A/N: Ha! Yet another chapter on time. I'm getting better at this! (grins) So the second chapter after my summary and Prologue which is kind of like a first chapter. Anywho All Hallow's Eve in this chapter mwhahahahahaha! ahem any way. So yeah... not mush else to say.
Drac: aren't you forgetting something?
KT. Liiike?
Drac: fine I shall do it... (clears throat) Kairi's Twin does not own any of the characters from Van Helsing. she only owns the characters she made up.
Kt. (grumbles) spoil sport as long as that wasn't there at least I could pretend.
On with the chapter; Enjoy
Kairi's Twin
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Chapter 2: Confrontation and Action
Finally Halloween rolled around and Silver was totally psyched, she had spent hours putting her costume together. The fangs the girl had bought would not stick well to her teeth so she had to improvise, using a piece of Double Bubble as an adhesive. Her make-up alone took an hour and a half. When she was ready she came down stairs to wait for Natalya and Sabrina her two best friends. She was wearing a red velvet halter top with black tiger stripes and a mid thigh pleather skirt, all of her exposed skin was painted white. As her daughter came down the stairs Lyndis looked up fro her volume of The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling as she looked Silver over and raised her eyebrows.
"What? Did I miss a spot with my make up?" Silver asked at her mother's look.
"Is that what you think vampires wear? Pleather?"
The teen grinned at this question, "maybe not the old fashioned vamps, but I'm from a new generation! Besides how would you know what vampires wear mom?" she joked as the door bell rang.
Lyndis gave a secretive smile, "you might be surprised. Now go and have a good time with your friends and be careful."
The three of them were half way to Natalya's house; they made a gruesome trio… sort of. Silver dressed as a vampire, Natalya was a zombie princess she had done a very good job on her costume. Slightly less frightening was Sabrina who had simply decided to go as Sabrina the teenage witch. The three of them were chatting up a storm when Silver, not watching where she was going, accidentally bumped into a gentleman walking down the street in the opposite direction.
"Oh! Sorry that was my fault… I should learn to watch where I am going." she looked at the man she had bumped into; she could not see his face as he was wearing a deep hooded cloak which was black. In fact everything he wore was black all the way down to his Hungarian styled boots. When he spoke the first thing Silver noticed was that he had a heavy Romanian accent, much like her mother.
"No, on the contrary, it is I who should apologize. I beg your pardon young lady, I was distracted by your radiance and did not pay attention to where I was going." he said charmingly. Silver's friend giggled at this while the girl in question blushed furiously at the intended compliment. She thanked him awkwardly and after apologizing once more turned and hurried off with her friends.
Dracula smirked beneath the shadow of his hood. He had wanted to get a better look at Lyndis' daughter without her being able to identify him to her mother. It had occurred to him to kidnap the girl in order to force Lyndis to return to him. However he had decided against this plan of action. After all what would be the fun in that? The Count was going over his 'chance encounter' with Miss Everheart in his mind. It had worked out just as he had planned it. The girl truly was beautiful, just like her mother. He found it rather amusing that his little compliment had caused the young woman to blush, of course he could not see it not under all of that make-up but he had felt her body temperature increase. He had also learned some interesting things about the girl from a quick sojourn in her mind. Apparently the young woman's eyes were not brown as they appeared to the rest of the world but amethyst purple, and hidden by coloured contacts. Where she had gotten such colour he had not the faintest idea but it intrigued the Count. He was however slightly perplexed that the girl's mother would try to hide such a desirable attribute. He would have to ponder these questions later, now he had business to attend to.
"That was weird!" said Sabrina once they were out of ear shot of the stranger, "but he was so sexy."
Silver gave her friend a strange look, "Sabrina you only heard his voice you don't even know what he looks like!"
"Trust me I can just tell these things," she retorted, "and that guy was totally a ten on the sexy meter."
