Chronicles of the Night

In the last chapter, Lisa's ability to cope with her vampirism has reached a new low, and Felix in desperation has set up a meeting with her parents. In the meantime, a mysterious vampire known as Von Drake has appeared, and set loose his new vampire minions in LA. After Night-claw and Night-roller defeated two of them, Drake seems to be ready to find whom they are searching for.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Marvel comic elements present in this story, I do own my original characters and the plot.

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Dark night

"What about Sera?" The vampire Jeff asked. The five vampires were in some basement in an unknown building in LA. Von Drake turned around and stared at Jeff evilly.

"We can leave her." Drake said coldly.

"She's dead then?" The last female vampire asked.

"No, it does take a vampire a few hours to recover from a broken neck, but even if we were to look for her, the sun would come out and kill us all." Von Drake said.

"So that's it. We're going to leave her to die then?" Paul asked.

"It doesn't matter, if you all have to die to achieve our goal then so be it." Drake said.

"Raaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!" Jeff lunged at Drake out of anger, however Drake grabbed Jeff around the neck and soon had Jeff flailing helplessly to try and get out of Drake's grip. Drake tightened his grip and

SNAP

He then dropped Jeff to the ground, his body limp and his neck hanging loosely. "While we rest and wait for the sun to go down, you can recover from that neck and hopefully learn a lesson." Drake hissed. The other three backed away from Drake, realizing now that even with their newfound power they would be no match for the veteran vampire.

Meanwhile…

"You did what now!?!" Joseph yelled at Felix. They were in the recording studio room alone with the music going fairly loudly.

"Don't yell… Lisa might hear." Felix moaned.

"That's why I have the music up so she can't hear us over it." Joseph said.

"Yeah and it's giving me a headache…" Felix said while trying to look for a way out.

"Not the point!" Joseph raised his voice again. "Do you know what you just did? Did you think through this at all?!" Joseph asked. "There are so many ways this could go wrong."

"Um… well… we weren't getting any other ideas, what else could we do? Wait until later to do this same thing?" Felix asked.

"No… wait until later so we COULD get an idea." Joseph said. "I mean… how will her parents react? Do you think they'll be overjoyed with the fact that she's a vampire now?"

"She's their daughter. It shouldn't matter should it?" Felix argued back, starting to lose his own temper.

"Look, Lisa is still a great kid, there isn't any denying that." Joseph said. "But I've heard of several cases of parents trying to kill their kids if that kid ends up being a mutant. Imagine how a parent like that would react to their child being a vampire."

"You're accusing Trace of being that base?" Felix asked mildly loudly.

"No, I don't think he is. But here's a fact that we're going to have to accept. Even if this goes right, what happens after that?" Joseph asked. Felix paused and his small and narrow eyes darted back and forth as if looking for an answer in the room. "She won't be able to go to school with other kids in broad daylight since it will kill her, she can't eat with her family since she gags on everything except blood, do you think everything will be undone just like that?"

"…" Felix hadn't thought about that at all. What would happen afterwards? Was this just going to make things worse? Felix then turned to Joseph. "Joseph, but… maybe this could work. We could put a lot of people's minds to rest. They'd know that she's alive right? In a way…"

"Felix, I can't think of a positive outcome to any of this." Joseph said blatantly.

"But… well her parents sound reasonable… just maybe something good could come from this. They'd at least have some comfort being able to see each other right?"

"Augh…" Joseph sighed and shook his head. "You… already set up the meeting though…" Joseph said. "Dang it Felix… what am I going to do with you?" He said while cringing.

"So you'll help with this?" Felix asked.

"It doesn't look like I even have a choice now." Joseph said. They both turned around and… "Lisa!" Joseph said in a surprised tone of voice.

"…" Lisa looked at them with sad blue eyes.

"You shouldn't have had the music so loud. I would have heard her otherwise." Felix said to Joseph under his breath. Joseph turned off the music and looked at Lisa.

"Do you… really want to go through with this?" Joseph asked.

"…" Lisa looked at the floor for a minute, she then looked back up at them. "Mm-hm." She responded with a nod.

"Okay then." Felix responded.

Meanwhile…

"Trace, it's not that I don't believe you it's just… something doesn't feel right about this." Diana told Trace. Diana had blue eyes, long hair, and a face that resembled Lisa's. "I mean… I really want to see Lisa again, but… but…"

"What is it?" Trace asked.

"Why would one of the Night-hunters tell you this?" She asked.

"I… I don't know…" Trace said. "You don't think they're involved in her disappearing do you?"

"I… I would like to think that mutants really can be the good guys but… what if they are?" She asked.

"But… how else can we get Lisa back?" Trace asked.

"You're right. I… I just… I just want Lisa back right now too." Diana answered.

