EPISODE TWO – VICTORIA
It was two weeks since Cristina had moved into her new house in
Richmond Hill and since the terrible night when she lost her sister to the
vampire Victoria. Nothing had happened since that day but Cristina was sure
it just meant that something bad was going to go down. She had managed to
convince her mother that Beverley had gone on a two-month trip with the school
a few days after they had arrived and the couple nights before, she wanted to
be alone. Her mother didn't believe her at first but after Beverley didn't
come home for many nights, she thought it was true. Still, her mother thought
it was quite odd and would be expecting Beverley back in only a month and a
half. Cristina wouldn't be able to convince her of other reasons later on, it
just wouldn't be possible. Cristina walked up to Evelyn's front door to get
her before they went to school. She knocked a few times quickly and heard
footsteps approach the door rapidly. Cristina was greeted by Evelyn's warm
happy smile. She had only known Evelyn for two weeks and they had already
become the best of friends. And the part about Cristina being the vampire
slayer didn't bother her at all. Evelyn said goodbye to her mom and dad and
ran out of the house with Cristina.
"So, ready for another exciting Monday at school?" asked Cristina.
"Well, it's not school that bothers me so much but all the extra
researching we have to do for Jack to learn more about Victoria. I am one
hundred percent sure that you could kick her ass in a fight any day, why does
Jack keep insisting you train and learn more about her?" asked Evelyn.
"I would do anything to avenge my sister's death, even if it takes
countless hours of researching and training," said Cristina.
"You're right, I'm sorry if I made you upset," said Evelyn.
"Don't worry about it," said Cristina.
They continued to walk up the street, turning off Evelyn's road so
that they could head towards the school. It was a bright sunny day but was
still kind of chili, being November and all. Cristina looked over to Evelyn
and made an expression that could only mean one thing.
"You remembered," said Evelyn.
"It's only because you talk about him twenty-four seven. Just because
you have known him your whole life, doesn't mean you have to worship him like
a god," said Cristina.
"He's my best friend and I can't wait for you to meet him," said
Evelyn.
"Where did you say he went again?" asked Cristina.
"Belgium. His grandparents moved there a while ago and so he goes to
visit them there every couple years. I think it's a good way for him to keep
in touch with his grandparents since they are very old and all. I am sure
they would travel here to see him but it would be too hard on them," said
Evelyn.
"Ya, probably," said Cristina.
The two girls approached the school and made their way towards the
entrance. As they were walking through the parking lot, Sara pulled her
convertible in front of them and blocked their way. A couple of her friends
were sitting in the car with her.
"Oh look, it's the loser squad," said Sara.
"Mind your own business," said Evelyn.
"Ha, funny," said Sara.
"You know, it's amazing how you can turn on your friends so quickly,
we were such good friends before, too bad it didn't work out. I'm just dying
inside! Makes you wonder girls how long Sara's going to keep you around until
she gets tired of you," said Evelyn.
Sara pulled her car back and drove off to park her car, obviously
embarrassed by Evelyn's comments.
"Hey, you got them good," said Cristina.
"Ya, I'm bad," said Evelyn.
The girls just laughed and began walking towards the school again.
Just as they were making their way up the steps to the front of the school,
someone jumped on Evelyn's back and covered her eyes.
"Guess who?"
"I wonder," said Evelyn.
The two of them hugged and exchanged some quick chatter.
"Oh, sorry. Cristina, this is Simran, the friend I have been telling
you about. Simran, this is Cristina," said Evelyn.
"Hey, nice to meet you," said Simran.
Cristina smiled.
"Cristina just moved here two weeks ago. We met on her first day of
school and since then we've bonded like sisters," said Evelyn.
"Well, I guess that makes us friends too," said Simran.
"Yup," said Cristina.
"What happened to hanging around with Sara and her cheap one-dollar
dress friends. Did you ditch them," said Simran.
"You know, the same old stuff with them. Going to the mall, breaking
a nail, complaining about boys, the ever so tough life," said Evelyn.
"Hmm," said Simran.
"Makes a girl wonder why she wouldn't want to hang around with them,"
said Evelyn.
Cristina looked at her watch and realized what time it was. She was
supposed to have met Jack at the library five minutes ago and Evelyn was
making her late. Even though Simran was her best friend, they needed to meet
Jack or he would get angry with her.
"Um, Evelyn, I don't mean to cut your conversation short, but we have
that, um…thing to do, you know," said Cristina.
It took her while to figure out what Cristina was talking about but
then it came to her.
