Chapter 21: Princess of the Night!
Ten minutes later Alvin, Theodore, Jeanette, and Eleanor ran into through the Miller's front door. They came in panting for breath after running for three blocks without stopping.
"Miss. Miller?" Jeanette calls out in between breaths. When she doesn't answer, Jeanette becomes concerned.
Alvin looks out the door. He wanted to make sure that the Vampire, formally known as his brother, was not following them.
"Do you see him?" Eleanor asks.
"No, I think we lost him." Alvin says as he closes the door.
"Actually, 'he's' standing right here." Came a taunting voice from the shadowy corner of the room.
The Chipmunks and Chipettes nearly jumped out of their skin. They spun around to see Simon stepping out into the light.
"But how...I mean you...and he...and then we..." Alvin stuttered.
"Whoa, careful there. You don't want to hurt yourself." Simon chuckled.
"How did you get in here?" Jeanette demanded.
"I know what you are thinking," Simon begins to say as he struts with his hands behind his back, like a professor giving a lecture. "How could a Vampire like myself be able to come into a person's home uninvited...right?"
"All I know is that it wouldn't have been either of us." Jeanette spat.
"You know if I still had a beating heart it would break." Simon replied as he pretended to whip a tear from his eye.
"So how did you get in here?" Eleanor asked.
"Why, she let me in of course." Simon smiled. He pointed to the darkened living room, the kids looked hard to see an elderly woman sleeping on the couch. "What a nice lady." He says in a cocky manner.
"Miss. Miller!!" Both Jeanette and Eleanor panicked.
The two girls run up to their surrogate mother. They checked to see if she were alive. Eleanor turned on the light beside the couch and both her and her sister search for any bit marks on Miss. Miller's neck. To their relief there were none. They were also glad to see that Miss. Miller is still breathing, but she isn't waking up. Even with Jeanette and Eleanor shaking her.
"Miss. Miller? Miss. Miller?" Eleanor cried.
Jeanette spun around and never before did she look so angry, "What did you do to her?" She demanded to Simon.
"Ah, the power of hypnotic suggestion ...isn't it a wondrous thing? She should sleep for however long I want her too." He replied to her calmly.
"You're a monster!" Alvin Spat.
Simon looked over to his former brother and raised his eyebrow. "Gee, took you this long to figure that out?" He then smiles mischievously and slamming his fist into his hand, he adds. "Speaking of which... It's round- up time."
"Oh no, not again." Theodore whined. He hadn't run so fast for so long in his entire life.
Jeanette grabs Eleanor's hand then runs with her to the direction of the boys. Simon leaped in front of them with a loud hiss to show off his fangs. Jeanette pulled out her necklace cross once again, but this time she takes it off and pushed it up at Simon's face. The instant it touched his fur it begins burning. With a cry of pain, Simon backed away. He throws the little charm away from him. When he looked around the room he realized that Alvin, Theodore, and the girls had already ran out the door. Simon growls, but then realizes where they would be heading next.
He moved his hand up to feel the singed mark that the little cross made on his cheek. The wound began to heal within seconds and his face looked back to normal again. Simon returned his focus to his goal. He was about to run after the kids when a noise caught his attention. The noise came from the basement. Simon, being curios, decides to investigate the strange noise.
He walks up to the basement door and brings his hand up to the knob. With a few light turns, Simon realizes that the door is locked. Instead of searching for a key to open the door he uses his own unnatural strength to pull the door open.
When Simon reaches the bottom step he sees Brittany tied up. She is surrounded with a few of her warmest blankets. Her sister, and Miss. Miller made sure that Brittany would be comfortable before leaving her tied up. They even covered her mouth with a soft cloth just so she wouldn't scream as much.
The Chipmunk Vampire cocks his head to one side as he looks down at the Master's Messenger. Brittany stares up at him in a knowing way without needing to say anything.
Finally, Simon bends down and unties Brittany. He even takes off the gag around her mouth.
"It's about time you got here." Brittany snaps. She stands up and welcomes freedom once more. "The Master will be glad to see that I'm alright. He is looking forward in making me one of his Princesses." She looks down on the floor and smiles. "Ooh, beetle. I've been keeping my eye on you, you little morsel."
Brittany crawls on the floor. As soon as she catches up to the bug, she picks it up and eats it. Simon looks down at the cloth in his hand. The same one that was around her mouth, and suddenly regretted taking it off. He shrugged his shoulders then tossed the cloth over them. While shaking his head, Simon begins to walk back up the stairs.
