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A/N: Let goes with the chapter, hope you enjoy it.


Chapter 4: The Trap

( Back to the present day )

After Ellie gets out of the bathroom and gets obligated to eat. Both of them get out of the cabin and into Joel's car. Bill found out that some reports of stranger things were happening inside the cemetery. After half an hour of driving, Joel slows his car as they get closer to the cemetery entrance. Before he stops the car in the street beside it he turns the light off and starts looking toward the place.

"We're here… kiddo," he said as soon as he turned off the engine.

"I wish that you would stop calling me that…"

"I wish that… that you stop calling old men, but I guess that we never have our wishes granted."

Ellie glared at him. "I guess not," Then she moved her hand to her ear. "Bill… do you copy?" asked Ellie through her earpiece that Bill gave to both of them before they got out of the cabin.

"Yes… loud and clear… did you arrive at the place?" he asked her.

"Yes… we did. Do you have any map or plans of the place?" she said while Joel used his binoculars to look at the cemetery entrance.

"Give me a few minutes… I can get you one."

"I don't see anything or anyone so far… all look quiet… from here," said Joel while they waited for Bill's reply.

"Okay… I got one. Is not curated, but I don't think it changes much."

"Okay… What do you see there?"

"Well, besides all the tombs, the cemetery looks a little big for a small town like this… but as I can see on the plan, it has nothing out of the ordinary. I mean not any big structure inside except for a big crypt in the middle of the place."

"Well. that is something… we should check that first…" said Joel while putting his binoculars down and taking out one of his guns.

"I don't think it is big enough for a vampire hideout… but we don't know how long they're been here… so it can be something beneath it… I can check if the cemetery was built over something… but that will take me a little time."

"Okay… work on it… and let us know… in the meantime, we go there and check it out." Joel opens the door and gets out of the car.

Ellie was getting annoyed by Joel's actions. This was her mission, and he was acting like she was not even there. A few seconds later Ellie got out of the car and followed him. "Hey… can you slow down… and stop acting like this is your mission?"

"Do you want to find this guy or not?"

"That is not the point…" she said while stopping behind him close to the concrete wall. "Bill… Is there another entrance to the place… beside the main entrance?"

After a minute he answered back. "I can only see two… the main gate in the front and the service entrance in the back."

"Okay.. thanks… Joel, I think that-" Ellie rolled her eyes as she watched Joel move toward the main gate. "Shit… I guess we're going in through the front gate… I will contact you if we find something."

"Be careful… and remember that you got injured a week ago… so do not force yourself."

"I will be careful…" she said before cutting the transmission and following Joel to the entrance. Soon Ellie gets close to Joel, she notices that he already had broken the luck. "We should go through the back entrance… this is too much exposure."

"If they're here… that will be the most guarded place." Joel looks at her with his gun ready in his hand. "Are you ready?" he said while gesturing for her to go first.

Ellie grabs hers with both hands and slowly starts to move forward. "Lady first? How a gentleman." She said while going into the cemetery.

Both Joel and Ellie walk through the tombs inside the cemetery ready to shoot at whatever is inside. They make sure to watch every corner of the place waiting for an ambush, but so far nothing has happened. The place doesn't look like a good place to have a vampire hideout, but Ellie was hoping for a trap so that way she can capture one of them, making them talk about David's hideout. After ten minutes there, they arrive at the crypt in the middle of the place.

Joel and Ellie hide behind a big tombstone and look toward the crypt. "Nothing so far… not even a night guard… you do not find that strange?" said Joel while looking around. "If this a trap it will be stupid to be all of them inside there," he added.

"Not if the inside is not what it looks like," said Ellie while looking at the entrance of the crypt. "Not finding a night guard can mean that they control the place or that they already killed him… so our best bet is that they have to be inside."

"I hope you're wrong… the last thing I want is to get into a fight in there… I prefer to fight in an open space… So what is the plan?"

Ellie turns her head and looks at him. "Get in, kill those bastards and get out without getting killed, but remember we need one alive."

"Well any pan is better than nothing… is simple but I like it," he said while checking his gun. Don't look at me like that… I promise that I will not kill all of them."

"You better be, dead people, don't talk."

