AN: heyy everybody, I'm back with the third chapter. I'm in a good mood because I figured out an idea for the next one too, and some future ideas that will eventually wind up in the story. yay! So yes one question has been answered, Simon does have super self control. I wanted him to have it just because it wouldn't be very nice writing about him if he didn't. He just needs to feed everyday is all, so it's not as extensive as Bella Cullen's in Breaking Dawn. Simon has to feed at least once everyday to be able to be calm for the rest of the day or night until he needs to do it again. But the other question: if he gets a power or not is still hanging in the air, I'm debating whether I should give him one or not…cause he's already got the self control. Mind you, Bella had two powers instead of just one. Hmmmmmm we'll see I guess.
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Alvin and the Chipmunks meet Dracula
Ch.3: The Realization
THUMP!
Alvin blinked a few times to get out of his numbed brain. He looked around the room shakily to figure out what had fallen to the ground. His eyes fell on Jeanette's limp body in the doorway. His eyes widened and Theodore gasped when he saw her fall. Alvin quickly mustered up all of his strength to move his frozen limbs over to where she lay. His head was still swimming with all of the questions that had presented themselves after Simon had run off. He could barley think straight. Theodore crawled over quickly to Jeanette's side. When Alvin finally reached her he knelt down and pushed her so she lay on her back instead of on her stomach.
"Jeanette?? Are you okay!?" Alvin said lightly slapping her face. Her eyes lay closed and her pink glasses lay on the floor beside her. they had fallen off of her face when Alvin pushed her over.
"What's wrong with her?" Theodore asked in a shaky voice. It seemed he was still upset about what had just happened. Alvin shook his head a little too fast, he breathed in deep and look at Theodore's tear streaked face.
"Theo, quick make it seem like you weren't crying" Alvin ordered. Theodore looked up at him confused, but still obeyed. He wiped his sleeve over his eyes and tried to get rid of the water on his face. Alvin nodded to himself when he thought Theodore looked presentable.
"Dave!! C-mere somethings wrong with Jeanette!!" Alvin yelled worriedly. He heard the faint sound of Dave's piano bench scooting across the hardwood floor.
"What did you do this time?" Dave yelled up, annoyed. But Alvin could hear him start to climb up the stairs.
"I didn't do anything! She just fell over when we walked in! Now she won't wake up!!" Alvin yelled angrily, why must Dave always accuse him of these simplest things? Dave's footsteps grew quicker.
"What!? What happened!!" Dave yelled up, worried now. Not much longer and his head popped around the entrance of the boys' bedroom. Dave's eyebrows were raised and squished together in worry.
"I didn't do it!" Alvin snapped quickly leaning away from Jeanette's body and raising his arms in surrender. Dave gave him a sarcastic look.
"Why should I believe that?" Dave said matching the look on his face. Alvin raised an eyebrow.
"Hmmm maybe because I'm your favorite and you believe everything I say?" Alvin said grinning to see if Dave bought it. Dave glared at him.
"You're not the favorite Alvin!" Dave said. He knelt down beside Jeanette and propped her head up slightly with his hand.
"suuuure, you just don't realize it yet is' all" Alvin said folding his arms. After a moment of analyzing her features Dave sighed in relief.
"Don't worry, she just fainted. She'll wake up soon enough" Dave said smiling up at both Theodore and Alvin. Alvin and Theodore sighed in relief too.
"Well too bad! She probably fainted because of my unmistakable good looks!" Alvin said dramatically standing back up onto his feet. Theodore rolled his eyes and turned back to Dave.
"Well what should we do with her Dave?" Theodore asked innocently. Dave put his other hand underneath Jeanette's knees and picked her up swiftly, bridal-style.
"Let's just put her on the bed so she's comfortable when she wakes up" Dave replied. He lay her down on Simon's bed, which was the closest to the door. Once Dave pulled the covers up to her chin he stood up straight and glanced around the room.
"Hey…where's Simon? Didn't he come home with you two?" Dave asked, only just realizing the tallest Chipmunk wasn't there. Alvin looked down at the ground, avoiding Dave's gaze. Theodore gulped down some air, trying to hide his sadness.
"U-um he said he had to go into town…umm to buy something. I don't know when he'll be back" Theodore said as truthfully as he could. Dave nodded and patted Theodore on the head.