"Oh, yeah, that thing with the um…thing, yeah I know what you're
talking about," said Evelyn.
"Wow, girl talk is so deep, I don't even understand it," said Simran.
"Haha, very funny," said Evelyn.
"Why don't I tag along then, you guys can show me this 'thing' that
you've made seem so interesting," said Simran.
"Um…no! You can't, it's…ahh…girls stuff, you know," said Evelyn.
"Ya, so, we better get going," said Cristina.
The two of them ran off leaving Simran standing by himself on the
steps to the school. He couldn't help but laugh.
Victoria paced around the room of her underground home staring at the
flickering candlelight. It was daytime and she should have been sleeping but
the new slayer incident was bothering her. She was the only intelligent
vampire out of the lot and so she didn't have any help with trying to think of
ways to kill the slayer. A couple of candles flickered off leaving Victoria
in almost entire darkness. She loved the darkness but wondered what it would
be like to see sunlight again. It had been so long since she had seen the
light of day but if she were to look at it now, it would fry her to a crisp.
What was she thinking, she didn't care about that, all she wanted to do now
was kill the slayer.
Cristina and Jack were practicing using staffs to fight. Cristina was
much stronger than Jack so occasionally, Jack would fall down or run out of
energy. Evelyn continued to push through some of Jack's ancient books.
"Aha," shouted Evelyn.
"What is it?" asked Jack.
"It says in this book that the vampire Victoria has a quite unusual
fear of kittens. Most vampires since their creation almost three hundred
years ago, don't have fears, so it is rather odd that Victoria has this fear.
Maybe this is the key to defeating her," said Evelyn.
"Yes, that just might do it," said Jack.
"Okay, so who's going to go buy a bundle kittens from the store. What
should I tell the shop owner? 'Hi, I am a vampire slayer who needs to buy all
the kittens you have so that I can stop a vampire who may kill a few, but
that's no problem because you have so many. Don't you think he's going to ask
why we want to buy so many cats," asked Cristina.
"Maybe, but what else can we do?" asked Evelyn.
Cristina and Jack continued to exchange whacks with the staffs but
were interrupted by someone entering the library.
"Um, what are you doing here?" asked Jack.
"Well, this is a library," said Cristina.
"Hey, Simran, what brings you to the library?" asked Evelyn.
"I was looking for you, someone said they saw you come into the
library…What are you guys doing?" asked Simran.
"Um, nothing, just practicing some stick fighting," said Jack.
"Yes, Mr. Chen teaches self defense when he isn't the school
librarian," said Cristina.
"Okay…" said Simran.
"What did you want, anyways," said Evelyn.
Simran walked over to the table that Evelyn had been sitting at. She
quickly tried to cover the books but Simran glanced at a couple of the titles.
"Vampires of the 19th century and Vampires and Demons: How to stop
them from killing, okay someone needs to explain to me what the hell is going
on because this is just too weird," said Simran.
Cristina and Evelyn both looked at each other and laughed. Cristina
new even though Simran was Evelyn's good friend, she wouldn't reveal her
secret. Cristina could just tell when someone was good like that.
"Well, Cristina is doing a research project for history on the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and she has found that vampires were one
of the big things during that time. Too bad you're going to miss her
presentation though, since you aren't in the class. She is going to pretend
to fight a real vampire, it's going to be so cool," said Evelyn.
"Well, that explains a lot. Your history class sounds like a lot of
fun. I should have listened to you and taken it. Oh well, I guess it's too
late," said Simran.
"So, what did you need from me?" asked Evelyn.
"I just wanted to see you, I've been gone for almost a month you
know. It would be nice to see my best friend after all that time," said
Simran.
Cristina was relieved that Simran hadn't discovered her secret. It
might have been a real pain if someone else knew because then she might as
well have told the whole world. She was sure that it would be difficult to
keep the secret from Simran because he hung around with Evelyn a lot but they
would figure out some way of doing it. Evelyn and Simran were talking on
their own so Cristina turned to Jack.
"So, if I meet this Victoria vampire anytime soon, what do you suggest
I do?" asked Cristina.
"Well, we definitely need to get rid of her. Chances are that the
other vampires will be lost without her as their leader. It might be the only
way to weaken the entire lot," said Jack.
"What do I do about my sister? Last time she attacked me I just
froze. There is no way I can kill my sister, you know Jack, I really miss her
and all. That would be just to hard to do," said Cristina.
"That's a tough question to answer. Let me consult my books to see if
there is anything we can do for your sister," said Jack.
