Chapter 13: The Disappearance

Amanda's POV

"Hey guys! We should get moving! It looks like it's going to rain any second." I yell out to the others swimming in the ocean as I look up at the sky. The dark gray clouds start to stretch out from the mountains just as the sun begins to set out over the horizon.

"Maybe it's just a convenient patch of gray clouds passing through. Do you really think it's going to rain today?" asks the Viper to my left as he looks up at my face, his body drying out after coming out from the water earlier. A loud crack of thunder echoes throughout the sky as we watch as a bolt of lightning dances throughout the clouds above us.

"You were saying?" I ask as I slap him in the abs. He shoots me an incredulous look before finally sitting up with an exasperated grin on his face. "It's going to rain for sure now."

"How do you call these things?" he asks me as he begins to put his stuff away in his bag.

"I'll never tell. I'm keeping that a secret." I say with a smirk as I quickly put my stuff in my bag.

"Okay, who knew that it was supposed to rain today?" asked Layla tiredly as everyone makes their way over to our spot. "Kaitlyn?"

"Oh . . . just because I can manipulate lightning, you turn to me." said Kaitlyn with a roll of her eyes. "Okay, so yeah, I can also sense when a storm is coming, but I was having too much fun in the water to really pay attention to it. By the way . . . where's Barbie?"

"Right here!" yelled the blonde Diva as she ran over to the rest of the group from somewhere down the beach.

"Babe, where have you been? You've been gone for hours!" asks Ted as he flails his arms.

"I'm a mermaid remember?" asks Barbie as she rolls up her towel. "I needed to stretch my tail out."

"See any other mermaids while you were gone?" asked Alicia as she hiked her bag over her shoulder.

"No . . . but I did see a Kraken. Poor shark . . . didn't stand a chance." says Kelly as we make our way over to the exit.

"What kind was it?" asks Wade as he raised an eyebrow.

"A Great White; he just got caught by one of the Kraken's tentacles and was chucked into its mouth like it was a chicken nugget." answers Kelly as we walk onto solid asphalt.

"I would love to see that, and speaking of Great Whites," says Adam with a smile as he turned to Sheamus, who was as sunburned as the Pink Panther was . . . well pink. "How do you like your tan fella?"

"I absolutely hate it." answers Sheamus with a smile, gaining a few chuckles from the guys. "I'm glad I wore my sandals or else it would be too painful for me to walk."

"I told you to wear sunscreen today, but did you listen to me? . . . NO! You decided to be a dumbass and let yourself bake all day!" complains Layla as she crossed her arms.

"I know, I know. I should have listened to you lassie. Are you done complaining about my bad decision?" asks Sheamus as he resisted the urge to cross his arms.

"Not yet," says Layla as she turned to the Celtic Warrior. A small smirk instantly appears on her face as she hits Sheamus with a chop to the chest, gaining a lot more laughs from the rest of us, and a pained grimace from her boyfriend. "Now I'm done."

"You are so lucky I don't hit girls." mumbles Sheamus as we finally reach the SUVs.

"Don't worry Sheamus. I'll heal up your sunburn once we get home." said Kelly as she entered the silver SUV.

"I'll hold you up to it Barbie." says Sheamus as he enters the blue SUV's backseat with Wade as Monica and Layla took the front seats.

"You got to feel bad for him. For the next two hours, he has to survive a car ride through the mountainous, pot holed filled roads with that bad sunburn of his." comments Lita as we all enter the black SUV.

"Eh . . . Sheamus is known as the Celtic Warrior for a reason. He'll survive the car ride." I say as I buckle up my seat belt. I turn to my left to see both Adam and Randy with mysterious smirks on their faces. "Okay, I'm afraid to look into either of you two's minds so I'm just going to ask. . . What are you two smirking at?"

"I was just thinking about what Barbie said about seeing that Kraken eating the shark like a nugget." says Randy as he let out a small chuckle. "It's actually kinda funny now that I think about it."

"I was thinking about the possibility of a sunburned Sheamus in the wrestling ring. . . Oh crap, that is frightening and funny at the same damn time." says Adam as he crosses his arms. He looks out his window and a scowl instantly comes up on his face. "They're looking at us."