"Okay then, tell me when he gets home, no phone me on my cell, I have to go down to the studio for a bit. I told them I'd help them with our new song…you know, tune-ups" Dave explained. Both boys nodded. "Do you think you can take care of Jeanette while I'm gone?" Dave asked, they both nodded again. "Okay…call me if you need anything, I might be out for a while" Dave finished. And with that he walked out of their room and down the hall. Theodore sighed a loud, long sigh after Dave left.
"Phew…" he said. Alvin walked over to the side of his own bed. He crawled onto and over to the other side to his bedside table. He leant down and pulled out a massive book half the size of Alvin's own body. Theodore watched him curiously, stealing worried glances over at Jeanette's peaceful form curled under Simon's sheets.
"Okay! Time to start!" Alvin said excitedly. He laid the book open on the floor at the foot of hid bed. Theodore blinked a few times and went over to see what the book was. He gasped once he recognized its contents.
"Alvin! Don't do this! You're just being…well silly!" Theodore scolded in his high, child-like voice. Alvin snorted.
"Oh please Theo, you know it's the only thing we've got! Simon's a Vampire and I'm going to prove it!" Alvin said, thumbing through the pages in the Monster Book of Monster Facts. Theodore pouted angrily.
"Alvin! Simon is not a Vampire!" Theodore tried again to reason with Alvin, Alvin just waved him away.
"Oh please Theodore! Did you see the way he acted just now! And it's not like it's impossible, I mean you became a werewolf once right? We just need to figure out how to turn Simon back to normal!" Alvin said, finally reaching the chapter about Vampires and Dracula.
"Well I'm going to be no part of it!" Theodore said crossly, folding his arms and looking the other way, away from Alvin. Alvin eyed Theodore and grinned evilly.
"What if I give you 2 packages of Tutti Frutti?" Alvin said as slyly as he could. Theodore glanced back at Alvin, who was watching him with beady eyes. The offer was very tempting.
"No way! You're not going to trick me over that easily!" Theodore snapped, though inside, he'd wished he'd said yes. Alvin grinned wider.
"3 maybe 4?"
"Deal."
Jeanette's mind was clouded over in darkness. She felt like she was floating in blackness. The air smelled cold, but was warm all around her. She lay straight but her arms dropped down a little bit. She felt like she was hovering somewhere, and she could tell she was in darkness because no light shined through her eye-lids. Everything was quite except for a voice that whispered in her ear softly every minuet or so. Simon's voice whispered all around her.
"I'm sorry…I'm sorry" he whispered. She wanted to open her eyes to see if she could see him, but her body refused it. She breathed in quivering breaths as flashes of her most recent memories swirled around in her already clouded thoughts.
"Simon…." She mumbled to herself in a worried voice that could have only been heard if you listened really closely.
"I'm Sorry…Jeanette, time to wake up" Simon's voice whispered. Jeanette squeezed her eyes closer together. She clenched her small fingers into limp fists.
"Will you go away if I do?" she asked to the empty space around her. her voice echoed through the emptiness. Could Simon even hear her? This was probably all in her head but she asked anyway.
"Maybe…just for a little while….I'm sorry…but you have to wake up now" Simon's voice echoed. Jeanette sighed deeply. Suddenly a huge weight crashed down on her and her eyes shot open and reality dawned upon her. Her breath caught in her lungs and she gasped slightly. The weight that once pushed on her vanished as soon as it came. Her eyes bulged somewhat but she quickly relaxed and looked around the room. Simon's scent wafted around her and she realized she was tucked in his bed. She slowly pushed her self upwards. Her head swirled groggily and she felt like she was almost about to hurl. Jeanette rubbed her temples and groaned slightly at the unwanted disturbance.
Alvin and Theodore looked up at her. They were crouched around something which looked like a book. Both of the young boys' faces lit up when they saw her.
"Jeanette!" Theodore said happily raising from the floor and rushing to her side.
"Finally you're awake!" Alvin said. He was lying down on the floor on his stomach with a pen and pad of paper in front of him. The large book was laid wide open not too far from him.
Jeanette smiled weakly at both of the happy boys.
"H-how long was I out for?" she said in her small voice, though she sounded exhausted. Theodore shrugged.
"Not that long, only about 20 minuets I'd say, Alvin was just exaggerating when he said 'finally'" Theodore explained leaning on the bed. Jeanette nodded and glanced at the clock on Simon's bedside table.
It read 3:20, or was that 3:50? Jeanette winced but the letters were still fuzzed.
