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Chapter Eleven
Vampires? That CANNOT Be Good
Halliwell Manor, San Francisco, California
Paulina's POV
"Guys! GUYS!" I yelled, trying to get everybody's attention. They snapped back to reality, and turned to look at me. I looked into each of their faces – Piper, Phoebe, Paige, Danny, and Billie – and felt a prick of pain because Sam's face wasn't among them. I looked at them in confusion. "Hey, where's Sam?"
"I thought she was with you," Paige said, looking at me and Danny. Danny shrugged, saying, "Yeah, she was. But when she saw what Seth did to Paulina she said she was going to confront him…"
His sentence drifted off, as he looked wide-eyed at me and the others. Phoebe was about to make a comment on how she might be fine, that Sam knows how to take care of herself, when Leo came down the stairs with the Book of Shadows.
"Okay, guys," Leo said, putting the book down on the living room table that was in between us. "I figured out what Seth is."
He set the Book down, and we all bent in to look. With big, black letters, the title spelled 'Vampires'.
"Whoa, whoa, you think he's a vampire?" Danny asked in bewilderment.
"Yes, I do," Leo said, sitting down next to Billie. "Look at this here. It says that vampires can Influence anybody to do things without them noticing. I think it's also called compulsion. He Influenced Paulina into forgiving him about all the injuries and to promise that she wouldn't tell, and if Paulina was Paulina, that would've been all over her blog."
Despite everything, I rolled my tongue at him.
"And," Leo continued, rolling his eyes at me. "it also says that they're fast. Fast and strong. They also have to be invited into a house to get in."
"He wouldn't come into my house the first time he came over when I didn't tell him come in," I murmured to myself, remembering when Seth had stood at the door, staring awkwardly at the frames and he didn't enter the house until I allowed him to.
"Exactly. And then there were the attacks."
My head shot up at this. "What attacks?"
"Well," Leo started, shifting uncomfortably. "The doctors and police have kept it low. There have been mysterious attacks near the woods and the cemeteries here and in Amity. Once the bodies were admitted into the hospital, we discovered that the ones who lived were either paralyzed or suffering from hysteria, and there were the ones who died. Their bodies were drained; there wasn't one drop of blood left in them. Oh, and their throats were slashed."
"Why didn't you tell us any of this?" Piper asked, a worried expression on her face.
"I didn't want you to worry until I found out exactly what was causing these attacks," he looked down at the Book again. "But now I know."
"How do you kill a vampire?" Billie asked, equally serious about this entire thing.
"Well, a stake through the heart should do it," Leo said, shrugging. "There are other ways. Setting them on fire, decapitation, but the most affected one is to make any piece of wood go through their heart."
"What else does it say in there?" Danny asked, leaning in to try and read from the Book.
"Well, it also says that vampires can take any animal shape they can," Leo said, reading. "But that depends on how strong they are. Their strength comes from blood and lives, and the more lives they drain, the stronger they are. But the maximum number of animals they can be in the form of is only two. Even the strongest of vampires have a limited Power."
"Animals," Danny muttered, as if he was suddenly remembering something. "A crow."
"What?" we all said at the same time, staring in confusion at Danny."
"A crow," he repeated. "I saw a crow. It was big and black, and it seemed to be staring at me. I saw it on the first day of school right before that Darklighter attacked me and Tucker. I think it was staring at me or something. And then when we stayed over at Sam's, when this demon attacked, there was the same black crow outside the window, staring directly at me and Sam. I could swear that its' feathers were the same black colour as Seth's eyes."
"Yeah," I said as a memory flashed. "I think I saw one too. Not a crow, but a cat. Sam and I were about to orb here when we saw an orange cat. It hissed when Sam tried to touch it. And it wasn't normal the way it seemed to be glaring at her, since all animals adore Sam."
"You think there's more than one vampire?" Paige asked, and I could see fear, yet there was also confidence in her eyes.
"Yeah, I think so," I said, analyzing every detail of the cat in my head. "The cat was orange. Its' fur was the same orange colour of…" My eyes widened in realization. "Charlie."
"Charlie?" Danny asked, his eyes wide as well. "Oh, my God, Tucker!"
