19. A mortal request
"What do you want?" Sarah asked growling. "When you already ask like that... your death!" That was clear!
"No, but not in this way you perhaps think! I will let you die and revive you as a vampire!" "What? I shall turn into a vampire?" Sarah replied shocked. "Yes! When you give yourself to me I'll let go your friend." "Really?" The head of the vampires nodded. "No, Sarah. Please, don't trust him..." Michelle begged, but got a slap in the face of a vampire again. Sarah looked at her worried and stammered, "I… I just can't..."
"I can make your decision a little bit easier, if you would like this rather..." And he nodded to the vampire, who held Michelle tight. The vampire sneered, so that his teeth flashed. At first he threw his head back and then he got closer to Michelle's neck. "Nooo!!!" Sarah screamed and wanted to go to her, but she was held up by few vampires. Michelle sobbed pitiful, but didn't defend herself any longer, because she realized that she wasn't a match for the vampire. The vampire bended over her neck and rested there a while. Then he bit abruptly. Michelle winced when the vampire began to suck her blood. "No, no, no, Michelle..." Sarah screamed and cried.
"Please..." she turned now to the head of the vampires. "Will you give yourself to me?" Sarah turned around to her friends, who were also surrounded by vampires. They shook their heads. Then she turned again to Michelle, who still was bitten by the vampire and rapidly grew weak. "Yes..." Sarah sobbed. "All right."
The vampire stopped biting Michelle right now. He held her now tight again with a persistent grasp and had to take care, that she didn't break down because of the loss of blood. Michelle could hardly keep on her legs. She breathed heavy and was already a little bit pale. They could recognize the both bite-wounds on her neck, which the vampire left behind. A little bit of blood still dropped out of it where it dried short time later. "Please, let her go." Sarah begged. "I'll keep my promise if you'll keep yours." "Yeah, damned!" Krakatau nodded again to the vampire. He threw Michelle roughly to the ground. "Michelle..." Sarah rushed to her and held her. "Sarah... please... don't do it..." Michelle whispered groaning with effort. "Calm down. Don't worry! Everything will be all right." Sarah comforted and helped her to get up. Michelle was embraced and supported by Alicia, who wasn't held up any longer by the vampires, the other two girls as well.
"Well, I've done my part of the promise, now do yours." Sarah threw a glance at her friends and said then quite proud to the head of the vampires, "Even if you kill me now and turn into a vampire, you won't destroy the generation of the Slayers this way!" "Oh, I know, honey. But it's the feeling to turn a Slayer into a vampire by myself. That's where I get my power from! And another reason for this is that the probably youngest Slayer of all time would be mine!" "I will never be yours!" Sarah meant defiant and glanced at him with cold eyes. "What did you say?" Krakatau asked furious and jumped off his throne he sat on up to now. "You've heard right, demon!" Sarah provoked. The head of the vampires stared at her very furious. Sarah got ready physically for a very hard fight.
She turned around to her friends and shouted at them, "Hurry up! Get out of here!" She couldn't shout anything more to them, because Krakatau came to her with a cruel roar. She warded off this attack with a kick. When she turned to give him another kick, she saw that her friends were still there. "Come on, leave! Run away!" she shouted and wanted to kick Krakatau. But the vampire grasped her foot and turned it around. Sarah screamed.