*Disclaimer - The characters in this story belong to Orson Scott Card who wrote the book "The Lost Boys" and Joel Schumacher who directed "The Lost Boys"
Movie. I only own the storyline in this story Vampire Family.*
Chapter Four: MTV anyone?
Things were quit for most of the time the boys were held in the cave. Each deep in their own thoughts over what occurred tonight and what their future
would hold.
The door suddenly opened and Star came in followed by Laddie.
"Star!" Michael got up and went to hug her.
"Michael!" Star jumped into Michael's arms and wrapped her arms around his neck. Laddie wrinkled his nose at the display and walked over sitting on the
mattress by Alan. Edgar, Allan, and Sam all turned glancing at Laddie before turning to face the two older teens.
Once they had hugged Michael put Star back on her feet. Star took a step back. She raised her eyes and said "I'm so sorry this has happened to you and
your brother."
She was flustered over their fate.
When she saw the frog brothers her eyes widened. She looked at Michael and asked "Who are they?"
Edgar scowled "We're the Frog brothers. I'm Edgar and this is Alan."
He pulled a card out of his pocket and gave it to star.
"Vampire hunters?" She looked at them with confusion. They just grunted a yes. She sat on the other mattress and looked at them. "Is that why you came
along?"
They grunted another yes.
"Star, what time is it?" asked Sam.
"It's 1:00 in the morning."
"Shit! moms going to freak!" Sam stood up then remembered David. His face went white and turned toward Michael. "He said he was getting Nanook? What
happens when he meets mom?"
Michael turned to look at Sam and his eyes went wide.
A bark echoed within the cave. Sam ran out the door to where the noise came from yelling "Nanook!"
Everyone followed behind him. Sam stopped at the entrance of the lounge before running to Nanook who started to bark at everyone. Sam dropped on his
knees hugging Nanook. He smiled and yelled "Cool it Nanook!"
He looked up to see David nursing his hand that was bleeding, probably a bite from Nanook.
David frowned and said to Sam "You got a pretty good guard dog there."
Sam smiled "Thanks."
Edgar smirked "Dog knows a bloodsucker when he smells one."
Alan smiled and nodded.
David noticed that the Frog brothers were covered in mud.
"The showers are over there if you need one." Pointing toward the left hand corridor. "Third door on the left."
Alan smiled and said "Thanks." than ran toward where the shower was. Edgar rolled his eyes at his brother's actions then stiffly followed him.
Sam stood up from where he was petting Nanook. He turned toward David and asked "Did you run into our mom?"
"Yeah. She asked where you were and I told her that you were at the Frog brothers' place but you wanted your dog. She understood then she asked where
Michael was and I told her he was hanging with my gang."
Sam smiled. "Thank you."
"Don't mention it. Your family."
Michael never took his eyes off of David making sure he didn't do anything funny. David looked at Michael and smirked at him knowing what Michael was
thinking.
Edgar suddenly appeared. He frowned and said "I thought you said the shower was over here?"
David, never removing his eyes from Michael, stated "It is."
"You mean the freezing waterfall?"
David nodded and said "Ignore the cold."
At that Edgar moaned rolling his eyes. "Easy for you to say." mumbles Edgar as he went to tell his brother the news.
David pretended not to hear and said "I also got some comics and movies." He pulled a bag of stuff from behind the couch.
Sam ran up to David grabbing the bag. He started digging through it asking "You got MTV?"
David smirked breaking his eye contact with Michael to turn and look at Sam. He placed his hand on Sam's shoulder and nodded turning him to where the
T.V. was at.
"Yahoo!" yelled Sam as he ran over, Nanook and Laddie following suit. He turned it on and sat down, Nanook lying beside him. Laddie took a seat on Sam's
other side.
Yells of excitement were heard throughout the cave. Star rolled her eyes and said "The guys are back." She turned and walked over to the bed in the corner
of the lounge and flopped down on the bed.
Marko, Paul, and Dwayne appeared at the top of the lounge with boxes in their arms.
Marko came down first holding a bag of comic, all Spiderman. He saw what Sam was watching and plopped down beside him. Sam was too busy watching
T.V. to notice Nanook whinnying or scooting closer to him. Marko reached behind Sam to ruffle Laddie's hair before turning toward the T.V. All three started
laughing at the contestants on the T.V. show, Remote Control, and debating on who would win the game playing.