"Hey, where are you going? I wanna come too." Brittany said as she began skipping behind Simon.
"I have business to take care of for the Master." Simon answered.
"Ooooh, speaking about the Master, when do you think he will make me into his Princess of the Night?"
"Ah, next to never." Simon tells Brittany. "Remind me again why I let you out of your prison?"
"Maybe the Master wanted you to rescue me, so we could reunite the rest of the family." Brittany danced past the living room. She stopped when she recognized the sleeping woman on the couch.
"How peaceful that lady looks." Brittany says in a sympathetic way. "But she still breaths. Did you not want to take her life?"
"I was not hungry." Simon said flatly.
"How come?"
"Because I still have my original blood flowing strongly in me, plus I have Dracula's blood too. I did not need hers. Besides, it's old blood...yuck." Simon cringed.
"I wonder what it'd be like to asleep forever?" She wondered.
"Well, I know that I would never know." Simon smirked.
Brittany turned to Simon and glared at him.
"And what is that supposed to mean?" She snapped.
Simon does not answer this time. He continues to walk out the door to go after his victims.
"Hey! I'm talking to you! Come back here!" Brittany yells and slams her foot onto the floor. She sees that Simon is not responding.
"Hey! Wait up!" She cries before running to catch up to him.
Simon and Brittany arrive to the Seville's home. They watch as Alvin, Theodore, Jeanette, and Eleanor run inside and slamming the door.
"Hmm." Simon ponders.
"Is there something the matter 'oh great Master's Pet'?" Brittany joked.
Simon growled at the crazy Chipette. "I was thinking that this might be a problem."
"Why?"
"Because, we need to be invited into a home before taking over our victims."
"Oh."
"There's got to be a way...I'll think of something." Simon finally says as he walks up to the house.
He looked into the living room window and spotted his brothers with Jeanette and Eleanor talking about what they were going to do next.
"Alvin, Theodore... Why won't you come out to play?" Simon tauntingly sings.
He chuckles in an evil manner when he hears them screaming and running into the next room. If he couldn't get inside, he might as well have fun with their minds. As Simon goes past the front door, he notices Brittany attempting to get inside by turning the front door. Simon watches with great interest at what she is doing.
Inside, Alvin, Theodore, Jeanette, and Eleanor ran into the kitchen. There had to be something they could do to save Simon from becoming a Vampire forever, but first they had to figure out how to survive the night.
"What are we going to do?" Theodore asks.
"I don't know, but we have to think of something and fast. I once read a book that if we don't kill the Vampire that started this whole mess, then Simon could be a Vampire forever." Jeanette stated.
"So maybe instead of hunting Dracula we should hunt down that woman Vampire. It was her blood that started this whole mess." Alvin suggested.
"Maybe, but Dracula is her 'Master' right? So, chances are it is his blood that spawned her." Jeanette pointed out.
"You're saying that we are going after Dracula no matter what, aren't you?" Alvin said grimly.
"It looks that way." Jeanette sighed.
"Oh great." Eleanor whined. "And how do we do that without being killed ourselves?"
Just then they hear a noise coming from the front door.
"What's that?" Theodore cries out.
"Oh no! He's trying to get in!" Eleanor quivers.
"Relax. He can't get in, unless invited. And there is no way any of us are going to invite him in." Alvin said in a confident manner.
"Yah, I'm in!" A familiar voice shouts as soon as the door opens.
"BRITTANY?" They all shout at once.
Brittany looks over at the quivering Munks and grins playfully at them.
"Alvin!" She calls out. "Come, join me in a dance of triumphant joy."
Brittany begins to skip towards them and stops in front of Alvin.
"Why not leave these foolish mortals, and I will talk the Master in letting you become a Creature of the Night. Just like me!" She gloats.
While Brittany talked to Alvin, Jeanette, Eleanor, and Theodore run to the fridge. They start pulling out a string of garlic cloves. Together they begin tying them together.
"Hee, hee. You know Brittany; I'd love to be a nighttime creature, just like you. But you see, I'm on a bug-free diet." Alvin said as he backed away from her carefully.
"Enough playing Alvin, kiss me! I know you want too. Let us come together in an eternal embrace." Brittany cooed just before throwing herself at him.
Eleanor looked down on the floor. By luck she sees an insect crawling past her foot. Quickly she catches the bug and ran up to Alvin and Brittany.
