I laid on top of the canopy of my bed staring at the ceiling. My jumping skills got better. I looked at my aura floating around me mixing with the designs on the ceiling. It was still green, but the grey was like Jason's, it was over taking my colour.
/Hey!/ I screamed in my head waking up Garren's conscience. /Finally! So what the hell is going on?/ he asked. /You are food, Pierre is a pet, I'm a vampire. I cannot contact Jason, but I think he is okay. I am being challenged by Dracula, once he finds your cure. My plan is to just kill him tomorrow... or your vampires first so you can wake up, then kill Dracula./ I explained. /Dracula?!/ Garren sounded confused. /Yes The Dracula. He thinks I am a challenge to be won by killing me./ I said. /That doesn't sound so good./ he said. /It's a challenge./ I said. /He's not going to use us is he?/ Garren asked in a weird tone. /He is... keeping you here so I will stay./ I said slowly. /No I mean like turn us against you. Like a secret weapon./ he said. /But he wants the cure. Pierre thought that he may change it and use it to make better vampires.../ I explained our theory.
I heard a blood curdling scream. I jumped. I looked up and Dracula, a billowing cloud of hatred and vampire, was sticking to the ceiling inches from where I lay.
"You ma dear are in so much trouble." he growled his eyes glowing red.
My eyes were huge.
He dropped on me, I grabbed a stake and he poofed away. But his momentary weight made the canopy break. I fell, and was caught by him before I hit the mattress. He spun and threw me against the wall.
I heard foot steps running up the stairs.
"Kali!" Pierre yelled.
Dracula snapped his fingers and just as Pierre slid in front of my door three vampires grabbed him.
"Should have killed you instead of just that dim witted girl." He stared Pierre down.
I threw a stake at one of the vampires' head holding his arms down. I then rolled over and threw a sai at Pierre, who caught it with his right hand, and stabbed the other two. Before I got to my feet a table flew at me hitting me in the head. I flipped it off of me, and cracked my neck blinking a lot.
"Ow!" I screamed at him, before a chair and desk were mind thrown at me. I smashed through the chair and felt my shoulder crack out of place. The desk I had to duck from letting it crack against the wall behind me.
"Pierre run!" I screamed throwing my other sai at him, before Dracula decided to use those against me.
He left with little hesitation.
I looked at Dracula, who had the bed hovering above his head.
"You have such beautiful furnishing though!" I said, backing up.
The bed flew quickly at me, I slid through the door, bed pieces shattering around me. I flipped off the landing onto the floor below, right behind Pierre.
"Can you not run faster?!" I screamed at him. Dracula poofing in front of us.
"Not so fast children." He said, stepping forward.
I shared a glance with Pierre.
"Not children!" Pierre said. "Hunters!"
"I'm seven hundred years old. Still I'm stronger and smarter than you. All Hunters become the hunted!" he yelled at us, poofing up twenty of his minions, including Mike.
"Would you like one?" I looked at Pierre. My sight glowing with the grey auras of the minions before us.
He looked at me, then at the lack of pointy objects. "Yeah sure."
I smiled, and threw out my energy, knocking them to the ground. I loaded my cross bow and hit as many as possible. While Pierre took as many down by hand with my sais. This took a long while, for whenever the twenty were dusted, twenty more came.
"We need the other guys!" he yelled at me.
I growled. /Garren!/ I screamed inside my head. Nothing came back.
"Well they are not coming!" I yelled back angry. Only getting angrier, for I was bleeding in various places, and so was Pierre.
I already ran out of stakes, and the sais Pierre had were dripping with blood. I kept myself sane by killing them by hand breaking their necks against my knees. When the floor was covered in dust and writhing bodies, I looked around. I didn't see anyone else. I backed up to Pierre and grabbed his arm.
He looked more scratched up than I was, with a bleeding nose and everything. He looked around, our backs met as we spun around looking at the mess.
"The guys?" Pierre asked.
I nodded and we ran down the corridors. I could feel something following us. I looked behind us and could not see anything.
Drusilla, Caroline, and Jacqueline walked up toward us. We stopped, and readied ourselves.
They stepped aside and Garren, Jason, and Scott walked up, not looking like themselves.
"They aren't turned are they?" Pierre asked.
"In a trance." I said, looking at them warily.
