Horror

Despite the misleading title, this story is not very scary at all.  Yes, we admit that we at least attempted to make it a teeny bit scary at first but then we realized that our sad attempts were just way too sad…so we just winged it.  As usual.  Have fun.

Kastarry pulled up from her last victim.  Something strange was

"Hang on," Beast interrupted.  "Are the X-Men going to remember this whole ordeal with Kastarry being a vampire?  Or are they going to think that they've been teenagers all this time so they don't know that they're married to each other or anything?"

"That's good!" said Professor Xavier.  "That way, they'd all be acting normal as opposed to being old on their young bodies."

Kastarry pulled up from her last victim.  Something strange was flowing through her body.  She had never bitten anyone in the neck before and tonight she had gone and bitten nine people, sucking many years off their lives.

Though she may have sucked years off their lives, she didn't do so in the planned matter.  Instead of sucking years off the end of their lives, she sucked years that they had already lived, causing the aged versions of themselves to devolve into their younger, teenage selves.  Kastarry then felt a surge of pain and anguish as her skin slowly curled and almost seemed to age a hundred years in a matter of moments.  She screamed as her own body collapsed under her body weight and she finally crumbled into a pile of dust.

"Whoa, Charles!" Beast exclaimed.  "Whoa!  That was brilliant!"

"I know." Said Professor Xavier.  "It is rather clever if I do say so myself."  Then he paused.  "NOW DON'T INTERUPT MY CREATIVE FLOW AGAIN!!"

"Okay!" Beast whined as he curled up into a pathetic ball.

"That was weird." Said Scott.

"Kastarry!" Pietro yelled.  "Go to your room!"

"Amour, you've got fangs!" Gambit pointed out as he pointed to Pietro. 

"Not to mention the fact that you are also about fifteen years younger." Said Scott as he felt his own fangs with his finger.  "I repeat myself.  That was weird."

"I thought they were going to forget all about what's been happening for the past fifteen years or so." Beast said.

"I SAID NOT TO…" started Professor Xavier but then he paused.  "Oh right.  Sorry Hank!"  He then deleted what he had just written.

"Hey…where are we?" said Scott.  He looked down to see that he was holding hands with Lance.  Lance was also noticing that he was holding hands with Scott.  They wrenched their hands away and quickly cleansed them while avoiding eye contact.

"What's going on?!" Kitty shrieked, looking in the mirror.  "I like, have fangs!!"

"Of course." Said St. John.  "That's because we're vampires!"

"DUH!!" said everyone else.

"And speaking of which…" said Bobby with his finger up.  "I'm really hungry."

"Time to go out to eat." Said Kurt with an evil smile as a shadow covered half of his face.  The group walked to the front door and opened the door.  As the old door opened, it let out a creak, almost as if it were crying.  A bolt of lightning struck not to far from the dilapidated house. 

"No need to fly." Said Cornelius.  Everyone stared at him, DARING him to talk again for the remainder of the story.

"No need to fly." Said Bobby with a grin.  "Tonight, we eat locally."

The group followed the darkness, allowing it to choose their path.  Swooping in the shadows, they searched for the perfect morsel that they would potentially share.  Of course, if no such morsel would present itself, perhaps they would have to resort to one of their own.  After all, with their evil intentions brewing inside if them, a task such as that would not scar or burden anyone in the small group.

When there was only moments before one would scream out for movement or action, they stumbled across the unsuspecting Todd and Piotr who were out for their evening stroll with their adoptive son, Joseph.

"Can't drop the slashness, can you, Charles?" asked Beast.

"Hank, slashness is not a word." Said Charles as he ignored Beast.

"Good evening!" said Todd as he tipped his hat up.  He had been reformed by the wonderful Professor Xavier after he had learned what a great teacher could do with such a delinquent.  "Fancy seeing you out here!"

"Yes, fancy indeed." Said Kurt, bearing his fangs.

"What's going on here?!" demanded Todd.

"Nothing." Said Kurt.  "I've ALWAYS had fangs."

"Oh right!" said Todd as he chuckled warmly.  "Well, we're off then.  Come Joseph and Piotr."

"NOT SO FAST!!!" screamed the group of vampires as they jumped atop the happy family.

"Charles, please tell me that you're not going to describe poor Todd and Piotr's graphic and horrible deaths by a pack of vampires!" said Hank, closing his eyes.

"I HAVE to, Hank!" said Professor Xavier.  "Otherwise, what kind of horror story would this be?"

"I suppose." Said Beast.  "Just not TOO graphic.  And maybe you could make them turn into vampires instead of dying."

"No." said Professor Xavier.  "They have to DIE."  Then he paused.  "Or better yet…"

Kitty lunged forward on the unsuspecting amphibious boy with her long sharp fangs bore fiercely, stained with the blood from past victims.  She grabbed him by the neck and forcefully tilted his head to the side.  She opened her mouth widely and brought her teeth down.  They grew closer and closer until they broke his skin.  Todd shrieked with terror as she began to withdraw blood from his body.

"NO!!" hollered Piotr as metal coated his skin and he fought off all the vampires that had been attacking him.  His only adoptive son, Joseph, had already been devoured and he would not allow his husband to meet the same fate.

Todd began to feel faint and dizzy, slowly his struggling subsided and fell limp as Piotr charged forward knocking Kitty off his lover.

"Don't make Piotr and Todd have a dramatic goodbye." Said Hank.  "It's not tragedy anymore."

"I know, Hank." Said Professor Xavier.

