The moment Sleety put a hand on Becky's shoulder, she began shaking. She was paralysed with terror. She had no idea of what Sleety wanted to do with her. Sleety took a firm hold of the young canary's shoulders. He wanted to savour the moment. Since he could not turn Tweety into a vampire, he would turn his daughter into a vampire. He leant in on Becky's neck and tried to bite. For some reason, his fangs couldn't penetrate her skin. In fact, it was like trying to bite steel. He also felt a powerful force push him back. He didn't have any time to say anything as Becky suddenly started screaming. Her voice was loud enough to literally blow Sleety and Cheesy to the other side of the room. They smashed into the opposite wall and were knocked out cold. The scream also deafened the Zombie Foxes that had surrounded Jessica and Zach. This gave them the opportunity to pull out a small device from their pockets, struggling to ignore the sound of Becky's screaming. The device they pulled out was the Foxcall, which they had taken with them as a precaution. Without a moment's hesitation, they both activated their devices. 'The Zombie Foxes that surrounded them suddenly stopped and looked at them expectantly. They were also struggling with the noise coming from the young canary.
"Guys, return to where you came from." Zach instructed. The zombie foxes suddenly disappeared into the ground. Bugs and Lola had seen the foxes disappear into the ground but not the Foxcall, which had just been pocketed. They were covering their ears trying to drown out the sound of Becky.
"How did you two do that?" Lola asked.
"We'll explain later. There are more important matters." Zach replied. The screaming also woke up everyone that was unconscious. Aaooga immediately grabbed hold of Becky and grabbed hold of her. When she felt her mother's arms, she immediately stopped screaming.
"There, there Becky, you'll be just fine. I won't let those nasty people hurt you." Aaooga said with a reassuring voice. Tweety had climbed to his feet and looked up at Sylvia, who had just climbed to hers.
"Sylvia, release everyone from the crucifixes." Tweety instructed.
"Right." Sylvia replied. She ran over to where the others were tied and began releasing them. For obvious reasons, she released her son first.
"Mother! You're ok!" Sylvester Jr. exclaimed. Sylvia just smiled and continued releasing everyone.
"You recovered your body!" Penelope added when Sylvia reached her.
"Err, what?" Daffy asked.
"What are you talking about dear?" Granny added.
"Long story." Penelope replied.
"I'll explain later, but now we have a bigger problem at hand." Sylvia added.
"Defeating Sleety?" Petunia asked.
"Yep."
"I w-w-wonder what Sleety is capable of." Porky said.
"Right now, we need to act fast. I don't know why, but he's after Bugs and Lola's daughter."
"He's after who?" Everyone asked simultaneously.
"Jessica. I don't know why."
"Probably because she foiled his possession attempt" Sylvester suggested.
"I never thought of that."
"Err, guys. I think we're in trouble." Miss. Prissy said.
"How come, I say, how come?" Foghorn asked. Miss. Prissy pointed towards the wall. She had noticed Sleety and cheesy regaining consciousness. Sleety looked around and surveyed the scene. He was almost exploding in anger at the sight that everyone had been freed. He was even angrier that all the zombie Foxes were gone and Jessica was still alive. The first person he glared at was Becky, who was shaking in her mother's arms, even though she wasn't screaming.
"GYAH! Why are the young ones so troublesome?" Sleety shouted.
"What happened?" Cheesy asked.
"All I'm certain of is that that little canary chick knocked us out with a high pitched scream. Probably a fluke." Although he didn't realise it, Sleety was making the same mistake he had before with Jessica.
"But the one you want to kill is still alive."
"I know that." Sleety then glared harshly at Jessica, who was backing towards the exit with Zach.
"Cheesy, I'm leaving you in charge of taking out everyone here." Sleety said.
"What will you do father?"
"I'll kill Jessica myself." He got up and flew straight towards the two young rabbits. This was what they wanted, and they ran out of the chamber, followed by Sleety.
"I hope Jessica will be ok." Lola muttered.
"Lo, we'd better help with getting rid of Cheesy." Bugs said.
"Right, and leave Sleety to Jessica."