"Look Brittany. Yum, yum." She says waving the bug in the air.
"Oooh." Brittany looked at the bug as if it were a sparkling gem. She started to let go of Alvin and walked towards Eleanor and the bug.
"Here, catch." Eleanor said as she tossed the bug down to the other end of the kitchen.
In that split second as Brittany ran after the bug, Eleanor grabs Alvin and heads for the basement door. Jeanette and Theodore followed too. Just before Jeanette closed the door, she hung the garlic necklace on the door handle.
After Brittany catches her prize and eats it, she turned to realize that everyone is no longer in the kitchen.
"Hey! Where did everyone go?" She gave a puzzled look.
Just then a tapping noise caught her attention. Brittany turns around and spots Simon outside of the kitchen door looking in through the window. Casually she walked up to the door and opened it.
"What do you want?" She said in a snooty tone.
"I was just wondering if you were planning on letting me in sometime this evening?" Simon replied in a growl.
"I am the Master's Princess. What I say will..."
"Yea, what ever. Now let me pass." Simon cuts of Brittany in a demanding way.
"Ah, ah, ah... You weren't invited." She teased and shaking her finger at him.
"If you do not let me in, I'll tell the Master. If he were to find out that our victims had gotten away due to your selfish behavior he will be very displeased with you."
Brittany then made a stunned expression as she realized Simon's point. "Come in, come in, come in!" She quickly says.
"Thank you..." Simon politely says as he walks in.
He walked up to the basement door and again growled in frustration. How is he going to get past the necklace of garlic cloves without burning his fur again? That is when he thought of something. If Brittany was able to get into the house uninvited, then perhaps she could remove the garlic from the door?
"Ah, Nightly Princess." Simon says in a nice tone.
"Yeeessss!" She replied with a wide grin.
"Would you be so kind as to remove this minor obstacle from my attempts to capture our victims for the Master?"
Brittany sighed as she looked at the back of her hand and poses like a valley girl. "I'd love too, boss, but the sun is about to come up."
Simon looked passed her and sees that the sun is indeed starting to come up. Forget the victims, Simon is now in a desperate need to find shelter. He ran out of the kitchen and down the hall. There had to be somewhere he could hide till sundown.
Ten minutes later Alvin, Theodore, Jeanette, and Eleanor ran into through the Miller's front door. They came in panting for breath after running for three blocks without stopping.
"Miss. Miller?" Jeanette calls out in between breaths. When she doesn't answer, Jeanette becomes concerned.
Alvin looks out the door. He wanted to make sure that the Vampire, formally known as his brother, was not following them.
"Do you see him?" Eleanor asks.
"No, I think we lost him." Alvin says as he closes the door.
"Actually, 'he's' standing right here." Came a taunting voice from the shadowy corner of the room.
The Chipmunks and Chipettes nearly jumped out of their skin. They spun around to see Simon stepping out into the light.
"But how...I mean you...and he...and then we..." Alvin stuttered.
"Whoa, careful there. You don't want to hurt yourself." Simon chuckled.
"How did you get in here?" Jeanette demanded.
"I know what you are thinking," Simon begins to say as he struts with his hands behind his back, like a professor giving a lecture. "How could a Vampire like myself be able to come into a person's home uninvited...right?"
"All I know is that it wouldn't have been either of us." Jeanette spat.
"You know if I still had a beating heart it would break." Simon replied as he pretended to whip a tear from his eye.
"So how did you get in here?" Eleanor asked.
"Why, she let me in of course." Simon smiled. He pointed to the darkened living room, the kids looked hard to see an elderly woman sleeping on the couch. "What a nice lady." He says in a cocky manner.
"Miss. Miller!!" Both Jeanette and Eleanor panicked.
The two girls run up to their surrogate mother. They checked to see if she were alive. Eleanor turned on the light beside the couch and both her and her sister search for any bit marks on Miss. Miller's neck. To their relief there were none. They were also glad to see that Miss. Miller is still breathing, but she isn't waking up. Even with Jeanette and Eleanor shaking her.
"Miss. Miller? Miss. Miller?" Eleanor cried.
Jeanette spun around and never before did she look so angry, "What did you do to her?" She demanded to Simon.
"Ah, the power of hypnotic suggestion ...isn't it a wondrous thing? She should sleep for however long I want her too." He replied to her calmly.
"You're a monster!" Alvin Spat.