Joel and Ellie move forward to the crypt with caution. They're making sure that no one was hiding behind a tomb ready to attack them. Soon they get in front of the entrance, they notice that the lock in the door was forced open.

"Someone has been here… recently. But if they control the place, why to break the lock?" said Joel without looking back at her. "How are your shoulders?" he asked while opening the door slowly.

"Don't worry about me… I can handle myself… so stop asking that much… you're not my dad."

"Sorry for worrying too much." Joel takes out a flashlight and starts to move in. "I just want to be sure that you will be ready for this."

"I was born ready… old man."

"Okay… then let go… and let's see what you got," he said as they continued moving inside.

Ellie rolled her eyes but followed behind him. She takes out a flashlight from her small backpack and starts to check the place. "There is nothing here… I guess I was-" Ellie stopped when she bumped into Joel. "Shit!... Joel, why do you stop walking?"

Joel moves to the side and points the light to the ground in front of him. "Because I think that we found something."

Ellie moved forward and saw the hole in the ground. "Okay… it looks like I was right after all…" Ellie knees on the edge of the hole and looks down. Joel moved closer and illuminated the inside.

"I guess someone has been busy here… how has no one noticed this? The hole looks like it was made a few weeks ago," said Joel while looking inside the hole.

"They probably kill the guard that works here and replace it with one of their own. I don't know why the people in this town don't care much about what is happening here… and I'm surprised that the local police didn't come here to investigate this place. Bill just told us that he found some report about this place."

"They probably are too busy with the Halloween preparation… or maybe the vampires are already bribing them. Is common in a town like this."

"I work there for a week, and I don't think that… but that is a possibility… in that case, I will be alone in this."

"We need to be careful… as I told you before… this vampire David is not someone to mess with and if he already knows that you're here. He will come after you."

"Not if I find him first…" Ellie hoster her guy and jumps down into the hole. "Are you coming?" she said while walking forward through the tunnel that is under the crypt.

"Jesus girl… and you were telling me no to be hesty… so try to not be so desperate to get killed," he said before jumping down too.

Soon Joel lands on the ground inside the hole, Ellie looks at him. "My name is Ellie… So can you stop calling my girl?" she said before turning around and looking forward to the tunnel.

Joel illuminated the place around them. "It looks like the hole they dig in the crypt is only new. This tunnel looks like it was here a long time ago." Joel pointed the light forward to the tunnel ahead of them. The hole under the crypt was just to cover the entrance of another tunnel. After looking around while they walk deeper in, Joel notices the hole in the wall at the end of the tunnel. Joel was walking now behind Ellie. Soon they get to the hole in the wall, Joel points the light inside.

"I think the part inside was here before the cemetery was made… for I can see it looks really old," he said while watching Ellie getting inside the room on the other side. It was a long empty room. Apparently constructed under the cemetery. As they moved forward in, they saw a stair that went even lower into the ground. "Where do you think this goes?" asked Joel as soon as he got to the start of the stairs.

"Hopely to David's hideout… this looks old enough and big. A perfect place for a vampire to stay away from the sunlight and hide from people."

"Okay… let go."

Both of them start to descend the stairs. It took them like 5 minutes to get to the bottom and into another open entrance in the rock. They smell the humidity and see some watermarks running down the rookie walls. Soon they pass the entrance, they see the big cavern ahead. As they started to look around and after a few minutes they saw an old wooden bridge ahead in the cavern. As they continue walking around, they can see some older wooden columns all around the place. Probably those were the things that held part of the cavern ceiling from coming down.

"What do you think this was used for?" asked Ellie while pointing her light all around the place.

Joel turned around and looked at the rookie walls. After a minute, he saw a few torches attached to the wall beside the entrance hole and quickly walked toward them. As soon as he lights them up, part of the cavern gets illuminated. "I don't know but this looks old enough to not be constructed in this century or the past one."

The cavern was rocky, but they can see some walls that were artificially constructed. It looks like someone was building something there but never finished, probably for the instability of the cavern.

Ellie walks toward the wooden bridge and notices that it was over a big abyss. "What do you think of this?" she asks while looking down the big hole and doesn't see the end of it.