"Um, where are my glasses?" she asked moving her arms around like a blind person. She found Theodore's head and began patting it, mapping out the shape of his features in her head. Theodore giggled and grabbed Jeanette's pink glasses from Simon's bedside table. She thanked him and placed them appropriately on her face. The room came back into view again and Jeanette smiled.
"Hey! Now that you're awake you can help us investigate!" Alvin said excitedly holding out the Monster Book of Monster Facts so Jeanette could see. Jeanette blinked a few times then suddenly she remembered why she was here in the first place.
"oh yes!...yes one moment" Jeanette pushed the blue pleated covers off of her lower body and hopped off of Simon's bed. Theodore sat back down in his spot beside the book. Jeanette knelt down beside Alvin and gazed at the words on the pages of the book in front of her. Alvin showed her the pad of paper, which had a list on it scrawled in Alvin's messy writing. Jeanette frowned at the writing but ignored it and read.
"This is a list of things about Simon that relates to the things about Vampires from this book, so far we only have three though." Alvin explained pointing at the three points on the paper. It wrote:
- is pale
- is cold
- Attacked me (wants food?)
Jeanette ripped the piece of paper off of these relate to Vampires" Jeanette said, she couldn't help cringe a little bit at the word 'Vampire'.
"Well, he is really pale obviously, but it says here that 'most Vampires become extremely pale and can become as hard as stone'" Alvin said reading a sentence from the book. Jeanette 'Hmm'd and bit the end of the pen.
"Well he's pale yes, but is he hard as stone?" Jeanette asked to either one of them, it didn't matter who answered. Alvin nodded furiously.
"Heck ya! When he was holden' on to my shoulders I tried shoven' the dude off, seriously it was like trying to move the Statue of Liberty!!" Alvin said dramatically, and loudly. Jeanette scribbled down another point on the list: hard as stone.
"Okay so we have too positive relations, what about his temperature, is he cold?" Jeanette asked again. This time it was Theodore who answered.
"yep…he was really cold when he was unconscious and got colder every day, and this morning I bumped into his arm and he helped me up, his hand was like an ice cube…" Theodore explained sadly. Jeanette nodded and put his words underneath the 'is cold' point. She nodded once.
"Okay, now he attacked you yes? How does that prove he's a vampire?" Jeanette wondered, directing the question to Alvin. Alvin gaped at her.
"Did you see the look in his eyes!!"
"Well yes but-…"
"He was thirstin' for my blood!!"
"That doesn't mean-…"
"He wanted to drink me up right then and there!" Alvin went on. Jeanette glared at him for cutting her off twice in a row.
"Okay Alvin, but how do you know exactly?" Jeanette said. Alvin simply pointed to a small paragraph in the book. Jeanette peered closer to look. It read:
'Once a person becomes a vampire, within the first couple of years, they are classified as Newborns; Newborns still have the human blood inside them. Since they are new to being vampires, they are not used to feeling the urge to drink blood, so they are crazed and drink blood whenever a morsel walks by. Newborns can't help feeding once they've smelt blood or humans. Newborns will attack just about anybody, even their own (used to be) family. Beware the Newborns!! Bewaaaaarre!!'
Jeanette cocked her head after she finished reading the paragraph. Alvin was right after all. But something suddenly popped up in Jeanette's head after she re-read the paragraph again.
"Wait, it says that 'Newborns are crazed and drink blood whenever a morsel walks by.' And that 'Newborns can't help feeding once they've smelt blood or humans'" Jeanette said mimicking what the book said. Alvin nodded.
"Yeah so what?" he said, not getting the picture Jeanette so clearly laid out for him. She sighed.
"Well don't you think Simon would have just started sucking your blood? I mean he wouldn't have been able to resist it. But instead he ran away from us" Jeanette explained. Theodore and Alvin stared at her for a moment.
"ohhhhhhhh" they said at the same time. Jeanette nodded again; she put a question mark underneath the 'attacked me (wants food?)' point. Jeanette glanced over the list and back at the book.
"So wait, people turn into vampires how again?" she asked scanning the book for an answer.
"If they get bitten by another vampire, apparently if a vampire just bites you and doesn't suck your blood, their venom goes in you and turns you into one" Alvin said glancing at the book for reference. Jeanette nodded.
"So, can you think of a time when this might have happened to Simon?" Jeanette asked both of them. Theodore frowned and Alvin raised an eyebrow. It took a minuet for them to go over their thoughts. Finally Theodore shook his head.
