Chapter 4: So the mean looking vampire is actually kind of sweet?
"Tony!"I yelled out as I looked for my brother. I was about to yell his name again when I was grabbed by someone, and pulled into some bushes. I was about to scream until I saw that it was just Tony. I pulled out of his grip, and hit his arm.
"You moron you almost gave me a heart attack."He just glared at me and stuck his tongue out.
"What are you doing in here anyway?"I asked. He lifted up his hand, and pointed to where a truck was parked next to the cemetery. My eyes widened as I saw that it was Rookery's.
We heard something, and turned are attention to where the man himself was walking over to where Rudolph's family was. He was holding some kind of weird gun, if it was smaller it could have been mistaken for some cheap bubble making machine.
"Shit."I muttered to myself as he stood a couple of feet away in front of them.
"Rookery! Get back, get back!" Rudolph's father yelled at his family. They all ran over to where the crumbling church was and his behind the pillars. Rookery pointed his gun at the fleeing family and started shooting. That was when I noticed it was just small pointy pieces of wood. Stakes.
"Go take the family."He said to his wife who had turned around not wanting to leave him. Rookery shot some more stakes out, and kept moving forward. But he was still missing them.
"Come on we have to help."Tony nodded and we both got up. I ran towards Rookery, and jumped on his back making him stumble a bit.
"Why you little demon."He said to me, I growled at him, and bit his neck.
"Don't hurt them you ass!" I yelled, he twirled around a bit trying to shake me off but I wasn't going to budge. I hit him in the side of the face, and tried to grab the gun from his hands. He put it down and grabbed me. In one quick movement he had me in his grip, and threw me at a tombstone. My stomach hit the tombstone hard making me hold it in pain. Rookery grabbed the gun again, and aimed it at Rudolph's father. He moved his arms up trying to protect his family. Rookery smiled at that and aimed the gun right at his heart.
"No."I muttered trying to get up, but I just couldn't. He shot the gun but the stake only came out a little bit. I looked up and saw that my little brother had unplugged the gun.
"The age of shivery is not yet dead."Anna called out with a smile on her face from where she was sitting. Her mother put her hand on her mouth, and pulled her back down on the ground.
Rudolph's dad was about to go after Rookery, when the vampire hunter took out a large blue glowing cross from some kind of belt thing that was around his waist. He looked over his shoulder, and saw Tony standing there still holding the extension cord in his hands. Tony got scared when he saw that Rookery was staring at him. Rookery turned around and started walking towards my brother with the cross, he kept pointing at him. He was a foot away from him, and he kept pointing it at him. He was surprised that it wasn't working on him.
"What kind of blood sucker are you?"He asked Tony. When Tony didn't answer he started going after him.
"Oh hell no!"I yelled getting up. Even if I was in pain, no one was going to mess with my little brother. I clutched my stomach with one hand, and kept running after him. When I was right behind him I jumped on his back tackling him to the ground. I grabbed the cross from his hands and hit him in the face with it.
"Don't touch my little brother you creep!"I was about to hit him again when Rookery grabbed it and threw it to the side. He grabbed me by the throat with one hand, and started choking me. I grabbed his hand with both of mine, trying to make him let go. I kept fighting against him until I blacked out...
I woke up a little later; I was lying on very cold ground. I sat up and looked around. I noticed that I was still with the vampires. Tony was holding Rudolph's dads necklace and they both had this look on their face. While I was getting up to go over there and see what was going on again, I fell backwards but someone caught me. My vision blacked out again, but soon I was seeing something.
It was a beautiful young woman on a white horse. She had a red cloak on, she stopped riding and turned to face the opening of a cave. She got off the horse and started walking towards the inside of the cave, looking at something. I saw Rudolph's uncle Von! He was laying on the ground asleep, he looked more pale than usual and weak. The woman took off her cloak, and put it over him. I noticed a strange symbol on the cloak, it was two stags, and in the middle of them was some kind of crest. There was a small saying on a scroll on the bottom of them it read, Sola Animalat Manuforti. She noticed the stone in his left hand, and reached to grab it looking at it curiously. She picked it up from his hand and examined it not knowing what it was. Von opened his eyes a little bit and saw her holding it. He grabbed her wrist, and sat up barring his fangs at her and hissing.
Finally the vision was over, and I was back in reality. I looked up at the person who had caught me. It was Gregory. I blushed a little bit as he looked down at me.
"Uh...Thanks."He nodded and helped me stand up.
"Hays! Did you have a vision too?"Tony asked walking over to me.
"We shared a vision."Rudolph's father said shocked at what had just happened.
