Chapter 2: Home
The group finally reached home, and all Rory wanted to do was sleep. The others had other things they wanted to do.
Rain went to her room and changed from her black dress and black shoes into more casual clothes. She put on a pink tube top and some white Capri pants. The she topped it off by putting on all white shoes and added a multicolored jacket to protect her from the cold their residence gave off.
She made her way down the hall and into the living room, or so they would call a living room for it had a TV, but was littered with all sorts of bolts, nuts, screws, and even bullets. She plopped down next to Blair who was in heated race with Duke. Blair and Duke were the best of friends and often found ways to compete against each other, even in vampire hunting; they would see who could kill the most. They both stayed in their black outfits.
"What are ya'll doin'?" asked Kat in southern accent as she sat down next do Duke.
"They're racing," said Rain, "What are you betting this time?"
"If I win, Duke has to give up his TV hours and add them to mine," stated Blair.
"If I win, Blair has to be my house slave," said Duke smiling, "And give up her TV hours and add them to mine."
"He stole the last bit from me," added Blair.
Rain looked at Kat, who was totally absorbed into the game, when Rain noticed, Kat had changed. Kat had gotten rid of her white shirt, which was now stained black from the ash, and put on a pink sweater, probably with a shirt underneath. She changed her blue jeans and now wore loose fitting pajama pants that looked like regular pants, and she had on Birkenstocks, her "house shoes", she called them, she never wore them outside, only in the house.
Rain looked around to find the remaining two members of their team. She saw neither.
"Kat," she said, "Have you seen Rory or Tory?"
Kat looked around the room expecting to see them somewhere. After gazing around the room, she looked back Rain and stated, "Nope."
"I wonder where they are," said Rain aloud.
"They're probably doing it like they do on the Discovery Channel," rhymed Josh as he smirked.
"Eww," said Rain, Blair, and Kat at the same time smacking him over and over.
"What did I say?" he questioned innocently covering himself from the girls' hands.
When Rory had gotten home, he went straight to his room and landed in his bed with soft FUMP. He so desperately wanted to go to sleep and was about to, and then he heard his door open and heard a soft FUMP as someone landed next to him.
He took his arm from over his eyes to see Tory sitting next to him. She had changed from her previous outfit of "innocent vampire victim" to another one. She now had on her old school sweater with "Go Cougars" on the front; she still had on previous pants, but changed her shoes to house slippers.
"What are you doing?" asked Tory.
"Thinking about our battle," said Rory.
"Oh, you mean how I had to play 'innocent vampire victim', and how Rain and Duke fought about who kills first, or how Kat's shirt got stained black from the ash?"
"The first," said Rory.
"What? Me playing 'innocent vampire victim' wasn't that bad."
"Yes, it was," said Rory.
"No, it wasn't," she said, "It's all just in your head," she said tapping in his head.
"No, it was horrible," he said sitting up, "I saw you running and how fast those vampires were catching up to you and you were only armed with a knife, what if they got you down away from the battle point and we had to run and save you?"
Tory thought for minute, or she made a face that made her look like she was thinking than said, "Well, Rain and Kat were there so they could have saved me."
"Yeah," said Rory, "But what if they didn't?"
"They didn't need to and it didn't go that way, so quit worrying about things that didn't happen."
Rory sighed knowing she was right. He got up and said, "You wanna see what everyone else is doing?"
Tory smiled as they got up and headed to the living room which you could hear Duke's cry of defeat and Blair's cry of victory.
In a dark alleyway, similar to the one where a previous battle took place, a vampire was dusted while a man questioned another while he held a silver stake close to his heart.
"I know you know something, why were you here?" he asked forcing the point closer.
"You don't scare me daywalker," he hissed.
"Fine, let's dust him," said Abigail pulling out her pistol and shooting one close to his head, "Oops, missed, hang on let me try that again," she said as she aimed.
"Wait, wait, fine," said the vampire holding up his hands in defeat, "Another group of daywalkers, a well known group of daywalkers I might add, killed some of ours here tonight."
"Ah," said King looking hard at him, "Would there happen to be a girl by the name of Tory in that group?"
"I don't know," was the vampires reply.
"Okay," said King he looked to Abigail, "Abby?"
Abigail aimed at the vampires head.
"Wait! Wait! Wait! I don't know any of the group's names, but they do have a group name."
"Oh, really? What?"
"They call themselves the Nightstalkers." Said the vampire.
