A/N: Okay, in this chapter the traitor and his goal are explained. Then there's also the mystery visitor who would like to join team Caleb. I think that's it without me spoiling the whole thing before you read it. xD Just wanted to touch on what should really be expected from this chapter. Thanks again guys for the support for this story. For a one shot turned into something bigger I'm quite pleased that many of you are enjoying it. Small things like that make writing for this site worth it. (: Now on to the story.


On a deserted street in England, a young man named Peter ran for his life, fear flowing through every inch of his veins. He could feel his heart pounding, a beat in his ears that told him he was still alive, and if he wished to continue to be he had to run. He turned a corner sharply, and fell hard, banging his knee against the ground. Cursing, he tried to stand up and felt a fire of pain spread throughout his leg causing him to fall again.

"Finally, this game of cat and mouse was getting old. I just want to know if you have something I can use." Peter's blood ran cold at the voice. How? He had escaped. Why had he found him already?

The man he had been running from looked at him as he walked closer. He was on the frail side and was probably in his late forties or early fifties. He didn't look threatening at all, but he knew the truth. This guy was someone he didn't want to mess with. As the man stood next to him, he lifted him up by the front of his shirt and studied him with a blank expression. Peter closed his eyes and shivered. "P-please…I already gave you my wallet. I-I don't have anything else."

"My senses tell me otherwise. You have…unspeakable power. All I need to know is what kind of power resides inside of you. That's all. It won't take no more than a minute of your time. Plus, the benefits of what you'll get afterwards. I'm sure you'll want to thank me." He snickered a little bit, a sinister laugh that did nothing to quell the fear Peter felt.

"What are you talking about?" Peter asked, his voice quivering. "I'm just a pizza delivery—aaaaah!" The man bit him on the neck and a terrible pain flooded his senses. After what felt like forever the man let go of him, frowning.

"Hmm, no. Nice, but still not quite what I need." Peter's eyes began to blur. He couldn't make sense of what he was looking at, he could barely remembered where he was, and, before long, unconsciousness seized him.

"Charlie," the man called.

"Yes?"

"Clean up as best as you can here. You know the usual. Just make sure you focus on erasing me from his mind."

"You got it La Sombra."

"Excellent." He adjusted his hat. "Time to continue the search. I'm so close. There's only a couple of more left. One of them definitely must have what I'm seeking."

"What does all of this have to do with you leading the vampire world?" Charlie asked.

"Everything. Let's just say what I'm looking for will make doing that much, much easier." He chuckled.

"If you say so. You're the boss."

"Of course, and once I'm done everyone else will know it too," he smiled crookedly. He was nearly to his goal, and there wasn't anything anyone could do to stop him. That was the advantage of being three steps ahead of your opponent. Victory was almost certainly in sight.


"Who are you?" This was the first thing out of Fi's mouth as she stared at the new visitor.

"I'm Rhonda Wellington Lloyd sweetie," she said with a flip of her hair. Fi grimaced.

"Actually, I'm sorry I asked," she said, shaking her head.

"You might want to remember my name. Seems we're going to be working together in the future." Rhonda pointed out.

"What are you doing here?" Victor asked, turning his head toward her.

"Helping rescue Helga and Arnold of course. I may not have known Helga long, but I find myself fond of her for some reason, and Arnold just because, well I have known him since Pre-K, and I am still in his debt."

Caleb frowned. "You know the human?"

"Most certainly. Arnold's a peach. I'm sure he's taking wonderful care of Helga," she said, shooting a dark grin his way. Caleb clenched his hand into a fist.

"Know what? Me and Fi don't need your help," he said, crossing his arms. If she was going to make comments like that he didn't want her around.

"Say what? And I thought you didn't want to work with me?" Fi asked, surprised.

"That was then, this is now."

"That was a cop out response, and this is you being bitter that she implied your girlfriends doing just fine in the hands of someone else." She said, looking smug.

"Shut…up." Caleb said, through clenched teeth.

"I'm starting to see that you don't take opinions well when they revolve around Helga," she said, grinning.

"What part of shut up didn't you understand?"

"The part where I don't give a panda's butt about what you want."

"Panda's…butt?" Rhonda asked, shooting her an odd glance. Fi just shrugged.

