Chapter 7: Take Me To Church

Edd was amaze by the sight of the church, it was everything Kevin said it was, but much more beautiful and majestic. Kevin put Edd down and took his hand in his. When they made it up to the door Kevin looked back at Edd.

"What's wrong?" Edd asked. "The door handles are coated with holy water; if I touch them, they'll burn my hand...remember?" Said Kevin. "Oh, right, you told me that. Do you want me to open the door then?" Edd asked. "If you would." Kevin answered.

Edd grabbed the door handle and pulled the door opened. The church was dark and cold, the only light that was inside the place was the moon light that appeared when Edd opened the door. Kevin stepped inside first, Edd following behind. Once both of them were inside, the door slammed shut behind them so hard it echoed throughout the room.

"WHO GOES THERE?!" A voiced boomed, startling Edd but not having one effect on Kevin. "I, KEVIN BARR, VAMPIRE HUNTER OF THE PEACH CREEK DISTRICT AND GRANDSON OF MOTHER PAULA!" Kevin announced himself with as much pride and nobility as he could.

Footsteps fast approached the balcony above Kevin and Edd. They looked up to the balcony to see a hooded person in white holding a small torch in their hand looking back down at them.

"Brother Barr?" The hooded person asked in disbelief, the person slid the hood off their head to reveal a dark skinned girl with light brown and gold highlighted hair. "Is that really you?" She said as she jumped down off the balcony and in between the isles. "Oh my god, YOU'RE ALIVE!" She screamed with excitement as she came running over to him. "WOAH! Wait a sec!" Kevin yelled putting his hand up in a halt, making her stop in her tracks. "What? Why? You disappear for months, here you come showing up out of nowhere, and I can't get a hug? What kind of shit is that?" She complained. "You shouldn't curse in church." Said Edd, the girl looked behind Kevin and over at Edd. "Who are you?" She asked. "He's with me. Edd this is Desire, Desire this is Edd." Kevin introduced. "Why he in a hospital gown? More importantly, what happened to you?" She asked. "I'll explain later. I need to talk to Grandma, where is she?" Kevin asked. "She's in a meeting right now with the rest of the councils. They're not to be disturbed at the moment." She answered. "Crap…look it's important that I talk to her so I'm going down there." Kevin looked back at Edd then back at Desire. "In the meantime, could you take him to the residential hall? Get him some new clothes and food in his stomach? He's kinda had a long day you know." Said Kevin. "No problem. C'mon Edd, I'll take you the bathing room." She held her hand out to Edd. "Kevin?" "Don't worry, she'll take good care of you." Kevin said as he press a kiss on Edd's lips, making him blush beyond measure. "I'll come get you once I talk to grandma." With that Edd took Desire's hand and they both left through the corner door under the balcony.

Once they left, Kevin disappeared through the shadows of the church. Kevin stepped out of the shadows and was now facing a door that was the small size as the front church doors outside. There was a craving of Jesus dying on the cross and the door handles were gold that sparkled thinks to the torches around him.

"How is she going to react to this?" Kevin asked himself, hesitating to open the door.

He raised his fist up to the door, slowly he knocked on it three times.

"Councils meeting! Come back when we're finished!" Someone yelled from the other side of the door.

Kevin knock on the door again, this time with a bit more annoyance.

"I said to come back later!" The voice yelled louder. "Fuck this." Kevin scoffed as he pushed the doors open and walked into the room.

The room was large, a red carpet lead to a small staircase to a round table at the top of them. The table was surrounded by five sets of chairs and at the center of them was were the head honcho sat.

"God damn it! Didn't I just say –" "Is that anyway to welcome back your grandson?"

The council looked upon Kevin in shocked and disbelief, but who was really shocked was an old woman with red and grey hair and wearing a black and white flare gown with a sheer twinkling white cape attached to her shoulders. The old woman slowly stood up from her seat with tears in her eyes.

"Kevin?" she said "Hey, grandma." She ran to him and hugged him so tight that if Kevin could he could see the breath leave out of him. "Kevin, oh my god, you're alive!" She said then slapped him across the face. "Ow! Grandma, what was that for?!" Where the fuck have you been, boy?!" she was pissed. "You go missing for months, no phone call, no email, not even a fucking letter. Do you know how worried I was? How about your parents, do they even know you're here?! You've have got some serious explanation to do, young man." Kevin rubbed the back of his neck. "I know grandma and I'll explain what happened to me in a minute, but for right now can I talk to you in private…it's very important." Mother Paula saw that he was serious. "Let me finish up here and then we'll talk. I'll meet you in the dining hall." She said as she walked back to the rest of the council. "Alright." Said Kevin as he headed to the door. "Oh, and grandma…" She turned to him. "I, uh…I brought someone else here with me." "Kevin! You know you're not supposed to bring outsiders to the training grounds!" She yelled. "I know grandma, but…I wouldn't have brought him if it weren't for a reason."

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Desire, Along with her sister Hannah, were looking for clothes for Edd to wear. Hannah was fixing up Edd's hair, while Desire looked through some old trucks full of clothes.

"Ah ha! Here, you'll look good in this." Said Desire as she pulled out an outfit…for the 8th time. "Desire, please say that's the final outfit you have." Said Hannah.

Hannah had lighter skin than her sister and had long lime green hair that was tied up in braided pigtails.

"Hey, I'm just doing this guy a favor in trying to look good for his man." She giggled, Edd couldn't help the blush that crept on his cheeks. "You're embarrassing him, girl." Said Hannah. "It's alright, Hannah…to be honest this whole relationship is still new to me." Said Edd. "You know, Kevin's actually talked about you a lot whenever we were out on portal. He says that you make these amazing inventions, but you always seem to get beat up whenever you do a scam with this Eddy guy. Plus he says that you usually wear a black beanie on your head that looks like a sock?" Said Hannah. "Kevin said that? Well, I do admit that most of my invention were part of Eddy's ridiculous scams which result in some…awful consequences, but it does make good memories up to those parts. I wouldn't say my inventions are amazing but…did he really say that?" He smiled. "Obviously…Kevin would talk about you non-stop, and when he does he just lights up. Yet, at the same time there's this hint of guilt he has for you." Said Desire. "Well, we did grow up together, but for most of our childhood he would bully me and my friends. But Kevin and I always had a mutual understanding between us, the only reason when never really gave a friendship a chance back then was because he and Eddy didn't -Correction- don't like each other." Said Edd. "But, that didn't stop you two from talking to one another…and look where you two are now. You two must have started liking each other at some point." Said Hannah. "True." Said Edd. "Okay, enough talk for a minute. Put this on and we'll go down to the dining hall." Said Hannah as she handed Edd the outfit.

After a few minutes, Edd came out of the room wearing a long white high-low shirt that the front stopped at the waist and the back stopped at his legs with wide opened sleeves that looked like butterfly wings. He had on black slim fitted joggers with a silver hem on the side of them and black Victorian style knee high boots. His hair was braided up and put in a small up do that was tied with a silver band.

"Wow, you look great." Said Desire. "Thank you." Said Edd. "Oh wait, there's one more thing." Hannah pulled a blue hair pin that had a Diamond shaped star in the middle. "We usually don't get outsiders here, but if we do, we have them wear this." She put the hair in in Edd's hair. "It's a special hair pin that keeps you invisible to any vampire's eye. It's only temporarily, though." She said. "Now let's go get you something to eat. It's late but the cooks always have snacks and stuff for late nighters like us."