16. The informant and an argument
Then they branched off the way and searched for Michelle.
Suddenly they heard a dull sound and after that a suppressed curse from Hanna. "Hannah, my god, what happened?" Catherine asked her friend and came to Hannah, who sat on the ground. Sarah and Alicia followed Catherine. "Uh, I'm fine. I only stumbled over something." Hannah replied and smiled at her friends. Catherine held out her hand to Hannah and helped her to get up. Sarah looked around searching. There was something!
She took a step forwards, bended down and picked up an object. "What's the matter, Sarah?" Alicia asked. Sarah turned around and showed the object: it was a stake! The friends stared at it. "I probably stumbled over this..." Hannah said. Alicia put frightened a hand over the mouth. They all knew very well whom this stake belonged to: Michelle! But nobody said, what all were thinking about!
Suddenly Sarah whirled around and looked strained in a dark corner between the houses that weren't illuminated by the streetlights. "Sarah..." But this one warded Catherine off with a gesture. "Ok, let's get it over quickly, 'cause I have to find a friend!" she said into the darkness. "I know!" came as answer. And after that a man, a vampire, came out of the darkness. The friends noticed the pale skin of the vampire, when he passed the streetlight. The girls yielded back instinctively. But Sarah didn't. She stayed there and watched the vampire.
"And where will you know that from?" "I just know it!" he said in a calm tone, which made Sarah a bit furious. She groaned and asked angry, "Can you maybe express yourself a little bit more taciturnly?" "No!" the vampire replied. "Uhh, you really get on my nerves! I'm not in the mood to talk to an undead about irrelevant things, got it?" "Yes." "Great! Then let's come to the point now!" And she already changed in a posture for the fight. But the vampire stayed motionless under the streetlight. "What's wrong? Don't you want to attack me?" Sarah asked ironically. "No, not tonight!" And she noticed a short smile at the face of the vampire and that made her more furiously. "Come on! You waste my precious time!" "I'm sorry for that!" Sarah rolled her eyes angry. And suddenly: "Come to the cemetery, into the mausoleum of the family Hatred. In the grave of Henry is a secret way. You follow that." "What?" Sarah asked surprised and stared without acting behind the vampire, which turned around now silently and disappeared into the night. Even the friends that did listen to this conversation stared behind him.
"Well, what was that?" Hannah asked. Without turning around to her friends, Sarah said bitterly, "He just told us that Michelle is kept in prison in the mentioned mausoleum by the vampires!" The friends looked at each other frightened.
"All right! Then we just go to the cemetery now!" Alicia meant. "No!" Sarah whirled around. "You don't come with me! I'll handle that, alone!" "What do you mean?" "You know that very well, Alicia! You all will go home now again. And I'll carry this out alone, 'cause I'm the Slayer! That's my duty after all!" "Listen, Sarah! Michelle is my sister and I'll rescue her! And I won't listen to you that I shouldn't do it!" Alicia stepped angry towards Sarah and glanced at her. Sarah returned her glace and said, "You won't do anything like that, got it? This here is all alone my business and none of yours! So, just keep out of it, ok?" "But it's my sister, for heaven's sake! And I won't let her down!" "You only endanger my duty with that and I have to take care of somebody else!" Sarah replied now venomously. "You..." Alicia began.
But Catherine, who was stepped between them, cut her off and said reproachful, "Listen! Are you now completely crazy? Stop it, both! It's enough! You behave like two little kids!" Then she looked at both, which now looked a bit embarrassed. "Have you nothing better to do than to argue about who goes where? Don't you ever think about Michelle, who still is kept in prison by the terrible vampires???" To give her words even more expression, she waved her hands around in the air.