"Now what? We cannot fight them!" Pierre said, his eyes looking between everyone.
"Kill--" I stopped and noticed the girls were not with us anymore. "Run?"
"Run?!" Pierre asked in disbelief, backing up with me away from the guys.
I sighed, and looked at Garren. Calling his name through our mental connection. Their auras were blue, except Jason's who was red. I couldn't see any way of getting through to them but to knock them out. Then kill their Vampires.
"Do I have permission to knock them out?" I asked Pierre was we slowly backed away.
"I don't want to..." he said.
"Fine, we'll lock them in a room until those bitches are dusted." I said, making a decision.
"Okay, I like that." Pierre said. "How are we getting them into a room?"
"You punch one and we run." I said pushing him toward his transfixed friends.
"I'm not punching them!" Pierre said.
"Do it!" I said.
"No. You!"
"They are your friends."
"They'll be mad at me."
"Will not!" I said, and grabbed a torch from the wall and hucked it at them.
Jason caught it and growled, normal teeth bared.
"Huh." me and Pierre shared glances. We started running once Jason's walk sped up into a run.
"Now what?!" Pierre yelled.
"Uh... where is a study we can lock them in?" I asked, liking this vampire running thing again.
"I think this way." he said, and I followed him, trying not to let the guys catch up.
"Thinking won't cut it here." I said, waiting to turn a corner.
He turned and pushed open a door, and there was a study inside of that room.
"Good job." I said, and backed up to the far wall waiting for the others to catch up.
"Thanks." Pierre said, hiding behind the door.
They charged in panting heavily.
"Good thing they aren't vamps. They wouldn't be tired." I commented to Pierre, knowing the guys couldn't hear me.
I ran at them just to jump over the group. The only problem was, I jumped over Scott who grabbed onto my ankle. I fell onto my face, and was picked up by the same ankle. I looked at Pierre upside down as I dangled.
"This brings back so many memories." I growled. "Memories why I hate heights!"
"Scott... want to put Kali down?" Pierre tried, my sais in the ready.
"Can't I just stab him in the foot and we'll run?" I asked, swinging from side to side. "Wait, how come I'm not being beat into a pulp?" /Garren?/ I asked. /Can you please let me out?/ he asked finally giving me an answer. /If Scott puts me down I could do something. Why don't you try to try and get out yourself?/ I asked. /It's dark, and I can't see anything./ He sounded scared. /So being not conscious is not dark?/ I asked, feeling my blood rush to my ears. /No, its white./ he answered. /Well don't find white, find colour. Look for red or something!/ I ordered him.
"They aren't doing anything." Pierre said, slowly coming toward us.
"That is because we are here." Dru's voice said.
Pierre turned around, and I saw the girls from between his legs.
"You aren't here to help us are you?" Pierre said slowly, his hands slightly up in the air, holding my sais lightly.
"Considering our master killed one of our friends... and we wanted Slayer Kali to be with us... we may have to." Caroline said.
"Woot!" I said. "Can I be let down?"
"If you'll be our mistress." Drusilla said.
"You are kidding right?" Pierre scoffed.
"Best female influence, why would we? She'd be a great leader." Jackie said.
"If you are not nymphs, and will not touch my friends ever again, I will say yes. If you do what I ask." I said. Pierre gave me a dirty look. I stuck my tongue out at him, my hair tickling my nose.
"Madeline was the nymph. I'm just the enforcer." Jackie said. The other girls nodded in agreement.
"Cool. Lets get this guy in the butt." I said, punching my hand for emphasis, but it didn't work because I was upside down and swinging from my force.
I was soon dropped on my head. Scott looked down and jumped.
"I'm sorry, did I do that?" he asked, pulling me up.
"Ha, no more darkness!" Garren said out loud, and stopped in mid dance to stare at the girls.
Jason jumped when he saw the girls staring back at us.
"So how will you not be controlled by The Count?" I asked as we walked out of the study.
"Because we made the choice to abandoned him." Jackie said.
"It's in the law." Drusilla said.
"It's a loop hole, many don't use because of the power." Jackie said.
Caroline nodded with them.
"But I abandoned them..." I said, pointing at the group. "They still found me, and stuff."
They just looked at me.
"Well he can find us, but cannot control us. The blood bond is never broken." Jackie said. "Unless he dies."