Randy turns to look out the same way Edge is facing and a scowl ends up appearing on his face too. I exchange curious looks with Amy before we both turn to see what the boys were talking about; the guys we played volleyball with earlier in the day were staring at us as they stood by their convertibles.

"Okay; that is just freaking creepy." says Lita as she raises an eyebrow at the group.

"Yeah . . . I'm going to drive out now." I say as I turn the key in the ignition. I pull the car out of its spot and drive out the parking lot, passing the guys as they continued to stare at us as we left.

"Well, at least we don't have to see them for the rest of the vacation." says Lita as she leans back into her seat. "So now you two don't need to send death glares out the window."

Randy and Adam turn to face Lita, their glares unwavering as they scowl at the female werewolf.

"Okay . . . when I said that you two don't need to send death glares out the window, I didn't mean for you two to send them to me!" says Lita as she brings her T-shirt over her face.

"We live to make you uncomfortable, that's all babe." says Adam as he uncrosses his arms. And then he turns to me. "But still, are you SURE that all those dudes minds were blank except for dark hair, hazel eyes guy?"

"Positive" I say bluntly as I turn onto the road that leads to the freeway. "Hazel eyes' mind was all cryptic and confusing and I couldn't really make out anything. And then all of a sudden, he speaks to me saying that it's rude to look into other people's minds."

"He has a point there when invading mental privacy." mumbles Lita as she takes her shirt off her face. I grit my teeth a little before suddenly cocking my head to the side, making Lita start to uncontrollably laugh in an instant.

"WHAT *ha ha* THE *ha ha ha* HELL!" she asks in disbelief as she covers her mouth, but she still giggles nonetheless. Adam and Randy shoot her a shocked look before turning to me.

"'Manda, what did you do?" asks Randy as he raises an eyebrow.

"I didn't do anything," I say in mock innocence as I shrug my shoulders. "Lita's laughing is all on her."

"Damn it girl! You did this to me!" exclaims Lita as she points to herself; her eyes going wide as she realizes she's no longer laughing.

"You were saying?" I ask as I sneak a look at her in the rearview mirror just as the heavy rain began to fall.

"I'm watching you." says Lita as she does the signature gesture that comes with the phrase. "I'll get you back for that."

You somehow made Lita uncontrollably laugh when you cocked your head to the side didn't you? I hear Randy ask in his head as he sneaks a quick glance my way.

How'd you guess? I ask in mild surprise as I try to stop the smirk threatening to crawl onto my face.

I had a feeling. He tells me as I feel his hand cover mine. For the next hour, we drive back into the mountains in the heavy rain, listening to Adam's and Lita's old werewolf stories from when they were kids. That's probably the only bearable thing on this drive back home as the rain continues to pour down from the sky, making the activity of driving in the night in the mountains that much worse.

"OOH! What's that building?" cries Edge as he broke out of his story to stare out the window.

"DUDE! What the hell! You sounded like one of my fan girls just now!" complains Randy as he turned to face the Rated R Superstar.

"Sorry dude! But that building just called to me!" says Edge as he points out the window. We turn our heads to see what Edge was talking about. On top of a hill not too far away from us, stood an old, dilapidated, and very large building that probably hasn't seen a people within its walls for decades. I instantly recognize it once I make out the name inscribed on a plaque in front of the broken doors.

"I remember this place." I say in realization as I narrow my eyes at the building.

"You do?" asks Lita as she looks at me curiously. "How can you really tell in this nighttime weather?"

"I can never forget that place. My grandmother told me about it when I was a little girl. Fifty years ago, that old hall was known as the Bird of Paradise Community Center. It was home to the weddings, graduation ceremonies, basically, it was home to all the important events held in this area. But then 'The Disappearance" I tell them as we drive along the mountain slope.

"What's 'The Disappearance'?" asks Randy as he eyes the building one more time.

