Season 1 Episode 11: Slayer Invasion
Once again the Count and his youngest daughter Ingrid found their personalities clashing, she was once again doing everything to disobey him. This was a usual event of life in the Dracula household though the reason was different, rather than Ingrid's simple rebellious or the Count's discontent of her for her gender, no this dispute was caused by the Count's desire to rid himself of Ingrid by marrying her off.
Ingrid was adamant that she did not need to get married and that she would never marry someone he picked out for her now the usual temper tantrums of the vampires ensued, well they would have been normal if Ingrid's vampiric blood wasn't maturing.
Like many vampires when they began to draw close to their fifteenth year their vampiric abilities start to manifest and when they approach their sixteenth year their abilities become more erratic. Ingrid had entered her fifteenth year and as such her vampiric powers had started to manifest.
"You will do as I say Ingrid, I am your father!" The Count roared, lightning flashing outside.
"Choke on garlic." Ingrid spat, her hands curled into fists at her side.
"You will not speak with such foul language in this house!" He roared in response, Ingrid released a frustrated shriek before slamming her fists upon the dining table, a flame igniting from her hand and burning off the surface. She stopped, frozen in place, the Count simply stared at the table his youngest daughter had ruined.
"You'll be paying for that." The Count hissed before flashing off somewhere, where? Ingrid didn't give a shit, her attention was captivated by the table, she swallowed as she took a step back from it.
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Jonathan was sat in his dad's classroom reading up on the subject vampirism, doing his best to ignore the sound of students moving through the corridors as they made their way to wherever it was they all went at break time when he heard Ingrid saying something about breaking a table. He glanced towards the classroom window, she was talking to the Branaugh twins outside saying something about breaking a table and if they could fix it, they couldn't.
A small smirk appeared on the youths face as he was struck with inspiration, he turned to his father, currently sat at his desk marking year 8 homework.
"Hey, dad I think I've found a way for you to get back into the castle." Jonno stated.
"Oh, and what would that be?" Eric questioned while never looking up from his work.
"Apparently Ingrid's broken a table and she needs someone to fix it." Jonno replied Eric glanced up at his son.
"Jonno I don't think it wise for us to engage them, I can't risk putting you in danger and Bloom has already shown herself to not only be deadly but sadistic when her family is in danger and for the moment they are trying to keep a low profile meaning the residents of this area are not in any immediate danger and so our best option would be just to observe them closely and not engage unless as a last resort. She's powerful Jonno, more powerful than anything I've ever seen, if she decided to she'd have her fangs in our necks before we could even blink." Eric explained before returning his attention to his work.
"Come on dad we're, slayers! You've been training me ever since I found out vampires were real we should be able to dust a small number of vampires easy." Jonno encouraged eagerly.
"It's too risky, they may be small in numbers but their not to be underestimated, one of them is the Prince of Darkness himself Jonno, legends have been told of him, he's been the star of countless nightmares and not even he can hold a candle to his daughter, the She-Devil she's the monster that monsters have nightmares about, if we confront them…we won't last a minute, if we sneak in and do by some miracle grasp some evidence of their existence we'd most likely have to fight our way out of their…Bloom has known of me every time I have gotten close to that castle, she'd know we were there before we got into the place." Eric explained.
"But dad, this chance isn't likely to come by again, besides at the moment Bloom is in school, only the Count will be home and we both know he isn't the most observant of the family." Jonno argued.
Eric paused, Jonno had a point, there was no guarantee he'd ever get a chance such as this to get into the castle, true the Count was dangerous but still, Bloom would be at school as would Vlad be and since it was still day the chances are the Count will be sleeping. He set about arming himself; Jonno grew a triumphant smirk and set about arming himself too, it'd be easy to get out of school, fake being ill and he would need his dad to look after him since his mother didn't live with them and he was still a minor.
Later…
Eric and Jonno approached the castle doors warily, constantly glancing round making sure no one was watching them, they had made sure their trench coats were fastened concealing any and all weapons they had on their person, Eric knocked on the door. The muffled sound of footsteps were heard before the door opened to reveal the revolting for of Renfield.
"What do you two want?" he greeted with an expression of disgust upon his face.
"Oh…we've come to fix your table sir." Jonno said quickly, faking a deeper voice, Eric lifted a small metallic tool box. Renfield would normally have turned them away but he knew his master would make him fix the table if no one else did and that was something he didn't want to do, the last time he did that he hammered a nail into his hand plus they called him sir which was the final thing to cause Renfield's decision, he stepped to the side and allowed them to enter.
