RESPONSES by Toli
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Mena: Hey, Toli! Guess what! Me and the other people had a meeting for how to get Yu-Gi-Oh! You should have been there!
Toli: (death glare) Maybe I would've come, if I didn't have A GIANT CEMENT BLOCK ON MY HANDS!!!
Mena: O.O; Oh. Right. I thought I'd forgotten something!
Toli: Yeah, me! Now help!
Mena: (helps shove off block)
Toli: Thank goodness! (shakes hands and flexes fingers) Now, I can get back to writing!
Mena: Until the other meeting-goers and I put our plan into action, we don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!
FOUR: Big Brother
(Our little vamp-boy's P.O.V.)
The next night Joey and Serenity came over to keep house and watch me while Tea went out to kill vampires. Only a little part of me stirred up protest, but I always ignored it. Just like I ignored my increasingly painful craving for blood. I could tell Serenity was still afraid of me--she didn't even have to say it; her actions screamed the fact--but Joey seemed to like me well enough. We would watch TV together. TV is a funny thing; why would anyone want to watch a made-up life story? The fascination of it, and the horror of missing an "episode" amused me to no end. I watched anyway with Joey, and the ideas that humans concocted were pretty interesting, even if made up.
"See? I told ya frozen dinners are da bomb," Joey told me as he ate like he was starving. I stared down at the plastic sectioned plate in my lap, which had three different kinds of food on it. I had tried all three; they were good, but they were doing only minimal benefits to satiate my hunger. I also wondered why they were called frozen when they were hot.
"Joey, I know you can control yourself better than that," Serenity said over her own frozen dinner. She was sitting next to Joey, who was in the middle. I noticed her eye twitched whenever she looked over at me. I wished I could tell her something that would make her less afraid of me.
Something made a ringing noise. I looked up in surprise.
"Dat's da phone," Joey told me. "It rings when somebody's callin' hea. I'll get it!" He practically threw his hot frozen dinner onto the low table in front of us and went to something hanging off the wall. He took part of it off and put it to his ear. "Hello?...Aw, Ma, we're fine, we're just housesittin' for Tea...right next door, rememba? We're spendin' da night, did ya forget dat too?...We'll come back a little bit afta school tomorra. Okay Ma?... A'right...seeya." He put the piece back with the rest of the "phone". He plunked down between us again an resumed wolfing down his food.
"Was that Mom?" Serenity asked.
Joey nodded, "Just wanted...to see...where we are," he said between bites of food. I looked down at my own food and ate another one of those, those...darn, what do you call those? The little balls of meat with semi-crunchy exteriors. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Serenity watching me apprehensively.
"Joey, what do you call these?" I asked, ignoring her stare as I picked up my last of the meat balls things.
"Oh, dem?" Joey said around another mouthful of food. "They're called chicken nuggets. Real tasty."
I stared at the "chicken nugget". "That's a peculiar name," I said.
"Peculia name, delicious food!" Joey said before he wolfed down a bite of all three kinds of his food at once. He suddenly started to choke.
"Joey!" Serenity scolded. "That's what happens when you inhale your food without even swallowing it!"
Joey managed to clear his throat and got up for a drink of water. I watched him go and couldn't help but smile. He was so weird. But he was so nice. I was glad he was nice to me. Now Serenity...
I glanced at her out of the corner of my eye. She was staring at the food on her plate as she slowly ate it. I wished Serenity would give me more of a chance. I mean, I know she's scared of me because I'm bispecies, but I already made it clear that I wasn't going to hurt anybody. Did she think I was lying?
Supressing a sigh, I turned back around to face the television and sat down. Joey came back with a glass half full of water. He drank all the rest before he even sat down. "Thea. Much betta," he said as he picked up his food and resumed devouring it. Serenity shook her head.
Suddenly I could sense someone behind me. Before I could turn around to see what it was, the couch tipped forwards suddenly, throwing us all to the floor. It was slammed back into place. All three of us looked up to see who was the culprit, and my mind numbed when I saw who it was. A dark figure in dark clothing and a dark cape.
My brother!
Serenity saw him and let out a terrified scream. From below I heard pounding on the floor, and someone below us yelled, "Turn that racket down!"
Joey was the first one to stand up. "I dunno who you are, pal, but you got no right comin' in here and makin' noise!" His fists were up. He obviously had no idea who he was dealing with, but I did.
My brother let out a humorless chuckle. "Do you honestly think you are frightening me?" he said in his scary, deep voice. In a flash he had grabbed Joey around the neck with one hand and hoisted him inches into the air. Serenity was still screaming, and I was frozen in fear. Before either one of us could do anything else, he had effortlessly tossed Joey to the side. Joey slammed against the wall and fell to the ground.