"I saw it too; I wonder who that woman was."I asked thinking out loud.
"They have sympathy for our kind."His wife said smiling at me and Tony.
"Oh lovely."Anna said attempting to flirt with my brother. I pretended to gag, and Tony just gave her a weird look.
"Young Von found the stone and then made his way to Scotland, plucked from the sea just as rumor had it." The older vampire said thinking about it.
"Then he could still be alive!" The older woman said happily.
"There was a woman I had never seen before she wore a strange coat of arms. We must find which family she belongs to, trace her crest." He started pacing.
"We can help!" Tony said smiling.
"No it's too risky to involve mortals."
"What have we got to lose we've been searching for three centuries."Rudolph commented walking over to Tony. I could tell his dad was about to yell so I stepped in.
"Listen I know we may look like pathetic humans that can't do much. But you guys can't go out in the sun which takes time away from you finding the stone. So let me and my brother search for this woman's family and help you out." Rudolph's dad looked at me in surprise.
"Fredrick she does have a point." Rudolph's mother said putting her hand on her husband's arm.
"Oh alright help if you can. But do not think to change your minds and betray us to our most hateful enemy. Or my wrath will be revealed, am I clear?"Fredrick said getting in mine and Tonys faces.
"Yes sir."I said mock saluting him; Tony just gave him a smile, nodding his head. I walked over to his wife and gave her a smile.
"I'm sorry Miss but I don't seem to know your name."She gave me a dreamy looking smile and took my hand in hers.
"It is Freda Sackville-Bagg dear girl, thank you for helping our family."I smiled back at her and nodded.
"Come on Hayley we got to get back home."Tony said. Him and Rudolph already walking away. I was about to walk over to them when I fell to my knees in pain.
"Are you alright Miss."Anna said kneeling down next to me. I gave her a polite smile,
"Rookery really did a number on me is all."She gave me a worried look, and turned to her mother.
"She needs help mama can I fly her home?"She asked in a pleading voice.
"Anna sweetheart you are too small to carry her... Gregory help this girl home."Gregory groaned but his mother gave him a look, and he just nodded saying, "Yes mother."
"Let's go mortal."He said grabbing my arm roughly. When we got up to the cemetery I shook his hand off.
"You know that is no way to handle a girl!"I yelled at him, he just smirked at me and we continued walking. We were soon next to Rudolph and Tony.
"You don't know what it's like for us vampires to be tormented every day."Rudolph said to my brother.
"Oh yeah I do it happens to me every day at school."Tony replied.
"Who dares torment my friend?"Rudolph asked angrily.
"The McAshton boys. The younger ones beat Tony up and pick on him. The older one is a total pervert."I added in. Rudolph looked like he was thinking about something, but then he turned to Tony.
"I have an idea come on."Tony nodded and held onto Rudolph's hand. They flew away into the night sky somewhere.
"Um… Well since they're gone can we go to my house?"I asked looking down at the ground nervously.
"Okay. Uh, put your arms around my neck and hold on."I blushed a little bit, but did as he said.
"Where is your house?"He asked as we were flying in the sky. I pointed straight ahead towards a high cliff.
"It's right over there it looks like a big castle."Gregory nodded and we kept flying. When we finally reached my house he asked me which balcony was mine. I told him the one all the way at the end. We flew over there and he took me to my room. He put me down on the ground and I went over and sat on my bed. I looked up and saw that he was still there just looking at me.
"I want… I want to say sorry for before. For kicking you, down there…"He didn't say anything he just looked at me.
"I figured you'd be killing me right now because of that, it must have hurt."Gregory looked down at his pants and flinched.
"It did. And trust me I was considering getting you back for that, but."He said sighing,
"You tried to help my family, you tried to stop Rookery. You didn't have to but you did it anyway so thanks.. I guess."I nodded and gave him a small smile.
"Well I guess you have to go home now right?"I asked looking at him.
"The sun isn't going to come up for another 6 hours; I could stay if you don't mind that is."I shrugged. It was silent for a little bit until I broke it.
"These close are a little dirty, I'm going to go change okay?"He nodded and watched as I walked into the closet closing the door behind me. I walked over to my clothes and grabbed some black and white zebra striped shorts, a black tank top and another pair of socks. I took off my other pants and replaced them with the shorts. I than slowly took off my shirt, and when it was off I looked at my stomach. There was a huge bruise surrounding the entire left side under my chest, I moved my hand down and lightly touched the bruise with my index finger. It stung really bad and I flinched. I looked back down and noticed there was a cut, and it was bleeding. The cut started dripping and it stung even more.