Paul and Dwayne came down discussing girls they had seen on the boardwalk. Paul said "Man those red head chicks were hot. We need to hook up with
them. Think man. We'll have fun with the girls than we'll eat 'em" He winked at Dwayne before turning to face the others in the room "I got take out!" He
showed the bag which held Chinese cardboard takeout.
Edgar and Alan appeared and plopped down on the couch by Michael. Their hair was wet and Alan was starting to shiver. Paul grabbed the blanket sitting on
the floor and tossed it to Alan who wrapped the blanket around him. Paul started handing out the food to everyone. Alan got noodles, Sam got rice, Edgar
had shrimp, but Michael shook his head when offered the food. Paul smirked really big and with a laugh turned handing a carton to Laddie.
Sam frowned "what's wrong Michael? Aren't you going to eat? U love Chinese!"
Michael glanced at the carton of rice Sam was holding and his face turned slightly green. He turned away shaking his head "Bad experience."
Paul and Marko burst out in laughter at that statement while David and Dwayne smirked looking at the half vampire.
Sam shrugged before he started eating. Alan was having trouble with the chopsticks and the noodles kept slipping. "Anybody got a fork?"
Edgar sighed and said "Put 'em like this." He moved Alan's hand to where his fingers were supposed to be and showed him how to use them. After several
failed attempts he ate with his fingers slurping the noodles up.
Edgar noticed the Spiderman comics and asked "Where'd you get them?"
Marko smirked and looked up from his food carton.
"Don't worry I paid for them at your store. The guy was cursing about 'no good kids' and 'no respect to your elders'. Don't know why he was in such a bad
mood."
Alan frowned "We normally work there while our Aunt and Uncle smoke away the world around them. One time I remember telling then once that I was going
to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff. All they said was 'have a nice time' before lighting another joint." Alan slowly lowered his carton of noodles staring at
his feet.
Marko raised an eyebrow and stood up walking over to where Alan was sitting. He placed his arm around his shoulders and lowered down until he could look
in his eyes. "When you become full you only remember what's worth remembering. Everything else goes by by. I only remember my dead sister and my ten
cats. No parents or friends. Just my sis and some cats. Weird eh?"
Alan looked at him confused "What type of cats?"
"All were either Egyptian or Persian. Named after ten of God's disciples. Sis's Idea. Hoped if we anger God we would get into heaven by treating the cats like
how God's disciples should have been treated. I never believed any of it."
Alan Smiled. "That reminds me I was going to sign up online as a church parson, I think that's what they're called, anyways I wanted to learn how I could
bless water and turn it Holy."
Alan didn't know why he was telling him this but he felt unusually comfortable around Marko. Edgar reached over and hit his brother in the back of the head.
"Ow" Alan exclaimed reaching back and rubbing his head.
Alan turned to look at Edgar who looked like he was ready to kill something or someone…namely Alan. Edgar was red in the face and was scowling at his
brother.
Alan frowned "Bro, chill. What's the worst that could happen now?"
Edgar's face went even redder than it was a minute ago. He didn't answer before getting up angrily, tossing the rest of his Shrimp in the garbage and
stomped down the corridor to the room they woke up in.
Everyone watched this take place as an awkward silence appeared.
Paul whistled and said "Soooo I'm guessing he hasn't gotten used to it yet?"
Alan frowned shaking his head. "He still hasn't, and probably never will. Especially after what happened to mom and dad."
The lost boys and girl frowned. Paul turned to Alan and pointed at him "Explain Little Man"
Alan frowned at the nickname but began explaining the story of his parents death. Paul and Marko shared a look before Marko said "So what you're saying is
your pa got turned then later turned your ma who then went after you?"
Alan raised an eyebrow at Marko. "Well that's the short way of putting it but the thing is that he had to do the staking. I just watched. Half the time though I
had my eyes shut. I barely even remember what happened. I was Three but Edgar remembers it like it was yesterday. He has nightmares every time he goes
to sleep. Sometimes I feel like he is suffering for both himself and me." Alan frowned at that statement.
David frowned at this and slowly got up. "I'm going to go talk to him."
As he was walking to the corridor where Edgar took off he heard Alan say something.
"Good luck." said Alan "You're going to need it."
