All members of the Vampire School are now around early to mid-teens.
It was the first day of classes for the Norresville school students and most of them were doing good. The school curriculum seem to be very similar to the one that they had back at Norresville.
Randy and Howard were just walking into their latest class of the day and sat next to each other and began to listen to the teacher teach the class. Transylvanian and European History seem to be pretty straight forward, of course that didn't stop the teacher from giving the students team assignments.
"Now students, since we now have students from America, you will team up in groups of four people and you will have to do research on an important historical figure from either Transylvania, Europe, or America. However, if any of your papers mentions Dracula as a vampire, you shall receive a failure. Am I understood? Well then, choose your partners wisely." said the teacher
Randy and Howard looked around to find their third and fourth teammates but they didn't seem to have much luck.
That changed however when Randy spotted someone he saw the other night. A young girl with fair skin, blond hair tied in two pig-tails. She was wearing a white t-shirt with pink sleeves, and a pink skirt to match.
"Excuse me, hi, I'm Randy Cunningham and this is my friend Howard." introduced Randy
"What's up." said Howard
"We were wondering if you would like to be in our group for this assignment?" asked Randy politely
"Sure, my name is Sunshine Polidori, nice to meet you. I believe we still need one more person to have a full team. How about her?" asked Sunshine pointing at none other than Heidi Weinerman, AKA Howard's older sister.
Due to some assignment issues Heidi had been placed in the same class as the boys despite being in a higher grade than them.
Howard quickly answered the question.
"Noooope, there is no way I'll work with her." said Howard crossing his arms
"Why not?" asked Sunshine
"She's his sister, and she never gets my name right." explained Randy
Heidi then came up to the group with a slightly annoyed look.
"Hey, mind if I work with you guys? Everyone else was already taken." said Heidi
"Sure Heidi." said Randy followed by a silent 'dude' from Howard
"This is our teammate, Sunshine." introduced Randy
"Nice to meet you Sunshine. I'm Heidi, you already met my brother and his friend Landy." said Heidi
"I think you mean Randy?" said Sunshine
"Thank you." said Randy
Heidi then narrowed her eyes at Sunshine when she wasn't looking. It ticked her off that her secret crush was paying more attention to the blond than to her, but decided to keep her to herself.
"Well, let's get started." said Heidi
Deep within the castle, outside the town, the secret school students began to wake up. Down in one of the catacombs five coffins and one stroller that had a small handful of ashes.
Walking down the staircase came a man with a bald spot and long blond hair in the back, and wore a butler attire. This here was Lenny, the caretaker, cook and handy man of the castle.
"Wake up my little and not so little vampires! The night is here and we have a good meal waiting for you." said Lenny knocking on the coffins.
One by one the coffins began to open up. From the first one came out Oskar yawning awake. From the second one came out the vampire girl Gotheta, she held on to the flower that Randy had given her the other night. From the third coffin came out Leechy the brainy student of the school, who still wore his usual attire of a pink shirt and beige pants, and in his head were his own scientific glasses. From the fourth coffin came out the stereotypical vampire that was Stoker wearing the full attire with cape included. And finally came out Klot, the little vampire that finally reached ten years old. And finally the small mount of ash stirred awake, this was Ashely, and no he is a boy despite the name.
"Man, that was a good day's sleep." said Oskar
"I concur with you Oskar. Nothing like a good day's rest to make a night truly appreciated." said Leechy
"Oh please, as if either of you are true creatures of the night. I cannot wait until I can graduate and start sinking my teeth in humans." said Stoker biting on a raw tomato.
Oskar cringed and looked away having an acute case of hemophobia, also known as a fear of blood.
"Come on Stoker, knock it off. It stopped being funny after the first time." said Gotheta pulling out the flower that she had gotten the other night.
She had to admit that most human men didn't peek her interest but the boy she met that night enticed her. His dark purple hair gave him a mysterious look, his blue eyes looked like a pair of moons, and he seemed to carry himself with an air of honor and adventure. Had she not known better she would have said that he was a creature of the night.
She vividly remembered that meeting. She had gone to the park to keep an eye on Oskar and his human girl friend, Sunshine, and then she met with the human that made her undead heart skip a beat. And now of all times she remembered that she did not know the boy's name.
As the students began to walk up to the breakfast room, they all talked about what they would do after class this night.
They all had their classes as normal and without delay. Professor Ox blood had a busy night ready for them.
