Chapter 9

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"Yeah, why is that so surprising?"

"Well, you did try to kill me yesterday." Kim said simply, inching away from him.

"Yeah, but the second part was different right?" Jack said referring to them almost kissing.

"No, that second part was just a trick!" Kim exclaimed.

"Was it Kim? Was it really?" Jack asked amused.

"Yeah it was a trick." Kim said confident about her answer.

"Well, that's what April said. And she's right…right?" Kim thought and started to doubt a little.

"If I wanted you I would have taken you then and there; without kissing you." Jack said

"It's true he didn't need a kiss. He could have taken me away or just killed me. So was that him revealing his feeling?" Kim thought.

"You saved me, why?" Kim changed the subject.

"I saved you because I don't want anyone touching you. You're my prey and I will have you sooner or later. And when I do get you I don't want a scratch on your body." Jack explained.

Kim froze up at the thought of April actually being defeated by Jack and Jack killing Kim slowly. No one would save Kim; April was the only vampire that cared.

"Well, thanks for saving me I guess...but April..." Kim drifted into thought.

"April… THE GUYS! They're in trouble." Kim thought in a panic.

The reality of her best friends dying punched Kim straight in the face. She started to breath heavily and her vision was blurred with tears. She was visioning them at that moment. April sitting on the tree limply, she had a stake through her chest, and was soaking wet…she was drowned then staked. Milton, in the ice dome, curled up in a ball on the ground freezing…dead by then. Jerry laid on the ground, shaking, still puffing out smoke…the last of his breath.

Carson smirking at their dead bodies and started to laugh like a manic. And left there bodies there for Kim to see.

The images that went through Kim's mind gave shivers up her spine. A couple of tears spilled down her cheek with the thoughts that crossed her mind. But she wiped them away quickly, not wanting Jack to see. She put herself together.

"We have to go back." Kim commanded.

"We're not going back. I can't hold up my shield long enough to save everyone. Making a shield alone is an energy consumer. Throwing tons of water on it will make both me and the shield weak. We won't make it out there if we go back." Jack explained. He used his supernatural speed to get in front of Kim. He grabbed her by her arm and started to drag her onto the trail back to camp.

"We can't just leave them there! They're my best friends and we're the only ones that could help save them! They'll all die if we don't go back!" Kim exclaimed. She dug her heels in the dirt trying to stop him but that didn't work. She started to wiggle her arm out of his grip but he tightened it.

"Stop that!" Jack exclaimed annoyed.

"Why don't you want to save them?" Kim asked

"I said this already. If we go back then we'll be attacked and everyone will be died! At least we could come back alive!" Jack exclaimed.

"B-but we have to. I don't care. At least I'd die trying." Kim said quietly.

"What do you mean I'd? You wouldn't dare…" Jack was interrupted by his own scream.

Kim smirked in victory. Jack had let go of her and fell to his knees. His hands were placed where the sun doesn't sun. Kim started to run back toward her friends and laughed a little.

"Man, the face he made will never leave my mind. His perfectly messy brunette hair fell in front of his gorgeous hazel eyes. And his two mole on cheeks; they're so adorable. He's adorable. Nah, he's sexy. Did I just think that?" Kim thought and shook off the feeling.

Kim was thinking so much she didn't realize she was there. It only took a couple of seconds to realize she was there because she heard the flow of water. She looked around. Everyone was fine. Fine as in not dead; they're still freezing and April was sitting against the tree with her eyes closed.

"She looks pale." Kim thought worried.

Her eyes widen when she noticed a really important detail to be alive in general. April's chest wasn't going up and down, meaning she was dead. Kim looked around to make sure the others were alive.

She quickly walked over to the dome and looked inside. Milton was on the ground in a ball, just like she imaged it. He was looking at the floor and his mouth was moving. Kim couldn't hear but tried her best to read his lips.

"Kim's gone? No one to save us. We'll die here. No one to save us." Kim thought Milton's words.

Kim started to bang on the ice hard. She didn't care how much it hurt; she wanted Milton to know she was there. That they still have a chance. Milton heard and looked up at Kim. What she saw broke her heart.

Milton's skin had turned a light blue color and his lips were light purple. He had frozen tears and his eyelashes and hair had frost on the tips. And his nose was runny but his mucus turned into tiny icicles. His eyes were so sad. He honestly looked hopeless. Well, he did lose all hope; until Kim came. His eyes lite up realizing she wasn't a hallucination.

"It's going to be ok." Kim said. Milton didn't hear but read her lips. Milton nodded his head; she was his last and only hope.

Kim rushed over to Jerry next. He was on the ground too but not in a ball. He just lay there looking up at the clouds, embracing the fact that he's going to die. He could barely breathe. His insides were frozen. He had his heart, lungs, and brain left and they're all freezing slowly at the same time. Kim knelt down next to him.

