Chapter 7

The team walked down a street. The sun was still out, so Austin couldn't come, but Brenda tagged along. Zadavia had mentioned a Vampire nest reported on the street they were currently investigating and Kelly had bolted out immediately after Zadavia hung up and the rest of them had followed not long after. Now they were looking for the nest.

Kelly peeked through a window of one building. It wasn't the nest. Then she decided to do what she'd been dreading for 2 weeks and focused on the window itself…

"Kelly, I think I found it," Sarah called.

Kelly took one last look at the window and followed her sister. She looked through one of the windows and, sure enough, it was blocked by curtains and the parts of the building she could see through there showed a bunch of people, with the same distorted faces as the other Vampires, sleeping on the floor, probably waiting for sundown so that they could go hunting and kill some people. "Alright, so…break down the door and let in the sun?"

"And stake the ones that don't burst," Benny said, "That's the plan."

Brenda prepared to kick the door down. "3…2…1!" She kicked the door down. The sunlight flooded in and half of the Vamps burst into flames on contact. "Showtime." Brenda took out a stake and moved to dust the Vampires.

Jack took out a stake and threw it at one of the Vamps…only to have it hit the wall behind the guy. He started rocking back and forth on his feet and whistling to make it look natural as his eyes flashed orange as an orange light circled the stake and launched it into the Vamp's heart, dusting him.

Benny turned invisible so that the Vamps couldn't see him and staked one before turning back, his eyes glowing yellow.

Nadine didn't need a stake. Fire killed the Vampires, too. She threw a fireball at one of them and he lit up in flames, falling into the sunlight to make matters even worse for him before finally turning to dust. "That gets better and better every time."

Lucy made a force field around herself and then took out a stake and dusted 2 in one motion. "I impress myself sometimes."

"Will all available Vampires come this way?" asked Robert. 3 Vampires headed for him…and went right through him, each simultaneously landing on his stake. "I love doing that."

Ryan stood absolutely still and a Vampire ran right at him…hitting him full force and falling backward onto Michael's stake. The 2 brothers high-fived.

Sarah started singing. The first Vampire to hear her sing started walking towards her. When he got close enough, she stopped singing and screamed. The Vampire covered his ears, giving her a chance to get out her stake. She stopped screaming and dusted him.

Kelly just sidestepped one Vamp's attack, leaving the stake out so that he impaled himself.

Finally, the place was clear.

Sarah walked over to her sister. "You didn't do much. Are you OK?"

"I just…I gotta go." Kelly walked out.


A few hours later, Kelly grabbed one of Duck's mirrors (yes, he has more than one) and took it to the table in the kitchen.

Daniella walked over to her. "How are you doing?"

"I want this thing out of me," Kelly said, eerily, as she put the mirror face-down on the table.

"What?"

"I don't care what you do just get rid of this Vampire in me."

"OK, I understand it's a lot of rapid changes but it'll all be over in less than 2 weeks and…"

Kelly put the mirror behind her head so that the whole room appeared in it…except for her. Like full Vampires, she had no reflection.

"Oh."

Kelly smacked the mirror onto the table and walked over to the couch, plopping down next to Tech. "I don't know how much of this I can take."

"You'll be fine." Tech got up. "You've faced worse than this."

Kelly got up. "It's just that, regardless of the fact that I've not been changing, all this stuff keeps happening and…it hurts."

Austin snickered. "I know the feeling."

"No, it really…really-!" Kelly was having a vision. Tech realized that first and grabbed onto her.

Sophie rushed over. "What is it?"

"Pain…killer…"

"OK…painful demon killer…" Duck wrote this down on a notepad.

Kelly's vision calmed down and she looked at him. "Painkiller!"

"Oh!" Duck ran off.

Kelly groaned. "If I ever meet whoever's giving me these visions, I am going to punch 'em in the nose…if they have a nose!" The vision hit again.

Benny looked out the window. The sun was setting. "What are you seeing?"

Kelly stood up as straight as she could. "OK, there's a girl…she's in an alley…24th and Wilcox…" She could see 2 Vampires running after the girl. "Oh, she's so scared."

"Go!" Tech told Austin. The wolf came out of the hall and ran out.

"He's not going to make it in time," Kelly warned them.


Austin found the alley Kelly had told them the girl was in. He looked down it. A dumpster was blocking his vision of half the alley. He went over and moved it and 2 Vampires fell out from behind it. He got out a stake and dusted them both. He walked down the alley and came to a dead body. He turned it over to reveal that it was the girl from Kelly's vision. If the Vampires killed her, who hit them with the dumpster? Wait a minute… He looked at the girl's neck. No bite. He felt her heart. It wasn't beating. He ran back to HQ.

Austin came into the living room just a minute or 2 after Kelly did the nightly faint. "The girl's dead but the Vampires that were chasing her didn't kill her."

"Then what did?" Lucy asked.

"Whatever it was, it smashed the Vampires with a dumpster and then sucked the soul right out of that girl."