"Todd…" Piotr whispered as the metal around his body slowly slipped away.  The vampires grinned maliciously at each other and closed in for the kill.  Piotr knew he would not be able to live on without his family, so he did not fight back.  He allowed the unruly group of vampires close in on him, sink their horrible fangs into his neck, and pull from him every last bit of blood and life he had left.  Before he fell victim to an eternal sleep, he looked dizzily up at the group above him as they discarded his body now that it had served its purpose.  Final drops of blood that dripped from the holes in his neck were licked clean by those whose hunger was not satisfied.

The last thing Piotr remembers is feeling Scott's warm tongue, wet with Piotr's own blood, licking clean his final trace of life.

"I'll never rid myself of that terrible taste." Kitty scoffed as she looked into the direction of Todd's body. 

"That didn't stop you from taking more than your share from him." Said St. John as he rolled his eyes.

"Well, as long as I was THERE." Sighed Kitty.

"Hey guys…that was pretty gross." Said Kurt.  "I remember swearing to myself that I would never take advantage of the fact that I have fangs and suck people's blood."

Everyone paused.

"You know…?" said Lance.  "It was kind of nasty…"

"We can't help it!" said Bobby.  "We're vampires!  We HAVE to suck people's blood!"

"I wish we weren't vampires…" said Pietro sadly.

"Hey…do you think there's any way to cure the vampire curse?" asked St. John.

"Cure?" said Scott.

"Yeah!" said St. John.  "I mean, how do we know that there isn't a way for us to be cured of being a vampire?"  Everyone considered this.

"All right!" said Cornelius.

They all glared at Cornelius as he stepped backwards nervously.

"Let's go find out." Said Kitty.  "We could…I don't know…try the library?"

"ALL RIGHT!!" cheered the whole vampire team as they jumped up and punched the air.

"You know, Charles," said Hank.  "It was terrifying before but now what's going to happen?"

"I was planning on them going to another planet to get the cure." Professor Xavier replied.  "But it can still be scary because they're vampires."

"Going to another planet?" Hank questioned.  "That's kind of Sci-Fi…"

"How about the library can be haunted but then it turns into a Sci-Fi when they find out that the cure is on some other planet in a far off galaxy?" suggested Professor Xavier.  Beast considered this for a moment. 

"Hm…" said Beast with a nod.  "Sounds like a good idea to me."

"Of course it does." Said Professor Xavier as he cracked his knuckles for something like the fifth time.

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"Here is the Library of Vampires." Said St. John as he pointed to a building that looked like it had seen better days.  It was falling apart because of age, use and wear.  "Here is where we will find the cure."

As he said that, some small child walked by innocently holding a ball.  St. John leapt forward and sucked the life out of the child before anyone could even realize what was going on.

"We need to find that cure really fast." He said as he wiped his mouth off.  "I couldn't help myself!"

"Sure, sure…" said the other vampires.

"Well, she shouldn't have been outside walking in a neighborhood of vampires in the middle of the night when she was only about five anyway!" said St. John defensively.  "She deserved it!"

"No one deserves to die!!" Kitty said dramatically.  Then she whipped around to see the little girl's parents standing there gasping.  It was her turn to leap forward and devour their life forces.

"Okay…we REALLY need to find this cure…" said Lance, as they entered the building and walked over to a bookshelf.  He began flipping through the pages of a book and Kitty came back over, wiping her mouth.

The group shuffled through the books, being somewhat unsuccessful when suddenly, all the lights flickered and eventually turned off.

"All right…who turned out the lights?" Pietro demanded.

The sound of evil laughter rung through the air.  The vampires froze.  There was someone else in the library besides them!

"Well…of course there is…" Beast started.  "It's a library…"

"Hank…please." Said Professor Xavier.  "I was going for the effect and you questioning my talent is just making me feel insecure about my writing."

"Oh, sorry." Said Beast apologetically.

"Who…who's there?" Kurt stuttered.  "And what do you want?"

Eerie music filled the library as small sources of light emitting from the corners of the room glowed dimly.

"Should we check it out?" Remy asked.

All the vampires shrugged.

"Vampires are immortal, right?" asked Bobby.

"Well, Kastarry died." Said Pietro solemnly.  Remy put his hand on Pietro's shoulder and tried to hold back his own tears.

"She shall forever remain in our hearts." Said Remy as Pietro held himself back from crying.

The music seemed to grow louder and appeared to be emanating from no specific source.  The music, a loud and droning organ piece, slowly morphed into a low laugh that caused the floor to rumble.

Suddenly all the torches that hung around the library burst into much livelier flames than they had previously been.  The flames danced around menacingly until they finally died down to a dim glow.

The nine of them stood there in silence until St. John held out his hand and absorbed the fire into a small little ball that hovered on in the tips of his fingers. 

"Hey…" sobbed the ominous voice.

St. John held the fire out as the other searched for the cure for their vampire curse.

"AHA!" said Scott, slamming the book down on the table.  "It says here that we have to go to the planet Torgo and collect the Geometric Nucleus.  After we are exposed to the Geometric Nucleus, we should be cured!"

"That's great!" cheered all the vampires.

"Should it become Sci-Fi now?" asked Professor Xavier.

"Uh…sure!" said Beast.  "They could board a spaceship!"

"Yeah, horror wasn't really my thing."

"I noticed." Said Beast.  "I have to admit that though your writing was beautiful, your horror just wasn't scary."

"Where are they going to get a spaceship?" asked Professor Xavier, ignoring Beast's comment that insulted him so.

"It doesn't matter." Said Beast.  "Can't we just say that the library had one in the back or something?"

"I suppose so." Said Professor Xavier with a shrug.