I closed the door to my house, leaving the mess behind for now. To get my parents back I knew I would need help, if whoever this is was able to take down two immortals then I knew I had to take precautions. Those precautions came in the form of putting my trust in the rest of the gang, telling them what Kenny has known for months and hoping the friendship is strong enough for them to believe and help me. We decided to meet at Kyle's house, my house being out of commission and needed for proof to my story. Kenny had called Kyle as soon as I told him my decision but played it off as us wanting to hang out and to see if the others wanted to hang out too. Cartman was the one I was most worried about considering he can still be an asshole and he can't keep secrets worth a shit, but the aggressiveness he has and his scheming could come in help in this situation. Trusting him with my secret, that was a gamble I was willing to take to get my parents back. We stood outside Kyle's house, nerves eating me from the inside out and, as much as I tried not to, it showed big time.
"Hey, don't worry so much hun. I've known these guys for years and they will help. Kyle and Stan have good hearts, even if sometimes they don't always show it. Cartman is included there too, but not as much as them. I still believe he will help too though, he does have a soft spot for his friends… sometimes." Kenny tried to comfort me, getting behind my decision to tell the rest of the guys. He especially was excited to tell them because down the road he wants to be with me forever, and that's something he wants to share with them. "Granted I wish it was under better circumstances you were finally telling them."
I sighed and turned to face Kenny, pulling down his hood he had put up for the walk from my house to Kyle's. "Ken, I know you're trying to make me feel better, but I can not not be nervous about this. You are the first person who is not another vampire that knows about me, and it's terrifying to think that telling one wrong person could result in my family having to leave town… If I find them that is." My hands clenched into fists and shook from anxiety and anger. "I was scared to tell you because I was scared to lose you, to push you away. While you're more important to me than the others, they are still important to me because they are my friends. Friends that I need help from."
"I know that you fear losing their friendship, but I know you won't. In fact they will probably think it's cool, not push you away. I mean you were scared to tell me and now look at us. You're my girlfriend and honestly have changed me for the better. I've been with a lot of girls, but none of them meant anything to me. Not like you mean to me, so if you can get the heart of the infamous South Park High school fuckboy then you can do this and find your parents." Kenny's words calmed my anxiety enough for me to get my thoughts back in order of how I'm going to tell them.
"You know, you're right. All my life I've only had close friend who were other vampires or a form of immortal, any human I did talk to never got that close to me. Living here has given me a chance to make close friends who are not like me, and also a chance to trust people enough with my life secret. If the friendship I've gained with Kyle, Stan, and even Cartman is honestly one of the best I've ever had, especially my relationship with you." I smiled at him as I turned and knocked on the door, receiving a yelled response from the other side from Kyle letting us know he was in route to open the door.
The door swung open and Kyle appeared in its place, welcoming us and gesturing for us to enter. We obeyed, making our way to the living room where Stan and Cartman sat playing video games.
"Oh look who it is, the love birds have entered the building everyone." Cartman greeted without even a glance from the game.
"Oh Cartman, always a pleasure. Maybe now that I'm here I can just get my revenge by beating you in video games, I'm sure Stan is sick of you complaining when he beats you, so why not let me have the burden." I took a seat on the floor by the couch, Kenny joining me. Snickers came as a reply to my comment, bringing more confidence to me in the fact that these guys are my friends and we can laugh and joke together.
Cartman opened his mouth to reply but was cut off by Kyle who took a seat on the couch next to Stan. "So, what did you want to talk about?" Kyle asked as Stan beat Cartman in another round of the game causing him to complain as the game was muted now that it was over.
I looked to Kenny with a questioning look, "You told them we wanted to talk? I was supposed to be the one that brought it up."
He looked at me with slight guilt, "Yeah I did tell them that, but I swear I didn't tell them anything beyond that. I knew that was all you."
I sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose. "Okay I guess we are getting right into it, but the sooner the better I guess."
"Wait, don't tell us let me guess." Cartman spoke up, "You got the bitch pregnant did you Kenny, you whore."
"No, no let me put the breaks on that right now. I. Am. Not. Pregnant! Plus even if I was it wouldn't make either of us a whore." Kenny looked at me with an interested look and raised an eyebrow, "I'm not pregnant." I said once more looking at him and laughing slightly before I got serious. "No, what I came to talk to you guys about is something very serious. Something that I'm hoping won't backfire on me, but first let me start with the fact that my parents are missing."
