Randy and Gothetta exited the Nomicon and stood up. Gothetta was trying to regain her bearings after her consciousness returned to her from the Nomicon, she mumbled and looked around. Randy just stood up and picked up the ancient book and dusted it off.
"Ah you two are back, well care to enlighten us with the book's wise words." said Howard sarcastically
"Well, we do now know that the medallion can be destroyed. Once that is done Dracula will be a normal vampire with no magic." explained Randy
Randy then helped Gothetta sit down to get her head in order.
"Ghothetta, breath in, breath out. It's okay." said Randy reassuring her.
"Thanks Randy, we should start looking for some form of a cure for the turned vampires." said Gothetta grabbing a book that showed different parts of pants.
They all started to other herbs and different potions to start working on an antidote. Randy gathered jars filled with herbs, and pickled ingredients. Oskar and Howard began grounding them into dust. Sunshine and Gothetta looked at the directions from the books and then proceeded to mix and match the chemicals and the herbs until they got different solutions.
Leechy, Ox Blood, and Lenny brought in some extra equipment. Test tubes, glass cups, the UV light lamp and Polidori's blood sample.
Using small droppers the students combined the sample blood and the different cures. They placed them on a time in a tall far off metal table and placed the UV light lamp on top of it. The vampires all wore black goggles, black elbow length gloves, face masks, and large aprons. The humans only wore the black goggles. Lenny looked at the group and Oskar nodded. Lenny pressed a button and turned on the lamp. The UV light illuminated the table where the blood was. After ten seconds they turned off the light. They went over to table and saw how the blood evaporated in front of their eyes.
They then turned back to the drawing board. They brought another batch of herbs and potions to try to cure the blood. They created another solution that had a light green coloration and proceeded to do the same thing all over again.
The second solution was blasted by the 10 seconds of UV light. As the group went to check on the sample they saw that it was resisting, but then it evaporated like the last one.
The group continued to repeat the experiment several times but things seemed to turn out the same way as the first time.
"This is getting us nowhere." said Howard
"There has to be a way to stabilize the blood." said Leechy
"Get some rest children, this problem will not be solved just yet." said Ox Blood
"That's true, food is going to be ready in about an hour or two." said Lenny
Time passed and the students kept going over the problem in their minds. Howard was sleeping. And finally Randy had gone down to the gym to get some extra training.
"Children! Food's ready!" yelled Lenny getting the attention of everyone.
"I am so going to get pissed if I end up liking this food too much and can't eat anything else." said Howard
"Who wants to go get Randy?" asked Oskar
"I'll go." said Gothetta walking to the gym.
Gothetta went down to the gym following the sounds of grunts and light screams. Gothetta entered the gym and saw Randy running from one end of the gym to the other.
Randy was not wearing a shirt and kept his training with no shoes. Randy jumped up to one of the climbing walls, he climbed up to the top and then jumped backwards extending his arms and legs before landing on his feet. Randy then jumped spun kicked, and proceeded to throw several punches at the air followed by another spin kick.
Randy went up to the wooden dummy and began to throw punches and kicks. He struck between the upper arm and the lower arm, a right hook then hit the dummy in the head and then landed a kick to the left dummy's side. Randy kept going, hitting and blocking incoming imaginary attacks. He wanted to be ready to face Dracula, and he needed to be at the top of his game to do so.
As Randy continued his training Gothetta kept staring at him. Her mouth was open and it let out a strand of drool to go down her mouth. Her blood began to boil and flow faster making her face blush deep shades of red. Her mind was stuck in a form of trance unable to process anything else.
Randy turned and saw that Gothetta was standing by the entrance silent as a tomb.
"Hey Gothetta I didn't hear you come in. I was just training a little so that I can be ready for Dracula. Sorry I stink a little." said Randy wiping the sweat from his forehead with a towel
"Please marry me, show me the forbidden world of love, and become the father of my children." said Gothetta under her breath
"What?" asked Randy not sure he heard her well
"I said 'Lenny said dinner's ready!' I'll see you upstairs!" said Gothetta going out in a rush with a red face that blended with her hair.
Gothetta exited the gym and ran to the top of the stairs without turning back. Once she reemerged from the ending of the stairs, she leaned on the nearby wall and began taking deep breaths to calm herself. She placed her hand over her heart and gripped her dress.
"Damn that old hag, why did she have to say such things? Now I can't even look at Randy without picturing shirtless or looking at me with those dreamy blue eyes." said Gothetta
Gothetta then went to the dinner and tried to clear her head of any impure thoughts.
As everyone was eating their dinner nothing seemed to bother anyone. Then suddenly a blood curling scream could be heard throughout the castle.
Everyone turned to see where the scream came from.
"Any chances that that was someone's pet?" asked Howard
"I think we all know where and who was behind that scream." said Randy
Randy stood up and walked to the dungeons followed by Oskar and Ox Blood to check on their guests.
In the dungeon Polidori was squirming and rolling around like a hungry animal.
The two vampires and the Ninja arrived to see Polidori grip the iron bars of his cage.
"I knew you'd come, I could smell the sweet nectar flowing through your veins." said Polidori
"About time you came here, he's been acting like that since this morning. Just feed him the fat one and be done with it." said Stoker
"Yeah, that's not gonna happen." said Oskar
"Polidori, if you want this to end, just tell us what is Dracula after and how his magic works." said Randy
"You do not understand. It is not my place to say. I am his loyal vassal." said Polidori in a sinister voice.
Polidori then spotted a spider on the top of his cell.
"Come here little spider, all I want is your life!" screamed Polidori jumping up to snatch the spider and ate it. "Got ketchup?"
The trio then just looked at each other and then left both Stoker and Polidori to savor their meals.