"Oh okay." I said, and turned to Jason. "Jason, I'm going to have to kill you after this, then commit suicide." I said in a sarcastic tone.
Jason blinked, "I take it you are kidding."
I nodded.
"So what is the plan going to be?" Scott asked.
"We are discriminating the girls and locking them in this room, so we will not be found out. Then kill this bastard." Jason said.
We looked at him.
"You just don't like girls do you?" Caroline said.
"He does have a point..." I agreed. "But does that mean me too? Cause if it does, you're the bastard and you will die after killing Dracula."
"No just the vampires." he said.
"That does include me!" I said, punching him.
He flinched. "What?!" he sounded confused.
"She's a vamp again." Pierre and Garren said together.
"When did this happen?" he asked.
"Uh..."
"This morning." Pierre said.
"Oh, okay." Jason said.
The girls gasped.
"Hello all." came a voice, the rest of us turned around.
"Hi!" I said brightly.
"We were just talking about you." Garren said.
"Yes I know." Dracula said, floating in the middle of the room.
We were pulled into the room by telekinesis. The door closed and the lock slid into place. One of the book shelves slid in front of the door.
"Great." Pierre sighed.
"Isn't it? I'm going to be killing eight birds with one stone, so to speak." He chuckled darkly to himself.
"What stone?" Scott asked.
Three of the biggest floor-to-ceiling book shelves in the room slid into position boxing us in. It was very dark. Before we knew it the side shelves were closing in on us.
"Hmm... this is not good." I heard Scott say.
"No shit." Pierre said.
"Stupid boys." one of the girls said in her fluttery voice.
"Hey--!" I heard all except Pierre yell.
"Pierre?" I turned around and saw him still standing there.
"Where did everyone go?" he asked me.
"They did the poofy thing without us!" I cried out.
"You don't know how to do that do you?" He sounded worried as the 'walls' closed in on us.
"Not that I know of." I said. /Think of something... something, SHUT UP!/ Jason yelled at me, making me hold my head. /Out. Think of out, a place you know is out./ He said. /Thanks for hurting my head too./ I replied.
I grabbed onto Pierre. Out. I thought to myself.
"That room is out..." I said out loud.
"What are you thinking about?" Pierre sounded worried.
"Out." I said, and we found ourselves in the room Dracula trashed. No one else was with us. "Hmm..." I said and looked around.
"This is not where the others are..." Pierre shared a look with me.
/Where are you?/ I asked Garren and Jason. /Outside./ they answered.
I sighed and thought about Jason and Garren, Pierre and I soon found ourselves beside them.
"Took you long enough." Drusilla said.
"I think I'm going to be sick." Pierre said, holding onto his stomach.
"Yeah the little one already made sick in the bush over there." Jackie said.
"His name is Garren." Jason said.
"You're getting better." Caroline commented to me.
"But not good enough." Dracula said, floating above us.
We stared up at him. I looked up with my aura sight.
Dracula snapped his fingers and the ground started to shake as hands, shoulders, and soon full bodies emerged from the ground.
"Hmm... forgot about that detail..." Caroline said out loud to herself.
My stakes, and many other weapons from the castle were pointing directly at us, including the army of dead people.
"This complicates a lot of things." I heard Garren say.
Drusilla let her nails grow to cat like length, Jackie multiplied herself five times, and Caroline bared her huge fangs. The guys looked around lost.
I looked at the dead and they had no aura, it was like I was looking at everyone normally. But when I looked up, Dracula was still there glowing black like a shadow. Good, he is still here, I said to myself.
/It's a shame we don't have holy water./ I shared with Jason and Garren.
I pushed out my energy and captured Dracula. Slowly taking him down. He struggled, but still sent out his barrage of weaponry and warriors.
"Having your gadgets would be great about now, Garren!" Scott yelled out as he dived for the ground trying to escape the maces and like.
"I know!" Garren yelled back, doing the same diving and rolling tricks as Scott.
The vampires were cutting through the weapons and dead bodies. I felt sorry for them as they bled from scratches and gashes caused by their former master. But their deeds were keeping the fighting away from me as I tried to deface the Count. I walked through the masses trying to concentrate on my powers and not the screams, swears, and bone chilling cracks. Dracula was just a foot above me, being held down by my green power.
