Hello, guess who?
Nah, you already know it's me! Ha!
Hello all you fans of things vampiric!
After the previous chapter, and how difficult it was to write, I knew that the next chapters aren't going to be any easier. So I got my work cut out for me.
Plus, add in the fact that my new job has made it extremely difficult for me to get any free time, my updates are going to take longer than they already do. So bare with me here.
So let's get to the responses so I can think:
warprince2000: Yeah, I wish I made it longer. But I got tired while writing it, and I didn't think of how else I was going to extend it. I lose focus when I'm tired.
Ok, time for me to write *cracks fingers, and for you guys to read. Here we go!
Fair warning, this one might be short too due to me feeling uninspired. I need to find something to give me the steam to keep going.
I don't own anything.
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Earth, Marco's house...
It was a mildly cold morning in echo creek. It was the weekend, and everyone else either slept in or were early birds. But as for a certain karate boy, he wished he could sleep right now. Why?
Because Marco. Was. Exhausted!
Why was he exhausted? Because of that weird dream he had. It wasn't bad, at least not until he fell back asleep. The same dream occurred again, but this time the mysterious woman wasn't where she was standing like last time. She wasn't even there until everything went dark. When everything got dark, her glowing red eyes appeared in the darkness from where she was standing like last time. Her glowing red eyes were the only indication that she was moving towards him, and she kept calling out "Gregory... Gregory... Gregory..." in a chilling yet seductive voice. It was almost hypnotic if not for the off putting atmosphere in the darkness. Her eyes were right in front of him just before he woke up in a panic due to the fear that was built up from when she approached him in the dark.
Needless to say, he had a hard time trying to sleep after that.
Currently we find Marco downstairs eating cereal, looking dead tired. Suddenly his phone rang, and the sudden noise disturbing his peaceful silence made him jump out of his seat with a yelp and nearly caused him to fall out of his seat.
"Jesus! What the-?" He said out loud to himself as he placed a hand over his fast beating heart.
He calmed himself down as soon as he quickly registered that it was in fact his phone going off with the usual Space Unicorns ringtone going off.
'I think I need to change my ringtone to a better one.' He thought to himself, thinking that this ringtone was getting old.
He pulled out his phone, and saw that it was Star!
"Hey, Star, how's it hanging?" He greeted with a tired but cheerful tone.
"Hey, Marco. Things are going... downhill as of late." Star said with hesitation, unsure on how to answer.
"Why, is something wrong?" Marco asked.
"Yeah. Really wrong. Um, random question. What do you know about vampires?" Star asked.
That threw Marco for a loop. He was honestly expecting something that sounded more mewni-like. Not something that came straight out of novel by Bram Stoker.
"Just the usual strengths and weakness's from the movies I've seen. Why do you ask?" He asked, honestly hoping that this wasn't going where he thinks it's going.
"Weeeeeellllll..."
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Mewni, Butterfly castle...
"Holy crap, it's for real." Said Marco, eyes wide with disbelief as he stared at a bandaged Hekapoo.
He arrived in mewni not too long ago, and Star immediately greeted him happily. But it was short lived, and she immediately took Marco to the medical wing where Hekapoo was kept in a private room. When he stepped inside, he was shocked to see his friend in a hospital bed covered in bandages.
"Yeah, it's what I was afraid to tell you." Said Star sadly.
Hekapoo began to stir in her sleep, groaning softly as her eyes weakly fluttered open to see who was in the room with her. Her tired eyes landed on Star Butterfly and Marco Diaz.
"M-Marco?" She croaked, her voice sounding dry.
"Hey, H-poo. How are you feeling?" Marco asked softly, moving closer to Hekapoo's side.
"Don't... call me... that." Hekapoo croaked in an annoyed tone, which turned into a short cough from the dryness in her throat. "But I feel like I got run over by a herd of dragon-cycles. *Cough, cough!* Plus my throat's dry."
"Sorry to hear that. Star said you were attacked by a vampire, and-"
"What?! You told him?!" Hekapoo practically screamed at Star as she sat up in bed.
Her little outburst caused her to go into a coughing fit due to her dry throat.
