A/N: This lovely chapter is dedicated to Pyromaniac-Girl who has given me some of my most interesting requests, and also who wanted the return of Count Batula (he made an appearance in one of my other halloween fics called The Love Lair). Read and review?
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any of the characters. I do, however, own Count Batula.
Count Cullen
"Emmett, why do you insist on keeping that thing around?" Edward asked as he glared at the vampire bat that was sitting on his brother's shoulder.
"Edward! He has a name, and it isn't 'thing'." Emmett cried out, abashed as to why his eldest sibling would not take it into consideration that the little bat was his pet, and friend.
"Oh? Well then, what title have you bestowed on him?"
"Count Batula."
"Gah! Emmett!" Edward exclaimed as he tossed his arms in the air. "I should have known. Every Halloween since you've been with us, you've collected stray vampire bats, claiming that they were your pets and giving them ridiculous names."
"They are not ridiculous!"
"If I recall correctly last year it was 'Dracula'."
"A perfectly good name for a vampire bat."
"No! It isn't! What you're doing is a disgrace to the term 'vampire'!"
"Edward!"
"No, Emmett! This is enough. Either you get that thing out of here or I'm going to rip its head off and feed it to one of the dogs for a snack!"
Growling, Emmett stood up from the couch, Count Batula sitting steadily on his shoulder.
"Edward," He began, "Count Batula will not sit here and listen to your petty little insinuations any more! We're leaving!"
With that, Emmett stormed off out through the kitchen only to come back a few seconds later muttering a swift 'wrong way' before he strode over to the stairs, whispering to his 'friend' all the way.
"Don't worry, Count Batula, Count Cullen won't let mean old Edward hurt you."
"Count Cullen?" Edward sighed as he moved from the chair he was occupying to the now empty couch and stretched out like a cat. "Just wait until Rosalie gets jealous of that thing, no kisses for a week should teach him not to bring home strays…"