He stopped squirming and smirked. He threw me twenty feet in the air with his powers and I landed on the ground with a crack. My shoulder popped back into place but my arm broke from the impact. I pulled it back into place, and got up. He poofed in front of me and threw me into the mob.
If only everyone was not being attacked they'd be able to help me, and Dracula would be gone. I couldn't touch the dead, or the weapons so I couldn't help my friends. But I couldn't help myself either. I pulled myself out from under the feet of the dead and pushed through the mob of corpses to the outside. I turned around to see Jason trying to kill a corpse with one of the possessed weapons. The weapon in turn tried to kill him. I quickly threw him out of the way. I marched back to where Dracula stood.
"Came back for more?" he smiled.
I growled lowly, squaring myself with him. My energy flowed freely, and grabbed him, flipping him onto his back. He poofed behind me and practically drop kicked me with his powers. I got up slowly. This was not working. I took my powers out and grabbed onto all my friends and placed them behind me away from the corpses and weapons who were slashing our way anyway.
"We are all fucking attacking him, okay?!" I said, a look of bemusement of the Count's face.
"You sent us here?" Pierre looked around.
"You could have done this sooner!" Jason said, getting ready to fight.
"Again, eight birds with--"
"Yeah a whole shit load of weapons, can we get on with this?" Scott asked, the Count's smile not going away.
"Ohh impatient to die are we?" the Count smirked. He pointed to us and the weapons and corpses charged us faster.
/I grab him, you take him down okay?/ I offered to Jason and Garren silently. /Take him down with what?/ Jason asked, walking up to me. /The weapons coming toward us?/ I tried, letting my power flow around us glowing brighter. /Grabbing sharp pointy things coming at us fifty clicks an hour.../ Garren said.
We were soon thrown to our backs and held in place, the weapons pointing directly at us, and the bodies surrounded us. Dracula floating above us looking down.
"Very nice knowing you." He said.
"Too bad I'm not in your grasp, this seems a bit pathetic." I said, trying to steady my breath.
"Is this really the time to taunt the man?" Pierre looked over at me.
"Didn't you say to us, you wanted her to have a fair battle?" Caroline asked, looking past the weapons up at her ex-master.
"She's too much of a bother to worry about that." He said.
I quickly pushed my power out hitting him so he spun in the air.
"Plus it would never be fair," he narrowed his eyes. "I'm too powerful."
"Can you poof?" I asked the girls quietly.
"No." they answered.
"So are we going to be kabobs soon?" I asked, searching my mind for options.
"Yes. The cure and you die tonight." He said.
"There was a cure?!" Caroline gasped.
I pushed out my energy one last time touching everyone, including the corpses. I poke a corpse and arched my head back and looked carefully. They barely had colour auras... I grabbed them, slowly lifting them up before chucking them at Dracula all together, catching him off guard. All the weapons dropped on us, few sticking into the ground.
"Ow..." I heard someone say.
"Kill him now, then we'll fucking discuss how much fucking trouble you are in." Jason yelled at me, flipping himself back onto his feet.
We all picked up weapons, and Dracula poofed in front of us, his minions and weapons standing on their own again. We all threw our choice weapon, catching the dirty bastard off guard one last time. Eight pieces of metal like weapons were protruding from his body. Blood trickling out in certain places. He stared at us in shock. Weapons and minions became inanimate once again.
I threw him to the ground before he poofed away. I took out a stake from the mess and stood above him, everyone around me. I quickly slammed the stake into his heart, and Jackie quickly decapitated him with a two bladed axe. We stared at her. His dust littered the ground.
"And that's for killing my boyfriend two hundred years ago!" she spat on the ground.
We stared at her.
"Issues much?" Caroline said.
As the silence dissolved into the night, I could feel Jason staring angrily at me. I felt like shrinking away. But soon enough he grabbed my neck.
"Why the fucking hell did you not do that in the fucking first place!" he yelled at me, my ears rang.
The girls tackled him off of me, baring their teeth.
"Yeah, we could have had less ows!" Garren growled holding onto his arm, his shirt ripped to shreds.
"Totally." Scott agreed, leaning onto Pierre who looked exhausted.
"I'm blind?" I said, slowly backing away. "I didn't see their auras!" I screamed and ran out into the heath. Jason running after me screaming his head off, and the other chasing after us.