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Fight
In the morning, all of us were tired and we didn't talk much. There was a tension between us that had never been there before and I didn't like it, but I didn't say anything, either. By noon, I couldn't take it anymore, so I left for a while, saying I'd be back in time for the store to open.
I wandered around the Boardwalk aimlessly, my thoughts drifting. A lot had happened in only eight days. My life had been turned around and twisted upside down until I no longer knew fact from fiction. The only thing I knew was that the world was more clandestine that I'd bargained for, and I had to be prepared for it to bite me in the ass. It already had by taking my cousin away from me…I cringed at the thought and tried to think of something else.
As I was searching my brain for a more cheerful topic, I came to realize slowly that I had wandered into an alley in between two dilapidated buildings. Suddenly, my heart started fluttering in my chest and my legs and arms went all watery. Something was very, very wrong.
That's when I heard the scream- the heart-wrenching, gut-grinding, horrifying, pained, terror-scream. It erupted from the building to my right and stopped me dead in my tracks. It was cut off with a gurgling, choking sound, followed by sinister laughter. I didn't need half a brain to know that whoever had just screamed had not been attacked by a normal human being. My insides turned to jelly, and I had to use all my strength to turn around and run. I didn't stop until I'd reached the comic book store, and I didn't look back to see if anyone had followed me.
When I burst through the door, I ran right into Edgar and we both tumbled to the ground. "What the hell-'' he began but I quieted him with my words. "Someone was just attacked by vampires!" I burst out. Instantly Edgar and Allan jumped into action.
"Where did it take place?" Edgar demanded. "Uh, I'm not exactly sure…I could probably take you guys there, though," I stammered. "Alright, Allan, get our gear together, and get some for Megan, too!" Edgar's eyes had filled with a dark flame that flickered and danced with unspeakable fury. I knew he was thinking about his parents.
Allan ran into our bedroom and didn't have to spend a minute looking for the vampire hunting gear. He tossed Edgar a backpack and slipped one over his own shoulders, then handed me two stakes and a squirt gun of, presumably, Holy water. "Alright, let's go!" Edgar commanded and we all hopped on our bikes.
I lead them through winding back alleys and through large streets filled with people, until I finally found the two dilapidated buildings. "I heard a scream come from there," I whispered, pointing to the building on the right. Edgar and Allan nodded determinedly and flanked me on either side, raising their stakes high in preparation for battle. My heart pounded fearfully in my chest and my brain screamed at my body to run. But I couldn't leave Edgar and Allan, so I controlled my terror and stayed close to the brothers.
There was no door to the building, only the skeleton of the door that was there, just as there were no window panes, just window holes. Inside, dust motes spiraled in the little light that leaked inside, but mostly it was dark so it took a moment for my eyes to adjust. When they did, I wanted to scream, and run, and puke all at the same time. In the center of the room, pieces of a dead human body lay, ravaged, in a pool of blood. Edgar grimaced and I heard Allan gag at the stench that rose from the gore.
"Well, well, well, look at this, Ashlee! Dessert…" a voice growled delightedly from a corner. All three of us jumped and my heart faltered. A man, scarily similar to the one in my nightmare, approached us, followed by two others, a blonde woman and a dark-haired younger man. The blonde girl cackled evilly, baring her teeth in a snarl…or maybe she was grinning, I couldn't tell.
"Yes, they smell especially tasty!" she agreed, sounding sickly excited. "Axel, guard the door," the first man ordered, and before me or the brothers could even blink, the dark-haired vampire had leaped over our heads and now stood near the doorway but still in the shadows. We were trapped.
Axel and Ashlee started approaching and Edgar raised his stake higher, even though his hand was trembling in fear. "Don't take one more step, bloodsucker," he warned, stepping slightly in front of me and Allan. "Uh oh, Ashlee, they're hunters! Whatever will we do?" Axel sneered and I clenched my teeth. "I don't know, Axel! I'm scared!" Ashlee quipped, clutching onto the vampire man's arm.
Axel laughed viciously. "You really think you can hurt us, let alone kill us?" he asked. He meant it to be hypothetical, but Edgar answered him anyway: "Yes, we do." I could tell by his tone that he was deadly serious, and so could the vampires. Their sneers vanished, to be replaced by snarl-frowns.
"You're sadly mistaken, kid," Axel growled and then leaped without another word of warning. Ashlee darted forward at the same time, knocking me to the floor with her long, slashing claws. The stakes I held clattered to the floor and rolled away into the darkness. I pulled out the squirt gun from my pocket and pushed myself up.
Axel had leaped at Edgar, but my friend had raised his stake in time to stab it deeply into the vampire's heart. He now lay, writhing in agony, on the floor. Ashlee, who had cornered Allan, whimpered in dismay at Axel's death. Allan took advantage of her distraction to squirt her with Holy water. She howled in rage and swiped her claws across Allan's outstretched arm, slapping the water gun away and clawing his hand viciously.
Without wasting one second, Ashlee then lunged through the air at Edgar and grabbed him by the throat. He struggled and fought, but the vampire was stronger than any human and he couldn't break free.
Everything happened so fast. My eyes saw red as fury bubbled up in my chest. She had hurt my friends and she would kill Edgar- I wasn't stupid and I knew it was true. I grabbed one of the stakes that I'd dropped and raced toward the vampire. She didn't see me coming until it was too late.
I drove the stake right into her chest, and she immediately let go of Edgar as if she'd touched scalding water. He fell to the floor, gasping and coughing, but the rage still burned strongly in me and I continued to slash at her with the stake, until she collapsed on the floor, crying out in pain and anger.
When I raised the stake to slash her again, clawed hands wrapped around my wrist and pulled my arm back. I heard the break- the snap as my bone cracked at the wrist- and I screamed in agony. But the last vampire, the dark-haired man, took no heed and he shoved me to my feet. "You'll pay for that," he hissed in my ear as I panted in pain. And then he bit down hard on my neck. I cried weakly in pain again, but soft red dots were flooding into my vision. I had the sensation of falling as the red dots blocked everything else out. And then a wave of blackness swallowed everything up.
R+R please! No flames.