Jessica and Zach lured Sleety away from the voodoo chamber and were constantly looking for the best room to fight Sleety. They needed a fairly large room so they would be able to evade whatever the vampire would throw at them. They already had a plan to fight against Sleety. They knew about his inability to defeat the power of love so they figured that the deep love they shared for each other would protect them to an extent. The main drawback was that they had no way of killing the vampire. All they could really do was stall until Tweety arrived with the silver dagger. Only then would they be able to put an end to Sleety's madness. The two rabbits eventually found the ballroom of the mansion, the largest room in the mansion. The main drawback of this room was the fairly polished surface. This would make gripping a little bit difficult but not impossible. They feigned exhaustion for when Sleety eventually entered the room, which was fairly soon after.
"Hah, exhausted. Now you shall die." Sleety scolded.
"Why do you hate me so much?" Jessica asked.
"You foiled me the last time we met."
"How did I foil you?"
"You were the biggest irritation I've ever seen. Not only did you save Tweety's life, you provided him with the weapon that killed me AND prevented me from using your body to get my revenge!"
"Oh. Did I upset you?" Jessica was being incredibly sarcastic, just to try and annoy Sleety. The vampire was loosing his temper heavily and was nearly bursting with rage. This was all part of the pre-arranged plan. It was to get Sleety as angry as possible in the hope of him making stupid mistakes.
"Upset me? You infuriated me!"
"Is that bad?" Zach was silently laughing to himself at Jessica's taunting. He had seen her taunt before, and she was very good at it. Zach assumed this was a characteristic that she had inherited from her father. He watched as Sleety began to lose it even more.
"GYAH! Why are you so stupid, BLONDIE?" This tipped Jessica over the edge. She hated being called a dumb blonde, and that was close enough to make her angry.
"What did you just call me?"
"Blondie!" Jessica was able to keep her cool, much to Zach's relief. She just taunted back.
"Heh, who knew someone like you knew how to taunt."
"WHAT!"
"A few months in the void has obviously made you agitated. Want the number of an anger management class?" That line caused Sleety to completely lose his temper.
"THAT DOES IT! You will die right now!" Sleety charged at Jessica at full speed. Jessica just sidestepped and watched as Sleety flew into the wall of the ballroom. Zach moved to the side and watched, but was ready to jump in if needed.
"To slow." Jessica then did a spin-change into a bull fighter's uniform, complete with cape. (Cliché I know, but what else can you use in this kind of situation? Oh, and thanks to acosta for the spin-change idea.) She turned and looked at Sleety, who had recovered from crashing into the wall. She began waving the cape around and teasing the vampire, only adding to his rage.
"Toro, Toro!" Jessica taunted, while waving the cape around. Sleety charged again but Jessica quickly dodged, using the cape like a true bull fighter.
"Ole!" Zach shouted.
Back in the voodoo chamber, Cheesy had just summoned a fleet of zombies to his aid. He was going to have to fight without the aid of his father. He was fully capable of this but a little nervous, especially of Becky. He still wasn't sure of how it had happened, but Sleety couldn't bite her. This meant that there was another force at work within her. For this reason, he decided that Becky would be his first target. Becky was currently in Aaooga's arms, shaking with fear. Aaooga had put as much distance between Cheesy and herself as possible. Tweety was next to her, with the silver dagger ready. The rest of the group were completely surrounded by the zombies that Cheesy had summoned. Granny was in no suitable condition to fight so everybody was surrounding her, protecting her from harm.
"Did this happen last time?" Granny asked.
"To an extent, although there are a few noticeable differences." Bugs replied.
"But we-we-we're surrounded by zombies." Porky said.
"Thank you dr. obvious." Daffy muttered.
"But what can we do?" Sylvia asked.
"What else, fight." Sylvester replied.
"Count me out." Sylvester Jr. moaned.
"Son, we all have to fight, just like last time."
"I also remember a certain young lad saying that he was ever so strong when he was only 3 and a half." Penelope added. There was no time for further talking as the zombies began to close in. Everyone was forced into combat. The zombies were particularly weak. All it took was a sharp punch or kick to the head to knock their head off and kill them. Cheesy was only using the zombies to keep the others busy while he closed in on Tweety and his family. He had them backed into the corner of the room. Tweety was bravely holding out the silver dagger in defence.
"Cheesy, don't make me use this!" Tweety threatened.
"Don't make me laugh." Cheesy scoffed. He suddenly thrust his hand forward and lifted Tweety into the air with telekinetic energy. Tweety was defenceless as he was thrown about in the air against his will. After being slammed into the wall, he was knocked unconscious. This left Aaooga holding onto Becky as tightly as possible.