"Come in, just don't touch anything" he stated before leading them to the table, once they arrived at the remainders of the wooden table he instructed them to 'fix it' before leaving them to get the job done.
Eric quickly fixed the table so not blow their cover and began stalking through the castle, Eric found the Counts chambers rather quickly and opened the door a crack, just wide enough to spy inside.
He saw the Count, hanging from the ceiling like a bat, his eyes closed as he slept, Eric opened the door a bit further and lifted up a camera and took a quick photo of the sleeping vampire, Jonno then took a picture of the interior of the room, including the coffin, forgetting to turn the flash off. The brief flash of light disturbed the sleeping vampire.
The two slayers shut the door quickly and quietly just as the Count awoke. They quickly fled from the closed door as silent as they could manage. They then headed to the tower, planning on getting a couple more photos of where the vampires slept while they were away.
They entered Vlad and Bloom's room, quickly snapping a picture of the room before taking several more of the coffin that rested against the stone wall. Jonno then approached the coffin, aiming to get a picture of the inside of the coffin, he slowly opened the coffin and was met with the startling and rather alarming site of Bloom, asleep in her coffin, attired in a black nightie, the thin piece of clothing hugged Bloom's figure rather effectively, designed to conceal her breasts and lower intimate areas from view while being almost transparent everywhere else. Her arms were crossed over her front, yet she didn't seem to find the awkward position to cause any discomfort.
Jonno had to bite back a yelp of fear when he saw the vampire who his father had described as being worse than Count Dracula himself; he quickly took a photo, this time remembering to turn the flash off. They both dived out of the room, hiding on either side of the door, waiting and listening intently for any sign of the vampire being awoke.
Bloom's eyes then snapped open her sleep disturbed by the sound of her door closing rather quickly, she internally cursed whoever had woken her, she had taken a day off school to catch up on her rest and she still couldn't get a peaceful day's sleep. Her eyes darted around the room yet she saw no one, she sniffed the air, her eyes shot wide in alarm, the slayers were here meaning her children were in danger. Her mind clouded with fear and concern for her children and she didn't realize they were only six feet from her, she flashed down to the crypt.
She was met with sight of her children soundly asleep within their cradle, Angel with her thumb in her mouth while Talon had one of his arms around her; the sight was just so adorable. A small smile played across her lips before she silently crept out of the crypt and set about searching the castle eager to locate them so she could be sure that her children were safe to stop worrying for their lives, her fear and concern preventing her from focusing her vampire senses to a point where she could locate them with ease.
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Jonno and Eric stalked away from Vlad and Bloom's room, heading back down staircase, trying not to make a sound. They had seen Bloom flee the room and knew that they had to get out of the castle before they were located by the young vampire. They reached the ground floor and they were about to leave when the sound footsteps echoed about the room, and they sounded like they were getting closer and closer. They panicked and ran to a random door, upon opening it they were met with the sight of a small staircase, they closed the door and crept down the stairs.
When they reached the bottom of the staircase they found themselves to be in the crypt. Jonno set about looking round, noticing dozens of coffins scattered around the room while Eric pressed against a wall on the corner looking round and up the stairs making sure nothing was going to come down while listening intently for any sign of the being they'd heard earlier leaving.
"Hey dad you might want to take a look at this." Jonno stated in a fearful tone, Eric glanced away from the staircase and followed his son's gaze, spying the crib in a darkened area of the room.
"They were…they were going to…" Jonno stammered, turning green around the edges "To babies." He gasped out, unable to even say what he was thinking.
Eric approached the ancient cot, he saw two sleeping babies within it he slowly and carefully picked one up (Talon) he nodded for Jonno to do the same, Jonno nodded before picking up the remaining baby (Angel) the babies began to squirm in their sleep at their touch.
Eric and Jonno then began to head back up the stairs, they had to get out of the castle and fast. They opened the door just a crack, the room was empty, they entered the 'living' room and began to resume their escaping of the castle. They began to approach the door when Bloom flashed down, in front of the door that led to the crypt, they were now only a few feet from the door, her glare landed on them she prepared herself to scare them off with minor death threats to keep them away. She didn't want to have to kill them except as a last resort, they needed to keep a low profile, they didn't need the attention of a murder investigation or even a disappearance one.
She then saw her babies in their arms and froze, she grit her teeth, her fangs sharpening.
"Put them down." Bloom growled as her eyes turned scarlet, her fangs pressing into her lower lip to the point of cutting it, a single stream of blood slid down her lip and down her chin.