Simon looked over to his former brother and raised his eyebrow. "Gee, took you this long to figure that out?" He then smiles mischievously and slamming his fist into his hand, he adds. "Speaking of which... It's round- up time."
"Oh no, not again." Theodore whined. He hadn't run so fast for so long in his entire life.
Jeanette grabs Eleanor's hand then runs with her to the direction of the boys. Simon leaped in front of them with a loud hiss to show off his fangs. Jeanette pulled out her necklace cross once again, but this time she takes it off and pushed it up at Simon's face. The instant it touched his fur it begins burning. With a cry of pain, Simon backed away. He throws the little charm away from him. When he looked around the room he realized that Alvin, Theodore, and the girls had already ran out the door. Simon growls, but then realizes where they would be heading next.
He moved his hand up to feel the singed mark that the little cross made on his cheek. The wound began to heal within seconds and his face looked back to normal again. Simon returned his focus to his goal. He was about to run after the kids when a noise caught his attention. The noise came from the basement. Simon, being curios, decides to investigate the strange noise.
He walks up to the basement door and brings his hand up to the knob. With a few light turns, Simon realizes that the door is locked. Instead of searching for a key to open the door he uses his own unnatural strength to pull the door open.
When Simon reaches the bottom step he sees Brittany tied up. She is surrounded with a few of her warmest blankets. Her sister, and Miss. Miller made sure that Brittany would be comfortable before leaving her tied up. They even covered her mouth with a soft cloth just so she wouldn't scream as much.
The Chipmunk Vampire cocks his head to one side as he looks down at the Master's Messenger. Brittany stares up at him in a knowing way without needing to say anything.
Finally, Simon bends down and unties Brittany. He even takes off the gag around her mouth.
"It's about time you got here." Brittany snaps. She stands up and welcomes freedom once more. "The Master will be glad to see that I'm alright. He is looking forward in making me one of his Princesses." She looks down on the floor and smiles. "Ooh, beetle. I've been keeping my eye on you, you little morsel."
Brittany crawls on the floor. As soon as she catches up to the bug, she picks it up and eats it. Simon looks down at the cloth in his hand. The same one that was around her mouth, and suddenly regretted taking it off. He shrugged his shoulders then tossed the cloth over them. While shaking his head, Simon begins to walk back up the stairs.
"Hey, where are you going? I wanna come too." Brittany said as she began skipping behind Simon.
"I have business to take care of for the Master." Simon answered.
"Ooooh, speaking about the Master, when do you think he will make me into his Princess of the Night?"
"Ah, next to never." Simon tells Brittany. "Remind me again why I let you out of your prison?"
"Maybe the Master wanted you to rescue me, so we could reunite the rest of the family." Brittany danced past the living room. She stopped when she recognized the sleeping woman on the couch.
"How peaceful that lady looks." Brittany says in a sympathetic way. "But she still breaths. Did you not want to take her life?"
"I was not hungry." Simon said flatly.
"How come?"
"Because I still have my original blood flowing strongly in me, plus I have Dracula's blood too. I did not need hers. Besides, it's old blood...yuck." Simon cringed.
"I wonder what it'd be like to asleep forever?" She wondered.
"Well, I know that I would never know." Simon smirked.
Brittany turned to Simon and glared at him.
"And what is that supposed to mean?" She snapped.
Simon does not answer this time. He continues to walk out the door to go after his victims.
"Hey! I'm talking to you! Come back here!" Brittany yells and slams her foot onto the floor. She sees that Simon is not responding.
"Hey! Wait up!" She cries before running to catch up to him.
Simon and Brittany arrive to the Seville's home. They watch as Alvin, Theodore, Jeanette, and Eleanor run inside and slamming the door.
"Hmm." Simon ponders.
"Is there something the matter 'oh great Master's Pet'?" Brittany joked.
Simon growled at the crazy Chipette. "I was thinking that this might be a problem."
"Why?"
"Because, we need to be invited into a home before taking over our victims."
"Oh."
"There's got to be a way...I'll think of something." Simon finally says as he walks up to the house.
He looked into the living room window and spotted his brothers with Jeanette and Eleanor talking about what they were going to do next.
"Alvin, Theodore... Why won't you come out to play?" Simon tauntingly sings.
He chuckles in an evil manner when he hears them screaming and running into the next room. If he couldn't get inside, he might as well have fun with their minds. As Simon goes past the front door, he notices Brittany attempting to get inside by turning the front door. Simon watches with great interest at what she is doing.
