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acosta pérez josé ramiro: Thanks for the review. Sorry if I updated too fast for you. I actually didn't know the original vampire legends so I used logic to decide on vampire weaknesses. I'm surprised I was so accurate. Glad you like how I'm portraying everyone. It's nice to be complimented when you've just been criticized.
Nightw2: Glad you liked the exchange between everyone. They'll be more exchanges in this chapter but some action as well. I've got a few surprises coming up; you may have guessed a couple of them.
Possession"Are you two ok?" Aaooga asked as Sylvester and Penelope rubbed their wrists where they'd been shackled.
"We're fine, thanks." Sylvester replied.
"You came just in time." Penelope added.
"Did you find the silver dagger?" Sylvester asked.
"Tweety has it." Aaooga replied. They turned and saw Tweety and Sleety squaring off against each other.
"I thought I turned you into a vampire!" Sleety shouted. Tweety smirked.
"Since I'm a relative, the transformation failed." Tweety replied.
"What do you mean?" Sleety asked.
"I'm only half-vampire, just like my niece Sweetie." Tweety replied with a smirk. He then turned serious.
"And you will pay for what you did to her." Tweety added. Aaooga was getting impatient at the squaring off.
"Just slay him so you can turn back to normal." Aaooga muttered to herself.
"What do you mean by that?" Sleety asked, referring to Tweety.
"I'm going to slay you here." Tweety replied, preparing the dagger. Sleety smirked.
"Perhaps, but will you fight your friends?" Sleety asked evilly. A zombie then stood between him and Tweety. Sleety then turned to Aaooga, Sylvester and Penelope. A third dark mist appeared over them.
"Friends, there is no time for the ceremony, posses them!" Sleety shouted. The three mists began to float towards them.
"RUN!" Aaooga shouted. The three ran in different directions trying to avoid the ghosts that were chasing them.
"NO!" Tweety shouted in horror. Sylvester ran straight into a zombie while trying to get away from the ghost chasing him.
"Eep!" Sylvester moaned. The ghost chasing him forced it's way into his head.
"SYLVESTER!" Tweety screamed. Sylvester felt unbearable agony as the ghost fused with his head. He then felt a surge in his head, like his brain was about to explode. He tried to resist the entity in his head but it soon gained dominance. Sylvester lost control of his body. He had now been possessed.
"Heh, one down, two to go." Sleety muttered evilly.
"NO!" Tweety shouted. He flung himself at the zombie and started slashing and stabbing it with the silver dagger. The zombie soon collapsed and melted into dust. He ran to Sleety but another zombie stood in the way.
"You won't be able to save them unless you kill me, and you'll have to get through my minions to get to me." Sleety said evilly. The ghost that was chasing Penelope was not faring so well. She was too fast for it to catch up to.
"I'm going to have to intervene, she's too fast." Sleety muttered. He flew up right in front of Penelope, who was trying to run to the secret exit.
"Going somewhere?" Sleety asked sarcastically, revealing his fangs. Penelope was forced to stop, allowing the ghost to catch up top her and enter her head.
"PENELOPE!" Tweety screamed. She felt the same thing as Sylvester had. She tried to resist it but was also unsuccessful and she was possessed.
"Just your fiancée to go." Sleety said evilly. Aaooga was being chased by the third evil spirit.
"I will get away!" Aaooga said to herself. She started flying around the room to get away from the spirit.
"AAOOGA!" Tweety screamed. He attacked the zombie in his way with the dagger and killed it. He ran at Sleety but was blocked by Sylvester.
"You will not pass!" Sylvester said evilly.
"Sylvester's been possessed, but I won't kill him." Tweety said to himself. The possessed Sylvester leaped at Tweety. Tweety jumped and tried to get to Sleety. Sleety turned and looked at him.
"Shouldn't you help the one you love?" Sleety asked evilly. The spirit had caught up with Aaooga and it was trying to possess her. The possessed Penelope jumped in the way between Tweety and Sleety. Aaooga had fallen on the floor and was struggling with the spirit trying to posses her.
"AAOOGA!" Tweety screamed. He could only watch in horror, as his fiancée was being possessed. Suddenly, to everyone's surprise, the spirit left Aaooga's mind and dissipated into the air. Aaooga fell unconscious to the floor.
"What happened?" Sleety shouted. The distraction had allowed Tweety to get to her.