I remembered Sam saying something about Charlie being Tucker's date tonight. This cannot be good.
"Paige," I said, getting up quickly and darting into action. "Orb us to the park in Amity. Now!"
"Leo, I think you should come with us," Danny said, getting up as quickly as I have. "Just in case he was hurt. You too, Paige."
Paige and Leo nodded. In an instant, we were surrounded by the white-and-blue lights, and we were in the park in Amity.
Paige wasn't stupid. She orbed us somewhere dark, where the carnival lights were straight ahead. The carnival wasn't near here, so I was thinking maybe Charlie would pick this place to attack.
I was right.
We heard a faint cry behind us, and Tucker was standing with his back to us, Charlie's teeth dug deep into his neck. Her eyes were red, and Tucker seemed to be struggling.
I acted without thinking. I was the first one to move, and when I did, it was to raise my arm up and a force of air dragged Charlie away from Tucker and slammed her against a tree. She looked up to a sagging Tucker, and then her face and eyes reddened with rage at our sight.
The park, Amity Park, Indiana
General POV
Danny and Leo darted quickly to Tucker, and caught him before he fell on his back.
"What happened?" Tucker said, looking around. He had a confused look in his eyes, and was blinking furiously to try and shake the black circles that started appearing in his vision. "Where's Charlie? And why'd she bite me?"
And that's when he finally noticed everything around him. He looked up and saw Danny holding him with wide eyes, and on his other side a man with hazel hair was helping him up. He looked in front of him, and saw Charlie. But she looked different. Dangerous. She was in a crouch position on the ground, her eyes and face were red, and her lips were drawn back from her teeth to show fangs.
"Charlie?" Tucker asked, suddenly afraid. Charlie was about to lunge at them, when a figure with shoulder-length brown hair was on top of her. Tucker was officially confused.
"Danny, what's going on here, man?" he asked, looking into Danny's baby blue eyes. His eyes showed only relief and fear, and he shook his head at Tucker.
Tucker drew his attention back to the scene in front of him. Paige was rolling on the ground with Charlie, trying to pin her on the ground and tried to avoid getting her neck near the redhead vampire.
"Paulina!" Paige yelled, leaning away to miss a lunge from Charlie's teeth. "A little help here!"
Tucker was bewildered when Paulina came running towards Charlie and Paige, her hand raised to the sky. She closed her eyes and concentrated. Then, without any warning, lightning drifted down from the sky, hitting Charlie before she could take a nip at Paige.
With Charlie distracted, Paulina raced towards her, and had her pinned to a tree, her hand around Charlie's neck.
"Where is Sam?" Paulina said it in the most murderous voice she ever heard herself say. Something was just wrong. Paulina had Sam blocked a few minutes ago, but she let the wall down after discovering what Seth was. But apparently, Sam had her wall up now. But it didn't seem like your usual block, it was grey, instead of white. And Paulina had no doubt that Charlie and Seth had something to do with it.
Charlie giggled despite of her position. "My Seth will take care of your sister really good."
Rage took over Paulina. She felt strength that she never felt before. She slammed Charlie hard into the tree, making her yell in shock.
"Where the hell is she?" Paulina, feeling her eyes redden herself. Charlie obviously felt pain when Paulina focused all of her power, and to her shock, a fire started on the grass beneath Charlie's feet.
"Stop that!" Charlie said as the fire reached her feet. "Stop that fire, witch!"
"Where's Sam?" Paulina repeated, this time not so fierce, she was trying to keep concentrating on expanding the fire.
"The Old Temple!" Charlie shouted, the fire touching her feet. "She's at the Old Temple! Now turn off the fire! Please!"
Paulina never thought Charlie would beg. So she turned off the fire, and let Charlie go. Paulina only realized how hard she had gripped Charlie when she fell to the grass with Paulina's hand marks on her throat.
Paulina ran back to the others, with a wide-eyed Tucker, a panting Paige, and a frightened Leo and Danny.
Paulina took no notice to Tucker. "The Old Temple," she said urgently to Paige. "Orb us there Paige; now!"
With a snap of her fingers, they disappeared in the orbing blue-and-white lights.