Inside, Alvin, Theodore, Jeanette, and Eleanor ran into the kitchen. There had to be something they could do to save Simon from becoming a Vampire forever, but first they had to figure out how to survive the night.
"What are we going to do?" Theodore asks.
"I don't know, but we have to think of something and fast. I once read a book that if we don't kill the Vampire that started this whole mess, then Simon could be a Vampire forever." Jeanette stated.
"So maybe instead of hunting Dracula we should hunt down that woman Vampire. It was her blood that started this whole mess." Alvin suggested.
"Maybe, but Dracula is her 'Master' right? So, chances are it is his blood that spawned her." Jeanette pointed out.
"You're saying that we are going after Dracula no matter what, aren't you?" Alvin said grimly.
"It looks that way." Jeanette sighed.
"Oh great." Eleanor whined. "And how do we do that without being killed ourselves?"
Just then they hear a noise coming from the front door.
"What's that?" Theodore cries out.
"Oh no! He's trying to get in!" Eleanor quivers.
"Relax. He can't get in, unless invited. And there is no way any of us are going to invite him in." Alvin said in a confident manner.
"Yah, I'm in!" A familiar voice shouts as soon as the door opens.
"BRITTANY?" They all shout at once.
Brittany looks over at the quivering Munks and grins playfully at them.
"Alvin!" She calls out. "Come, join me in a dance of triumphant joy."
Brittany begins to skip towards them and stops in front of Alvin.
"Why not leave these foolish mortals, and I will talk the Master in letting you become a Creature of the Night. Just like me!" She gloats.
While Brittany talked to Alvin, Jeanette, Eleanor, and Theodore run to the fridge. They start pulling out a string of garlic cloves. Together they begin tying them together.
"Hee, hee. You know Brittany; I'd love to be a nighttime creature, just like you. But you see, I'm on a bug-free diet." Alvin said as he backed away from her carefully.
"Enough playing Alvin, kiss me! I know you want too. Let us come together in an eternal embrace." Brittany cooed just before throwing herself at him.
Eleanor looked down on the floor. By luck she sees an insect crawling past her foot. Quickly she catches the bug and ran up to Alvin and Brittany.
"Look Brittany. Yum, yum." She says waving the bug in the air.
"Oooh." Brittany looked at the bug as if it were a sparkling gem. She started to let go of Alvin and walked towards Eleanor and the bug.
"Here, catch." Eleanor said as she tossed the bug down to the other end of the kitchen.
In that split second as Brittany ran after the bug, Eleanor grabs Alvin and heads for the basement door. Jeanette and Theodore followed too. Just before Jeanette closed the door, she hung the garlic necklace on the door handle.
After Brittany catches her prize and eats it, she turned to realize that everyone is no longer in the kitchen.
"Hey! Where did everyone go?" She gave a puzzled look.
Just then a tapping noise caught her attention. Brittany turns around and spots Simon outside of the kitchen door looking in through the window. Casually she walked up to the door and opened it.
"What do you want?" She said in a snooty tone.
"I was just wondering if you were planning on letting me in sometime this evening?" Simon replied in a growl.
"I am the Master's Princess. What I say will..."
"Yea, what ever. Now let me pass." Simon cuts of Brittany in a demanding way.
"Ah, ah, ah... You weren't invited." She teased and shaking her finger at him.
"If you do not let me in, I'll tell the Master. If he were to find out that our victims had gotten away due to your selfish behavior he will be very displeased with you."
Brittany then made a stunned expression as she realized Simon's point. "Come in, come in, come in!" She quickly says.
"Thank you..." Simon politely says as he walks in.
He walked up to the basement door and again growled in frustration. How is he going to get past the necklace of garlic cloves without burning his fur again? That is when he thought of something. If Brittany was able to get into the house uninvited, then perhaps she could remove the garlic from the door?
"Ah, Nightly Princess." Simon says in a nice tone.
"Yeeessss!" She replied with a wide grin.
"Would you be so kind as to remove this minor obstacle from my attempts to capture our victims for the Master?"
Brittany sighed as she looked at the back of her hand and poses like a valley girl. "I'd love too, boss, but the sun is about to come up."
Simon looked passed her and sees that the sun is indeed starting to come up. Forget the victims, Simon is now in a desperate need to find shelter. He ran out of the kitchen and down the hall. There had to be somewhere he could hide till sundown.
