Young Dracula Season 4: Outtakes
Me: I keep on putting season 3 instead of 4. How stupid is that!
Jonno: *looking at me with a confused look* Hello?
Vlad: I think she's not listening to us mate.
Me: *turning to face the boys* What are you doing here?
Vlad: Nice to see you too.
Me: *matter of factly* I wasn't talking to you!
Jonno: Vlad invited me seeing as Ingrid is busy... you don't mind do you?
Me: No, of course not. *sighs in relief* At least you won't rip my head off, like Ingrid would.
Vlad: She can't rip your head off.
Jonno: The slayers would never allow it.
Me: *saracastically* Thanks you two, I'm sooo reassured... *back to normal voice* Anyway, the real reason you're here is because the next two outtakes are based around you two.
Jonno: They are?
Vlad: *knowingly* Yeah, they will be.
Me: *points at the boys* You two, are starting to creep me out... with your friendliness. I don't get how that is possible! *shudders* Can you just get on with the disclaimer?
Vlad: I'll do it, seeing as Jonno doesn't know. C doesn't own me, Jonno or Young Dracula.
Me: Thank you.
A/N: Yeah, this outtake is late. I'M SORRY!
It's just The Good, the Bad and the Undead is a difficult one to come with an outtake for. I know exactly what the one after will be about but this one I've really struggled to come up with.
I think I'm getting a bad case of writer's block! Anyway, this outtake should be okay, but I don't know for sure... enjoy!
Interference – based during episode 1 of season 4 (finally, this has been written!)
Vlad wasn't comfortable with phones, how could he be. He was a vampire; he was raised away from technology. He didn't go round playing on iPhones or Androids, listening to music on iPods or MP4 players, fiddling online on laptops and watching TV like other teenagers. He was raised like it was the 1940s/1950s or something.
It was only recently Vlad had after many years and many fights with his father he'd got a phone. Ingrid has managed to get her hands on technology a long time ago because the Count didn't care if his daughter ended like the other breather teenagers, but when it came to Vlad he wanted Vlad to be a vampire who killed all the time, biting people, no technology, basically living like it was the medieval times.
How stupid was that? It was the 21st century, not the 1st millennium! Technology was the hyp, and the key to destroying vampires. Vlad knew that for a fact. It was the reason the slayers in the past half a decade had gone from barely being able to stake a lone untrained vampire in Transylvania to slaying worldwide with over half a million members.
Vlad shuddered at that kind of number, not that the vampire population numbers were any smaller than the slayer numbers but still...
Vlad reluctantly dialled Jonno; he knew Jonno wasn't going to take Vlad's plan very well, but what choice did they really have; they were both being pressured by their respective councils to show that the treaty was working and they shouldn't go back to war... back to the old ways.
"Jonno, we have a problem."
Jonno was surprised to hear this; he didn't know Vlad knew about his council meeting.
"How did you know?" Jonno asked.
"What?" Vlad sounded just as confused as Jonno felt.
"The council meeting,"
"How did you know about it?" Vlad asked.
"Hold up, I was there,"
"No, you weren't, you aren't a member of the vampire high council," Vlad told him.
Jonno then laughed at their mistake. "Sorry mate, I thought you were talking about the slayer's council meeting. Obviously you had a council meeting at the same time we did."
Jonno heard Vlad laugh too. "Oh right, that's one huge coincidence. So, I'm guessing your meeting went about as well as mine did from the sounds of it."
Jonno looked over his shoulder briefly to see if any slayers, in particular his mother, were around, none were making Jonno feel a wave of relief wash over him. "If you mean it went about as well as a vampire in a garlic pit then yes, mine went as well as yours, if yours went badly."
"Right," Vlad sighed. "The vampires aren't happy about the truce."
"Neither are the slayers," Jonno admitted. "It's beyond a joke. The slayer's claim they slay so we get peace, but all they are doing is making it worse for all of us. If they keep it up..."
"The secret may get out," Vlad finished; Jonno could easily hear the fear in Vlad's voice that he felt himself. "Then we will be all done for."