"Ah!"I yelled out in pain. My teeth clenched together, and I started breathing heavily.
"Are you oka-."I turned around when I heard his voice from behind me. He stared at me wide-eyed for a minute until reality finally hit me.
"Get out!"I yelled pushing him out of my closet. I shut the door again and locked it this time. I went over to a desk/table thing that was in the closet, and opened one of the drawers. I pulled out a first aid kit box. I cleaned my wound and put a band aid over the cut. Then I wrapped up my stomach in gauze. I grabbed the black tank top and put it on than I put on my socks. When I was done I slowly walked out of my closet and back into my room. As soon as I walked into the room Gregory looked away, he couldn't look me in the eyes.
"I'm sorry for walking in like that, it was wrong. I-I thought you were hurt."He said.
"It's fine I would have done the same thing."He finally turned to face me, and looked me in the eyes. That's when I finally noticed his eyes were a light blue, and they were beautiful.
"Your eyes are weird."That's strange… I think about his eyes and he comes out and makes a comment about mine.
"Thanks."I say sarcastically as I go over to my bed, and sit down.
"Oh! I didn't mean in a bad way. I mean they're nice, weird but in a unique kind of way?"He had no idea what he was saying he seemed kind of confused like he knew it didn't make any sense. I laughed a little bit, and he soon joined in. I laid down on my bed and pulled the blanket over me. I turned my body to the side so I was still facing him.
"Are you tired?"He asked getting up.
"No, well I am but I like talking to you. You're confusing and weird."He gave me a small smile than sat back down on the chair.
"What's it like to be a vampire?"I asked out of the blue.
"At first it felt weird but after awhile I got used to it. I like walking around at night, hiding in the shadows. Scaring people."I gave him a look, not the kind of look where it's like oh wow you're a freak just a look like I knew what he meant. And I kind of did.
"What was your life like as a human?"Gregory sighed and looked down at the ground.
"Back than it was different. Kids had a lot more rules than you mortals do now a days. I was home schooled, but I always had a different tutor. I always scared mine off. I'm the oldest child so I had the most responsibility. Mortal kids now a days have it easier, you can go out when you want you don't have a lot of pressure on you."I nodded my head telling him I understood.
"What about your friends do you miss them?"
"I never had any friends."We both semi laughed at that.
"What about a girlfriend?"His eyes turned cold as soon as I said that.
"Oh I'm sorry."My voice was quiet and timid, I was scared he was going to yell at me.
"It's fine."He said his teeth clenched.
"No it's not. You're mad now I shouldn't have said anything."Before I could even blink Gregory was sitting on the side of my bed next to me.
"It's fine. I had one once, but I don't miss her. Well I do but I only miss the person she used to be, before… Before she became a… vampire."I looked at him wide-eyed and he continued.
"She came over late one night it was a usual thing for us. We would always sneak over to the other ones house and just talk. When she was walking back some random vampire bit her, and she was turned into one of them. She then turned me and my family into vampires. My family doesn't know she was my girlfriend, and I hope they never do… She was trying to find the stone too with her family who she had also turned. We wrote each other, but than her letters stopped coming. I tracked her family down and her father told me that a vampire hunter killed her and her mother."I didn't know what to say after that. It was awkward and silent after that.
"I-I'm sorry."I said putting my hand on his shoulder. He gave me a small smile but he looked sad.
"I've never talked to anyone about her before…"Now I felt really bad, he had to think about that whole thing again and talk about it.. to someone he barely even knew.
"I'm glad I did though. I've been holding it in for so long, it feels nice to let it all out. It feels like she's not a part of me anymore. I can finally let her go. Thank you."He said putting his hand on mine.
"So what about you. I heard what you said about that boy at the cemetery what's that about?"I expected Gregory to be mean and horrible, to try and bite me. Why was he being like this? It was like he cared.
"Oh."I replied sighing, "He's just very inappropriate."
"How?"He asked me.
"He's always touching me and asking me to go over to his house."Gregory glared down at the floor; he seemed to be thinking about something. Suddenly he got up from where he was sitting.
"I have to go."And without another word he was out of my room, and flying into the night sky. I figured he was going back home. I stared at the window with a weird look on my face before finally shrugging it off. I got up from my bed and walked over to the light switch on my wall. I turned off the lights and then went back to bed. I put the blanket over me and just stared out the window until I finally fell asleep. But all I could see was Gregory's face in my dreams…
So we found out how the Sackville-Baggs were turned into vampires! And Gregory and Hayley had a little moment. Could they be friends now?
Well you'll just have to wait and see in the next chapter.
Thanks for reading everybody !