Story by Dream Web
Edit by Humphrey Loves Kate
Ok…I know someone was not happy to see I updated an AN as a chapter. Sorry, I didn't think much when I did that. I just type and sent. So I deleted that chapter and past it here.
I wrote this is because I want to let you know something about this story before it really start.
1. This story won't follow some movie's setting.
ex: Johnathan should have six brother, but in this story he don't. And his personality will be more serious than the movie.
2. There will be suffer in this story.
3. There will be some 'Black' element. Such us Vampire's blood desire issue.
4. If you had read my other stories (Alpha and Omega's FF) you will find out the style of my stories was not that 'happy'
NOW! Let's talked about the center of this story. Every story should have its center. For this one, simple one word: Price.
I believed everything has it cost. When you get something you need to pay something else with the same vale as a price. Maybe you can't accept it, but it still will be seen in many places in this story.
And the reason of slow update is because English is no my first language. So I had to ask someone else to help me check my word, and it took time. So…sorry.
Cost of the Zing
When he was falling from the sky Johnny felt fear, but when he saw there was also fear in Mavis's eyes, for some reason, he felt nothing but peace.
Then he smashed into the ground.
It was painful, but still, there was peace in his heart. Just peace.
When Mavis opened that bag that her father had left, a letter fell to the ground. She squatted down and picked it up. She looked at it and saw that there was a note on it.
"Open me after you read the book."
It was her father's handwriting. Despite her saying that she did not blame him, she still... She shook her head and turned her gaze back to a book in the bag.
When she opened the first page and started reading it, she knew that it was talking about how her mom and dad met. She didn't know why, but she felt a sense of sadness when she saw her mother's words and decided not to waste her spirit on this pointless question. So she kept reading.
Soon, she realized why her father asked her that question earlier. I fell in love with Johnny?But he is a human!She thought. That's why I was so curious about him?
Then she remembered what she had done to Johnny.
"Oh...no. I...KILLED my love!" Mavis said to herself.
Everything made sense now. She finally knew what that feeling was about... Why she was so sad about the fall of Johnny. It was not all about guilt... It was heartbreak!
After found out what that feeling was, that sadness became stronger and stronger. She felt that as if she had fallen into a deep hole. She didn't cry. She had forgotten how to cry at that moment. In fact, she had forgotten everything. At that moment, she knew the feeling her father had felt for so long... the feeling of losing someone you love.
The she remembered what she had asked her father to do. "He is going to kill him!" she murmured with tears in her eyes.
She throw the letter and book to the ground and ran out of her room, directly to her father's room.
"This is the day! Today is Mavis's birthday!" Murray jumped out from his room and announced to the corridor.
"Shut up, you idiot!" someone complained.
"Oh...sorry?" Murray said with a questioning and sorrowful smile.
Suddenly, a black shadow ran past him and left him spinning like a gyro.
"Dracula?" Murray questioned. He knew only a vampire could run at that speed.
Hearing his question, the shadow stopped and ran back to Murray.
"Do you know where my father is?" the shadow asked.
"Mavis? I thought you were your fa..." Murray said, but he was cut off by Mavis.
"Where is my father?!" Mavis asked in a yelling and a little bit of a hysterical tone.
"Wow! Calm down! Isn't he in his room?" Murray answered her. He was starting to have a bad feeling about Mavis's odd behavior.
"No! He was not. His room was empty! The only thing I found was this!" Mavis said raising her hand to show Murray what was in it. It was a sword. More accurately, it was a silver sword with a little bit of blood on it.
"Holy...! Drop it!" Murray knocked it down to the ground. But it was too late, for Mavis's hand had already turned black, like it had been burned with fire.
After the sword had been knocked over, Mavis burst into tears. It was the pain which kept her mind in one piece.
"Stay here, Mavis. I'll go find some help," Murray said. He had realized that things were going very wrong.
Mavis didn't answer. She just sat there and kept crying.
"Oh...My... Is that Dracula's daughter? What happened?" someone asked.
The noise they had made was too loud, and it made some of the guests come out to see what had happened. And they saw something that was very weird and highly abnormal.
"Why,here is a sword...oh! Is that made of silver?" said one.
"Where is Count Dracula? Is a human coming?" another questioned.
"What happened to Mavis's hand? Is that some kind of spell?" one more wondered.