Joel walks toward her and looks down too. "I don't know… but I don't like this. So far there is no sign of any vampires or why they dig a hole in the crypt to get into this creepy place…"

"What do you think they were building here? I mean not the vampire because all this looks too old. I mean the people that start to build this place…"

"I don't know… maybe they are trying to build an old temple or something… in here."

"Inside a cavern?" Ellie looks at the wooden bridge and points her flashlight to the other side, but can see much. "Where do you think this bridge goes to?"

"I have no idea… but there is nothing here… and I don't like this place. Maybe it is better to get out of here and get back to the surfer."

Ellie turns her head and looks at him. "I thought you said that you're a great hunter. I don't imagine that you will get scared so easily …" she said with a grim face.

Joel looked at her with a serious face. "I am not scared of this… I can tell you that I've been hunting vampires in places worse than this one. I just don't like to be in a place I don't know anything about… and obviously, there is nothing here except some older ruin, and what the hell?" he said as soon as he saw Ellie walking into the bridge.

"You talk too much too old man… this bridge has to take us somewhere, so let go," said Ellie while continuing walking on the bridge.

Joel moves quickly to the start of the bridge and looks at it. "Are you crazy? You don't even know if this is safe… the wood could be so old that it can't hold your weight."

"It looks safe to me," said Ellie while walking slowly testing the wood with every step she makes. The bridge doesn't look to be so long so she was close to the middle of it.

After a few minutes, Ellie stops a little far from the middle of the bridge as she hears bat sounds coming from the ceiling. She looked up but the ceiling was so dark that she only saw some shadows moving around. It looks like the little winger rats were disturbed from their sleep probably by their talking and the light that now illuminated part of the place.

Joel looks up and has a bad feeling about all this. "Ellie, I think that you should get back here… I don't like the sound of this and you don't want to be on that bridge if-" Joel was saying when he hear some behind him.

"Some of us come down here?" said a man as soon he entered the cavern with a few other men with guns behind him.

Joel quickly turns around and takes his gun out and points at them. "Fuck!… I knew this was going to be a trap… Ellie, we have to go… now."

"Why do you want to leave so quickly old men… the party is about to start." said the leader of the armed men.

"Sorry… but if you really want to start a party… you should bring more of your bloodsucker body."

"Ohhh… don't worry. I don't need so many to take care of you… You fight well in the motel I can give you that… but now… you don't have any chance to-"

"You talk too much…" said Joel before starting to shoot at them.

The vampire leader moves fast to the side to dodge the bullets that were coming his way in time. "What the hell are you waiting for… take him down," he yelled to the men that were behind him.

His man takes their position around and starts shooting toward Joel, but he also moves fast and jumps behind a rock close to the abyss behind him.

"ELLIE!" he yelled while continuing to shoot at the men.

"Moving…" she answered while starting to move back to him on the bridge.

After Joel kills a few of the men that came with the vampire, another group of soldiers enters the cavern with guns in hand. "Tomas… Kill the old man… while I get the girl." said the leader as he ran toward the wooden bridge.

"Yes sir…" said the young man before turning his head toward the soldiers behind him. "You hear the boss… kill that bastard." The young man and the soldiers start to move toward Joel but have to move fast to evade Joel's new rain of bullets. Some of the soldiers start to shoot back while others run for cover.

After his machine gun ran out of bullets, he took out El Diablo. Let's see how you do with this. Said Joel after putting a new round of bullets in his gun. He waited for the men to stop shooting to move to the side of his hiding place and aim. Joel starts to shoot toward the ones that start to get closer and hits them with his special bullet. Some of them fall down but after a few minutes, Joel sees that they are still moving.

"What matters old man… getting out of bullets?" said the young boy from his hiding place.

Fuck!… they're using humans too… I should know. Joel quickly changes his gun El Diablo for two 9mm guns and moves out of the rock. "Take this motherfukers!" He starts shooting at the rest of the men including the one on the ground. Some of them get out from behind the rocks, but Joel was faster than them and killed a few of them before they got closer to him. As soon as another way of bullets flies his way he moves behind another group of rocks to recharge.

"That is not going to help you for long," said the young man while moving between the shadows.

"You look pretty young to be a vampire… so I assume that they turned you recently… Am I right?" said Joel while recharging his guns and getting ready for the next group. "What did he promise you, boy?... Power?... Money?" said Joel while getting ready. "He is just playing you… boy. Whatever he promises you are not going to last… he is only going to use you… the let you die."