"Well he was courteous I'll give him that much," Natalya said laughing a little at Sabrina's logic, "but seriously… how old was that guy to be hitting on you like that Luna?" Luna was Natalya's nickname for Silver.
Silver just simply rolled her eyes at her friends' silliness, "come on you guys he was just being nice. Let's just forget about it and go to the party."
When the got to the party the band was already playing and quiet a few people had arrived. The first person Silver saw was Natalya's brother Kester. He and Silver had been good friends for a long time. Like Silver he was interested in things like vampires and werewolves.
"Hey Silver, great costume. How long did that take?" he asked looking over her costume.
"The make up took forever, the rest was pretty easy. Your costume is good too, the best pirate I've ever seen. Let me guess… Long John Silver?"
"Yeah, how did you know?"
"Duh! Treasure Island has only been your favourite book for like forever!" she said rolling her eyes. This caused Steven to laugh which got her going and they just laughed… some people gave them strange looks.
They had been at the party for about two hours it was almost eleven. This was when Silver got the strange feeling that she should head home. Silver had no idea what could have caused this feeling but it was strong. One thing he Uncle Quincy had always told was that she should always trust her instincts, they were good ones. She found Kester talking to Natalya by the punch bowl and told them that she was not feeling well and needed to go home. Natalya looked a little disappointed but said that if she wasn't feeling well she should go. Kester looked concerned and asked if he could give her a ride home. Silver said she was fine to walk and headed home.
Silver quietly slipped through the back door. Something told her to be as quiet as possible. Then she heard two voices from the living room. One was her mother's, the other was strangely familiar but Silver could not place it. The second voice was also male and had the same accent as her mother.
"So my dear have you considered my offer? I can assure you that you would be well provided for as would of course your daughter." the man asked, his voice was smooth as silk, Sabrina would have swooned for the sound of his voice alone… and called him sexy.
"Nothing you say or do could ever convince me to reconsider my answer. How the hell did you get in here?" the fear in her mother's voice frightened Silver, then it made her mad. How dare this man frighten her mother?
The man chuckled darkly, "you really should teach your daughter to be more careful about leaving her window open. An open window is an open invitation, this you know, Lyndis my love."
"Do not call me that! I hate you more than anything. Get out of my house you monster." by this point her mother sounded panicked this is when Silver decided to reveal herself.
"Mom! What's going on?" she took in the scene before her. Her mother backing away from a man who looked like the guy for the supper market five days ago. She assumed it was he. When she had spoken the man turned to face her. His face was handsome with a fine bone structure that gave him a princely look. The thing that struck Silver most about this man was his eyes. They seemed to penetrate her very soul with their icy blue depths.
"Ah Silver, at last we meet." he leered at her. Silver however did not notice as she looked him up and down.
"Who the hell are you supposed to be? You're some kind of vampire that much is obvious." Silver's voice was sarcastic, plus she was still pissed that this guy would frighten her mother. This caused all the colour to drain from her mother's face.
"Silver come here, now!" she called out desperately as the Count stepped towards her daughter.
"I sense that you do not believe in vampires my dear. Apparently your mother has not told you the truth of her past yet."
"Damn straight I don't believe in vamps. You can't scare me with that act. You are nothing more than a pervert who like to scare people for fun!"
"Silver don't! What ever you do, do not make him angry." her mother whispered. The Count had moved closer during Silver's retort and was now only a mere foot or two from the defiant girl. Suddenly without warning one of his hands shot out to grab her wrist.
"You are brave indeed to speak to me in such a way, I like that." he smirked, "however it would be prudent for you to use caution in how you address me. My patience will only stretch so far." he growled.
Silver glared up at him, looking him straight in the eyes. Then Silver began to feel strange. She felt kind of dizzy at first, then her mind started to go blank and she began to feel almost… sleepy. She could not break eye contact as she felt all of her tension and anger flow out of her body as she relaxed.
The Count smirked hugely, "Good, you should just relax my dear." he cooed gently guiding the entranced teenager closer to him.
