Chapter 8: On the Road
"They're here." Lilith smiled walking down the large stairwell to the other two vampires.
"Yea? Who?" Cari asked.
"Helsing and that brat obviously." Mel said yawning. "Hey what did you and Dracula talk about?" She said with a wise smile.
"Exactly what you thought we did." Lilith said.
"So you're the High Mistress?" Cari said.
"Not yet, but soon." Lilith winked.
"Ugh I bet it's going to be amazing." Mel said.
"It will. Plus being a witch makes a huge difference."
"Don't tell me you use your spells?" Cari said wide eyed.
"Hell yea I do, helps on both ends; makes it a lot better." Lilith smiled.
"You bitch." Mel said with a smile on her face.
"Ha ha, only the best." Lilith said. "Now road up girls, we have some Helsing hunting to do."
"So we're just going to ride right to them?" Lana said looking skeptical.
"No, we're going to slowly make our way to them, and figure out how your crystal works on the way." Helsing said putting his hat on his head.
"This thing? It hasn't done anything since I've put it around my neck." Lana said.
"Be patient girl, have faith." Charles said. "I will be waiting hear, contact me if you need to."
Helsing nodded. "Let's go Lana."
"Okay." She dragged out the okay as if she was doing a chore.
"Hey I got you. You won't get hurt."
"I think that's the nicest thing you've said to me yet." Lana said taken back.
"Don't let it get to your head." Alex said quoting her. She rolled her eyes and put her hands around his waist to hold on and they went speeding down the dirt road.
She watched as the old abandoned torn down remains of the village passed her by, and soon was replaced with evergreens and shadows in a dark forest. Quarantined? Looked like it. The trees cast such a shadow it was like the sun had disappeared from the sky, as they traveled through a long tunnel of branches. Dead vines twisted onto the dirt path and cracked beneath the wheels of the motorcycle. She could tell he wasn't going as fast as he possibly could; probably because he was keeping an eye out for any unwanted guests. She felt a shiver run down her spine; just the thought of those three monsters disturbed her. She hated to find out what Dracula was like, but then again, all she had were the modern day myths and movies of Dracula, which judging by Alex's reaction, weren't very accurate. She felt the crystal bouncing around underneath her shirt. She wondered if it actually did work, or if it was just some kind of trinket. Honestly the more she thought about it, she felt like she jumped into one of those Much Music or MTV shows, where vampires and the supernatural were natural. Maybe those shows weren't so far off. She really hoped that whatever this little crystal did, would work because she didn't want to face them again. She really hoped this Helsing boy was as good as his ego made him out to be. Suddenly the motorcycle hit a bump and she went flying for a moment off the seat.
"Eeeek!" She squealed as she grabbed tighter to Alex's coat. He turned around to look at her with his eyebrow raised and a smirk on his face. She blushed. Damn it. She hated how she always made a fool of herself. God what was her problem? She had always been a bit of a klutz but around Alex…she put klutz in full throttle. Falling down over top of him in the helicopter, and now this? Plus no matter what she said it seemed to be the wrong thing…the whole "bat" thing, and all her "stupid" statements about this and that which to him were obvious. I mean not that she cared what he thought… but she hated being belittled like this.
"Hey can you loosen up a bit? Your not going to fall off you know?"
"Huh, what?"
"I said can you loosen your grip."
"Oh, well you don't know if I'm going to fall off!"
"Not likely, I'm not a bad driver you know."
"Yea well I'm not taking my chances."
"Then at the least let me breathe!"
"Fine." She let go of her grip on his waist ever so slightly.
"You know it wont be long until we have to go by foot anyway."
"That quickly?"
"Yea it's easier to notice them too in the quiet. They tend to make noise when they make their entrance."
"Awesome…" She sat there dreading the moment that they came to a stop. She sat there and tried to think positively but somehow she just didn't feel very reassured. Plus the backpack on her back was way putting a kink in her neck. She started to drift off watching the trees move past her in patterns when she suddenly fell forward into his back.
"What's going on?"
"We stopped."
"Obviously but…"
"Which means we are getting off here. We might as well wait here for a moment anyway."
"Why?" She said getting off the back of the motorcycle gingerly.
"Because we should make sure the coast is clear before we keep going. And secondly, I have to take a leak."
"Uh huh." She said looking unimpressed.
He shrugged. "Just stay by the motorcycle, I'll stay pretty close."
"Hopefully not too close." She said eying him up, slightly disgusted.
"Really?" He asked sarcastically, before going into the bushes to do his business.
She sighed and leaned against the bike. She looked in the distance. It still seemed like they had so far to go…which technically was fine because she didn't actually want to get to the so called castle of vampires. Hell she'd be fine staying here.
He stood behind a tree just 6 feet into the forest. He had his eyes pealed and looked over to see Lana still standing there. She seemed so weak alone there by herself, but I guess she really wasn't. I mean she had kicked Mel in the stomach which meant she had some guts. Plus he wasn't convinced that the power wouldn't work; there was no way that she would hold some kind of weapon against demons and wouldn't be able to access it. Hell that would mean God sent them on a death wish. He looked back down to zip up his pants when he heard something.
"OW!"
He ran out from the bushes to see Lana still standing there, back turned to him.
"Lana, is everything alright?"
She turned around. "I'm not sure but…"
"But what?"
"Your fly is undone."
"Wha…oh." He said looking down to his pants. "Shit." He zipped it up. "Now what's wrong?"
"Uhm this?" She pointed to her shirt, and her jacket was open and the crystal was glowing red underneath her shirt.
"What is it?"
"The crystal, it's like burning."
"Well uhm, take it out of your shirt."
She looked down and grabbed it by the string and flipped it out quickly not to put it on her skin. It floated in the air and pointed towards the bushes to the right of them.
"What does it mean?"
"Maybe…" He started taking out his gun and his left hand hovering over his knife. "I think we have visitors."
"Awh, really?" She said.
"Get behind me and tuck that thing back in to your shirt."
"It's really hot you know?"
"They can't see it. If that's what it does, is show us where vampires are then you can't let them get it. It'll give us an advantage." He whispered back to her.
She nodded, and was about to put her hand on it when it fell down, cooling off. She quickly tucked it between her shirt and jacket.
"Come out now! We know your there."
"Seems they're not as dumb as we thought." Cari said flying out from the bushes.
"Simple mistake." Mel said.
"No matter, it's three to two. We got this." Lilith smiled last, glowing with pride.
"You know maybe if you weren't taking your time out there…" Lana whispered to Alex.
"I was taking a piss."
"Yea I know you left your fly open. For god sakes I saw your boxers."
"Yea well I saw your bra when the crystal was glowing through your shirt, so let's call it even and get rid of them."
She looked surprised and then shut up, peaking over his shoulder as the three vampires started closing in.