The boy starts to get furious. "Shot up… old man. You don't know anything about me… He offers me something no one can give me… he offers me a life without suffering… and power beyond life."

"Sorry to disappoint you boy… but the only thing you will get from this… is suffering." Joel moves out from his hiding place and starts to shoot at the next group of men that were coming after him. "But don't worry… I will end it soon." Joel killed a few more men before getting out of bullets again, so he took out two small swords from behind him and ran toward the rest of the soldiers.

Ellie was running back to where Joel was, but the vampire leader got in front of the bridge and looked at her. "Where do you think you're going? He will die today and you can't stop that. But you are going to be lucky since David wants to meet you in person, so we're going to take you alive."

Ellie stops and points her gun toward him. "Oh… where are we going to meet alright… but not in the way he wanted." Ellie quickly starts to shoot toward the vampire, but he was too fast and avoided the bullets.

"You will need more than that to kill me girl." he takes out one long sword from his back and points it at her. "I suggest that you grab the rope of the bridge… or that will end badly for me." with one move the vampire cut the ropes that hold the bridge together.

Ellie ran forward and shot at the vampire and hit him in the shoulder before the whole bridge started to fall down into the abyss. Ellie had to move fast to grab one of the ropes to hold on as the bridge fell.

"ELLIE!" Joel yelled after killing another of the men that attacked him with his sword. He moved a little forward as soon as he lost sight of her. "Ellie!" he yelled again, then started to run toward the abyss, when the two last men moved toward him, but Joel cut them down with not much effort. As the two men fall down to the ground, Joel starts running forward again.

"Where do you think you're going… old man?" said the young man as soon he landed in front of him. "You may kill all our men, but I have not even started…."

"Just get out of my way… boy. I don't have time to deal with you."

"Ha… don't need to worry about that… I will make you dead quick."

"I'm… okay… Joel!" Joel looks over the boy as soon he hears Ellie yell from below the abyss. He has to give some credit to her, she probably hung from the rope that was holding the bridge. But the other vampire is still there, so he knows that she is still in danger. So he needs to take care of the boy first.

"You know what?" said Joel still looking over the boy's shoulder before looking back at his face. "You're starting to piss me off… but I don't really have time for you… so why don't you do yourself a favor and get out of here before you end like the rest of the men that try to kill me."

"You think that you're better than me… just because you're older…hmmm?"

"I don't need to be older to know that I'm better than all of you… all you vampires do is take and ruin people's lives… and I'm sick of that."

The boy looked at him with furious eyes. "Shut up old man… you don't know what I have to sacrifice to get this power? This world is a corrupt place… and we're going to change all that. Soon the one that oppresses us will belong to us and all the humans raised are going to be our slaves and food… too bad that you're not going to be around to see it." The boy takes out a knife from his back and jumps toward Joel. He tries to stab him in the chest, but Joel moves quickly to the side and grabs the boy's arm, and throws the boy to the ground.

"I think you need more practice… boy," said Joel before he took out one of his swords from one of the men's dead bodies and got ready for the boy that was already on his feet. "You're maybe a vampire now boy… but I been killing you kind long before you're born."

"Stop calling me a boy… you human piece of shit… My master taught me well… and I'm going to use that to kill you." the boy charge a gang toward Joel, but his long knife was easily blocked.

Both of them move toward each other again and start fighting. Being a vampire gave the boy some agility in speed and make him stronger than humans, but his lack of experience was notable. Their blade clamps to each other as they continue moving toward each other to kill their opponent. But after a few minutes, it was obvious that Joel Esperance started to give him the open hand. Joel gave the boy a few cuts in some places of his body, but luckily for the boy, he was fast enough to avoid any fatal wound.

"I can give you some credit, old man…" said the boy while looking at his wounds. You're faster than a normal man, but if you think that you're going to get out of here a life… you're mistaken."

"I don't know what made you choose to be a vampire… but in the end, you all are going to die."

"We will see… arrrggg!" yelled the boy as he lunches himself toward Joel again.

Ellie was climbing up on what was left of the wooden bridge. She was lucky to have the time to hook herself to one of the ropes before the bridge fell down.

