11. Rescue at the last moment
"No, not this way, but..." Alicia began. "No 'but'! I'll go now! I just can't wait any longer for it that she finally comes back! Do you come along with me?" Catherine turned now at the three girls, who looked at each other and then rose up. So the 4 young vampires set off to the house of the Sorcerer. In the meantime it was already 4 o'clock and they should hurry up a bit, because at the latest the sun will rise at half past 5. They wouldn't think about it at all, what this means to them.
Suddenly the son of the Sorcerer shouted from downstairs, "Daddy, there are the others!" "The others? Which others? Perhaps my friends?" Hannah thought and lifted her head a little. She still was a little dazed from the extremely hard slap. "Bring her out of here! We want to meet our other visitors halfway and welcome them accordingly!" the Sorcerer said to his daughter. The girl pushed Hannah in front of her, the stake always rested in front of Hannah's heart, to shove it perhaps into it!
They were coming out of the door, when the 4 girls left the fence behind and walked up to the house. "Oh no! Hannah! They caught her!" Catherine meant. They came slowly towards the Sorcerer and his daughter with Hannah.
When they were about a few steps von them away the Sorcerer lifted his Hand and said, "Stop, no step further! Otherwise I'll command my daughter to stake your friend. Then she'll be dead!" The friends looked at Hannah sympathetically. Hannah trembled for fear. A few tears rolled down her pale cheeks! "You didn't come here certainly only because of her, but also for that reason, do you?" With that he held the scroll with the curse in front of them again. "The vampire - curse... What are we going to do now?" Michelle whispered.
"I've got a plan! I read in the book that the reactions of a vampire are faster and more precise than the ones of a human! I'll also knock over the Sorcerer, steal his paper and hit the stake out of the hand of the girl!" Catherine said quietly. "What? Are you crazy? This will never work! That's much too dangerous and besides absolutely impossible! How will you make it in such a short time?" Alicia protested. "But in the book there stood..." "Catherine, since when you act according to books? By the way, this book isn't plausible at all! It's a lie, what stands there! It's a book for children, a kind of a fairytale! You can't believe them by all means, they're not true! It has nothing to explain, nothing real!" Alicia replied very doubtful and looked at Michelle and Sarah. "Um, so Catherine isn't completely wrong. It's true that the reactions of a vampire are just a little bit more precise than the ones of a human. But I only know that from the 'normal' vampires. I don't know what about us with it... Anyhow, I didn't notice anything of the kind on me up to now!" Sarah explained. "Then just suggest something better than that! But hurry up! Think about the sun, too! We have to rescue Hannah!" "Well, all right, there's really not so much time left for us! And unfortunately I can't offer you something else as well!" Alicia gave up. "Great! Maybe there's just a small glimmer of truth in the book and at all... That would be really much helpful now!" Sarah said. "I hope so for all of us!" Michelle agreed. "Please count up to 3." Catherine turned now to Alicia. This one nodded and started to count slowly. "1... 2... 3..."
Then Catherine ran off and could even do that what she meant. Only with the daughter she made a little mistake! The girl, that was surprised by Catherine after all, reacted fast as well and could push the stake even into Hannah's body, but fortunately not into her heart. "Ahhh..." Hannah screamed and fell with heavy pain to the ground. "Hannah!" "Catherine, hurry up! Read the curse, it's getting light any moment now!" Alicia called to her.
Catherine took the paper and read: 'vampire - curse: backwards'. She read it aloud, "... you came and you'll go!" "No!" the Sorcerer screamed, who was unable to walk shortly after the push, and would rush to Catherine to take the scroll away from her again. But it was already too late. At first the Sorcerer and his daughter got inconspicuous and finally disintegrated completely into air, after that it got on with the house the same way. When the smoke, which was released by the disappearance, disintegrated there was only a large emptiness on that place where the house once stood.
After the house and the inhabitants disappeared the friends returned to humans again. They also sense this. Right in time, because in this moment the bright morning sun broke through the deep night and shone directly on them. A little bit later and they would be fallen victim to the deadly rays of the sun! The friends rushed to Hannah, who lay at the ground. "Hannah!" She opened her eyes slowly, looked Catherine into the eyes and asked weakly, "Uh, Catherine, I feel something. Are we perhaps humans again? Are we really freed from the curse and quite normal humans?" "Yeah, Hannah, we are! Don't talk so much!" Meanwhile Michelle called an ambulance, which also arrived at the place in this moment. Hannah came into the hospital. There she was supported appropriately. And the next day she could go home again.
After that the friends nearly always out in the sun and enjoyed it as in former times. When they met Evelyn and her friends after one week, they - above all Evelyn - looked shocked at the friends, better said only at Hannah, and ran away. "You gave them a mighty fright!" Alicia meant laughing to Hannah. "Why? Did they perhaps run away because of me?" Hannah asked, acting innocent. "What have I just done to them?" But there she suddenly had to start laughing and the others joined in happy, cheerful and overenthusiastic. So they were as happy as they were before again!
They went to school and at night to the Vampire Hunting again. And they never ever want to 'steal' apples from unknown people, they swore it to themselves!