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"Oh my God..." Was all I could manage to say.
Raven glared up at us with blood-red eyes. Her skin was so pale it was almost white.
"What is the meaning of this?" She roared.
"I-I..." Aelita stammered.
"I demand an answer!" By this time, Raven was standing in front of us. She formed fists with her hand, then spread out her fingers, revealing foot-long blades.
"Do not make me ask you again!"
"Raven?" A shadowy figure in a black cloak stepped into the living room.
"Alexander!" She ran up to Mr. Tall-Pale-and-Handsome. They kissed for what seemed like forever. Before it dawned on me that Aelita and I could make a run for it, the couple turned around, holding hands.
"What is the matter, my love?" He asked her.
"These- these... mortals have awoken me from my slumber!" She glared at us once more; love in her eyes for "Alexander" was replaced by hatred for us.
"Go now, and sleep, my Queen," He said. "You need your rest."
"But what about-" Raven began, but Alexander hushed her.
"I will take care of them," he whispered to her.
"Queen?" Aelita and I asked after Raven had left.
"That is correct," he sat down in a lounge chair and motioned for us to take a seat across from him. We did... cautiously.
"But then again, I would not expect mortals, such as yourselves, to be familiar with who I am. As you have heard, I am Alexander, King of Darkness and all of its inhabitants. But alas, I needed to find my Queen. When your friend Raven entered my home, I knew she was the one. After transforming her into a 'vampire', as you call it, I easily destroyed all of her memories of the likes of you. Now, the only thing you are to her is a meal."
"How do we change her back?" Aelita demanded.
Alexander thought for a minute. "I will tell you, but only because you will not survive long enough to put any schemes you might have into action. There are two ways to return your friend to 'normal'. The first is to bring her into the sunlight. This will get rid of all of the instincts and needs of a vampire that lurk within her. But it will have one side affect. The other way is a bit more difficult. You must destroy the one who transformed her."
I stared at him. "And that would be you."
"My, my. It is amazing how quickly the living catches on to things," Alexander remarked. "But it won't do you any good. Once the sun is fully set, the Queen of Darkness will awaken. Unfortunately for you... she will be hungry."
"Now let me see. Raven and I have already decided that we each get one of you. It was so very generous of her to allow me first choice. But I must warn both of you; it embarrasses me to say that my Queen is more powerful than I ever will be. I pity whoever tried to escape her grasp."
I decided it was now or never. I let out a blast of fire right in Alexander's direction. Man, was that stupid. He saw what I was up to and reflected it back at me with a wave of his arm. It hit me directly in the chest. I was sent flying over the back of the sofa and hit the wall. My head whipped backward and I was knocked out after impact.
Aelita
I watched, shaking as Starfire slid down the wall. I stared at her. She didn't move. Placing two fingers on the side of my forehead, I lifted my friend off of the ground and onto the sofa beside me.
Alexander rose from his seat and picked her up.
"I choose you,' he said as he draped her across his arms.
"As for you," He turned to me. "We wouldn't want you running off while Raven was still asleep, now would we?"
I glared at him, not knowing what to do. Alexander stared into my eyes while he said, "You will go to sleep now. The only thing that will wake you up is the sound of the voice of the Queen of Darkness."
I don't know what happened then, for sure. All of a sudden, I was exhausted. My eyelids were so heavy, but I couldn't close my eyes! When I'd wake up, Raven would kill me! But then again, I could shut my eyes for just a moment and I'd be ready to fight when I opened them again. I drifted off into darkness.
"Awaken, Mortal!" I opened my eyes to see Raven standing over me.
"Raven! Why are you doing this?" I tried, desperately.
"How dare you use my first name! Now, I shall make your suffering that much worse!"
I was sitting in a chair, my legs tied together and my wrists strapped to the chair arms.
"I will return," Raven snarled, stepping out of the room. "I trust you will not go anywhere..."
"Great. Just great," sighed.
A few candles dimly lighted the bedroom. My back was facing a "California King" sized four-poster bed. From what I could tell, a thick, black canopy surrounded it.
I had to get out of there before Raven came back! I looked around and spotted a double-sided dagger on the nightstand. It seemed like it had a crystal blade- perfect for cutting through ropes.