"Please be ok!" Tweety pleaded. He picked up Aaooga in his arms and looked at her face. To his surprise, she started to wake up.
"I…beat it." Aaooga managed to say. She gasped for breath and started breathing regularly again. Sleety was watching from a distance.
"You forced the spirit out of you?" Sleety asked, somewhat surprised. Aaooga looked at him.
"My will to be with Tweety combined with the thought of our upcoming wedding was stronger the spirit's possession attempt." Aaooga replied.
"Why can I no conquer love?" Sleety asked in frustration. He turned to his zombies and the Possessed Sylvester and Penelope.
"Help me get both of these canaries under my control!" Sleety ordered.
"What do we do?" Aaooga asked in a panic.
"We'll have to work together, there must be something here you can use as a weapon." Tweety said. The zombies had backed them into a corner. The possessed Sylvester and Penelope were at the front with an evil look.
"They'll eat us if we don't do something." Aaooga said. Tweety saw that the air was not covered.
"Fly for it." Tweety shouted. They flew straight up and perched on the banisters on the ceiling of the room, leaving everyone on the ground staring. Sleety was fuming.
"Can't you idiots do anything right!" Sleety shouted. He took flight and went up to Tweety and Aaooga. He deliberately landed behind them and targeted Aaooga.
"Well, they'll be stumped for a while." Tweety said. Aaooga walked forward slightly so she was in front of Tweety.
"Where's Count Sleety?" Aaooga asked. He was behind them and creeping up on Aaooga.
"Time to make you a vampire dearie." Sleety said evilly. He leapt at Aaooga and jumped on her back.
"TWEETY!" Aaooga screamed. Sleety revealed his fangs and leant closer to Aaooga's neck.
"Get off her!" Tweety shouted. Hr grabbed Sleety by the head and pulled him back, preventing him from biting.
"Let me go!" Sleety shouted. He tore himself free but Aaooga tore free from his grasp. She ran to the other side of the room. Sleety turned to Tweety.
"It's obvious that you two care about each other too much for me to be able to do anything to." Sleety said. Tweety pointed his silver dagger at Sleety.
"Do you give up?" Tweety asked. Sleety sneered.
"No, I think you should look behind you." Sleety replied evilly. While they had been fighting, the possessed Sylvester and Penelope had climbed up a curtain and jumped up behind him. On the other side of the room, Aaooga was catching her breath after her near death experience. She was watching in horror as Tweety was surrounded by Sleety, Sylvester and Penelope.
"There must be something I can do." Aaooga said to herself. She looked around and saw a small torch hanging on the wall.
"I hope this works." Aaooga said to herself. She grabbed the torch and started sneaking up behind Sleety.
"Uh oh." Tweety muttered at his predicament.
"It seems the tables have turned my friend, you won't harm your friends will you?" Sleety asked evilly. Tweety saw Aaooga sneaking around and had an idea.
"Why are you like this?" Tweety asked.
"Can you imagine how lonely it is for me to live for 3 thousand years without another family member?" Sleety asked.
"I can have a guess." Tweety replied.
"I wanted to bring the pie family together here and turn every one into vampires." Sleety replied.
"That's why you didn't give me the key when I first met you." Tweety said.
"Indeed, I wanted to keep you here forever, and I was hoping that you would bite your fiancée." Sleety replied.
"I'd never harm Aaooga!" Tweety snapped.
"I understand that now." Sleety replied. He felt a tapping on his shoulder. He turned around and saw Aaooga with the torch. She clobbered him on the side with the burning end, setting his feathers on fire.
"Now Tweety!" Aaooga shouted. Tweety leapt at the burning vampire and stabbed him in the head with the silver dagger, taking care not to catch fire himself.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Sleety screamed. His body then fell from the banister and fell to the floor of the sacred chamber, knocking over a candle, which also fell on him.
"That's a touch overkill but it works." Aaooga muttered. Tweety went down to check on the body of the vampire. He was still alive, but barely. Aaooga came after him.
"How are you still alive?" Tweety asked. Sleet just moaned slightly.
"You…can't…win." Sleety said slowly.
"What do you mean?" Aaooga asked.
"Only…a…young…girl…of…pure…heart…can…kill…my…minions!" Sleety replied, losing breath with every word. He passed out after finishing his sentence.
