Chapter 4: Vampires!
That morning in the hotel room, the sun shone through the window disturbing both Jake and Rose causing them to wake up. When they woke up, they could feel pain running through their bodies. They both rushed to the bathroom to get out of the sun not even trying to figure out why the sun hurt so much. Once the two got to the bathroom, the pain slowly stopped. They both took big breaths but Jake's breath didn't last as long and he saw two fangs in Rose's mouth. Instead of making a sound, Jake reached up in his mouth and confirming his fear, he to has two fangs. 'So this is what the Dark Dragon meant by a living nightmare but why aren't we still asleep?' Jake questioned as Rose stared at him. Jake started calling his name and waving her hand in front of his face. "Rose, we have a problem." Jake said as he looked in the mirror not seeing a single reflection. Jake pointed to the mirror to get Rose to look which she did. Rose turned to the mirror and saw nothing but mirror.
"Jake, what is up with the mirror, I can't see us in it." Jake knew that Rose would be a little confused by this or is denying the facts so he told her to feel inside her mouth. Rose thinking he was trying to play some kind of game went along with what he was telling her to do. When she felt around her mouth, she also felt two fangs and then she remembered what the Dark Dragon had said. "So this is what he meant by a living nightmare and why aren't we still asleep? Rose asked. Jake shook his head not knowing why they are awake but not really caring at this specific moment.
"Look Rose, we need to find out how to change ourselves back to normal before we get to hungry or we may have to ask my parents to go out and buy some really red meat and if I keep talking, I may make us hungry and that would be very bad." Jake said criticizing himself. He looked over to Rose who was nodding her head. "Now our other problem is how do we get to the curtains to close them without to much pain?" Then an idea popped into his head as he grabbed two big towels and wrapped one around his lower body and one over his upper body and head to keep him shaded from the light. Rose wished him luck as he ran out of the room and over to the curtains.
He quickly closed them which caused everyone to wake up from the sudden darkness. "Hey Jake, why did you close the curtains? Haley asked as she woke up.
Jake started getting a little worried but then thought of a reasonable lie in order to keep himself from looking like an idiot or making everyone freak out. 'I just thought that you all would want it darker in here since it is so bright and I wanted you to sleep longer." Jake said smiling but everyone just stared at him with suspicion.
"Yeah right Jake, now what is really up?" Haley asked not falling for his little lie.
"Ok fine but if I tell you, you have to promise not to freak out." Jake said as Rose walked up next to him. Everyone nodded their heads though they couldn't see what it was that they would have any reason to freak over. "You see, Rose and I had a dream date last night but the Dark Dragon interfered right after the White Dragon. Anyway, the Dark Dragon did something to effect us here in the real world of course we should still be asleep but that is getting of topic. Rose and I both fought vampires in our dreams and lost horribly and got bit and now here we are as vampires which is why I am wearing this towels and closing the curtains." Jake and Rose gave off a worried laugh as everyone stared at them.
Then everyone started laughing not believing anything Jake said. "No really, what is the real reason?" Haley asked
Jake didn't know any other way but to scare them. "You don't mind me scarring you a little do you Haley." Then Haley started taunting him telling him that there was no way he could actually scare her. "Ok Haley, you don't think I can scare you, then you won't mind then." Jake threw off the towels he had on and threw them on the floor. He walked up to Haley and stared her in the eyes. Haley noticed that his eyes were red but assumed that he just didn't sleep well which is partly true. Then without warning Jake showed his fangs and picked up Haley with his one hand. He still held his mouth open to make sure she got a good look at them and then started floating up off the ground. Haley now seeing the truth begged Jake to put her down but Jake didn't realize that getting this close to someone was going to make him hungry and he slowly got closer to Haley's neck. Rose saw this and tackled Jake to the ground. This brought Jake back to his senses. Jake looked around and saw everyone staring at him in fear. "Sorry Haley, I didn't realize that getting close to someone like that was going to make me crazy." Jake apologized, then Lao Shi walked into the room meaning how he wasn't there before but he did listen in on the conversation.
"It is ok young dragon, I have never really taught you about vampires. Susan, go to the store and buy the reddest meats you can for the two. I am going to be working on a cure for this so in the meantime, you two must not go outside during the day and must keep you distance. The powers will take awhile before they kick in fully. I just hope that I can have the cure ready by then. As long as you stay away from people, everyone should be ok. Good Luck." Then Lao Shi left to make a cure.
"So mom, go get us some meat before we get to hungry, I don't want a replay of earlier." Jake said and everyone nodded their heads then Susan left to the store.