King made a confused face at the vampire then looked at Abigail, who returned the confused look.
"Um, okay, I know we have a few fans, maybe, but another group?" asked King.
While in the midst of their confusion, the vampire lunged at King out of his grip and landed on him about to bite him, but a quick draw Abigail dusted the vampire before any damage could be done.
King stood frozen his spot while the vampire dust settled and he looked down at it.
"Whew," was all he could muster.
Abigail holstered her weapon as they headed back to the car.
"You know," said King, "I think that vampire liked me and was trying to get a kiss from me," he said bewildered.
"Well, I can tell you one thing," said Abigail, "It wouldn't have worked out."
"Why? Because he was a vampire or he tried to kiss me?"
"More of the second one," said Abigail.
"Oh, does that mean you're going to shoot all my girlfriends if they try to kiss me?" he questioned.
"Get one and find out," was all Abigail said.
"Well, I learned one thing tonight," said King, "Tory is in this city because she is the only other person who would know about us here."
Abigail nodded as they drove off.
"Hey, don't you think is weird though, that she gave them that name? I mean her friends must be like where did you get that name?"
"Where did we get the name Nightstalkers?" questioned Rory as Blair and Duke went at it again for 100th or so time with Blair in the lead as having all of Duke's TV time for the next month, Duke's deserts for the next 2 weeks, and he was now going to clean the entire living room. It now rode on if he would be her house slave.
They stopped and thought and looked Tory.
"My uncle Hannibal has a group with the same name," she stated innocently.
"Wait, your uncle's name is Hannibal?" said Rory suddenly off topic.
"Yeah, but he goes by his last name, King."
"I can see why," said Blair.
"Hey," said a voice behind them. They all turned in unison to see a Native American girl dressed in a brown jacket, with a plain blue shirt, blue jeans, and cowboy boots.
"There is something you need to know," she said. They all turned around fully to listen.
"My sources have
told me, that the vampires are holding a concert tonight and are
inviting hundreds of innocent people to feed off of."
The group
stared in disbelief.
"You're kidding right? I mean they never did this before," Said Rory.
"Nope, my sources told me what they know and we, namely you, have to stop it."
Rory furrowed his eye brows, "Where is the party?" He questioned.
"At the Moonlight Mile," said the girl looking around.
"The Moonlight Mile?" screamed Duke, "How the hell do you suppose we get in there Janise? Security is very heavy and with a vampires partying there, it will be even harder."
"You could always pose as a band then crash the party," said Janise.
They all stared at her then busted into comments on how well of an idea it was.
In the city, Abigail and King drove around looking for more vampires who hopefully would have more information on King's niece.
"Where in the world are the vampires?" questioned King, "I mean I know I saw like a hundred coming into the city, but now it's like deserted," he said searching out his window.
"Maybe they're having a vampire meeting or something," said Abigail.
"Hey, Abby, no offense, but that's sort of stupid," said King, "Everyone know vampires have parties instead of meetings."
Abigail shook her head.
"Hey, when do you think the sleeping munchkin is going to wake up?" questioned King looking in the back seat at a sleeping Zoe, "I mean she slept all the way here even when we fought, do you think she's okay?"
"Yeah, I put some sleeping pills in her milkshake when we stopped a while back."
"Sleeping pills!" screamed King, "Why did you do that?"
"Well, if you had paid any attention at all, then you would know that she hasn't slept for days! No matter what I tell her she thinks if she can stay awake and is able to run away from whatever comes after her she will keep us safe."
King sighed and looked away afraid to even think about what happened a just a few months ago. He sighed and tried to clear his mind, but an annoying little ringing just kept full. He sat there and tried harder waiting for Abigail to answer her cell phone, but she just let it ring. King was about to lose his cool when Abigail shouted, "King, will you answer your damn cell phone?"
King looked up and over at Abigail and said, "I don't have a cell phone."
Abigail made a puzzled face and they both looked down to see a silver cell phone. Abigail picked it up and pressed speak, "Hello?"
"If you're looking for Tory, she's at the Moonlight Mile on 23rd and Boulevard," said a female voice.
"What?" asked Abigail, but the voice didn't answer for the person or thing had hung and there was only a dial tone.
"Who was it?" questioned King.
"They said that Tory was going to be at a place called Moonlight Mile on 23rd and Boulevard."
"How do we know it's not a set up?"
"Well, if you want to find your niece, I guess we have to take their word," said Abigail as she began to search for 23rd and Boulevard on their GPS.
