you-"
"Henry I said no." Vlad had said sternly.
Henry obeyed and nodded.
"You wanna play Race to Armageddon 2?"
Henry gasped, "No way!"
"They say it's twice the action, and three times more the gore."
After two hours of playing the gory video game, eating and drinking several Pepsis Vald gets up to get a pouch of blood and drank it all in no time. The vampire released a burb from within.
"Pig," Henry snickered.
" 'Scuse me."
Henry spoke in a more serious tone, "Do you think you'll ever start feeding on people?"
"No way. Not in a million years." Vlad looked at his friend, "You actually think I'd do that?"
"Well, you did bite me when we were eight."
"Dude, we were eight. Besides you told me to."
He pretended not to hear that. "And just now, before you bit into the bag, your eyes changed that weird iridescent purple the way they do when you touch a glyph." He pauses, "I'm just saying it's possible. I mean, what if the bags and snack packs aren't enough anymore?"
"If they were good enough for dad to live on, they're good enough for me. Besides, the day I start feeding on people is the day I start beating you at video games."
Henry laughed as he picked up his controller. "So you're saying it'll never happen."
A young lady closed the book of which she read. Her hair was long, blond and slightly curled at the ends. She turns to another young lady with dark, long, curly hair that stood be hide her.
"So now what?" the dark haired girl asked.
"Well first off are we enrolled into Bathory High yet?" the blond asked.
"Took care of that this morning," the dark haired one handed the blond on a piece of paper, "Here's your scheduler."
The blond gladly took the paper. "Thank you my friend," She looked over the classes for her ninth grade year. "These are some good classes, did you pick these yourself?" she asked.
Her friend smirked, "Yeah, and I also made sure we had many classes with those two boys."
"Good job Shasa!"
Shasa smiled. "Speaking of the boys, what does the book say about them now?"
The girl glanced at the closed leather bound book that sat on her candle lit desk. "Where I stopped they were playing video games, a very gory one. And they were talking….."
"About what?" her companion Shasa asked.
"His eyes,"
"What about them?"
"They're starting to change color when he consumes blood." Her voice was low and monotone when she spoke. She continued to stare at the book. The features of it haven't been seen by many before. It looked old and well used. On the front cover was a large symbol unknown to humans.
Her deep thought was broken by the gentle placement of Shasa's hand on her shoulder.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" she asked her friend with concern.
"Of course I am. I haven't been surer in my life."
Shasa signed. "You know what the prophecy says, you know you could be killed if this doesn't turn out the way you want it to go." She sat in a chair beside her friend. "I don't want you to get hurt, Cheshire."
The young blond Cheshire places her hand ever so gently on Shasa's face, caressing it. "There is no need to worry; fate is our favor for this."
"That's what you always say and fate has always screwed us over." Shasa hugged Cheshire. Her head lied on Cheshire's bosom. She could hear her heart beat. It was slow and calm. Cheshire began to stroke the hair of Shasa; soft and gentile.
Cheshire grinned slightly and began to sing.
"Go to sleep you little babe
Go to sleep you little babe
Your mama's gone away and your daddy's gonna stay
Didn't leave nobody but the baby." Her voice was soft, sweet and calming.
"Go to sleep you little babe
Go to sleep you little babe
Everybody's gone in the cotton and the corn
Didn't leave nobody but the baby." As she sung the young girl slinked down into her lap.
"You're sweet little babe
You're sweet little babe
Honey in the rock and the sugar don't stop
Gonna' bring a bottle to the baby." Shasa began to drift away into the dream world where the Sandman called for her.
"Don't you weep pretty babe
Don't you weep pretty babe
She's long gone with her red shoes on
Gonna' need another lovin' baby." Shasa tried to resist but she couldn't, the more she tried the more she failed.
"Go to sleep you little babe
Go to sleep you little babe
You and me and the Devil makes three
Don't need no other lovin' baby
Go to sleep you little babe
Go to sleep you little babe
Come and lay your bones on the alabaster stones." Shasa was on the brink of falling into the dream world.
"And be my ever-lovin' baby."
Finally she was done and Shasa was on the floor asleep. "I guess I over did it a little?" She giggled a little at the sight of the sleeping Shasa. She looked much like a puppy, curled up in a ball in all. "Oh well." Cheshire stood up walked to a different room. She came back in shortly with a blue fuzzy blanket. She laid it softly on her unconscious friend on the wooden floor.
"I guess I'll do all the packing then." Cheshire walked out of the room and begun to pack there things into two small bags.
She continued to pack for several hours, stuffing more and more into the little bags, until she finally gave up and fell asleep. There she rested for the next day to come.
A/N: Just to let you know the lyrics to the song that Cheshire was sing was from O Brother Where Aren't Thou the song in called Don't Leave Nobody But the Baby. It's a good song and I recommend watching the movie. Well hope you all liked it and please leave non hateful comments. Please and Thank you.