More and more monsters came out and joined the talk, giving Murray lots of pressure. "Mavis...I want you to go back to your room. Wayne, Frank, Griffin and I will help you in looking for your father. Ok?" Murray asked. He waved to his friends whom he had seen in the crowd.
"What's wrong? Oh...really? Murray, you made Mavis cry? I swear, Dracula will kill you!" Frank said as he walked out from among the crowd.
"That's bad...very bad!" Wayne said with his red eyes glaring. It seems that he didn't have much of a chance to sleep last night...Oh! Morning!
Murray walked up and pushed them back a little. "If he wants to kill me then he has to show up first!" Murray said with a low voice. "Dracula was missing...At least Mavis told me so. And...she was acting very weird."
"Ah...Stop finding excuses for yourself. You should go..." Frank said but stopped when he saw Mavis walk up.
"Have you seen my father...?" She asked with an unclear voice.
"Oh..." Frank didn't answer. He turned his head to Murray, "You are telling the truth!"
"Of course I am," Murray answered with worry on his friend.
Wayne walked up and whispered next to Murray's ear, "Remember what we saw last night? In the steam room?" he asked.
"Yeah... But I thought..." Murray began.
"I KILLED MY ZING... I KILLED HIM." Mavis suddenly yelled and laid down to the floor crying.
They quickly picked her up and ran to her room. Mavis didn't struggle. She just let them pick her up like a toy.
"What now?" Frank asked. "What was she talking about? She killed someone? Her Zing? Who?"
"Stop! Stop... I think we should go find Dracula first," Wayne said.
"DAD?" Mavis yelled when she heard someone mention her father.
The three of them looked to her with panic. But Mavis soon fell back to crying.
"Ok...I agree. She looks very bad," Frank said with his head nodding in agreement.
"But how can we find him? This is a huge castle!" Wayne exclaimed. "We need something or someone who can track him.
"Yeah! Use your nose!" Murray yelled when he come up with this idea. "How could I forget about this?"
"No! No! No! I can't..." Wayne shook his head. "I..."
"Let's start!" Murray announced and ran out of the room with Frank who had grabbed Wayne and thrown him on his shoulder.
The room was quiet now, the only audible noise being Mavis who kept crying for a while. Then she remembered something. She picked up the letter she had dropped on the floor earlier, and started reading it.
Dear Mavis,
When you saw this letter I could be already gone. Sorry for leaving like this. Please trust me that what I had done was all for you.
I will save that boy by turning him into one of us. Yes, we can do this. Only need to bit them. But if you do that you will only got a slave vampire. There is a ranking system in our kind. We are the first class, The Draculas. If you want to be lover with him, then the turning away need to be a lot of tricky. I will do that. After that, I am going to a place where is far far away. Please don't asked me why, I just need to go.
I am sorry my beloved Daughter, I know I had promised your mother to protect you. But It seems that I will have to break the promised. It is my honor to be your father.
Sincerely yours, Dracula
NOTE
This Letter should be not really make any sense. Because it was be done in a Hurry. Nd Dracula's mind should a mess when he was writing it.
Thirty Minutes Ago:
Dracula put Johnny on a table which he had just ordered up from the hall. Then he disabled the magic that had held Johnny frozen in time. Johnny's blood immediately came out from the wounds. Dracula waited a while; the transformation process could only begin after Johnny was "dead."
"Where am I?" Johnny suddenly said and opened his eyes.
Dracula knew this was just a dying flash. "Nowhere important. Answer me: Did you have any weird feelings when you saw Mavis for the first time?"
"You bet... grandpa. That was really odd..." Johnny said clearly not thinking straight.
This is it! Dracula thought. He put one of his hands on Johnny's chest, feeling his weak heartbeat, and used the other hand to pick up a silver sword. This was a sword from a vampire hunter who had tried to kill him a hundred years ago. It had a long trench next to its blade. That was called 'Fuller Groove' and it was designed to let blood quickly come out when it was stabbed into someone's body. But now Dracula was going to use it in the opposite way; he was going to let blood in.
"What was that for? It felt so cold..." Johnny asked. His voice had become very weak.
Dracula could feel a burning pain in the hand that was holding the sword, but he knew compared to what was coming next, this was nothing.
"For Mavis...and for you." Dracula answered quietly.
At the moment the heartbeat of Johnny disappeared, Dracula stabbed the sword threw his own hand and into Johnny's heart.
what had he done?!
2013-03-16 08:11 pm time zone = +8