"Whoa whoa, easy, Hekapoo! Calm down for second. You're not exactly in good shape to be screaming your heart out." Said Marco, calming her down. "Here, have some water."
Marco handed Hekapoo a glass of water from a tray next to her bedside. She took the glass, and drank it vigorously like she hadn't had water in a long time.
Once she drank the whole glass, she took a breather from drinking it all at once so quickly. She lied back down in bed, and glared at Star.
"You better have a good explanation as to why you now got Marco mixed up in this mess." Hekapoo said irritably, her voice much clearer now that she's hydrated.
"I had to! What if she comes after him, and he doesn't know it until it's too late?!" Star said frantically.
"She? She who?" Marco asked.
"Oh great, now he's going to dig deeper into the situation. Good going, Princess." Hekapoo scoffed.
"Oh, so you'd rather leave him in the dark, and keep him clueless and defenseless is that it?!" Star shot back.
"Uh, guys?" Marco tried to speak up.
"No! But that doesn't mean he needs to get involved with something as serious as this! It's too dangerous!"
"Oh like he hasn't faced anything dangerous before! He survived your dimension, and he fought Toffee!"
"Guys?"
"He may have survived my dimension, but he barely survived Toffee!"
Marco wasn't gonna lie, that's actually true. He did get tossed around a couple of times by the lizard monster.
"He punched him through his chest!"
"Well you can't beat a vampire by punching it through the chest with your fist alone!"
"Oh for the love of- GUYS!" Marco shouted, getting the attention of Star and Hekapoo.
"Would you two stop arguing, and explain to me WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?!" He shouted the last part.
"Sheesh, dude. What crawled up your ass?" Said Hekapoo, taken back by Marco's outburst.
Marco sighed tiredly as he held his face in his hands. "I'm sorry, I just haven't slept well at all last night. Let's just say it involved weird gothic dream sequences."
"Gothic dream sequences?" Star questioned.
"I'll tell you later. Now can one of you explain the full details of what's been going on with this whole vampire thing?" Marco asked.
"Well, Mom told me that the vampire that attacked Hekapoo, is one of the Butterfly family's past Queens known as the queen of darkness... Eclipsa Butterfly." Star explained.
"Wait, you mean to tell me that the vampire that attacked Hekapoo, was one of your family's predecessors?" Marco questioned in disbelief.
"Yeah. Big shocker once I found out." Said Star.
"So where has she been all this time?" Marco asked.
"She was crystallized. Emphasis on the was. This whole thing started when I went to go look for Rhombulus. Only, I did find him... he just wasn't... with us anymore..." Hekapoo explained, her tone becoming sad and grieving near the end.
"I-I'm so sorry. I didn't know." Marco said sympathetically, feeling sorry for his friend's loss.
"It's ok. It wasn't your fault... Anyways, I saw two puncture wounds on his neck, and I knew that there's only one creature that could drain a body of blood and leave behind a signature wound. I was praying to myself that it wasn't who I thought it was. But unfortunately... it was her. Terrified, I tried to run out of there as fast as I could, but she... she..."
While Hekapoo tried to explain, she began to hyperventilate as the horrifying memories of the attack came rushing back.
"Hekapoo! Hekapoo! It's ok, it's ok! You're in a safe place. Just lie back down, take deep breaths, and get some rest. You're going to be ok." Marco said as he gently placed his hands on Hekapoo's shoulders, and gently lied her back down in her hospital bed.
"Y-you don't understand." Hekapoo whimpered as she shook fearfully. "Nowhere is safe now that she's loose."
"Don't worry. We'll figure something out. Just calm down, and relax." Marco reassured her calmly.
"At least it can't get any worse." Said Star.
"Don't jinx it!" Marco said in an annoyed tone.
Suddenly, a knight burst into the room.
"Your highness! Your mother is looking for you!" He said.
"What? Why?" Star asked.
"Didn't you hear? There's been another attack!" The knight exclaimed.
"Aaaaaaaand there's the jinx... fuck..." Marco deadpanned.
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Man it's been awhile since I've touched this story!
Sorry for leaving any of you hanging. My focus has been elsewhere, and my schedule is pretty busy.
Anyways, see you in the next chapter.