"There is obviously no cure for a vampire. I mean we can't turn her
back into a human," said Cristina.
"It is physically impossible to return a vampire to its original human
self but there might be something we can do to bring your sister back," said
Jack.
"Thanks for your help Jack, already you have made me feel better,"
said Cristina.
Evelyn finally managed to get rid of Simran and so she walked over to
where Jack and Cristina were standing.
"So what did I miss?" asked Evelyn.
Both Jack and Cristina broke into laughter at what Evelyn said.
Cristina knew that Evelyn liked Simran, she could already tell because she was
a totally different person around him. They had known each other for a very
long time and they were definitely destined to be together. The three of them
turned towards the door of the library as it opened and in walked the new
science teacher for the school. The old science teacher had retired a few
days ago and so the school had needed a replacement quickly. She was a
skinny, blond and very pretty teacher and Cristina noticed that Jack couldn't
help staring.
"Hi, I was just here to check out the library, you know, I need to see
the whole school to get used to it," said the new teacher.
"Welcome to the library, where all you will find is books, books, and…
more books, I guess," said Cristina.
"My name is Mrs. Sharma, but you guys can call me Diana, I don't mind
at all," said Diana.
"Um…Hello," said Jack.
"He's the very shy librarian, Jack," said Evelyn.
"And he also teaches self defense," said Cristina.
"Oh, how wonderful. Well, maybe you can teach me self defense one day
Jack," said Diana.
She walked out of the library, slowly and in a very seductive way,
which made Jack stare the whole time.
"I think she likes you," said Cristina.
"Who me, no she doesn't," said Jack.
"You want to make a bet?" asked Evelyn.
"I'll put in twenty bucks that says she will flirt with him again in
the next 24 hours," said Cristina.
"You're on," said Evelyn.
Victoria walked around in the dark and decided it was time to wake her
lazy vampires. She walked over to where Beverley lay and lifted her to her
feet.
"Everyone, it is time to feast. Get up all of you, now!" screamed
Victoria.
"We must kill the slayer tonight," said Beverley.
"First we feast and get strong and by the end of the night, yes, we
can go and kill the slayer. But if we are not strong, we will all die," said
Victoria.
"But she will not kill me, I am her sister, remember," said Beverley.
"We still need a plan however, as that may not be all it takes to kill
her," said Victoria.
"Then let us kill my mother, that will get her angry and make her
weak. That is a good plan, no?" asked Beverley.
"Very well. You head on first Beverley and kill your mother, we shall
feast on others. Then, we will go and kill the slayer," said Victoria.
The whole house of vampires cheered as they walked up towards the
surface and broke into the cold and dark night.
Cristina sat in her room, staring at the stars through her window.
She had an eerie feeling in her stomach, like something was going to happen
that night. She was glad that she was home and that her mother was as well.
She wanted to make sure that her mother wouldn't get hurt. Her sister had
threatened to hurt their mother and Cristina was scared that something would
happen if she weren't there. Cristina put her head down on her pillow
thinking about what would happen, when all of a sudden she heard the doorbell
ring. Cristina jumped up and listened carefully as her mother answered the
door. She heard her mother walk towards the front door and open it, but then
all she heard was silence.
"What are you doing home so early Beverley?" asked Maria.
"Cristina didn't tell you? I didn't want to stay away for too long.
It's good to be home mom," said Beverley with a big smile on her face.
"Good, good," said Maria.
"Why don't you invite me in mother?" asked Beverley.
"You don't have to ask, just come in already," said Maria.
"Thank you," said Beverley taking one step into the house.
"You seem different," said Maria.
"What do you mean?" asked Beverley.
"Where are your suitcases?" asked Maria.
"Oh, I didn't feel like bringing them. What's wrong mother, you look
worried?" asked Beverley.
"I'm not worried," said Maria.
Maria began backing away from Beverley as Beverley approached her
fiercely. She yelled for Cristina and Cristina sprang out of her room.
Beverley jumped back as Cristina came running down the stairs and jumped in
front of her mom.
"Stay away Beverley, what are you doing? Get away," said Cristina.
Beverley flung open the front door and fled into the night. Cristina
hugged her mom and took her to sit down on the sofa.
"What was wrong with her, why did she try to attack me?" asked Maria.
"Shhh, just rest mom, everything will be okay," said Cristina.
"No!" yelled Maria as she jumped up off the sofa.
Cristina tried to pull her mother back on the sofa to sit her down and
calm her.
