~Ch.4 Arrival ~

Mason PoV

I cursed under my breath and headed upstairs to inform Henry of Zara's whereabouts. Once he knew of this, he cursed under his breath as well and then he was deep in thought. I was curious as to know what he had in mind, and I tried to get him back to reality. When I did, Henry rushed down the stairs, causing me to follow him and eventually stop him in his tracks.

"What do you have in mind to retrieve Zara back from Jo?" I asked Henry while stopping him at the front door.

"I was going to get my niece and your girlfriend back. Do you want to object to me, Mason?" Henry asked in rage, causing Mason to back up a little, but not much.

"You know that I would never object, but think for a second, Henry! We can't just go in there alone! We need to have an ally in order to get rid of Jo and get Zara back. Do you know of anyone?"

I soon saw Henry in deep thought once again and then he reached for the phone and urged me to go toward the school. After I made sure that he knew what he was doing, I followed what he had ordered me to do and ran as fast as I could toward the school. I crashed with the entrance doors and headed up the stairs, going two steps at a time.

After I ran three flights of stairs, I finally reached the roof to where Jo was at. The roof was plain gray and Jo was at the center with an unconscious Zara, holding her with a tight grip of her auburn hair. I looked closely at her face and I saw tear marks, indicating that she had been crying from possible torture of Jo. I saw a trail of blood coming from the corner of her mouth, down to her chin and neck, along her arm, and thus dripping at her two main finger tips.

"You sick bastard! What the hell did you do to Zara?" I shouted at the top of my lungs in anger, which Jo begun to laugh at.

"When I had caught her, she tried to fight back, but that was when I found out that she was a vampire! Her hair was black, her eyes were blood red, and she revealed to me her fangs. If you don't do as I'll ask, I'll call the only person I know who can kill Zara once and for all," Jo threatened, which I had already assumed that he was bluffing.

"Who the hell were you thinking of calling? I doubt it would be any of your so-called friends because I have no question that they wouldn't believe you in the first place."

"He's actually here with us as we speak, Mason, the vampire slave. Diablo, come reveal yourself to Mason!"

I heard someone's footsteps come up behind me and before I could let that person though and out of my way, he had me in a chokehold, cutting off my airway to breathe. I looked up at the person Jo called Diablo and he had spiked up, glossy charcoal hair with blood red eyes and had deeply tanned skin, making me think of the infamous Devil. He was wearing a leather jacket, a black shirt, ripped jeans, and small spiked boots.

Diablo threw me almost off the roof, but luckily I stopped myself on the ledge and was on my knees, gasping for air. I saw him walking over to Jo and Zara, and Diablo lifted her face, and that's when I saw her eyes flutter open, but immediately shut the eyelids closed. He lifted her by the throat, making her not breathe, and making her going into unconsciousness once again.

I tried calling out her name many times, but my attempts of trying to wake her failed. I overheard Diablo commanding him to get him a wooden stake, which I found a very old tactic that probably won't work against Zara, but then I had a tiniest glimmer of doubt run through my mind. I soon started to run up to them, but that all stopped until I heard a booming voice coming up the stairs.

"Stop and release the girl!" I heard a grown man's voice exclaim, directing it toward Diablo and Jo, but mostly Diablo.

I saw the man come upward and onto the roof, and he had charcoal scene hair going over his eyes, which were an onyx color. He wore a white t-shirt with black pants with Vans shoes to match. I noticed that there was a ring finger, so that indicated that he was married. He was with Zara's uncle Henry, and I noticed them both looking at me and Zara.

"Diablo…I'd never thought that D'Ablo would have a son such as you. That then leads to the question on whom the mother might be, but I highly doubt that you know, right Diablo?" the man stated toward Diablo, who'd finally released Zara, and having Jo watch over her.