"Now my students, today's class shall involve a quick flight around town to perfect the art of blending in the shadows. Seeing as you are close to becoming part of our ranks." said Ox Blood
All the students cheered as they got their stuff ready to go out. They all gathered in the courtyard following Ox Blood, then they transformed into their bat forms and took off into the night.
"Now children, you must walk for an entire class time in the shadows. Do your best not to be spotted by any human. I shall be observing your precess from the sky." explained Ox Blood
The students each flew out to the town and turned back into their normal forms.
Leech walked through the shadows of the dark alleys and looked towards the other side of the street, where a computer store was open, he avoided the light but one of the street lamps barely illuminated his face.
Oskar stayed close to Klot since he was still fairly young and needed help.
"Down here looks like a good spot, let's go this way." said Oskar
"Ok Oskar." replied Klot
The two vampires flew down and kept to the shadows, just as instructed, however they spotted the humans a lot faster by looking out into the street from a safe distance from the light. Sadly they did not see the trash cans behind them and almost knocked one of them, and they scared a cat.
Stoker also stuck to the shadows but remained in his bat form. He flew from shadow to shadow as sneaky as he could but he did not mind his surroundings as closely as he should, and ended up crashing face to face with a dog. The dog was not amused. After Stoker tried to slowly back away from the dog, it began to chase after Stoker barking with no end.
Gotheta was the last of the students to try her luck. She looked around and made her way to a dark corner where the lamps were flickering. She then saw a newsstand nearby and took the newest magazine of the night. She of course left some money in exchange. She was not seen nor heard by any one and she did not scared any animals.
After the exercise was finished the class returned to the school with notes about their work.
"Alright class it was a good night for most of you. Learn from what worked for you and what didn't." said Ox Blood
After the class ended Gotheta took out the magazine in the hallway and began to look it over. Until she found an interesting article. She began reading it until Oskar came up to see her.
"Hey Gotheta, what you got there?" asked Oskar
"Oh, its nothing. Just human nonsense. Listen to this 'Last night several witnesses claim to have spotted a flying creature with a long red scarf flying through the air. According to the local night creature 'expert' Paulus Polidori: "This creature is without a doubt a vampire taunting us. This is clear proof that they exist and we must rise against them."' Ha ha ha." laughed Gotheta as she read
"It can't be a vampire, no one around here can be captured in film and no one has a long red scarf." said Oskar
Just as Oskar was saying this, the principal Count Von Horrificus walked by he wore his dark coat and top hat with his cane in hand. He had pale skin long brown hair, long mustache and red glowing eyes. As he walked he over heard the conversation and grabbed the magazine.
"Students, I seem to recall that all human literature should be inspected prior reading." said Count Von Horrificus
Gotheta and Oskar rubbed the back of their necks trying to come up with an excuse.
"It's just a current events thing uncle, nothing harmful." said Oskar
"Be that as it may Oskar, I will look this over and then see if it is. Wait. Could it be?" said the Count reading the article closely.
It almost seemed that he had spotted something he never thought he would see again.
"Uncle, is something wrong?" asked Oskar
"He has finally come. I must go prepare myself. This time I shall be victorious." said the Count as he left mumbling under his breath
"What do you think that was about?" asked Gotheta
"No idea." replied Oskar before they headed to their next class.
Back with the gang of Norresville, they had started their assignment but now they were all resting.
Sunshine had gone back to her home and the three Norresville natives they were all in their respective rooms, still working because Heidi gave the boys some extra homework.
"This is so wonk! Why would Heidi do this?" asked Howard
"Maybe because you didn't do any work and wants to keep us busy instead of causing trouble." said Randy getting up and going to grab another book in history.
When Randy grabbed the book he accidentally dropped an some of Howard's dirty clothes and something metallic hit the floor. Randy kneeled down and began to look at it. It was a silver bat medallion with glowing ruby eyes.
"Howard where did you find this?" asked Randy
"Oh, that, um, you see there was this guy selling them outside and I thought; 'hey that looks cool...' and you don't believe it do you?" said Howard
"Did you find this back at the school?" asked Randy directly
"Maybe." said Howard
"Howard, if this thing came form the Land of Shadows then it is trouble! Why did you bring it here?" asked Randy
"It may have gotten in my bag by accident. Look it looks harmless enough. We'll just keep it until we get back home and then we dispose of it." suggested Howard
"No duh Howard. Ok, look we will take turns looking after this thing." said Randy
"Do we have to?" asked Howard
"Yes, I'll take the first watch. You keep working on the assignment." said Randy
"Oh shoob me sideways." said Howard