Chapter 4: Changing
"Just in case you wanted to know, Daniel, you're here to be the audience. Samantha, you are the guest." Vlad said and surrounded them both in separate ectoplasmic shields so they couldn't move. He grabbed Sam's hand in his own and watched calmly as she tried to escape, morphing into any animal she could think of, but his grip never relinquished. Owl, rat, snake, bat, lemur. Nothing worked. Suddenly an animal flashed in her minds eye. She became a porcupine and he let go with a yelp.
"You little brat!" he hissed. "How dare you defy me!" Sam flinched at the anger in his voice and went back human.
"Well what did you expect me to do? Sit here and watch you torture me? As if!" Vlad looked at her in disgust and left, ordering Ember to guard the cell.
"I guess you're in for a long boring wait, listening to me play my guitar! You got any requests? I know a lot of songs from the human world. I've been practicing!" she said brightly.
"Hmmm… How about something from Green Day?" asked Sam.
"Okay! One, two three, four…
I
walk a lonely road
The only one I that have ever known
Don't
know were it goes
But its home and I walk alone
I walk
this empty street
On the Boulevard of broken dreams
Were the
city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone
My
shadows the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the
only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will
find me
Till then I'll walk alone
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah
Ahhh
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh
I'm walking down the line
That
divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line of the edge
And
where I walk alone
Read between the lines of what's
(the word is censored!)up and every things all right
Check
my vital signs to know I'm still alive
And I walk alone
I
walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...
My
shadows the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the
only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will
find me
Till then I'll walk alone
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah
Ahhh
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh
I walk this empty street
On
the Boulevard of broken dreams
Were the city sleeps
And I'm the
only one and I walk a..
My shadows the only one that walks
beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that's
beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find
Till then
I'll walk away!"
"That was great!" shouted Sam.
"Thanks! I've been working hard ever since someone (gives Danny an evil look) made me come back here." She said.
"Fine, miss-know-it-all. Play…" he was cut off as Vlad burst into the room. He didn't look happy.
"I've had enough of…"