"I can give you some credit girl… our master will be so pleased when we show up to his throne room with you." said the vampire leader from the other side of the cliff.

"Ohhhh… don't… worry… I will… tell him… that… you did your…best when I met him." said Ellie while continuing climbing. Ellie doesn't know what is happening with Joel up there. The shooting has stopped but she can still hear some metal slashing at each other. That was good because that mean that Joel was still alive. Even if the old man was annoying sometimes, she is starting to like him. Joel looks like a good man, yeah he has his defect, but it seems that he cares for her more than he already shows her. He is maybe older, but he is still in good shape and good-looking. Ellie wants to know more about him since the man is already a mystery to her, but somehow she like that. But she won't have time to think about all that now, she needs to get up and help Joel. Ellie was moving up as fast as she could but after a few minutes, one of the wood planks broke and she lost her grip on it and start to fall down a few feets.

"Ohhh… you need to hold on better… girl. I do not want you to die before we get the chance to take you to our master." said the vampire with a smile. "You almost there girl… c'mon don't disappoint me now." he cheered her up as she started to move up again.

The boy managed to cut Joel in his left arm but moved quickly away from him when Joel almost cut his head off with a swing. Both men were exhausted now, more Joel than the boy, but he is not going to give up…yet. Joel needed to end this quickly if he was going to help Ellie with the other one. He hears her talking with the other vampire, so he knows that she is still alive. Not that he has much doubt about her ability, but Ellie always wants to chew more than she can swallow.

"Sorry… boy, but playtime is over… it's time to end this." Joel gets a good grab of his sword as he prepares himself to end the fight with the boy that it has extended too long. He felt sorry for the boy. Getting turned so young is never easy for a person no matter how much they want this kind of life. He looked at the boy's eyes and saw his fury in them, but also the sorrow and pain, so it was better if he just put an end to his suffering. Joel was ready to do his task when he saw a few more vampire slave soldiers enter the cavern from the other side of the abyss with guns in their hands. Fuck… more of them? Joel got ready to attack the boy when he saw that one of them had a rocket launcher.

The leader of the vampire turns his head around and looks at them with a smile on his face. "Kill him… NOW!" he yells at the soldiers.

The one with the heavy weapon moves forward and puts one knee on the ground as he aims toward Joel and the boy.

"Fucking shit… really?!" is the only thing Joel said before he saw the man fire the thing and the rocket started flying his way.

The boy turned his head and looked at it. He doesn't know what to do, or why they fire a rocket into a cave and in his direction. Yeah, they want to kill the hunter, but they don't notice that he was there too. Then he hears a voice in his head. Run… save yourself brother… it was his sister's voice in his head. Tomas saw the rocket hit the ceiling around them and exploited. Run… Brother… run… he hears the voice again and quickly runs for cover. But it was too late for both of them.

"JOEL!... NOOOOO!" Ellie yelled as soon she saw the explosion on the other side of the cavern.

The explosion makes the whole cavern tremble and covers that part with smoke and dust. Rocks from the calling start to fall down and bury part of the entrance and cover most of the ground with rocks. The vampire leader turns and covers his face as soon as the smoke and dust get to him. The rock continues falling down from the ceiling and continues to cover the place.

After a few minutes, the vampire looks at the pile of rocks all around the place. "I guess that was all for the old man," he said while turning his head back to Ellie. "I feel sorry for the boy… the master has some hope for him…. Too bad he did not carry out his job too well."

Elle was now closer to the top of the other side. She look at the vampire and glared at him. "You will pay for this… I can guarantee you that," said Ellie while starting to climb the rest of the way to the top.

"I admire the devotion to your father's cause…" he smiles at Ellie's reaction to his words. Yeah, I was there when David end his misery… but your destiny will be more different than his, and Halloween day with being the perfect time for it."

The few men that were on Ellie's side move close to the edge of the cliff and point their guns at her. "Now surrender yourself… girl, there is no escape for you." said one of the men.

"Yeah, you're right… there is not going to be any escape… for any of you." Ellie takes out a grenade from her small backpack and shows it to him.

Mortis look at it and smile. "Knowing you… I presume that is an ultraviolet grenade?" he yells from the other side. "That is not going to work girl… my men are human and I'm too far from you. So I don't think that you will be able to throw that all the way here."