"'The Disappearance' was an unfortunate event that happened forty years ago." I say with a shrug. "On a night similar to this one were experiencing right now, a bride and her six bridesmaids was there at the hall to look over final preparations for the wedding that was going to be held there the next day. The thing is though . . . none of them made it back home."

"They all went missing?" asks Adam as he shoots me an incredulous look. "At the same time?"

"Yep; the bride's fiancé became worried because his beloved never came home at the time she said she would. So he decided to go the hall to check on them. He found all their cars parked to the side of the building, so he easily assumed they would be inside. All he found was a darkened building and small smears of blood on the dance floor. The bride and her friends were nowhere in sight." I tell them with a shrug as I turn onto another road, driving further away from the hall.

"Did he ever find them?" asks Lita as she shoots me an unsure look.

"Nope; he called the police and they scoured the entire area, but they never found them. All they did find was the bride's engagement in a bush near the building. Nothing else. They questioned the people that were helping to set up the hall for the wedding, but all of them had iron tight alibis." I say with a hint of sadness in my voice.

"What happened after that?" Randy asks me with curiosity evident in his eyes.

"Well, the wedding was postponed . . . and then canceled after a full year passed by. The hall was closed down because it was a crime scene and it never reopened since. To this day . . . the bridal party has never been found and is believed to be long dead now. The case has been cold for decades." I say as I pinch the bridge of his nose.

"Man . . . you just got to feel bad for the groom." says Adam with a sigh. "Whatever happened to him?"

"Well . . . the groom was never the same after his bride and her bridesmaids disappeared that night. He and his fiancé lived in a house on another hill that actually faced the hall. He couldn't bear looking at that building everyday anymore so he moved away." I say as I look at the group.

"If I was him, I would have done the same thing." mutters Adam as he took Lita's hand in his. Lita shoots him a sad smirk before turning away.

"Today . . . that building is just a place to fuel ghost stories. People have walked by it, in daytime and during the night alike, saying that they could hear screams coming from the hall before they would stop just like that. It's now one of the most well-known haunted buildings in all of Jamaica." I say with a sigh.

"How does your grandma know about this?" asks Randy as he raises an eyebrow.

"My grandma and the maid of honor's boyfriend were high school friends. She learned about it from him." I say as I start to drive uphill. They all nod their heads in understanding and leave it at that as we continue to drive back to the house. It takes us only another forty five minutes to reach the house's garage.

"This was a fun day, but I still have sand in my shorts." mumbles Kofi as he gets out of the silver SUV.

"Kelly . . . how about healing my tan for me now?" asks Sheamus as he gingerly picks up his towel from the car.

"Come with me." says Kelly as she beckons Sheamus forward with her finger. The Celtic Warrior happily obliges as he follows her and Layla into the kitchen, the rest of us following suit after them.

"Adam, Lita, what's with the sad looks on your faces?" asks Ted as he takes out a beer from the fridge.

"Amanda told us about 'The Disappearance' while we were driving back here." answers Lita as she passes Adam a Pepsi can.

"You told them the story?" Monica asks me in surprise as she stares at me wide eyed.

"Hey! Adam was the one that brought up the old haunted hall first." I say as I point to the werewolf.

"Are you guys talking about that old abandoned building on top of that hill we passed by an hour ago?" asked Ted as he walked into the kitchen. "Because I felt this spooky feeling come over me once we passed by it."

"Yep; that hall was where 'The Disappearance' happened. A bride and her six bridesmaids were last seen there the night before her wedding before suddenly vanishing without a trace." answers Monica as she takes out a granola bar from the cabinet. "It happened forty years ago and all of them were never found."

"Oh . . . I feel so bad for the groom." mutters Kaitlyn as she crossed her arms. "Did they ever catch the culprit . . . or culprits?"

"Nope; there were no suspects, but the people in the area suspected they disappeared by supernatural means." answers Monica as she takes a big bite out of her granola bar.

"Why do they suspect that?" asks Wade as he did a small shrug of his shoulders.

"Simple . . . the members of the missing bridal party were all werewolves." says Monica with a shrug. Adam, Randy, and Lita all turn to me with shocked eyes, taking me completely by surprise.