The room was silent, even Cartman didn't make a smart remark. I looked around at each of the boys, unsure of where to go from there.
"But, why would you come to us? Why wouldn't you call the cops?" Stan broke the silence.
"Yeah, I mean Luna this is something the cops should handle, not a group of eighteen and nineteen year olds."
"No, the cops can't handle this." I began to explain pausing only to listen for anyone that could be within ear shot. The only other sounds I could hear were Kyle's parents and little brother upstairs in their rooms. I dropped the volume of my voice slightly anyways, just to be safe. "I have to find them myself, but I need you help. The reason being is because there's a secret that my family keeps, one that the cops in this town can't know about. One that no one can know about, but also one that I am going to tell you guys in hopes you will help me." I paused once more to make sure I had everyone on the same page.
"Luna, could you please get on with the fucking point. I have games to play and food to eat." Cartman complained, making me question if I should be including him or not.
"Hey, don't listen to him he's just impatient." Kenny leaned whispered in my ear, running a hand through my hair to help keep me calm. I sucked in a breath at the gesture, my throat beginning to burn. The blood he had given me at his house was not enough to fully satisfy my thirst for the fact that I had not drank as often as I should have the past few days.
"Ew, you two go get a room." Cartman continued his complaining, not helping with the anger he already brought to me with his last comment.
"I don't even know why I'm trusting you with this fat ass!" I snapped. "I'm trying to confide in you guys cuz beside Kenny no one knows who I really am! I'm trying to show you guys I trust you and that I value our friendship with this, and reaching out for help at a time of desperation does not deserve your smart ass comments."
I could see I hit a nerve as his face dropped and he shut up. I took a moment to calm down, leaning back onto Kenny's shoulder and letting my violet eyes meet Cartman's. "I'm sorry Eric, I'm just scared and nervous. I really need you guys to believe me, and what I'm going to tell you is hard to believe. I can prove it though." Still looking hurt but nodding his head I knew Cartman was back to listening, without interrupting this time.
"Luna we may not have been friends as long as I have been with Stan, Kenny, and Cartman but I do trust you and you are a close friend. Plus its obvious Kenny already knows so if he believes you I can too." Kyle spoke up seeing the anxiety written on my face. Stan nodded in agreement and after a few seconds Cartman did too, giving me their silent confirmation that they agreed with Kyle.
"Okay, like I said my parents are missing and the cops would be useless." I looked around at each of the boys one last time. "They would be useless because the people that took my parents know who we are, know what we are. My parents moved here for a reason, one they never told me fully other than the fact that people in the town had suspicious but it obviously goes further than that. Someone knows my parents are immortals. Someone knows we are vampires."
There it was, out in the open. The one secret I have kept and was supposed to keep from everyone for my safety and now was telling it to save my family. I looked around the room at the three boys who all looked at me with a mixture of shock and question. I began to wonder if I made the right choice, looking to Kenny for comfort in the dense silence that seemed to have no end. I let out a small wince as the judgmental looks held.
"I...I can prove it." I stated "I have many ways I can."
"Then do it." Stan was the first to speak. "If you want us to trust you then show us not just tell us."
I nodded in response. "Would you guys like anything from the store?" I quietly questioned.
"Well if you're offering get me some cheesy poofs but I don't see how that is going to prove anything?" Cartman spoke next.
"Cheesy poofs it is." I ignored his question as I moved at a speed too fast for any normal human, arriving at the store grabbing the cheesy poofs and returning in seconds flat. I held up the bag of poofs before tossing them to Cartman. "Can you move that fast?"
Kyle leaned over to whisper in Stan's ear, giving me another chance to prove myself.
"Yes Kyle it is almost too crazy to believe, yet you do trust me." I smirked at his surprised face. "Hearing, smell, and sight are enhanced for me."
"So if you're a vampire just how old are you really?" Kyle asked after recovering from his surprises state.
"Why is that the first question that seems to come after I tell people this?" I scoffed looking to Kenny as he shrugged knowing I was referring to when he asked me and his family asking after we told them. "I'm honestly only eighteen, almost nineteen, because my parents only recently decided to have a kid. I was still born and grow but after age twenty one when we are seen as legal adults the years just add up. The only reason we count till twenty one is because it's easier to get all the necessary things most adults get at that age so we can use our real birthdates. After that it's just a matter of moving around enough times to keep people from being suspicious."
"What about your parents?" Kyle seemed to be stuck on the questions about ages still. "You said they just recently decided to have a kid, that kid being you I take it."