"No… I don't remember anytime when this might have happened…I mean Simon got a cut on his hand and on his lip on Monday after school…but that's it" Theodore said. Alvin's face suddenly brightened and he snapped his fingers.
"That's it! Simon started getting sick, or should I say transforming, on Monday! When he got those cuts!" Alvin said, smiling widely. Jeanette 'hmmm'd again.
"How did he get the cuts?" she asked. Alvin drew a blank for a second.
"I think he said that stupid bat bit him right? Theo?" Alvin said looking at Theodore. Theodore nodded slowly.
"Ya…when I asked him what happened" Theodore mumbled. Jeanette bit on the end of the pencil again.
"But a bat isn't a Vampire…hmmmm" she thought it over. Theodore piped up after a moment of silence.
"Um, but don't Vampires turn into bats or something? At least that's what I thought" Theodore said scratching his head thoughtfully, he reached into a pocket in his sweater and pulled out a package of Tutti Frutti, he opened the rapper and popped the gum into his mouth. Alvin shook his head.
"No, it says in the book that Vampires don't turn into bats and that it's only an old legend" Alvin said. Jeanette scanned over the pages in the Vampire chapter in the Monster Book of Monster Facts. Her face lit up as she read something of use.
"Wait! It says here that 'some Vampires may be blessed with special powers; no Vampire can have the same gift. Only a small number of Vampires have a special power'…do you think turning into a bat could be a special power? Like just a power the Vampire that bit Simon had?" Jeanette asked the two boys, who read the sentences over her shoulder. Alvin shrugged.
"Maybe…most likely though" he said rubbing his chin. Theodore nodded in agreement. Jeanette flipped through the pages again. He stopped when she saw something she recognized in Simon. It read:
'As well has being very pale, rock hard, and cold as ice, Vampires all have golden eyes. Their eyes color changes depending on how thirsty the Vampire is. The more golden the eye color, the less thirsty, the blacker the eye color, the more thirsty.'
Jeanette cringed at the word 'thirsty'. It still bugged her that they were positively proving that Simon was a Vampire; no matter how much in her heart she didn't want to believe it. But the description about the eyes was correct. Simon's eye color had changed. His eyes were golden this morning when he was acting normal, yet jet black later today when they came home and he was acting all crazy. Jeanette told this to the boys and they agreed as she wrote down another proven point on their checklist. She also added the information about his possible cause of transformation in a small box in the corner of the paper. They sat in silence for a moment thinking of more things to write down when suddenly Theodore piped up again.
"Heyy….isn't a Vampire supposed to melt in the sunlight, be afraid of garlic and holy water and stuff? Does the book say anything about that?" Theodore asked leaning over the book to see if he could see anything relating the subject. Alvin skimmed the pages until he found the answer, he just sighed.
"Nope, all myths, except the sunlight thing, apparently they just sparkle or something" Alvin read lazily. Jeanette giggled.
"They sparkle? That's…different" she said smiling to herself. Theodore giggled as well.
"Maybe that's why he left school, the sun came back out and he didn't want to sparkle in front of the other kids" Alvin said sarcastically. Jeanette and Theodore laughed harder. What? It was funny, someone randomly starting to sparkle in the sunlight. Jeanette sighed deeply washing away her giggles. She thumbed through the pages searching for anything more when she read something and froze.
The two boys finally ceased giggling noticing a sudden gloom fall over Jeanette's head.
"Jeanette? What's wrong?" Theodore asked putting a worried hand on her shoulder. Jeanette didn't move.
"Read it" she mumbled in a barley audible voice. Theodore just managed to hear her and glanced down at the part in the book she just read.
'There is no way to change a Vampire back into a human. Only if the Vampire is killed, and it is practically impossible to kill a Vampire… for humans. Vampires can only be killed by Werewolves or other Vampires'
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AN: dun dun duuuuuuun-again! HERE IS THE THIRD CHAPTER!! Sorry it took so long for me to update, I know I said I'd post if after I posted my third chapter for 'Dear Diary: Is this Love?' but it got too late and I had to go to bed, so voila! I finished it tonight and here it is for you!! I hope you enjoyed it!
DON'T REVIEW AND I WON'T UPDATE!! Why? Because reviews let me know people are actually reading, and because it gets me pumped for the next chapters!! Yay!
Simon: (is sparkling)
Jeanette: Simon…Simon is so dazzling isn't he? (Stares off into space all googley-eyed)
Simon: (chuckles) caught like worm on a hook…