Lyndis' body was paralyzed with fear for her daughter her voice however was not, "Silver do not listen to him! You must fight him, do not give in! Silver listen to me!" she cried out even more desperately than before.
Silver could hear her mother calling but she sounded so far away. She wanted to find her mother and tell her that she was alright. Then the music entered her mind, entrancing music that she could not ignore and that drowned out everything else as she gazed into the beautiful eyes of … master, her mind told her. No, that couldn't be right could it? The Count chuckled as he watched Lyndis attempt to awaken her daughter from her trance. He turned his thoughts back to the girl in front of him. His fangs slowly lengthened as he prepared to bite the beautiful girl.
Silver watched as the man opened his mouth. She saw the two fangs growing out of his gums and they were getting bigger. This realization jolted the girl from her entranced state as fear began to permeate every fibre of her body.
"Oh my God!" she whispered as she tried desperately to free herself form his grip, but of course he was too strong.
The Count calmly and gently brushed her long ebony hair away from her neck with his free hand, "hush now my dear, there is no need to fear. I promise it will not be painful in fact you might even enjoy this." he soothed as he began stroke her throat, gently caressing it. Silver could feel him starting to take control again; she fought this with all her strength. Then the she realized the easy way to solve the problem. The girl no longer doubted that he was a vampire.
Lyndis watched in horror as Dracula bent closer to her daughter's now exposed neck. Finally her body began to act as her brain grasped what was happening, her daughter was in danger! She reached into her pocket and pulled out her last defence against the Count. Before she could use it however her daughter found her own way to escape the Count's grasp. Silver acted quickly realizing that she was running out of time. She brought her knee up fast and hard into the vampire's groin. She hadn't taken martial arts and self defence for nothing. This caused the count to immediately release her from surprise and pain. He may have been immortal and he may have had the strength of twenty men but he was still a man. The moment he released her Silver immediately retreated to her mother's side.
"Thank God I paid for those lessons," Lyndis said, "Silver close your eyes.
After what had happened so far that nigh form not listening to her mother Silver decided that she had best do as she was told and squeezed her eyes shut,
"This is not over, not even close." The count snarled and disappeared as the solar flare that Lyndis had thrown went off. After the light had dispersed Lyndis turned to her daughter, seeing that she was unharmed the mother immediately began to think of escape.
"Silver, go pack and bring only what you deem essential. We have to be out of here with in the next three hours we can't afford any more time than that."
"Wait mom, what the hell is going on? Who was that vampire and what the hell did he want?" Silver was admittedly a little freaked out by all of this.
"Darling I promise I will explain everything to you, but first I want to make sure that we are away from here. Please go pack." her mother pleaded, Silver could see Lyndis was just as shaken by what had happened as she was.
The teen took a deep breath to calm down, "okay I'll go pack but where are we going to go?"
"I am not sure," her mother sighed, "maybe Michigan."
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A/N: So that is it for the second chapter. In the next chapter we get more of Lyndis' back story and the story of how she met Chase. You know what that means... FLASH BACK!!! Oh and just a note... double bubble does do a great job as a fake fang adhesive... I know from expirience.
Kt: (looks around and only sees Carl) Hey where are Gabriel and Vlad?
Carl: (sitting in a chair with his hands folded in his lap, he shrugs) I don't know.
KT: (mutters) Muses never around when you need them.
Carl: (looks afronted)
KT: except for you Carl... your my good muse.
Vlad: ( on the cieling) Technically I am still here... you just did not looke up.
Kt: Carl is still my good muse... he doesn't try to bite me.
Carl: (is smug)
Vlad: oh shut up Monk.
Carl: I didn't say anything. (realization dawns on face) and I - AM - A - FRIAR!!
Gabriel: (walks in) Carl don't listen to him... he knows what you are he's just trying to annoy you.
Kt: (sigh) why do I even bother... Oh yeah I love the movie! any ways people read and REVIEW!!!
Peace out
Kairi's Twin