"Don't ask."

"Okay," Victor chimed up. "Perhaps I didn't ask my question right. How do you know about the situation that Arnold and Helga find themselves in?"

"Oh that's easy," Rhonda said with a smile. "When Helga didn't call me as promised, and when she had not answered one of the many calls I had personally sent her, I realized something must have been wrong. I flew my personal jet over here, and let's just say I may have flubbed my age a bit to get the information I needed."

"Flubbed your age?" Fi asked.

"Certainly. I pretended to be six years old. Oh, by the way, I can manipulate my age," she explained to Fi. "It seems even the Dazvre are gullible to childish charms."

Everyone turned to look at Victor who just frowned. "I see…I'll certainly get that straightened out."

"After that, it was very easy to sneak in and figure out where to go, and now here I am," she laughed.

"I think I'm starting to like you," Fi said, smiling.

"But of course. I'm a likable person."

"Don't you mean vampire?" Fi asked.

"Oh, right. I tend to forget since I'm posing as a human most of the time," she blushed.

"Anyway, you can be on your way now," Caleb said. "Fi and I can handle this."

"Now wait a second," Fi spoke up, frowning. "I think I get a say in this, and if we're breaking off into nice little groups I want to go with Rhonda."

"What?"

"She's more likable than you are. Once you get the tuba out your arse maybe you'll be decent to be around, until then I'll take my chances with the age shifter."

"Age shifter…I really like the sound of that." Rhonda mused.

Seeing that he was at a disadvantage Caleb sighed. "Fine…she can come along."

"Not like you had many options," Fi said, and Caleb glared at her.

"Why do you have a comment for everything?"

Fi just shrugged and smiled.

"I guess all that's left is a plan," Victor said. "I think the easiest place to start will be the last place the rogue vampire has been spotted."

"What about Helga?" Caleb asked.

"All in due time. Perhaps finding this rogue vampire will lend some clues to Helga's whereabouts."

"It's more of a lead than what we have so far," Rhonda pointed out.

"Very well," Caleb sighed. "You do have a point."

Fi clapped. "Doesn't it feel good to actually agree for once?"

Caleb shot her another glare. "Must you do that?"

"Why yes, yes I do."

Victor cleared his throat. "From what my men have gathered, the latest victim was found in England."

"England really?" Caleb asked. "I haven't been there in years," he murmured going into thought.

"Get ready to put on your raincoat then," Rhonda told them. "We're going to England."


A cool breeze blew by making Helga shiver. She wasn't particularly pleased by the forest weather. One second it'd be scorching hot, the next cold as ice. It was hard to adjust. Not to mention the silence that loomed between her and Arnold was also making her uncomfortable. It had been quite awkward after the whole shirt exposure part of their journey, and she didn't know what to talk about.

"So you and Rhonda…" Arnold said, startling her from her thoughts. She glanced at him side ways, but he was still looking ahead of them, and not at her.

"What about me and Rhonda?"

"I just figured that was an interesting friendship." He told her. "I believe, if I remember correctly, she said you both met while you were 'snacking on an innocent young man', and I'm guessing it wasn't me."

Helga shrugged, blushing, not feeling the small bits of jealousy coming from Arnold. "Haha, yeah well it was at a weak time in my life."

Arnold stared at her. "Was this after you bit me?"

"...Yeah."

"Why didn't you just come to me then instead of getting someone else involved?"

"It wasn't that easy. Caleb didn't want me going around you more than necessary," she explained. "Bond or no bond."

Arnold said nothing, knowing exactly why Caleb felt that way. Arnold hoped he'd never give that vampire any reason to want to do away with him, even if it meant keeping Helga at a distance.

"Um, what about you and Lila?" Helga asked him to keep the conversation going.

"Me and…Lila?" Arnold asked in shock.

"Yeah, what's the deal there? Do you like her or not?"

Arnold fully turned and looked at her. "Helga…why do you know Lila?"

"What do you mean?"

"It's just that, well from my perspective, you shouldn't know who she is."

"Oh, come on! You…" Her eyes widened seeing that he was correct. He never introduced the two of them.

Arnold raised an eyebrow. "Feel up to explaining it?"