"You never told us that!" says Adam with an accusatory stare.

"I didn't know all the details of the story okay?" I ask as I raise my hands up in defense. "Cut me some slack."

"Well . . . it has been forty years since the event happen. They're probably as good as dead." says Cody with a shrug, getting appalled looks from Edge, Lita, and Wade. "That was too cynical of me to say wasn't it?"

Everyone shakes their heads yes for an answer.

"Yeah; I'm going to shut up now. Good night everybody!" calls Cody as he walks out the room.

"Yeah . . . I'm going to go make sure he doesn't say any more cynical things tonight." says Kaitlyn as she follows him out the room. I just shrug them off and take my leave. I let out a yawn as I walk up the stairs and into my room; making a beeline straight for the bathroom.

"Aw man! I knew that salt water was going to change my hairstyle." I mutter to myself as I look at my reflection in the bathroom mirror. My hair was slick straight and down my back this morning, and now, it was a curly afro that was a bit flat on top with the curled tendrils going down the sides of my face.

"Huh . . . now that I think about it, it's actually not that bad." I say as I take a good look at my hair. "I actually can comb my hair through it."

"Nice hairstyle!"

I look toward the door to see Randy leaning against the doorframe with a smirk on his face; his abs peeking out from his open buttoned down shirt.

"I actually like your hairstyle a lot better in afro form. It gives you a much more feral look." he tells me as he walks over to my side. "Plus, I think it would give you a much bigger impact when you show your red eyes in the ring."

"That may be the case, but then my hair would be an even bigger target for the other Divas. I can just imagine the hair pulling now." I say with a sarcastic smirk.

"Well, at least consider it. You changed up your wrestling outfit a bit, so it's only natural to change up the full appearance too. Hair included." he tells me as he dumps his sandy towel into the hamper.

"You're a good example for that statement. When you were the Legend Killer, you were all about bright colored briefs, a full head of hair, a clean shaven face, minimal tattoos, and no baby oil. And now look at you today. You're the Viper, who is now known for his mainly black briefs, sometimes shaven head, scruffy chin, tattoo sleeves, and a whole lot of baby oil!" I say with a small chuckle as he crosses his arms. "Talk about an extreme makeover!"

"Do you really think I use that much baby oil?" he asks me with narrowed eyes.

"I didn't say you used too much baby oil. I just said you use a whole lot of baby oil. There's a difference." I say with a nod of my head, just as the lights went out again. "REALLY YOU DAMN FUSE?"

"Don't worry," says Randy as I hear him chuckle. "It'll come on eventually."

"I hope so," I mumble to myself as I put my hand out forward. "Okay, where are you? I have no idea where you are!"

"I'm right next to you. You can't miss me." says Randy as I hear his husky vice whisper in my ear. I turn around and reach my hand out till I feel the slightly scruffy skin that covered Randy's chin.

"See . . . told you you'd find me." I can just hear the smile in his voice as I feel his arms wrap around my waist. "All you needed to do was look."

"Ha ha, very funny," I mutter to him as I move my hand so that it touched his chin. "You have no problem looking for me thanks to your acute vision don't you?"

"Hey . . . it's a gift." he tells me as I feel his shoulders shrug. I feel his head move out of my hand and I soon feel his hot breath tickling my face. Letting my instincts take over, I close my eyes and let Randy claim my lips with his own. His soft lips brush against mine as I let my arms wrap around his strong neck. I feel his hands rub slow circles along my back as he moves his lips from my mouth to my neck. I let out a small moan as he goes deliberately slow along the side of my neck, kissing lightly as I feel his hand weave itself into my impromptu afro. I can't help but feel the tingling sensations go up and down my spine as Randy continues to nuzzle my neck.

You love to annoy me with these slow kisses of yours don't you? I ask in a telepathic message as I start to feel his teeth biting and nibbling my flesh.

I consider this . . . pleasurable torture. He tells me in return as the lights turn back on.