Old Temple, Amity Park, Indiana
General POV
They were at the Temple in a matter of seconds. They looked around to adjust the new area. The Temple wasn't big, just as big as your regular rich people living room. There were pillars holding up the place, as if it was an underground garage under the mall.
But the place seemed as if Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader had a fight here. One of the windows was shattered; two of the pillars appeared broken, stone and wood were all over the ground. There was glass all over the ground, leading it up to a figure on the ground.
Danny's heart pounded when he saw it was Sam. He was the first one to run to her. He fell to his knees, and turned her over. The sight made him gasp, and he felt horror weld up inside of him.
On the floor in front of him, a limp Sam lay. She was very pale, her hair's shine slipping away from it. She had blood falling from the back of her head, and there were pieces of shattered glass lying near her legs. And her right leg, at her thigh, there was blood oozing out. There was a piece of glass that had blood on it, and Danny guessed it had been in Sam's thigh. And then there was her neck. It was twisted in some weird angle, as if it was broken.
But what caused him terror was the two bite marks on Sam's neck.
"Sam," Danny whispered. He leaned his hand to cup her cheek, but hesitated. He was afraid to touch her, but also afraid not to. This sight was something he just cannot bear. His hands starting covering her shoulders, and he started shaking her, but not very hard.
"Sam?" he said more loudly. "Sam, wake up. Sam, come on, wake up! Sam!"
By the time the tears spilled out of his eyes the others were at his side. Paige and Leo gasped at the sight, and sunk down together at her other side. Paige and Leo, overcome with shock and utter horror, were yelling at each other, about how she couldn't be dead, that a vampire wouldn't just leave her there, even if the vampire was Seth.
Paulina, Danny and Tucker, were just staring in disbelief at the limp body that was lying in front of them. She was more like a rag doll now, pale and unmoving. The tears were flowing nonstop, but they weren't making any sound.
Finally Paulina spoke, snapping Paige and Leo out of their fight. "Paige," she whispered, looking up at her with red eyes. "Please try to heal her."
Paige was stricken with her own tears when she looked at Sam again. "But you know I can't heal the –"
"Don't," Danny said, his eyes shut as he gestured a finger at her to shut her mouth. "Don't – don't complete that sentence."
"Please," Paulina whimpered. Paige nodded, her tears still flowing. Paige laid her two hands over Sam, and closed her eyes. She concentrated, trying to force all her positive energy out of her and onto Sam. The tears kept flowing down her cheeks when a bright light appeared from her hands. The thing the light should was spread through Sam's body and heal every injury it comes across. But now it was doing… nothing.
"Try, Paige," Danny said, his hand slipping into Sam's.
"I'm trying!"
"Try harder!"
Paige closed her eyes tighter, and the light grew. But no matter how the light expanded, it wasn't doing anything to heal Sam.
"Take us to the Manor," Leo said, an idea in his head. "I have an idea."
"But – "
"Now, Paige."
Paige nodded, and then they were disappearing in the orbing lights.
Infirmary, Halliwell Manor, San Francisco, California
General POV
Paige orbed them into the basement, aka, Leo's infirmary. They were surrounding Sam, who was lying unmoving on the bed, the blood on her body dripping onto the white mattress and sheets. Leo only plugged some wires into her, and one of the screens sprung to life.
"The shockers are going to have to cool for a few minutes," he informed them after turning all the machines he set up on.
"We don't have time," Paige said, urgency in her voice. Then Paulina had an idea.
"Move aside," she said to Leo. She was in the front, at Sam's face, and on the other side of the bed, Danny was standing there, his hand intertwined with Sam's. "I have an idea."
She looked down at her hands, taking a deep breath. She didn't know if she could do this, but she had to. She put her fingers on Sam's upper chest and her abdomen, and focused her powers. Then, with all her power, she forced electric shocks through her. It was even better than shockers, because this one had more power and emotion into it.
Paulina opened her eyes, and took another deep breath. She focused her powers again, and sent another electric shock through Sam.
Once she felt exhausted by just that, she looked at the life screen in hope, but her hopes were shattered when it lay dim, with no life in it.
Just like Sam.
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