I stared at the dagger, imagining it floating towards me and cutting my free. Before I knew it, the knife was sawing through the rope that bound my legs together. I let out a sigh of relief as I ran out the bedroom. The hallway was dark and, like the bedroom, only lit by a couple of candles on the walls. I could barely see anything, so I lit a fireball and held it out in front of me. I ran as fast as I could, but I didn't have any idea where I was.
"Thought you could escape, did you?" I spun around on my heels and my heart nearly stopped. Raven was standing right in back of me. She was wearing this blood red long dress with really big sleeves.
"Not cool! Not cool!" I thought out loud. I have no idea why, but I plowed right past her. I think I almost knocked Raven down, but I didn't dare look back. As I was running for my life, I realized that I knew about Raven's powers, but she didn't know about, or remember, mine.
I was stuck and there was only one thing I could thing I could think of to do. It as risky, but it had to be done.
"Hey! Vampira!" I shouted. Raven turned and snarled at me, her eyes blazing. She began to chase me. Or, rather, I was running and Raven was levitating.
"Here's goes nothing," I said under her my breath and sprinted towards the window at the end of the corridor. I swiped my hand out in front of me. The window, frame and all, got blasted out. I ran as quickly as my legs could carry me right up to the window.
I dove into the blinding sunlight.
Before I could fall, I began to concentrate. I had never tried this before, so I was terrified that I would just free fall 4 stories. But I didn't! I began to levitate in midair!
Raven followed me out the window and shrieked in pain. The sun's rays were burning her. I wanted so much to help my friend, but I knew that was the only way to bring her back to normal.
All of a sudden, she started screaming in terror, not pain, as she began to fall to the ground. I dove after Raven and caught her by the arms.
"Raven, do you remember anything?"
"Nothing. But what's going on? And where did I get these clothes? I love them!"
"Long story. Right now, we need to help Starfire!" I took her by the arm and sprinted off to the attic.
"Where's Star? What is going on here?" Raven asked, trying to keep up.
I explained the whole situation to my clueless friend.
"Let's do this!" She sprinted behind me, razors ready.
"This is it," I said. We stopped at the attic door.
"What makes you think that they're in the attic?" Raven stared at the solid oak door.
"Mrs. Ramsey said to stay out of the attic because there was private stuff up here. Plus it was the only room we didn't search. It has to be it!"
I swung my arm in front of me.
Raven went into the room first. Before I could do anything, she had Alexander cornered, a blade to his throat.
"Raven! Where's Star?" I asked.
I got my answer.
I felt someone take hold of both of my shoulders and before I knew what was happening, I was flung against the stone wall. To top that off, when I opened my eyes, I found myself pinned against the wall, Starfire glaring at me.
Plus side: I found my Star.
Down side: She wanted to kill me.
"Not you too!" I said. I struggled to get free, but Star was too strong... and she wasn't even trying!
"Raven! Do it now!" I managed to shout.
"Do what?" She was starting to back up. Alexander's shocked was wearing off.
"Destroy him!" I coughed.
"If you insist!" I could tell she was smiling. All I could hear was a battle cry from raven and a scream of agony. There was an explosion and a flash of light.
Star blinked a couple times like she just woke up. Thankfully, she let me go.
"What's going on? Where are we?" She asked. "And why does Raven have fangs?"
"What?!" Raven frantically felt her teeth. "Oh my God. She's right!"
"Alexander did say that there could be a small side affect," Star said.
"Sure. The one thing you do remember..." Raven sighed.
"Let's just get out of here!" I said. We ran through the house, retrieved our tuff and ran out of the place like there was no tomorrow.
Raven
"Hi, Honey! How was your sleep over?" My mom greeted me in a too-cheerful-too-early voice.
"Great," I said, forcing a smile.
"Raven, are you wearing plastic vampire teeth?" She looked at me like I was nuts.
FYI: They're called fangs.
"Yeah."
I wish.
"Okay, then. You look terrible. Why don't you go sleep in your room for a bit? I bet you stayed up all night with Aelita and Starfire," Mom said, smiling. It was pitiful how oblivious she was.
"You have no idea..." I dragged myself up the stairs.