That night…

A figure stood on a rooftop, looking over the busy streets below him. The figure had enveloped himself in a black cloak, and the only thing visible under the hood was his nose and mouth, revealing a rather pale complexion. His nostrils flared as if whiffing the air. His mouth opened and asked only one question. "Am I too late?"

Elsewhere that night…

"Prepare yourself my servants." Von Drake said as he held up the charm Felix picked up the night before. "Soon we shall find the one we seek."

"But… we'll definitely run in to those guys again." Jeff said, his neck back to normal as if it were never broken.

"What then?" The girl vampire asked.

"You've been part of my kind long enough… to be able to perform that feat." Von Drake said. "And anyone that stands in the way, kill them. Or better yet…"

Even later that night…

"…" Night-claw was on the rooftop of the apartment building Lisa's parents lived in, his heart was pounding, as if it were trying to break through his chest. The moment that they all anticipated and feared was coming. It was coming tonight.

On the roof across from him was Night-roller. Night-roller could feel his heart beating strongly too, it almost hurt to have it thumping against his chest like it was, but he could not contain this feeling.

Night-princess lurked in the shadows of the alleyway, staying in the shadows. She had waited for this moment the day she became a vampire. The night in which she could see her parents. What would she say? How would they react? As these questions raced through her head, her fear only grew. What if they feared her? What would she do then? What?

Click

Soon Night-claw and Night-princess heard the sound of a door opening, and two sets of footsteps coming from the front of the apartment complex. "It's time." Night-claw said in to the radio quietly.

"Let's hope for the best." Night-roller said grimly, clearly he was expecting the worst.

"Hello?" Diana asked fearfully.

"Is anyone there?" Trace asked, holding his wife close.

"…" Night-princess dropped the empty vaccine of serum she was holding. A tear leaked from her blue eyes, from behind her shades. "Mom… dad…"

"Lisa?" Diana asked. Her voice trembling.

"Here it comes…" Night-claw thought.

"Lisa? Are you there?" Trace asked louder. Lisa stepped out from the shadows only slightly. "Lisa!" Trace gasped, a smile appearing on his face. Both Diana and Trace stepped forward, about to run and embrace their daughter.

"Wait." Lisa said. "Please… just wait."

"Lisa? What's wrong sweetie?" Diana asked. "Look, we're sorry but… we just want you to come back inside with us. Just come back home." Diana said, tears that were a mixture of joy and slight confusion softening the look in her eyes.

"Mom… dad…" Lisa choked a little bit.

"Oh… how is she going to explain this?" Night-roller thought. "I'm… not sure I can watch." He said, the guilt of what might happen already weighing on his shoulders.

"Things have happened… things have happened to me." Lisa said.

"Lisa… are you alright?" Trace asked as he took a few steps closer.

"I'm not sure." Lisa said sadly as tears leaked down her cheeks and dangled from her chin.

"Honey… what's wrong? We're… we're here for you now. Everything will be alright now." Diana said sadly. "At least… at least you're alive."

"…" Lisa looked away for a moment. "No… no I'm not." Lisa said.

"Lisa, don't be ridiculous honey…" Trace said softly. "You're here right now…"

"I'm not!" She cried. "I've changed since that night dad. It's a change I didn't want… a change I didn't need… a change that I… I… I would have traded everything just to be rid of it!"

"Lisa… you're… scaring me. Please, just tell mom what's wrong." Diana begged her daughter.

"I… I… you… you couldn't understand." Lisa said as her tears finally won the battle. She collapsed on the ground and cried. Her parents ran over and embraced her.

"Oh… I… god please let this turn out alright." Night-claw thought to himself while his face turned to a frown. "Hm? Strange… thought I heard something." Night-claw thought as he turned around to notice nothing.

"I… I…" Lisa's words were caught in her throat. "I'm… a vampire…" She whispered, practically inaudible.

"What?" Trace asked. His voice trembling a little bit.

"I… I'm… I'm just a monster now." Lisa sobbed. "Look at these!!!" She cried in agony as she showed them her teeth, revealing her dagger-like canine teeth.

"Oh… oh Lisa! What… what happened to you?" Diana gasped.

"Please… please don't make her cry any more." Night-roller thought.

"Hm? Okay… that time I know I heard something else… oh crap!" Night-claw eyed Night-roller and flicked on the radio. "Night-roller…" He whispered with a hiss.

"What?" Night-roller whispered back.

"Behind you." Night-claw hissed.

"Hm? Whoa!"

"Hsssssssssssssssssss!!!" Jeff lunged at Night-roller and tackled him off the roof and in to the alleyway.

CRASH

"AAAHH!" Diana screamed.

"Aaaaaaahhhh!!!" Paul screamed as he went flying off of the roof Night-claw was standing on himself.

