12. We don't let you down!
Meanwhile Alicia and the other girls took up the pursuit and got on well. It didn't take long until they arrived in front of the house the 3 were in.
"It has to be this one..." Alicia said.
"And what are we doing now?" Catherine asked.
"Simply storm inside?" Sarah replied and looked at Alicia.
This one nodded slowly.
"But... but that's a directly suicide..." Hannah meant horrified.
"If we don't do it, it would be one for Michelle."
"And what is... I mean, I won't be too discouraged, but what is, when they already, I mean... aw, you certainly know what I mean!"
"No, they haven't done anything to Michelle yet. She's still alive, I feel it." Alicia meant with a heavy shake of her head.
"All right. Well, there's actually no other choice for us than to storm, huh?" Sarah stated.
"It seems to be that way." Catherine shrugged.
"Well, then let's go inside now." Alicia growled.
Hannah shook her head, but didn't say anything against it any more.
While the friends talked, Van Heelen returned again to the both and with him some deadly things for vampires.
With a nod he said to Van de See, "Get ready, they're here!"
Van de See nodded and rose up. With a grim face he looked to the door.
The friends stood in front of the door and then they stormed inside. When they arrived inside they stopped for fear and looked at both vampire-hunters. Michelle was bound on a chair and didn't seem to get much of that, what was going on around her. As if they would have given her something.
Alicia looked worried to her and shouted fearful, "Michelle?"
Michelle slowly lifted her head and looked at her friends.
Alicia had to swallow. In the eyes of her sister shimmered tears and she started to tremble. It was the first time for a long time that Alicia saw her little sister cry and desperately like that. Ok, the last time was then, when she was kidnapped by the both!
Alicia was angry to see her sister suffer now like that and that's why she stepped forwards and meant threatening, "Let my sister go!"
"Why should we? She's a vampire and we are vampire-hunters and kill the ones like her and you." Van de See replied.
"Let her go or else you'll suffer for it!" Alicia growled.
"What will you do otherwise?" Van Heelen stretched his hand out and held a crucifix in front of her face.
Alicia hissed and yielded back.
"You see! You can't do me anything. You even yield back from me because of a harmless crucifix."
"What do you want from us?" Hannah asked.
She tried to talk with both sensible.
"What we want? Couldn't you think about that or do you mean that we would negotiate with you, so that we'll spare you? No, there you're wrong! We don't get involved in discussions. We led you here to kill you and exactly that we'll do now!"
Then Van Heelen nodded to his assistant, who drew a stake and walked up to Michelle with that.
"And we'll begin with your little sister!"
"Michelle... no..." Alicia screamed and would to her.
But this time she was held up by Van Heelen with a crucifix.
Michelle looked at Van de See wide-eyed and trembled.
She tried desperately to free herself from bonds and begged quietly, "Oh please... please don't do me anything! Don't kill me..."
But Van de See didn't feel sorry for her. He sneered and came towards her.
When Michelle realized that she probably would die soon, she was terrible scared.
But this fear caused that she defended herself against him with her last strength. She tried once again to free herself from the bonds. But this still didn't work.
So she clung to the armrests and lowered her head instinctively. But she didn't lose sight of Van de See. When he was directly in front of her and lifted the stake to push it into Michelle's heart, Michelle straightened up with her whole strength, rose together with the chair, bent to the front and rammed the back rest against Van de See, who stumbled surprised of this attack.
Van Heelen and the friends stared a moment unbelieving at this scene. But then Alicia rushed to Van Heelen with a yell and pushed him to the ground, regardless of the crucifix and the stake he still held in his hands.
After she pushed him to the ground, she shouted to her friends, "Hannah, help me! Sarah, take care of Van de See! Catherine, rescue Michelle!"
The girls immediately carried out the given jobs of Alicia. Catherine ran to Michelle, who still stood there bowed, and freed her from the bonds. Michelle smiled at her friend grateful. This one nodded and rushed in the direction of Van de See, where Sarah still was and fought against him.
He still was in the advantage, because he held a stake in his hand.
Catherine jumped on him and scratched into his face. He screamed and turned in a circle. There he lost his stake and he tried to shake Catherine off and swore at her. Sarah took this chance and rushed also to him.
In the meantime Hannah helped Alicia to fight against Van Heelen. With a painful hiss Alicia hit the crucifix out of Van Heelen's hand. And she hissed once more, when Van Heelen nearly pushed his stake into her heart. He missed it.
Alicia fought now really mad and wild determined with Van Heelen, who seemed to enjoy this rage.
Hannah yielded frightened back because of the suddenly fit of rage of Alicia and stared at her undecided.
The both fought dogged on the ground. There Van Heelen seized Alicia and brought her below him.
Slowly and threatening he let sink his stake. But Alicia beat this attack off, clenched the wrist with the stake and turned it slowly and under exertion around, so that it pointed now directly to Van Heelen's heart.
And without hesitation Alicia pushed it into.
Van Heelen stared at her with open mouth, before he staggered and fell back behind. Then he suddenly stayed motionless on the ground. Out of the wound, where the stake was, trickled blood unhindered. Van Heelen was dead.
Alicia sat gasping on the ground and looked suspicious over to Van Heelen as if she expected that he would rise up again and go for her with his stake.