"Vladimir Tod…I'd never thought I would see you again. The last things I've heard of your whereabouts were from Em, who told me that you have graduated and you were with your girlfriend, Snow. I guess a long time has passed since then," Diablo said, going into thought on how long it has been for the two to meet again.

"You've missed out. Now what are you two trying to accomplish in killing my best friend's niece? You'll gain nothing by killing her, as much as my own father tried to kill me, as well as D'Ablo and many others."

"Zara's one less vampire of our kind to worry about and almost like a ticking time bomb, just waiting to explode until the time is finally right. Since she has red eyes when she goes into vampire form, she is truly on our side, no matter how much we want her out."

Right after Diablo said that, Henry charged up to Diablo and made him almost fall off the edge of the school roof. Vladimir walked up to Jo and lifted him by the shirt, punching him in the stomach, and then dropping him to the ground. He knelt next to the worthless Jo and glared at him, shaking his head. I saw him put his hand over his face, and mutter something.

"You know too much, Jo. I wish I would've done this to Eddie Poe a very long time ago, but he's still with Em. Forget what you've seen and what you heard," Vladimir started to say before he said something in a different language, having his hand glow, and making Jo black out.

After I saw Vladimir knock Jo out, I ran to the three, hoping that Zara would be alright and hopefully she wasn't too badly wounded.

Zara PoV

I fluttered my eyes open, seeing a man who looked familiar to me, but I was unsure. I looked over and saw him knock Jo out, and having his hand glow over Jo's face. I was in major confusion and he finally turned to look at me, with deep concern. I heard rushing footsteps coming towards me and I recognized them to be Mason's. I tried to sit up, but Mason persuaded me to stay lying down.

"You must be Zara, am I correct?" the man asked me, and I nodded. "My name's Vladimir Tod, but you guys can call me Vlad. I know that you're a vampire, just like I am. We'll get you back to your normal self as soon as we can, but as you've lost too much blood, one of your drudge's will have to offer you blood. Boy, offer your blood, I know that you're her drudge," Vlad instructed Mason, who nodded in agreement.

Before I could object, Mason held me in his arms and helped me sit up. Mason tilted his neck a little, urging me to bite it. My fangs came out and they sunk into his neck, making me suck his AB+ blood. I heard him moaning a little, making me blush slightly, and then once I had my fill, I brought my fangs out of his neck, and my fangs shrunk back to normal teeth. Vlad put a Band-Aid over where I bit Mason, and he was panting.

"Feeling better I see. Henry, come over here and help me out with the fake Eddie Poe!" Vladimir yelled across the roof area to his friend, who laughed at Jo's likeness to this Eddie person.

Henry ran over and called the magic three numbers and soon snapped his cell phone shut. He told us that we have to leave before the ambulance could get here. We nodded in agreement and Henry carried me on his back and the rest of us ran down the stairs, abandoning Jo and a beaten up Diablo.

Once we had left the school, we returned to my house and we all met in the living room. Henry set me down on the couch next to Mason, and I called Selexa to come over. Vlad and Henry sat in separate chairs and once they sat down, Selexa opened the door on her own and was surprised by the new guest in my house. Vlad instructed her to sit by me and so she did.

"Who might this be, Zara? Is she another drudge of yours?" Vlad had asked me, and I nodded. "Nice to meet you, I'm Vladimir. Call me Vlad if you'd like." Selexa nodded in note of doing so.

"Henry, you never told me about your friends. You know I haven't seen you in six years and you've never brought Vlad up. Or any of the others that the two mentioned," I said, and Henry chuckled at my statement.

"I'm sorry, Zara. I was actually going to tell you sometime this week, but since this incident had to happen, now would be a good time," Henry said half-jokingly, which had left me more than enough confused.

"But for now, I would recommend that you would catch up on your sleep, as I will inform you of all these characters you've heard of and the one you've encountered. Miss, I will tell you what has happened during your absence," Vlad said and we nodded.

I placed my head upon Mason's lap and I fell asleep with him stroking my hair.