"Whoa!" Night-claw back-flipped over the two alleyways as the female vampire nearly jumped him.

"Diana! Lisa! Let's get out of here!"

"You're not going anywhere…" The nameless male vampire said standing in front of them.

"AH!" Diana shouted as the vampire grabbed her wrist.

"Let go!" Night-princess rushed that vampire and kicked him in the gut.

"OOF!!!" The vampire went sprawling backwards.

"Lisa how did you… AH!" The female vampire grabbed Trace and was about to bite his neck when Night-roller grabbed that vampire and threw her off.

"Run! Now!" Night-roller shouted at Trace. He turned and blocked two punches from Paul and the girl vampire.

"Ha!" Jeff was about to jump Night-roller from behind had Night-claw not jumped down and tackled him to the ground. "OOF!"

"You're not going anywhere for the last time!" The vampire man shouted as he threw a punch. Night-princess caught the punch and stopped it cold. "Huh? Huuuurrrggghhh…" The man tried desperately to push harder, but Night-princess bent his wrist backwards. "AUGH!"

"I'm sorry…" She whispered. She then kicked that guy under the chin.

"Lisa! Oh my god!" Diana shouted. The alleyway was now a madhouse, the vampires all lunging for Night-princess, only for the other Night-hunters to intervene, trade blows and get thrown off again. Night-roller them aimed a three fingered blasts at two vampires on either side of him and blasted them both in to the walls of the alleyway.

"Now go!" Night-roller shouted. He turned around and

WHAM

"AH!" Night-roller was sent sprawling by a punch.

"Night-roller! AH!" Night-claw was distracted for a moment, long enough for the girl to sink her fangs in to his neck.

"AAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!" Diana screamed as this sight.

"Oh my…" Trace gasped in fear.

"Night-claw!" Night-princess shouted. But then the girl withdrew her fangs and spit out his blood.

"Ow… you know it hurt the first time and it doesn't feel any better now…" Night-claw groaned as he grabbed his neck.

"HIS BLOOD!!! IT'S HORRIBLE!!!" The girl cried in agony.

"Get up!" Jeff told Night-roller, ignoring the girl vampires cries as Night-princess took advantage of the confusion and threw her in to a wall. Night-roller grabbed Jeff and pinned him to the wall. "Arrrrrgh…"

"Not so tough now are ya!" Night-roller shouted. The other two vampires got up and began fighting with Night-claw, one of them breaking off to try and attack Lisa's parents. Much to Night-roller's surprise, Jeff's body seemed to be dissolving. "What?" From the legs up, parts of his body were flying off and forming vague shadows. As the last of him separated, each one took the shape of a bat.

"Huh? Since when could they do that?" Night-claw asked as he noticed the swarm of bats fluttering around the alleyway.

"AH! AH! AH! AAAAAAAHHHH!!!" Diana screamed.

"Get behind me!" Trace shouted. The bats then swarmed together and Jeff's body reformed itself. The vampires and the Night-hunters were back to fighting again as they tried desperately to keep the vampires from Lisa's parents. The five of them soon found themselves surrounded by the four vampires.

"Enough!"

"Hm?" Everyone looked up at one of the rooftops.

"Lord Von Drake." Paul said. Von Drake was looking down, casting an evil glare across the alleyway. Drake hopped down and practically seemed to glide down in to the alley before landing gently. He walked towards the group and then spoke.

"Why haven't you turned them yet?" Drake asked.

"That one in the gear… I tried but some magical force-field keeps me from biting him." Jeff said. Drake eyed Night-roller.

"You the one leading this?" Night-roller asked.

"You dare question me human?" Drake asked, taking offense to this apparently.

"You're going down now son!" Night-roller kicked it in to high gear and bolted for Von Drake. However Von Drake took a firm stance and threw a punch at Night-roller's abdomen. "OOF!!!" He was sent flying backwards as Drake shook his fist.

"Force field at twenty-six percent. Warning."

BAM

"Force field down, force field down. Warning." Von Drake threw another punch at Joseph and dispelled the force field. He then felt Night-roller's neck before hurling him back at the group.

"It's merely man's pathetic technology." Drake scoffed.

"Don't you dare treat him like that you piece of…" Night-claw shouted as he ran at Drake with a fist drawn back. "Gack…" Drake grabbed Night-claw by the throat and held him in the air. "His… grip… he's… much stronger… than these other guys…" Night-claw thought. Drake brought his nose close to Night-claw's neck, and sniffed the small bleeding holes in his neck.

"His blood… is diseased… aside you worthless piece of trash!" Drake demanded as he hurled Night-claw to the ground.