"That chance vampire I won't let you drain these infants…so much for you not feeding on people." Eric spat, his tone positively filled venom, he fished a stake from his coat, pointing it towards Bloom.
"You're just sick, kidnapping babies just to murder them." Jonno spat in disgust as he too held up a stake pointed at Bloom.
"Put. My. Children. Down. Now. Or I swear I shall drain your corpses of every last drop of blood." Bloom hissed her irises turning yellow and her pupils became slits as she finally opened her mouth enough for her fangs to emerge.
"Your children? You kidnapped them to feast upon their blood." Eric spat, unable to prevent the confusion from sneaking into his tone.
"What are you talking about? They're my children I gave birth to them and I will destroy you and anyone or anything that tries to keep me apart from them." Bloom roared, her fangs doubling in length and sharpening, the babies awoke, they began to cry and squirm in the slayer's grasps, trying to get free from the slayers' and to get back to their mother.
The slayers began to struggle to hold them. Talon wiggled out of Eric's grasp and landed on his hands and knees and began crawling towards Bloom, surprising them all, Bloom because she was unaware her children had grown up so fast that they could now crawl and at only a few weeks of age, though they appeared to be about a year old now. Whereas the slayers were surprised by the fact the baby was crawling back to the 'monster that kidnapped them', Angel then squirmed free from Jonno's grasp before he could recover from the sudden surprise and she also began to crawl towards Bloom.
A motherly smile spread across Bloom's lips as she lowered herself down on her knees and opened her arms wide welcoming her children. Jonno and Eric recovered from their shock and grabbed at the babies from behind, taking hold of their legs stopping them as they reached halfway.
"You fiend! You've hypnotized them to make them think you're their mother." Eric yelled as he began clicking his fingers in front of them yet it had no affect and only led them to cry at been apart from their mother.
Bloom snarled as she thrusted her arms out forward and shot two fireballs at the slayers forcing them to release her children and leap back to avoid being burned allowing them to resume their journey back to their mother.
Bloom picked them up when they reached her and positioned them so they were looking over her shoulders and then supported them both with her right arm and turned back to the slayers who stumbled back to their feet and glared at bloom and Eric pulled out a loaded small crossbow and aimed it at Bloom.
He shot it at her, it headed straight for her heart, that is until Bloom set it a light by merely focusing on the wooden projectile causing it to incinerate into a pile of dust on the floor before it could even reach her.
Bloom's children bit into her neck and began feeding on her blood once again, causing Bloom to wince slightly in pain but ignored it and turned her attention back to the slayers.
"How dare you try to take my children away from me." Bloom hissed as she began to approach them and each time the slayers held up their weapons to defend themselves Bloom incinerated them with but a single look and was only inches away from them and was more than ready to drain them both, deciding to screw low profile, she would drain these slayers and dispose of their corpses later. The door opened Vlad walked in completely covered in mud from head to toe, soon followed by Ingrid, wearing her usual scowl.
Bloom glanced at him questioningly for a second before recalling Vlad had something about playing Rugby after school today.
"Bloom stop! We have to keep a low profile remember!" Vlad yelled when he saw what Bloom intended to do, whereas when Ingrid saw what she was doing and grew a small smir, eager to see Bloom remind everyone of what she really was.
"They tried to take my children Vlad." Bloom spat.
"They're not your children you kidnapped them to feast upon" Eric argued, sweating like mad, stinking of fear.
"Actually they are her children she gave birth to them a few weeks ago now you two get out of here unless you want Bloom to drain you, she gets very vampiric when someone even threatens the family and is someone you don't want to get in the way of or appear to threaten the family and since giving birth to her children she has become a lot more dangerous when someone appears to threaten the family especially when someone threatens her children so take my advice run and stay away from her for a long time." Vlad said the slayers then took their opportunity and left, after all they already had what they wanted, evidence of the existence of vampires.
Caravan…
Eric began to develop the photos and went ballistic when he realized there was no photos of the vampires only castle scenery and some old coffins no evidence that vampires existed. Going over mental checks on what could have gone wrong, maybe it had been something wrong with the camera? No he'd fixed it, taken it apart, clean it ensured it was all working and that not even a speck was on the little mirrors…mirrors?!
"Oh damn it! How could be so stupid cameras work with mirrors and vampires don't have reflections!" Eric roared, hearing this Jonno let his head fall and hit the wooden table, they nearly got drained for nothing.