I resist the urge to bite my lip in pleasure as I continue to feel his teeth nibbling my flesh. Soon, the nibbling feeling is gone and I welcome another kiss on the lips from Randy, this one much firmer than the last one, but it's definitely a kiss I like nonetheless.

"Is this for the time I gave you a hickey back in your locker room when you were trying to convince me to let you and everyone else come with me and sis here to Jamaica?" I ask as Randy moves his head back with a smirk on his face.

"An eye for an eye right?" he asks me as he turns me toward the mirror and points to my neck. A small purplish bruise lies in the middle of my neck, momentarily marking me as Randy's own.

"I . . . will get you back for this." I say in a sharp voice as I turn to face him one more time.

"Look on the bright side, you can use your new afro to hide it till it heals." he tells me with a small smirk. He pecks me on the cheek before hightailing it out the room just as I try to grab him by the arm.

I'll get you back for this Randy. This I swear.

Normal POV; a few hours later

It was currently a little past midnight and everyone was asleep peacefully, except for one certain man, who was currently tossing and turning in his bed, disturbing her girlfriend and waking her from her slumber.

"Oh Ted . . . what's going on with you?" asked a sleepy Kelly Kelly as she turned to face the man on her right. His face was filled with anguish as he continued to thrash around in his sleep.

"Ted wake up!" said Kelly over and over again as she started to shake him awake, but he wasn't budging.

"Ted, can you hear me?" asked the blonde as she leaned her head over Ted's. She managed to move away just as Ted suddenly sat up in the bed with a horror stricken look on his face. "Are you okay?" asked Kelly as she looked at her boyfriend in worry.

"I had a vision . . . and it was a bad one." said Ted as he took her hands in his.

"Does it involve us?"

Kelly and Ted looked at each other before turning forward. Both looked up in shock to see Jason from the beach, dressed in all black, standing in front of their closed door.

"How did you get in here?" asked Kelly, just as a pair of hands grabbed her out of the bed from behind.

"KELLY!" was what Ted wanted to yell out, but he was stopped when another pair of hands grabbed him from behind and put a cloth right into his face. It was only a matter of seconds before Ted was out cold; a few seconds more passed before Kelly fell unconscious thanks to a similar cloth on her face.

"One down, six more to go. Leave the guy here. Take the girl to the cars" said Jason as he silently opened the door and walked into the hallway. He walked over to the next room and opened it to reveal Lita and Adam sleeping soundly in bed in each other's arms. Jason brought a dart gun from out of his pocket and over to his face. He shot off two darts, both hitting their intended targets. One got Lita in the arm while the other got Edge in the chest. Both the darts instantly woke the two up.

"What's going on?" muttered Lita as she opened her eyes. She looked down to see the dart in her arm just as she began to feel sleepy all over again.

"We're being attacked!" said Adam as his now yellow eyes began to shoot daggers at Jason. He tried to fight off the tiredness he was feeling and so far he was putting up a good fight. He took out the dart from his chest and threw it at Jason, but Jason managed to dodge it. "What the hell do you want with us?"

"Nothing much." said Jason as he plucked the dart from the wall.

"Adam . . . look!" cried Lita as she pointed to the hallway. Adam looked on in horror as he watched as Tyson carried Alicia down the hallway. Devin soon followed with Layla in his arms, and after him, Lee walked down the hallway with Kaitlyn over his right shoulder.

"You're kidnapping the girls?" asked Edge in horror as Lita plucked the dart off her arm. "You're sick!"

"No . . . I'm doing something for the greater good." said Jason as he crossed his arms. "You'll understand sooner or later."

"Lita . . . don't fall asleep on me. GOT THAT!" ordered Adam as he shook Lita in order to keep her awake, the drowsiness starting to overtake him.

"I'm trying . . . but . . . too late." muttered Lita as her head drooped back and her eyes closed, signaling her return to dreamland. Adam looked at her in shock before turning around to see Jason right at his bedside.

"Good night werewolf." said Jason as he delivered a lightning fast punch to Adam's jaw, knocking him out instantly. Jason smirked and turned to see Liam and Michael standing at the doorway.