"Oh… you don't need to worry, this will work just fine." Ellie throws it up over the cliff so fast that the vampire men can't do anything to stop it. The vampire leader moved fast behind some rocks as soon as the grenade exploded in the middle air and a bright light covered half the cavern making the blind by it. Ellie quickly took advantage of the distraction to move up as fast as she can and get over the cliff and into the ground in no time. While the men continue rubbing their eyes, Ellie moves fast between them quickly moved closer to one of them, and disarms him by stabbing him in the neck with her knife.

"It was a trick… Shoot her…" said one of them as he tried to see where she was. Ellie takes the gun from the man she just kill, and moves to the side as soon as some of the others start shooting.

"Arrrrgggg!" screamed one of the soldiers that gets hit by his own companion on his chest several times. As soon as the man hit the ground Ellie moves closer to the next one and kills him too. As they can't see clearly yet, Ellie starts to shoot them down one by one until all of them were dead.

After that, the fight was over, Ellie drop the empty gun and take out one of hers. She quickly looked at the other side of the cavern and looked at the rocks rumble there. Joel! She said, not accepting that he was dead. He can be… Joel was a strong man and fast, he probably managed to move to safety before the rocks fall down. At least that will give her some hope to find him alive. After a few minutes, she looked around to try to find the vampire. To find Joel she needs to get rid of him first. He is the only one left and she is going to enjoy killing him. "Come out… motherfucker… is only you and me now… and I really going to enjoy killing you for this," said Ellie while pointing the gun in a different direction. "What is the matter? Are you afraid of a little girl like me?" said Ellie while trying to make the vampire come out. She needs to end this fast if she wants to have any hope of finding Joel alive under all those rocks.

"You know… My master has something special for you." said the vampire from behind her.

Ellie quickly turned around and shot, but he wasn't there. "I had to admit that you're has been a pain in the ass for us… but-" Ellie fake quickly turned around and soon the vampire moved to her other side Ellie shot and hit him in the chest several times.

The vampire moves back and moves one hand to his chest. "Fuck… that hurts…" he remove his hand and saw some blood on it. "What the fuck? Normal bullets… can't hurt us?"

"Yeah… I know, but lucky for me… this one is not so normal… so I bet that it hurt a lot," She said with a smile. "That was for Joel… asshole and this is-"

"You little bit," The vampire moves forward as fast as he can and grabs Ellie by the neck before she can shoot again. Mortis remove the gun from her hand and pulls her up. He looked at her face and smiled. "It was good to play a little with both of you… but do you really think that both of you have any chance to kill me?" the vampire said with a grin on his face now. "I have the order from David to bring you alive… but you really piss me off… so I was thinking on-"

"Ellie! Is that you?" said a man walking inside the cavern from the entrance tunnel behind them.

"Mar…cus? Is that you?" said Ellie will some difficulty.

The vampire turns his head around and looks at the man. "What the hell is this?"

Marcus take out his gun and pointed at the man that was holding Ellie. "Let her go or I shoot." said the detective while continue pointing his gun toward him.

"A police officer? Really?" said Marcus with an annoying tone.

"I'm a detective… you asshole… now let her go before I blow your head up."

"Marcus… get out of here… now!" said Ellie trying to force her way out from the vampire's grab.

"I don't know how you get in here… but that was a mistake." The vampire smiles and shows his fangs to him.

"Fuck me up!... I was right about the vampire thing," he said with a trembling hand.

"Yeah… I'm a vampire… Now lower your weapon and get out of here…before I change my mind and suck all the blood out of you… I have a job to finish here."

Marcus looks at them for a few seconds but the distraction works enough for Ellie as she moves one hand to her back and grabs her hunter knife and stabs the vampire in the neck.

"Arrrggg!" he screamed while throwing Ellie to the ground and a way for him. "You… little bitch!" he said as he moved back holding his neck with his hands as blood start to come out fast.

"I think you're the one that made a mistake here," said Marcus, before he opened fire and hit the vampire several times, making him fall to the ground.

After a minute the vampire starts to sit up and look at him. "You fool… bullets… have no… effect on vampires," he said with some difficulty as he held his neck to stop the bleeding. "Now… I'm going to… enjoy… killing you," he said while standing up.