"…No, not really," she bit her bottom lip.

"Whatever you say," he said, still looking at her, but now with a curious expression. Helga wanted to smack herself for such a silly mistake.

"Okay, maybe…" She began, his scrutiny making her crumble. "Let's just say I might have followed you around on a few occasions," she said, tugging on her cloak.

"Like stalking?" He asked, disbelief in his voice.

"No! Not at all! I was just interested in knowing who I was bonded to that's all."

"You could have just asked to hang out with me and my friends," he said frowning.

"I didn't want to hang out with your friends."

"You didn't want to?"

"Like I said, I wanted to get to know who you were more. I wasn't interested in meeting other…people."

"Why not?"

"Criminy! Isn't it obvious? I'm a vampire. I've been told my whole life to stay away from humans. Why would I have wanted to meet a whole bunch of them at once? Sure I feel…safe around you, and I dunno that may be thanks to the whole bonding or feeling your emotions thing, but it's not easy for me to be around humans normally."

"I see, but stalking me? Really?"

"Oh, don't act like you're not flattered or something by it," she rolled her eyes. "I can feel your emotions remember?"

"No matter what I feel, that's still…wrong," but he knew he was blushing.

"Yeah, well it's not like I'm going to be doing it anymore anyway." He gave her a look and she explained. "We're getting rid of the bond remember? I won't have any need to do so anymore."

"Right," he said, and she felt as a wave of sadness washed over him.

"Unless you decide not to get rid of the bond…" she said, glancing at him.

He turned shocked. "What about Caleb?"

"Caleb would eventually learn to deal."

"I dunno. A bond is forever right? Or at least until one of us dies. What if I live to be old? We're talking years."

"And I'll have forever after that with Caleb."

"Forever?"

"Yeah, once I turn 25 I should stop aging. From there it'll be forever."

"Wow…I never actually thought about how long you'd have to live. So you won't grow to be, you know, old?"

She shook her head. "Nah, I may be half human, but I'm also half vampire. I think I'll only 'live' until a certain age."

"What about your heart?"

"What about it?"

"It's…beating now right?"

"Yeah."

"Will it stop in the future?"

She laughed. "It might once I reach that age where I stop growing. You sure are asking a lot of questions suddenly."

"It just hit me that there's much about your…life I guess that I don't know."

"Yeah, that's true. Better late than never I suppose."

"So why do you not want us to get rid of the bond now. We've pretty much already started," he held up his wrist with the shackle attached to it.

"I guess I just, I dunno, maybe I just don't find our current situation all that bad."

"But why not? If I'm out of the picture, you can bond with Caleb right? Wouldn't that be the better outcome?"

She sighed. "Arnold…there's something I haven't told you."

"What's that?"

"After the bond is broken…well, you're not going to remember it or me...and vice versa."

He stopped walking. "Why not?"

"There will be no reason for you to know about the vampire world anymore. It'll be like it never happened."

"So…I won't remember doing any of this?"

She shook her head. "I don't know what sort of memories you'll have, but I nor Caleb, or any of the other vampires will be in them. Well, except Rhonda, but you won't remember that she's a vampire, just a classmate."

"That's…wow. I didn't know…"

"And I wasn't going to tell you. Why should I? There didn't seem to be any need."

"So you were just going to let me forget all about you without telling me beforehand?" He asked, anger and sadness slowly filling his voice.

She cringed. "I wanted to tell you, but I didn't know how to break the news to you. I eventually convinced myself that you didn't need to know."

"But I thought we were friends at least?" He asked, trying to hide how sad he really was about this. He hated that she probably knew.

"We are."

"If we were friends you would have told me everything. Unless our friendship meant nothing to you from the start."

Her jaw dropped. "That's not-"

"Save it Helga. Maybe getting rid of the bond is the best thing for the two of us."

That stung. She couldn't stop the hurt the words brought on from nearly suffocating her, and she didn't even realize that all of the pain she was feeling wasn't even her own. She did her best to stop the tears from filling her eyes. She didn't want him to know how much hearing him say that had affected her.

"I still don't think so," she whispered. Rather Arnold heard the words or not she didn't know. She just knew that her heart wouldn't hurt more if he had actually stabbed her through it.