"You beast!" Aaooga shouted.
"I know. I like being evil. You should really try it." Cheesy replied evilly.
"No way!"
"Why? Doesn't the thought of a world united under a canary rule interest you?"
"It would be a vampire ruling, not a canary ruling. Not that I'd help in either case"
"Stubborn woman. I guess we'll have to do this the hard way." Cheesy closed in closer on Aaooga and Becky, confining them to a very small space. He reached out to grab for Aaooga's hair. His hand, however, was blocked by an invisible force. It felt like there was a wall in front of Aaooga. He didn't know that at that moment, Becky had an unbearable headache. Her head felt like it was exploding. She also felt something flowing out with intense force. She wanted to scream but there was something stopping her. It was as if she had lost her ability to talk. Cheesy then felt something attacking his own mind. He suddenly found himself completely paralysed. He wanted to move but found it physically impossible. He didn't notice Tweety regained consciousness. Without a second thought, he thrust the silver dagger into Cheesy's head, killing him instantly. This suddenly caused all of the zombies in the chamber to disappear.
"What happened?" Petunia asked.
"Cheesy's dead." Lola replied, pointing to where Tweety and his family were. Cheesy was now completely dead but his spirit was visible in the form of a cloud.
"But his spirit is still present." Miss. Prissy said.
"Uh-oh." Everyone muttered. To their surprise, the spirit just passed through the wall, as if it was going somewhere. Sylvester came over and grabbed Cheesy's lifeless body.
"You going to eat the corpse Sylvester?" Tweety asked.
"Not this time. I'm going to keep it so we can burn it later." Sylvester replied.
"Guys, wh-wh-where are Jessica and Zach?" Porky asked.
"I think they ran." Sylvia replied.
"I hope Sleety didn't follow them." Daffy moaned.
"Come on guys, we have to find them." Bugs instructed.
Back in the ballroom, Jessica was having a merry old time teasing and wearing out Sleety. All she had done was practically dance around Sleety's charges, even spin-changing into a ballerina's garb. Zach had also spun-changed into ballerina gear and had been dancing with her. They both still had a lot of energy left but Sleety was thoroughly exhausted. He was on the floor desperately trying to catch his breath. Jessica and Zach just walked over to him.
"What's wrong? Out of breath?" Jessica asked teasingly. She was still wearing a ballerina dress from her most recent spin change. Both rabbits quickly spun-changed into the attire they had arrived in. Sleety looked up and glared very evilly at them.
"GYAH! Why…are you…so hard…to…hit?" sleety asked.
"Our secret."
"You shall never know." Zach added. The three of them then noticed a mist appear in the ballroom. It then took on the form of Cheesy. Sleety was flabbergastered.
"NO! They killed you?" Sleety asked.
"Yes father. Some power completely paralysed me. I was helpless." Cheesy replied. He was about to fly towards Jessica but Sleety stopped him.
"Son, don't try to possess them. You will fail, trust me."
"But if we do something, we'll lose."
"Don't worry, I know what to do." Sleety climbed to his feet and turned to face Jessica and Zach.
"Young rabbits. I see again that love has defeated me. But I will not leave empty handed. I'm taking both of your soles with me!" Sleety said.
"Reality check vampire. You can't kill us. You tried." Jessica said.
"Then I'll bring someone who can!" Sleety raised both his arms into the air and began to focus. Jessica and Zach instinctively backed away. Their senses of danger were telling them that something very bad was going to happen.
"Jessica, Zach, time to meet your maker!" Sleety shouted. The air around them suddenly tore open, revealing a dark vortex. It was a similar vortex that Shirley had used to seal Sleety away, only this time it was dragging something out of the void. There was a blinding flash and when it ended, there was a new figure in the room. It was the size of an average human, wearing what looked like a black dressing gown. The garb had a hood that covered the head. The face was still visible. It was that of a human skeleton with an evil smile. The figure was also holding a very big axe like weapon in his right hand. The blade of which looked like a sickle. Both Jessica and Zach recognised the figure, mostly from the weapon.
"The grim reaper!" Both rabbits exclaimed.
"Yes. If I can't kill you, he will." Sleety replied.
"Even I'll pass on fighting this guy, let's run for it!" Jessica exclaimed.
"Right behind you." Zach added. Both rabbits fled fdrom the room, with the Grim Reaper chasing after them.