"Oh well, this will be the only time I kill someone." Tweety said. He took the silver dagger and sliced through the count's neck. The vampire moaned and died. The zombies in the area fled from the chamber through the secret door
As soon as the vampire died, Tweety felt a force increasing inside him. He fell to the floor and began to feel immense pain as all his half-vampire qualities began to disappear. He could feel his vampire fangs retracting back into the roof of his mouth and his veins fill with blood again. He screamed in agony, causing Aaooga to get extremely worried. Suddenly, all the pain in Tweety's body stopped. He looked around at his surroundings. The first person he saw was Aaooga.
"Are you ok?" Aaooga asked.
"I felt a surge of pain through my body when I killed Sleety." Tweety replied.
"Can I check some things?" Aaooga asked.
"Ok." Tweety replied. He opened his mouth and Aaooga had a look. The vampire fangs were gone. She then saw Tweety's reflection in the polished floor. She then held his hand and felt a pulse. Her eyes filled with tears of joy.
"Tweety, it worked, you're no longer a vampire." Aaooga cried excitedly. Tweety felt inside his mouth and found that the fangs were gone.
"I'm back to normal!" Tweety shouted. Aaooga leapt into his arms and they embraced.
"I love you Tweety!" Aaooga said, nearly crying.
"I love you too." Tweety replied. They were about to kiss when Sylvester and Penelope jumped down.
"They're still possessed." Aaooga said.
"How do we save them?" Tweety asked. Aaooga looked around and saw a mirror in the corner of the room. It was about 3 feet wide and 7 feet tall. It was decorated with vampires around its edge. It was leaned up against the wall of the chamber.
"I have an idea, follow me." Aaooga said. They flew towards the mirror in the corner.
"What do we do?" Tweety asked.
"We show them their reflection, if I'm right, it'll bring back memories of what they were like before they were possessed." Aaooga replied.
"I get it, it'll create an urge to return to normal strong enough to force the spirit out of them." Tweety added. Sylvester and Penelope drew near to them.
"It's now or never." Aaooga said. They grabbed the mirror and faced it towards the two cats.
The two cats looked at the mirror and stared at it for a few minutes. Penelope looked into the mirror and remembered the days after Sylvester had proposed his love for her and before this day. She remembered how Sylvester always took her to her favourite restaurants, how he protected her from dogs, how he caught mice for her to eat and how he'd taken her to her favourite music gigs. She now remembered hoe much Sylvester meant to her. An uncontrollable urge to be herself surged through her mind. She fell to the floor and clasped her hands around her head and started screaming. Her newfound will to be herself again overpowered the spirit possessing her. The spirit was thrown out of her and disappeared. The strain of forcing the spirit out of her made her faint.
Sylvester looked in the mirror and remembered what it was like after Sylvia had left him. He remembered how Penelope looked after him and cared for him afterwards, how they started their relationship, how nice she was to Sylvester Jr, the mouse hunting trips they went on together and the snacks she always brought for him. He realised how much Penelope meant to him. He suddenly had an urge to relive those times. He started fighting the spirit that had possessed him. His will to return to normal overpowered the spirit and it was forced out. It went to the air and vanished. Sylvester fell to the ground exhausted.
Tweet and Aaooga were watching the whole sequence from behind the mirror.
"It worked, they're free." Aaooga said. They went up to them and shook them on the back. They soon woke up.
"What happened to us?" Sylvester asked in a daze. Tweety and Aaooga got off their backs while the cats sat up and looked at the canaries.
"You were possessed." Aaooga replied.
"And you freed us?" Penelope asked.
"No, you beat the spirit yourselves. We just gave you a motive to do so." Tweety replied.
"Did you beat the vampire?" Sylvester asked.
"Yep, I'm back to normal." Tweety replied.
"That reminds me." Aaooga added. She flew over to the vampire's corpse.
"What's she up to?" Sylvester asked. Tweety just shrugged.
"Let's go have a look." Penelope suggested. They went over to Aaooga, who was doing something to the vampire's corpse. She turned around holding a key.
"Here's the final key to get out of here." Aaooga said.
"Great, now we can get out of here." Sylvester replied. They then heard a tumbling from the secret passage Tweety and Aaooga had used.
"What's that?" Tweety asked. They went over to the secret passage and opened the doorway. As they did, a skeleton of a canary fell out of the passage.