Chapter 19: The Ace up the Sleeve!

The night seems to be rather quiet for a Friday. All seemed too peaceful. That is, until a man started running down the street for his dear life.

Dave tried desperately to attempt to get back to the park and save his son from the monster called Dracula. If the other Vampires weren't chasing him down he would have done just that.

He hoped to loose them by turning down an ally, between two large buildings. To his discomfort, he had run into a dead end.

"Oh nuts." Dave mutters to himself.

With his body shaking like a leave in the wind, Dave turns to the way he'd just came in. Standing there were the two young male Vampires.

"Well, well, well... What do we have here?" One of the males gloated.

"It would appear to be...a snack." The other one taunted.

Both men took their time walking up to Dave in a teasingly manner. This was making Dave feel very uncomfortable. He lifted the stake in his hand, hoping that it would make them back away.

"Will you look at this? He is going to try beating us with a twig." One of them laughs.

"Foolish mortal." The other one chuckles heartily.

Both men began opening their mouths wide, exposing their sharp fangs, and reaching their hands out to grab Dave. Just then, a shadowy figure jumps down from one of the two building's rooftop.

The men turned to see the intruder and smiles.

"Ah, Sibylla. Good of you to finally catch up." The male on the right says.

"Yes, we are about to have a good old fashioned feeding frenzy on this mortal." The other one spoke while pointing to Dave with his thumb.

Sibylla looked at the two men with emotionless feelings. She then looked passed them to see Dave. The female Vampire then returned her attention to the males.

"Actually, I came down to say 'goodbye'." She tells them.

"Goodbye?" One of them asked in a puzzle.

"Yes. Goodbye."

Without warning, Sibylla reached behind her back and pulled out two stakes and plunged them directly into the two Vampire's hearts. Both men fell towards the ground and crying out their last bit of life as the undead.

"Ah, thank you...I guess..." Dave cautiously said.

"You are best to go home now, Mr. Seville." Sibylla said flatly.

"In other circumstances, that wouldn't be a bad idea. But you see I need to save my son from Dracula."

The female Vampire bowed her head in shame. "I'm afraid you are too late. I can feel the energy strongly... Your son has become a Vampire already."

"Nooo!" Dave shouts in grief.

He leans up against the wall of one of the buildings and holds his head with both of his hands. "This isn't happening..." Dave mutters to himself.

"I'm afraid it is. You will have to accept it."

"I can't... There has to another way." Dave says as he gets back up to his feet.

"There isn't." She tells him bluntly.

"I don't believe that, I won't!" Dave stubbornly says.

"You are a persistent mortal. I'll give you that."

"Please, help me. Help me defeat Dracula."

"That is out of the question, Mr. Seville. No Vampire can touch Dracula. He is our Master."

"If that is true then how is it you can destroy your own kind? Like you just did with them?" Dave asks while pointing at the two deceased Vampires.

Sibylla looked down at the motionless bodies and shook her head.

"I never liked those two. They were...inferior. Inferior Vampires are different."

"So, if you can do that to them, why can't you do that to Dracula?"

"Because, Dracula is The Vampire of all Vampires. Some say he is the first, but that is yet to be proven."

"But there has got to be a way... All evil monsters have a weakness to exploit. Why should Dracula be different?"

The female Vampire looked at him and thought about what he said.

"Please," Dave pleaded as he reached out to her arm and grabbed hold of it. "Both Simon and Brittany need to be freed from his evil. There still has to be some good in you to understand that."

Before Dave knew it, Sibylla released herself from his hold and grabbed his throat with one hand. She forcefully threw him against the wall holding him two feet up from the ground.

"Understand this, Mr. Seville! I-am-a-Vampire! I have no emotions, so I don't care what is happening to your son, or the Master's Messenger."

Dave coughed trying to catch a breath. "I don't believe that... If you don't care, then why did you just save me?"

In that instant, Sibylla drops Dave. He lands with a thump and a coughing fit.

"Lets just say I made a promise to keep an eye on you." She admits in a dryly tone.

"Well, at least could you tell me how to find Dracula?"

"You are willing to die to in order to save the young chipmunks lives?"

"You were a parent once...wouldn't you?"

"I..." Sibylla thought for a moment, but she could not find the right excuse why she should protect her Master. She turned way from Dave. Looking at him face to face seemed more uncomfortable then she had ever expected.

"There are two for sure ways to destroy Dracula and his power." Slowly she admits.

"What are they?" Dave asked in anticipation.

Sibylla turns to face Dave once more.

"One, you can stake him in the heart with a wooden stake. Just like how I did with those two. Second, is to decapitate him." She finished while sliding her finger across her throat.

"Wha-what about sunlight?"

"No. Sunlight cannot destroy the Master. It can only weaken him."

"Ok. But how do I find him?"

"He nests in an abandoned warehouse at the end of the L.A. Harbor. You must find it by sunrise. That will be the best time to strike him down. He will need to rest during the day, and he will be vulnerable then."

"Thank you. Are you sure that you cannot come and help?" Dave asked. He is still feeling a tad insecure going up against Dracula.

"I cannot..." Sibylla admitted before turning away from Dave once more. "I do, however, wish you luck...you will need it."

"I guess I'll have to take that." Dave says. He then notices Sibylla walking away from him. "Wait, where are you going?"

"Away, Mr. Seville. I'm going away." She then stops to look over her shoulder. "Oh, and Mr. Seville..."

"Yes?"

"Let this be our final encounter..." She says with a bit of a growl.

Before Dave could say anymore to her, she leaped up to fire escape ladder, and climbs back up to the roof.

"No problem." Dave mutters. He watches as the Vampire woman disappears in to the night, and with a series look on his face he sets out to find Dracula's lair.