"Um, Jerry if you could hear me blink twice." Kim said worried.

Jerry could barely hear, his ear drums were freezing with his brain. He blinked twice.

"Is Carson still here? Blink once for no and twice for yes."

Jerry blinked twice. Kim's eyes widen. Jerry started to mumble, but his lips were frozen together.

"What?" Kim asked confused.

Jerry tried his hardest to up his mouth but it wouldn't budge. He decided to give her a clue. He moved his eyes to the left. Kim followed his eyes and he was looking at a stick.

"A stick? You want a stick?" Kim asked confused.

Jerry tried his best to shake his head without breaking anything. Then he looked down. Kim followed his eyes again. It was April.

"A stick and April. Blink twice if I'm getting close." Kim said. Jerry blinked twice.

"OK stick…April. April and a stick. Ugh, April's a vampire. A stick is a stick." Kim said thinking. Jerry blinked twice. "Ok April being a vampire and a st- stake. A stake! If I'm right blink twice!" Kim exclaimed. Jerry blinked twice.

"Wait, she's a vampire. She's not dead! She could only die with a stake plunged into her heart. She's probably just knocked out!" Kim exclaimed happily.

Jerry shook his head without breaking anything again.

"What? She's knocked out. Wait, were you telling me where Carson's at?" Kim asked concerned. Jerry blinked twice.

"He-he went to get a stake…did he?" Kim asked scared for April. She felt tears build up when Jerry blinked twice. He would have cried too there's barely any water left. But his eyes said it all.

"I going to lose the girl I love. I don't want her to go. I don't want to go. But if she's gone then there's no point in living." Jerry thought sadly.

"Ugh, I could feel my brain slowly shutting ice is freezing and destroying my brain. I think it started at my memory because I don't remember ages one to twelve. I don't remember what my mom looks like or any of my brothers and sister. I can't remember why I hate my father so much. I can't remember why I like to dance or why I take karate in the first place. I can't remember why I hang out with the people I do. I can't remember why I'm such a prankster every since ninth grade. Why-why can't I remember why I love April? That's her name right? I-I love her…do I? I can't remember!" Jerry shouted in his thoughts getting frustrated.

Kim sat there crying.

"Jack was right this whole time. I can't take on Carson. There really no point of coming. Carson's probably going to make me watch all of them, heck I'm doing that right now." Kim thought sadly.

Kim looked down at Jerry he looked…distant. His breathing had slowed down.

"Jerry?" Kim said

He didn't blink.

"Jerry blink if you can hear me!" Kim exclaimed.

He blinked.

"I forgot who Kim was for a second. Almost all my memory is gone. I just remember why I'm frozen (Carson) and Kim. I don't know who that girl is sitting against the tree and the guy in the dome. He looked like he was freezing to death. But the girl…she looks dead." Jerry thought sadly. "Why do I feel sad for a girl I don't know? Well, she is dead and she looks so young." Jerry assumed.

"Good don't give up ok. Which way did Carson go?" Kim asked wiping away tears. She decided to be strong and see the bright side. If there was a bright side.

Jerry tried really hard and shrugged.

"What, you just told me what he was doing. Now tell where he went." Kim said.

"I can't remember." Jerry thought. Right about now Jerry was having a hard time to breathe and that wasn't helping the memory loss.

"What do you not remember?" Kim asked in frustration. She didn't really mean for it to be answered.

Jerry nodded.

"What…you don't remember."

"Yes, he doesn't remember. Carson's slowly freezing his body and that includes his brain. It's probably dying as we speak." Jack said from behind. Kim jumped up.

"We have to do something." Kim said turning around toward Jack.

"We can't do anything. Carson's the only one that could reverse the process." Jack explained calmly.

"Then we'll get Carson to do it." Kim said in confidence.

"Kim, your friends don't have time for you to convince Carson. By the time you get to him, Jerry and Milton will be dead." Jack explained.

"Why's he so reasonable all of a sudden? Stick with the wasabi code. I swear by the light of the dragon's eye to be loyal, honest, and never say die. WASABI! I'm not going to let them say die today." Kim thought.

"CARSON!" Kim shouted for him. Jack's eyes widened.

"What do you think you're doing?" Jack asked.

"Saving my friends." Kim answered simply.

Carson was in front of them in seconds.

"Yes Kimmy you called." Carson said smiling and carrying the stake meant for April. Kim grunted at the little nickname. She hated when people called her that.

"Reverse what you've done to them and you get me until noon." Kim offered. Jack's mouth hung up.

"He only has an hour with me. What's the worst he could do?" Kim thought.