"Exactly, so have you got any ideas?" Jonno asked.
"You're asking me?" Vlad said surprised. "Need I remind you, you aren't meant to trust me?"
Jonno snorted at that. "You've proved yourself trustworthy to me, and besides you have been able to come up with plans since you were little, if Erin is telling the truth about that."
Vlad sighed. "Never date a slayer," Vlad muttered sarcastically, mostly to himself. "They learn your secrets if you do."
Jonno laughed. "So, I'm guessing she's right then."
Vlad winced on the other end. "Yeah, and I do have a plan, but I'd rather talk about it face to face. I'm not good with technology yet. So, can you come here in an hour or so?"
Jonno looked at his watch, not bothered by going to Garside, he wanted to get out of the garlic stinking place anyway, even if it meant going somewhere that was full of undead biters. "Sure, I don't see why not. It'll be easier for both of us."
"You promised what?" Jonno said stunned part angry as well. He was stood in throne room looked at Vlad with disbelief on his face... maybe he shouldn't have come here after all.
"A sporting event, vampires v slayers," Vlad explained.
The Count laughed. "Sport, vampires don't do sport! Unless in the next Olympics there is synchronised blood sucking!"
Jonno and Vlad winced in disgust.
"That's disgusting," Jonno told the Count, and turned to Vlad. "And you're mad; they'll rip each other to pieces!"
"Ohh, I like this plan!" The Count licked his fangs hungrily.
"Dad!" Vlad snapped glowering at his father and then turned to Jonno. "I know it's mad, most of my plans are. But we don't have a choice, the councils have pushed us both into a corner, they've interfered where we don't need them too and they are both against us. We need to prove them wrong and this is the best I can come up with. It's either this or back to war, and I know I don't want war."
"Neither do I," Jonno admitted with a sigh.
"Wimp," the Count muttered and pointed at the two boys. "You two are such killjoys."
Vlad rolled his eyes not surprised by his father's reaction.
"Alright, let's do it, I'll convince the council." Jonno decided, not all too pleased about the idea. "But what sport are we going to have them play?"
"Good old English football, I guess," Vlad shrugged dismissively, he'd already thought this through. "It's not violent enough for the slayers and vampires to slaughter each other."
"You're walking a fine line there Vlad," Jonno warned shaking his head, thinking through the past matches he'd been through with slayers and ordinary humans, some pleasant and some pretty horrible, if he hadn't have been a slayer he would have been totally disgusted by what had happened in some of the matches he'd played. "I know football better than you because..."
"I'm a rugby person," Vlad finished amused nodding in agreement empathically. "I'm not offended."
"Yeah, and football can get messy when the players want to be messy, we're going to have to be extra careful with the teams." Jonno warned. "Or it'll end up fangs and stakes."
Vlad nodded in agreement again, and looked at his father briefly knowing he would approve of his next idea to keep things nice and tidy. "We'll have to take a page out of the Dracula book then. Blackmail them," Vlad shrugged putting his hands into the pockets of his leather jacket. "Or bribe them, whichever, or both. I'll give the vampire team some blood if they play nicely and threaten to have them killed if they don't."
Jonno felt reassured at that, he knew Vlad took those kinds of threats seriously and wouldn't hesitate to stop the vampires from killing at a second's notice if he has to.
"Right, and I'll make sure the slayers are NOT armed, I won't threaten them because they won't believe me if they do. They are too used to being threatened by vampires that they count each one as a bluff so I'll just have to try and persuade them to play nicely." Jonno agreed.
Me: That was longer than I expected. Not that that is a bad thing.
Jonno: You seem to be awfully calm about having a vampire and slayer in your room.
Me: I'm used to it.
Vlad: She's weird like that.
Me: *rolling eyes* Next one is something I came up with a while ago because the end of episode one got on my nerves for a whole week! Gah! So the next outtake is to make me feel better about it and well to cover the gaping gap between episodes 1 and 2. Thank you for reading and please review!
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