Serenity was screaming even louder now. She hadn't got up, and scrambled back when my brother approached us. I had finally stood up, and was backing away as well. I finally yanked Serenity up and she backed up with me.
The TV cast only a little light on my brother's face, but you could clearly see his long fangs and his red eyes. Even with a white face, he was still the scariest thing you could lay eyes on, especially if you were his next victim. And especially if he had the evil smile on his face that he had then.
Finally Serenity and I were up against the wall. Serenity had stopped screaming, but she was crying.
"For my sanity's sake, shut up, you pathetic human," my brother said. He grabbed her shoulder and tossed her to the side as well. She hit the wall and was knocked unconscious.
It was now only my brother and I. "So, this is where you've been hiding," my brother said. "Did you honestly think I would never find you? Were you hoping to wait until that silly myth about you becoming human when vampires no longer existed came true? Whatever your reason, you have no excuse now."
"I'm not going back," I said bravely. "I mean it. You can't make me!"
"Please," my brother scoffed. "You can't survive without us. I don't know what you were hoping to gain by taking up residence with inferior humans, but it won't do you any good. I know that you need to eat. Why do you keep putting it off? Eventually you'll give in, and you know it."
"No I won't," I said firmly, even though I could feel the pain. "I'm never going to murder anybody just to satisfy myself. I'd rather die of starvation than go back on my word."
"It isn't murder," my brother said. "It's simply feeding ourselves. Humans do it too. Where do you think they get the meat that they eat? Like those 'chicken nuggets' you were so enthralled with?" I could practically hear him smirking. "We're higher up on the food chain than they are, just like they're higher up than the animals they eat. There's no reason you should worry so much about feeding off of them."
'It isn't right!" I cut in. "Humans have feelings, and opinions, and intelligence. The animals they eat don't. There's a really big difference!"
"Enough," my brother said. "Stop trying to stall. You need us and you know it. If you keep running away all you'll be is a monster. If you would only come back with me we can change that. Why would want to stay as you are any more? Neither side would accept you like this."
I bristled. I was thinking of Serenity and her fear. It was true; most people would definitely be afraid of me like this. But then I thought about Tea and Joey. They accepted me as I was. Maybe there were more like them. I couldn't just give up after trying so hard to get away; I just couldn't!
"No!" I yelled forcefully. "I do not want to be a vampire!"
"And you aren't going to make him."
Both my brother and I turned. In the small light given off by the TV, I saw Tea, gun pointed at my brother. "Did you think I wasn't going to find you in my own home?" she said.
My brother whirled to face me, angry. "You've taken up residence with a vampire slayer!?" he yelled at me. "And her, the worst of them all? You must be indeed crazy. That or hungry." He smirked at those words. I scowled, and Tea scowled worse. "Don't expect that you've seen the last of me; I will be back, and when I am, you will be coming with me." Then he disappeared and left a wisp of smoke in his place.
I put my back against the wall and slid to the floor as Tea checked on her friends. I could feel tears coming. Would he never leave me alone?
"Are you all right?" Tea was now standing over me. I nodded. "That was your brother, huh?"
I nodded again. "His name's Yami. He really wants me to go back with him so he can change me into a full-fledged vampire. I had hoped he'd never find me, but I guess he was a lot closer than I had thought. I'm so sorry, Tea, if I hadn't been here he wouldn't have hurt your friends to get to me."
"Don't worry; they're both okay, just a little knocked around. If your brother threw them against the wall, they should just have headaches when they wake up," Tea said. She helped me to my feet. "By the way, while we're on the subject of names, what's yours? You never told me."
I sighed and looked at her friends' forms. If she said they were okay, maybe they were. I just hoped something like this wouldn't happen again. "My name is Yugi," I told her.
END CHAPTER
Toli: Chapter's done! So now you know for sure who everybody is.
Mena: Yami's a villain! Ehehehehheehehehee!
Toli: O.o; Yeah. Okay, moving on...I guess we should be heading out now!
Mena: Yeah, let's go!
Toli:But before you head off, I have a question for you. Should I do more chapters in other people's points of view, or should this be the last time? Tell me in a review!See you!
Slain Trivia (O.o;)
A vampire slayer's special vampire-hunting abilities is administered with magic by a group leader the first time they are enlisted in said slayer group. This is the complete list of vampire-hunting special abilities: enhanced eyesight (to see through the dark like vampires can and see farther then the human eye); incredible running speed (to keep up with the fast-running vampires); vampire senses (to know where a vampire is within a radius of twenty miles); incredible jumping abilities (to catch the high- and far-jumping vampires; jumps can reach ten miles high in the most skilled slayers).