"Stop hurting them!" Night-princess shouted. She ran at Drake, jumped and threw a kick at him. Drake ducked it, stood up, spun around and grabbed Night-princess under her arms while she was still in mid-air.

"Let her go! GAH!" Finally, the female vampire bit Trace in the neck.

"AAAAHHHH!!!" Soon the nameless male vampire bit Diana's neck.

"NO!" Night-claw shouted before Jeff stomped on his head. "Ooooggg…" It was lucky he didn't pass out.

"MOOOOOOOM!!! DAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!" Night-princess screamed at the top of her lungs. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

"I owe you one…" Jeff hissed to Night-roller as he leaned for his neck.

"Don't turn that one just yet." Drake told Jeff. He set the violently struggling Night-princess down, and then blocked a punch she threw the second he set her down. "Amazing… your strength already surpasses that of a peak male vampire after he was bitten." Drake said with admiration.

"MOM!!! DAD!!!" Night-princess tried sidestepping her way past Von Drake, but he proved to be faster than she was in every sense of the word, and it was no use. He finally grabbed Night-princess by the shoulders and held her arms down.

"After all this time… I've finally found you. After decades of plotting and searching I've finally found you." Drake muttered.

"Wha… what is that supposed to mean?" Night-princess asked angrily.

"Lisa… forgive me for my impudence earlier… but now I have finally found you." Drake said.

"How… do you… know her name…" Night-roller demanded. "OOF!" Jeff then slammed his helmet against the wall.

"Quiet human!" Jeff shouted at him.

"Lisa… I suppose you deserve… an explanation…" Von Drake said. "Your turning… was no coincidence."

"What?" Night-princess asked, still trying to get out of his grip.

"Let her go you OOF!!!" Night-claw's head was slammed against the ground again by Paul. "Must… keep… conscious." Night-claw thought.

"Hold Lisa still, but do not harm her." Drake said. The two vampires that just bit her parents walked over and gripped Night-princess. Drake then began pacing in front of our heroes. "My name is Madrick Von Drake." Drake introduced. "I was formerly… the right arm of the King of Vampires himself." Drake hissed.

"So?" Night-claw hissed.

"Quiet…" Paul hissed to him.

"I am one of the oldest living vampires today… thus my power exceeds that of most vampires, and yet… when the former king of vampires grew tired of his eternal life, I was not worthy of being his successor." Drake said. "He charged me with the task of finding a worthy successor. And so… I created this." Drake said as he held out a small bottle.

"And that is?" Night-roller gasped as Jeff kept him pinned to the wall.

"The Draculine Exhibitor drug… it increases a vampires strengths, but at the cost of that vampire losing their eternal life and dying within the year, with no hope of resurrection." Drake continued to explain. "However, the people they bite and turn… they also exhibit enhanced characteristics by vampire norm, and without that side-effect."

"…" Night-princess was listening to this in awe. "That vampire… he had it…"

"That's correct. One of my followers took the drug at my behest, and bit twelve children, from newborns to a year before you age, before you were turned Lisa."

"What… happened to them?" Night-princess asked, horror struck, not even resisting anymore.

"If a normal vampire had bitten them, they would have turned, but because of the strength of the drug, they died before they could turn."

"You… monster…" Night-claw hissed. "GACK!"

"I said shut up!" Paul hissed as he slammed his elbow in to Night-claw's backside.

"Twelve… before… me…" Night-princess breathed heavily, she was about to break down again, and her eyes were beginning to turn red.

"Hm? Ah… another… unexpected side-effect of being turned by the drug." Drake said. "Your eyes… you're the only one whose eyes seem to do that… indicate your thirst that is." Drake said. "But… that's beside the point. You… were the only one who survived." Drake said.

"Why young children? Why children?!" Night-roller demanded. "OOF!"

"Clamp that mouth shut or I'll tear your lips from your head." Jeff threatened.

"Human… silence…" Drake hissed. "Children vampires, their bodies age normally until a certain point at young adult-hood, and they grow to be stronger than a vampire that was turned as an adult in most cases. So I thought, if a fledgling vampire has powers that already exceed most adult vampires, then imagine how strong they would be if they aged with that kind of power."

"…" Night-princess listened on, her eyes darting over to her parents. "I… never wanted this…"

"It is true that the longer a vampire lives the stronger they become regardless, but fledglings grow exponentially stronger as they age, and an enhanced fledgling. The results seems perfect in truth." Drake said. "Had Blade not gotten to my servant and you first I would have had you sooner, but now at last I've found you."

"What… do you mean?" Night-princess asked with a trembling voice. Night-roller and Night-claw eyed Von Drake with both disdain and bewilderment as all of this information dawned on them.

"Lisa… with some training from me… don't you see?" Drake then got down on one knee and bowed his head to Lisa. "Lisa… you… will become our queen."

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