Chapter 5:Vampires Speak Canadian?!
After they had started a fire, Flame stared at the ground. She felt eyes on her the way anyone does when they know they're being stared at. She was tempted to scream at them, ask them what they wanted, but no, she already knew. They wanted the truth and they didn't want to wait. But they could wait just a little longer--couldn't they?
Flame sighed. No, they couldn't. 'Fine' she told herself. "I...I'm not from here...Middle Earth I mean," she began.
"That," Gimli said loudly, "is obvious."
Both Flame and Aragorn shot him murderous glances.
"As I was saying," Flame continued, "I'm actually from a different world. In my world, everyone knows about you--all of you, Frodo, Sam, Gandalf, Pippen, everyone. But in my world, you're all a story, something everyone thinks some guy made up. Everyone--"
Legolas put up his hand for her to stop. "Listen," he whispered.
And then they heard it. The sound of three people talking behind the trees.
"I think they've heard us, eh?" said one voice, clearly male.
"No thanks to you, eh." said another, also male.
"You weren't the quietest leaf in the forest either, eh!" retorted the first voice.
"Will the both of you quit yer babbling, eh!" commanded a third voice, this one also male.
Flame started laughing. These...whatever they were, she couldn't see them at all, were surly from her world, they were talking like Canadians.
"Come out from there, whoever you are, be you friend or foe!" said Aragorn.
Three human-looking men stepped out of the trees. One had black hair, another vibrant red, and the other orange. They were all quite tall and looked like brothers. They were all dressed in black leather jackets and black jeans. 'Definatly from back home.' thought Flame.
"Who are you?" Flame askd eagarly.
The three looked at each other. Then the black haired one said, "I'm Spike, and I think you should know me, although not in this form, eh?"
The red head said, "You know me the same, but I don't have a name, eh."
The man with orange hair mearly said "Taz" very bitterly.
Flame's mouth dropped to the floor. "You have got to be joking. Oh...my...god..." Then she put on a look of mock prissy-ness. "I knew it. You're vampires, aren't you?"
"Very smart girl, always was." said Spike to Taz. "That we are, wouldn't you know it?"
Meanwhile, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli were all wondering how Flame knew these...things and what exactly a vampire was. Even Aragorn was a bit scared of them.
"These are friends from back home," Flame told them. "But back home I knew them as cats..." She looked at the red-head. "Now we have got to find you a name. I can't be calling you 'Hey You', now can I? Hmm..."
"How about Bob?" offered Spike.
"Bob? Are you nuts, eh? Bob doesn't even fit! He's a vampire, eh!" said Taz
"So are we, but we got cat names, eh." Spike reminded him.
"That's because humans named us as cats, eh? He wasn't named, though, so he should be named as a vampire." Taz retorted.
"How about Blake?" said Flame.
The vampire cocked his head to the side, thought for a moment, then nodded.
"It's settled then. You shall be Blake. Now why are you guys here?"
"Well," began Spike.
"We came to," added Taz.
"Look after you." finished Blake.
"Well that's all fine and dandy, but whoever said I needed looking after?" inquired Flame.
The vampires looked at each other and smirked. "We did." they all said.
Flame rolled her eyes. "Whatever. But might I ask how you got here?"
"Shape-shifting isn't the only ability we vampires have." said Blake.
"Quite right." chimed in Spike. "We can do all sorts of spiffy stuff. We can fly, jump between the worlds, kill your friends here--"
"Not that we would, eh?" Blake interrupted hastily when he saw the distressed look on Aragorn's face.
"Riiight...so...nice little reunion and all guys, but I'm tired, so can we get to sleep maybe?" Flame said.
Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli all hastily agreed.