"Oh April wouldn't like this at all. I don't like it!" Jack thought. And then he closed his mouth.

"I like that deal. But what if I want keep you?" Carson asked smirking.

"Then you'd have to deal with me and April. If you're so much as a minute late; April and I will hunt you down and kill right on the spot." Jack threatened Carson.

"And what if you can't find me." Carson asked.

"You better doubt that because April has the strongest nose on Earth. She'll be able to sniff out you and Kim even if you were one million miles away." Jack said.

Carson nodded; a little frighten by the threats now.

"Ok, I'll take your deal."

"Oh and don't you dare kill her or I'll personally come to your home and torture you to death in front of the little family you have."

Carson nodded again. Kim walked to him and he waved his hand over Milton first. The dome melted quickly as soon as the water hit Milton's body it was like he was revived and he sat up shivering still. He had regained his color. Then he looked over to Kim and he smiled but then saw Carson and frowned.

Then Carson moved over to Jerry. He waved his hand over Jerry and Jerry started to gasp in air. He breathed heavily. His memory quickly restored and warmth invaded his cold body. He felt his blood circulation starting up again quickly. Jerry sat up shivering too and smiled at Kim but growled at Carson.

"Ok, I did my half it's time for your half." Carson said smirking.

"No, what about April?" Kim asked looking at her best friend's limp and pale body.

"You were right about her being knocked out. She's immortal the only thing that could kill her is a stake through a heart. He can't reverse her from drowning." Jack said.

"Oh yes I can. I just need to get rid of the water in her lungs." Carson explained.

"I don't want her to wake up for a reason. There is going to be a huge argument that I don't want to be in. She'll be shouting at me for letting Kim go with Carson." Jack thought a little frighten by the way April gets angry.

Carson lifted his hand toward April and pushed out all the water in her lungs. April wake up coughing and gasping. After coughing up all the water April looked up. Carson had quickly grabbed Kim arm and left. April got up quickly and was about to stop them but Jack used his supernatural speed to get in front of her and grabbed her arms.

"April, April." Jack tried to control her but her eyes turned red in anger. He kept his grip on her arm.

"Let go! He has her!" April exclaimed.

"April calm down." Jack said calmly.

"I can't calm down! Carson took Kim right in front of us and you're letting them go!" April exclaimed trying to get out of Jack's grip but she was weak. She did just get revived after all.

"Kim made a deal that Carson could have her until noon if he reversed what he did. She did it to save all your lives." Jack explained looking around at all of them.

"Why does Kim have to have so much loyalty toward the wasabi code and us?" April thought.

Jerry stood up shaky and started to walk toward them.

"He's telling the truth. I heard the whole thing before I went deaf." Jerry said in front of April.

Jack let go of her, waiting for her response. April looked between the two for a minute.

"I can't believe you still let her go. She's going to be scarred for life. He'll torture her!" April exclaimed.

"Did you really think I wanted her to leave?! I couldn't do anything to stop the deal! If I tried to even touch Carson we'd all be DIED! It was Kim's decision to be the hero, not mine!" Jack shouted at April.

"I really didn't want Kim to put herself in danger, but her confidence and respect toward her friends got to her. She's truly amazing if you ask me. She stood up to a vampire that really wanted to kill her fearlessly. She has confidence, I really like that." Jack thought.

"B-but you could have caught him off guard."

"I sensed that he was in survival mode and he had a stake on him; he would have killed me on the spot. After that he would have taken Kim and not do his half of the deal." Jack explained calming down.

"He's right. April nobody could have don't anything to stop the deal." Jerry spoke up, supporting Jack.

April took in a breath and sighed. Her eyes turned hazel out of sadness.

"You're right and now Kim probably getting tortured right now. He probably sucked up most of her blood but left enough for the cells to reproduce again. Heck, she might have fainted already. I can't believe I lost to a newborn." April said sadly, sitting down in the mud all the water caused and put head in her hands.

Jack and Jerry sat down next to her.

"Ay, don't feel bad he was in survival mode. Some of the most powerful vampires can't defeat survival mode vampires." Jack reassured.

"But she's gone. And do you know how much he can do in an hour? He'll break her…" April said drifting into her thoughts.

"It's going to be okay April." Milton said.

Nobody noticed but he crawled over slowly. April looked up at them. She smiled sadly and tears fell down her cheeks but she didn't care that they saw.

"You know what, I should be glad that all of you are ok." April said with a cracked voice.

They all smiled and pulled her in for a group hug.

"Thank you Kim." They all thought in unison.

"For the sacrifice." April thought.

"For the loyalty." Milton thought.

"For the bravery." Jerry thought.

"For the fearlessness." Jack thought.

That's all for the chapter. Hope you liked it.

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