"Michael, take the redhead. Liam, you're with me." ordered Jason as he walked out the room. He and Liam walked into the hallway and all the way to the back of the corridor to Amanda's and Randy's room.

"We have all the girls except for the one in this room. The boyfriend's a vampire." said Liam as he crossed his arms.

"Ooh . . . good thing I brought the knife." said Jason as he took hold of the doorknob. He slowly turned it and opened the door. The two walked into the room and their eyes went straight to the bed, completely empty of one of the wrestlers.

"Where could those the vampire be?" said Jason in surprise as he walked closer to the bed. Amanda was still in the bed sleeping the night away, but the spot next to her was completely empty. Randy was nowhere to be seen.

"Liam, have the guys search the house. He's got to be here some-." said Jason as he turned around, cutting himself off when he saw Randy standing over Liam's unconscious body.

"Mind telling me why you're here?" asked the vampire as he started to walk forward.

"Just visiting . . ." mumbled Jason for an answer as he took out a knife from his side pocket.

"Do you really think a mere knife will stop me?" asked Randy as he spoke with a sadistic edge to his voice.

"Nah . . . I hoped my backup would." mumbled Jason as he did a small shrug. Randy turned around just in time to dodge a punch from a previously unconscious Liam. He landed a punch, sending the ginger down to the floor with a loud groan. Suddenly, Tyson and Michael ran into the room. Michael leapt onto Randy's back and put him in a sleeper hold as Tyson landed punch after punch to the Viper's back. Randy managed to kick Tyson away and tug Michael off his back and dropped him to the ground.

"DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!"

Randy turned around at the sound of Jason's voice and looked on in horror as he held Amanda in his grip. She struggled to break free, but stopped abruptly when Jason put his knife at her throat.

"Let her go." Randy said coldly as he stared at the two.

"Move away from my guys and then I'll let her go." said Jason as he tightened his grip on Amanda's arm as he held it behind her back. Randy took a small glance at Amanda and then to the two guys at his feet before moving away.

"Now, that's a good vampire." said Jason as he let a small smile grace his lips.

"RANDY BEHIND YOU!" yelled Amanda as she looked past the Viper. Randy turned around to instantly receive a blade to his gut; thrown by Devin as the man stood at the room entrance. Randy let out a sharp hiss of pain as he felt a burning sensation emanate from the blade and travel throughout his body; burning every sense he had. Randy fell to his knees as he clutched the blade in his hands. He let out a loud yell as he pulled the blade from his gut just as a fit of drowsiness began to wash over him.

"What did you lace this blade with?" Randy managed to choke out as he looked down as the blood stain began to grow larger on his shirt.

"I laced it with a type of vervain that emits a burning sensation throughout the vampire's body before knocking him unconscious for a good few hours. By the time you wake up, my guys and your girls will be long gone from here." answered Jason as Devin walked over to him and Amanda.

"What do you want with me and the other Divas?' asked Amanda as she looked down at the blade still touching her neck.

"You girls will help us with a small mystical curse problem we have. That's all." answered Jason as Devin took out a small needle from his pocket. He went in to stab the needle into Amanda's thigh, but Amanda used her shield to block the tool.

"I had a feeling this may happen." said Jason as he dropped the knife from Amanda's throat. He brought the now free hand to the side of Amanda's temple and closed his eyes. Amanda thrashed her head around to prevent whatever Jason was planning, but then she stopped abruptly as a blank look came across her face and her body began to slump in Jason's grip.

"What did you do to her?" Randy whispered in horror as he slumped down to the ground, all of his strength leaving him as the vervain continued to travel throughout his body.

"I turned her mind off, that's all. I placed her in a coma like state so that she won't pose any trouble for the rest of us." answered Jason with a shrug as he handed Amanda to Devin.

"Let . . . girls . . . go." said Randy as he lost the strength to raise his head and fully collapsed onto the ground.

"Sorry . . . no can do," said Jason as he watched as Randy's eyes closed finally closed; succumbing to the vervain in his system.

"Don't worry; will take good care of your girlfriends." said Jason as he walked out the door, leaving the unconscious vampire sprawled on the ground.

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