"Bullet doesn't work… but this those," said Ellie before stabbing him from behind and right through his heart.

"Arrrgggggg!" the vampire screamed before starting to turn into ashes. After a minute he was completely gone. Ellie falls to her knees while grabbing her neck to ease the pain. Marcus lowered his weapon and walked toward her.

"Damn shit… who would have thought… that vampire's exit?" he said before he got closer to Ellie. He hoster his gun and lowers himself in front of Ellie. "Are you an okay… detective?"

Ellie takes a deep breath and raises her head to look at him. "Yeah… I'm fine… Thanks," Ellie starts to get up with the help of Marcus. "How did you find me… And how you get down here?"

"Well, we received a few calls at the station about some disturbances around the cemetery… some on the station thought that it was just some kids messing around because Halloween is so close, but I decide to come and investigate."

Ellie looks at him as if something was not right, but before thinking more about what the man said, she remembers Joel. Ellie quickly turns around and runs toward the cliff edge. "You need to call for help while I find the way to get over there… There is a man buried under those rocks on the other side."

Marcus walks toward Ellie and stops behind her. "I don't think that old man has survived that."

Ellie opens her eyes wide at the realization of the man's words. "I never said he was an old man." She turns to face Marcus, but the man quickly stabs a needle in her neck.

"Oops… I never was too good in laying… my mistake."

Ellie pushes Marcus away from her, but she already starts to feel the effects of the drug he probably uses on her. "You… you're working… with them? Why… and why… the dump act?"

"To keep an eye on you without you noticing me… that was part of my job… but after you disappear from the motel I was ordered to find you." he saw how slowly Ellie got down on her knees and started to lose consciousness. "I can't find you… so I start to spread those rumors about strange things happening in the cemetery… I knew that that would bring you out."

"If… you're working with them… why help me to kill the vampire?"

"He was an asshole… Besides, the boss wanted your life and he was going to kill you… So I did what I need to do to bring you alive… Besides, when I get a turn… I can be number two around here after the boss is so happy to bring you back to him."

"You… son of bitch… I will enjoy killing… you, after… I kill your, boss."

The man laughed in front of her. "You really thought that you had a chance here? This was a trap for you from the beginning… David already controls part of this town… and after Halloween night, he will control the rest… Vampires are going to take over the world at some point, so is better to be on the winning side."

Ellie slowly falls to the ground as she can't feel her body anymore. "You… chose the wrong… way."

"I have to give you some credit girl… you really have guts… but I think your luck has run out."

"I going… to… kill… you…" Ellie whispers before falling unconscious.

( A few hours later )

Bill arrives at the cemetery in his van… soon as he gets out of it, he starts to use a device to locate the signal from the communication piece he gives Joel and Ellie. As he moves into the cemetery, Bill starts to triangulate their position. Bill came as soon as he can't contact them after one hour of trying, and they don't answer him. Bill walks through the cemetery until he arrives at the crypt.

C'mon guys… where are you? You know that I am just a geek guy… not a field man. He said while looking at the monitor of his device and see that one signal was coming from inside the crypt. Fuck… I hate this… that is why Ellie does all this kind of work and I just give her the information she needs. He said before walking forward toward the entrance, but before he got in he hear some noises coming from inside. He quickly put his device away and took a gun out and pointed to the entrance of the crypt. Okay… be cool… you saw Ellie do this a hundred times… well not in person of course, but close enough.

He waits outside as he hears the walking sound of someone coming closer and closer. And after an eternity in his mind, he saw the door start to open slowly. Bill pointed his gun at the entrance and was about to shoot when he noticed who it was.

"Joel!" he yelled as he saw the old man collapse to the ground in front of the crypt. Bill quickly hoster his gun and runs toward him. "Joel… are you okay?" he asked as soon he kneeled beside him and turned him around so he can't see his face.

"Did I look alright?" said Joel with a weak tone. Bill saw how he was covered in cuts and bruises around his entire body. His clothes were ripped off in some places too and he doesn't look well at all.

"What the hell happened? Where is Ellie? Is she still inside?" The man starts questioning him with a worried tone.

After a few minutes, Joel spoke again. "They… got… her."