"I didn't believe your story about Beverley going away from the
beginning and I definitely don't believe you now. Tell me Cristina, what is
wrong with her?" asked Maria.
"She…she needs help, but she won't let me help her. I tried to keep
it a secret but I just couldn't. Ever since we moved here, she found someone
and so she moved in with him. I tried to get her to come back but she just
wouldn't. I told her to think about it for a couple months in hopes that she
would change her mind and come back. I don't think that's going to happen
anymore since she seemed really distraught today," said Cristina.
"Why didn't you just tell me this from the beginning?" asked Maria.
"I wasn't sure how you would react, so I didn't say anything. But
enough is enough, so I am going to go get her and bring her home," said
Cristina.
"You can't, it's getting late now, it's too dangerous," said Maria.
Cristina got up off the sofa and grabbed her jacket from the closet.
She quickly put her shoes on and walked to the front door.
"Don't you dare leave this house young lady," screamed Maria.
"Sorry mom," said Cristina as she walked out of the house and closed
the door behind her.
She fixed her hair in the cool night air and decided that she would
hit the park to see if she could find her sister and that Victoria vampire.
Cristina decided that she wouldn't bother Jack and she would handle it on her
own. There had to be a way to help her sister and Cristina was desperate to
find out. She didn't want to lose her sister forever and have to tell her
mother the truth. It would be too hard for her to do that. Cristina listened
when she heard a faint scream in the distance. She started to run towards the
park now realizing that it was probably coming from there. She made it to the
park and saw a vampire biting into a young girl.
"Get away from her," screamed Cristina.
The vampire dropped the girl and charged at Cristina. He attempted a
back flip but Cristina jumped out of the way before getting hit. She pulled
out a stake and tried to put it through the vampire's heart but he knocked it
out of her hands. It went flying into the pond so Cristina charged and
tackled the vampire to the ground. She jumped up and tore a small branch from
the tree and brought it down on the vampire's heart, turning him to dust. She
got up from the ground and looked in front of her to see Victoria clapping.
"Well done slayer, you have proved yourself worthy of a fight with
me," said Victoria.
"I will kill you so fast for doing what you did to my sister," said
Cristina.
"Oh, that's a much better idea. Why don't you fight your sister?"
said Victoria.
Beverley came out of the shadows and stepped in front of Victoria,
ready to fight Cristina. She snarled and put up her fists.
"I can defeat you so easily Beverley so don't even bother," said
Cristina.
"Ha, you're just saying that so that you don't have to fight me. I
envied you so much when I was human, I wanted the same power that you had.
And now I have it thanks to Victoria. Why don't you just drop the sappiness
and get this fight over with," said Beverley.
Cristina cart wheeled herself into Beverley and knocked her to the
ground. Cristina took the cross off her neck and brought it close to Beverley
making her squirm on spot.
"I don't have to kill you but I can torture you for as long as I
want," said Cristina.
"That's enough, these pitiful vampires are obviously nothing special.
Your fight is with me now," said Victoria.
She jumped out and kicked Cristina in the face. Cristina flipped
herself back up and attempted a roundhouse on Victoria missing her by an inch.
She backed away and decided that she would attempt to trip Victoria so she
charged and slid underneath her knocking Victoria to the floor. Victoria got
back up and kicked Cristina backwards, knocking her into a park bench.
Cristina picked up a shard of wood and threw it towards Victoria but she
blocked it sending it straight into another vampire. The two of them
exchanged kicks and punches for a couple minutes until Cristina kicked
Victoria into a large oak tree. The tree snapped in half and fell directly
onto Victoria leaving her trapped. The rest of the vampires looked at each
other and ran back into the darkness. Cristina believed her work was done and
made her way out of the park and back home.
The next morning Cristina, Jack and Evelyn sat in the library talking
about the events from the previous night. The two of them had listened to
Cristina's story intently and were ready to respond.
"Well, at least we know she is out of the way. She shouldn't bother
you anymore, right?" asked Evelyn.
"That might not be. Vampires are known to be very strong creatures.
We can't be sure that she is dead yet," said Jack.
"But now I am worried about my sister. What will she do, will she
take over the group?" asked Cristina.
"I doubt it. She is a fairly new vampire so it will probably be one
that has been there for a while," said Jack.
"Well, as long as we get peace for a little while, that would be
nice," said Evelyn.
"My mom was freaked though. I really hope she doesn't do anything
drastic. She has given me a chance to bring Beverley home so this quiet time
would be good to figure out something to help my sister with," said Cristina.
"We will get right on that," said Evelyn.
Episode3 to come soon...