Claire hit the grassy ground then handed Eve something. It was a silver metallic bracelet identical to the one she was wearing. She wore it all the time.

"You have another one?"Eve asked curiously as she wound it around her wrist.

"Just in case kind of thing." Claire said

Grabbing her book bag, she slung it over her shoulder and started walking. They had a ways to go if they wanted to get to the lab before dark. The sunlight was their friend today. Then again it was always nice to have sunshine in the land of vampires. The town was completely barren. There was nobody outside, not even vampires aflame.

"It's quiet." Eve squeaked

Claire nodded shakily. She kept her eyes peeled everywhere. That is until they were getting closer to where they needed to be and there wasn't a single thing in sight that made them run for their lives. Claire knew something was seriously wrong if there weren't any signs of life. None living or undead. It reminded her of Resident Evil, and she did not want to deal with zombies. She had a hard enough time dealing with vampires.

"This way." Claire said gesturing towards the alley across the street.

Eve sighed and looked at the alley way. It was dark. She looked at Claire. Claire was digging through her back pack quickly then pulled out a weird little doohickey. It was a metallic canister that looked like an old hairspray can with a weird nozzle. She shook it first and smiled.

"What is that?" Eve asked

"A little something I made myself. If anything comes at us it will quickly run away." Claire said as they started crossing the street.

As they crossed the squealing of tires around the corner caught there attention. It was a cop car, and it was coming their way very quickly. Its windows were tinted. Claire pushed eve ahead of her as they bolted across the street now. Eve made it to the other side, but if the car didn't come to a halt inches from hitting Claire, she would've broken her leg from getting hit. She stood there breathing heavily from the near collision. The window rolled down, and Claire and Eve slowly moved to see who it was.

"Eve."

It was Richard Morrell and two others in the cars.

"What are you doing out here?" he asked "Get in. We'll get you out of here."

"No can do officer." She said "We're looking for someone. Someone who might know what's going on."

"It's not exactly safe." Some else interjected

"Hess?" Eve asked

He nodded.

"Look, it's not safe. Vampires are running into the daylight like crazy and attacking everything." Richard continued

"That's why we're heading aomewhere that might be able to fix this." Claire said

Richard paused. Then he looked at her with something she could only figure was worry.

"Is my sister okay?" he asked

"Head to the house and see for yourself. Shane could use the help in trying to keep the house quiet. Your sister does have a big mouth." Claire said

Richard grumbled then nodded.

"Be careful." He told them then drove off.

Claire watched the car speed off and sighed. She turned and started down the alley. Eve rushed to catch up and pulled out the silver tipped stake Shane had given her. Then she linked arms with Claire. The two made their way down the alley.

"You ever seen the Wizard of Oz?" Eve asked

"Uh-huh." Claire said

"I'm just waiting for the lion to jump at us and eat us." Eve said

Claire snorted when she tried to hold back laughter. Eve hit her in the arm which only made her want to laugh more.

"What's that I smell?" a growl erupted "Two girls in wrong place at the right time."

Both of them spun a one-eighty and saw three, no four gangrel looking things skulking towards them. What were they? They were ugly that's what they were.

Claire pointed the canister at them.

"Eve, the door." Claire said

"What door!" she exclaimed looking around panicked "Oh!"

She must've found and opened it.

"The little girl going to spray us with hair product." One of them said laughing huskily

"You bet your ass." Claire snarled and pressed down on the nozzle.

When she did it also trigger the spark for the lighter and suddenly a large flame flew out at the things. They screamed hideously and backed away. Their faces melted, literally, and gave Claire the sudden urge to vomit. She kept her finger on the nozzle as she back to the trapdoor. She only let go as soon as she grabs the door and slams it down and locks it. there was scratching and pounding on it as she ran down the hall where she could see Eve waiting on her with the stake pointed out.

"What's in that, because they did not like that." she asked

"Just a little hairspray and silver particles. I just attached a lighter to it." Claire shrugged

"Whoa. Watch out world, here comes killer Claire."

"Well, I never had to use it." she said

Claire reached into her pocket and found nothing. Then her face lit up remembering that she always lost that key and had put it in a safe place. She ripped the chain from around her neck off and fumbled with the key as she unlocked the door. She rushed Eve in then locked it.

They both turned and sunk to the floor.

"We're alive right? They didn't eat us?" Eve asked

Claire reached over and pinched her.

"Ow!" she exclaimed while rubbing her arm

"Yup, we're alive." Claire said

"Okay, where's the boss then?" she asked

Claire looked around and didn't see him.

"Myrnin?" she called out

There wasn't an answer. There was no sign of life here, not that there had been before. Don't tell me he went out to try to fix this, Claire thought to herself. If he wasn't here to help her then who was? That's when a light bulb went off in her head.

A surge went through the room suddenly before she could do anything. When it was over a two dimensional young woman stood in the middle of the room. She looked down at them and smiled.

"Well, it seems that Morganville is having a temper tantrum." Ada said

"Ada, you are Morganville." Claire said

"Damn straight, and you won't take it from me!" she screamed

Then all of the sudden the door that both girls were leaning against disappeared and they fell back through a portal hole. It was dark now. Claire immediately turned to go back with Eve on her tail.

"Ada no!" she screamed

The hole closed before they could get to it though. Claire turned to Eve and took her hand.

"Where are we?" Eve asked

"I don't know…I'm not even sure how we got here where ever here is." Claire answered

Their eyes adjusted to the dark, and they noticed that there were bars and things behind those bars. Claire gulped as she heard them snarl and snap and try to grab them. They were surrounded on both sides.

"I'm going to have nightmares aren't I?" Eve said

Claire knew the question was rhetorical. They both were going to have nightmares about this place. At that moment though she hoped Shane and Michael were having better success where they were.

A knock at the door alerted both Michael and Shane.

"Just stay." Shane said

"Dude, don't boss me around." Michael said

Shane brushed of his comment and walked out of the kitchen to answer the door yet again. Who could it be this time?

"Okay, if you're some vampire I'm torching you." Shane said as he opened the door "You aren't vampires."

He stepped aside to let Richard and two others in. The other two were Hess and Lowe.

"Claire told us about your location. We thought that it might be god to have reinforcements here just in case." Hess said as he closed the door and locked it

"Where's my sister?" Richard asked quickly

"Skanking all over Claire's ex." Shane said flatly

Richard looked at him sideways, and Shane just shrugged.

"Coffee anyone?" he offered

"Yes." All three of them said simultaneously

Shane smirked and led them to the kitchen. Richard on the other hand went to see his sister first. Michael greeted the two men as they took a seat at the kitchen table.

"You let those two girls leave only to get themselves screwed." Lowe said shaking his head disapprovingly

"We did not, and we didn't get a chance to stop them." Michael said "They have minds of their own. The only thing we can do is hope that those two super heroes know what they're doing."

"We don't need two more dead friends." Shane added

Michael nodded in agreement as he looked at the digital clock on the microwave. It was sundown. If Michael's heart could beat it would've been as fast as a hummingbirds wings in his chest with worry for his girls. Shane's eyes exploited his own worry. His worry was deeper, because he was thinking about how he'd said that he didn't want to know about Claire's past. He wondered if he'd get the chance to ask her or even if he would. The house was quiet. Everyone had their own worries. Though it was quiet, it was louder than a highway on and airfield.