"Well, yes. Eighteen years to vampires, or any immortal for that matter, is nothing when you've been around for a couple hundred of them." I shrugged as I explained. "My parents have been together for two hundred and fifty years but they have been alive for closer to three hundred."
"Wait, Stan aren't your parents kinda friends with Luna's?" Kyle's string of questions continued.
"I mean they've been invited over for dinner before and my mom occasionally has coffee with her mom, but they seem normal if that's what you're getting at."
"Guys, just because we are vampires doesn't mean we act any different. We can eat human food and go outside and all that. The myths you hear about vampires are all false, the only thing that can hurt us are very old sacred spells that bless things. I mean hello, I've been friends with you guys since I moved here and you never called me out for anything."
Kyle finally returned to being silent as the others all thought about it. Yes I may have kept a secret from them, but I never acted any different or hurt them.
"There's another thing." Kenny spoke from my side. "It's not so much important to getting Luna's parents back but it's a pretty interesting thing that happens with immortals." He smiled at me, hinting that I should tell them about the soul bond.
"Its… Its a life event that most immortals don't have happen to them until later in life, but for me it happened early. It's called a soul bond, basically our way of finding our soulmate. Living forever can get pretty lonely if you're alone, but the soul bond is to help us find the one person who will keep us from being alone." I paused, taking hold of Kenny's hand. "In very, very rare cases that person can be a human. It happened to my Aunt, and now it's happened to me."
"Whoa, slow down." Stan held out a hand as he leaned forward on the couch. "There's a lot of stuff we have to take in you just dropped on us and now you're telling us you have some bond with Kenny? Is he still human?"
"Of course. I wouldn't be so disrespectful of all our friendship as to change him before you guys knew anything, but that's not the important thing right now. I need to know if you guys will help me, but before you give me your final answer let me show you one more thing." I stood up as I spoke, motioning for the others to follow me.
One by one they got up and followed without question as I led them to my house. The walk there was only a few houses away, but it felt way longer as the silent trip was only accompanied by the sound of everyone's footsteps. As we arrived at my vacant house I stood in front of the door as everyone gathered around.
"What you're going to see… Well I honestly don't know how to describe it besides a mess." I warned as I turned the knob and pushed the door open, revealing the destroyed living room.
Carefully stepping into the room the guys looked around, taking in the disheveled room. The blood on the floor now dried, the shimmer of it faded to more of a matte in the drying process. The site turned my stomach from nerves, reminding myself that I should be hurrying things along. That my parents immortal life could end from these people if they had the right resources.
"Like I said I know it's crazy and I know it's a lot to take in, but I am putting my faith in you guys that you are true enough friends to believe me." I broke the silence as they all turned to look at me after taking in the wreckage.
"I trust you Luna, therefore you have my word when I say I believe you and I will help you." Kyle was the first to speak, stepping forward to meet me face to face to prove he was telling the truth.
"I'm on board too. We are friends for a reason, plus in this town anything is possible. We four have seen some weird shit growing up." Stan shrugged at he smiled. "Plus we've gotten ourselves in a fair share of situations that we helped each other out in."
"Thank you guys. Kenny was right, you are good friends." I gave them a smile before looking to Cartman. "Cartman? What about you? I know we've had our differences but I still consider you a friend."
He stayed silent, turning around to look at me before looking back around at the room and then back to me. "Yeah, whatever. I guess I believe you." He crossed his arms and tried to look like he couldn't give a shit, but as I looked at him with gratitude his face softened.
"Kenny was right about you too Eric. You may be a jerk but you do have a soft spot for friends." I smiled a toothy smile at all of them in thanks.
"Oh, hey. I never questioned it before but it makes a lot of sense as to why your canines are so pointy now." Kyle commented. "And why you eat food, but not much."
I shook my head as I opened my mouth and flicked a finger against one of my fangs, a small dot of my silver blood appeared as I showed them. "Silver blood too, immortal blood."
"You said you had proof, and you definitely delivered on that." Stan complimented.
"Thanks, I knew I-" I stopped mid sentence as something caught my attention.
"Luna What is it?" Kenny asked, knowing I heard something they did not.
"Shhh! We are not alone, someone is here. Someone who shouldn't be." Anger crossed my face as I darted to the bottom of the stairs. "Stay here, I have an intruder to deal with." My violet eyes glowed with anger and I bore my fangs as I went into attack mode and rushed the stairs.