Chapter Three: Surprise visits

" Dude! I told you the song of time is played like so..left, A, down not whatever the heck you were doing" Ethan scoulded Xavier for playing the wrong notes in Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Val sat on the couch reading her favorite book, Flowers in the Attic. She sighed as she turned the page and watched as Ethan smashed the controler into Xavier's head.

" Man, look cool it! I'm sorry Tammy told me she would go out with me alright?" Xavier stood up while brushing off some excess chip crumbs off his Nirvana smiley t-shirt. Ethan himself stood up and they looked like a mirror reflection.

" You could have said no, give me a chance with her Tammy Poe is goregous looks and acts nothing like her father at all, and besides did you see the size of her breasts? Better than little miss A-cup over here" He thumbed towards Val to which Val clamped her book shut and walked towards them.

Both the brothers backed up, knowing their little sis had some very strange powers.

" Both of you...just shut up" Val pratically whispered as she walked back to the couch and burried her head in the book. Ethan chuckled a little blaming her emotional outburst on PMS, Xavier walked over and held her shoulder.

" Sis? You feeling ok?" He had a soothing voice, one that did get irrating if it started breaking.

She peered from her book showing her amber eyes full of sadness, Val silently bit her lip, ignoring the pain from an elonged fang and sighed as she set the book down.

" It's just...I have a really bad feeling about all of this"

Xavier smiled and held her closer.

" What do you mean?"

" Dad, and this whole Elysia being secret around him...you did say it started around my birth right?" Val looked up as her blond bang sweeped across and hid one eye from her face.

Xavier swallowed his throat and silently nodded.

" Only because your-"

" A freak?" Val interuptted before turning to face Xavier completly

" Xavier, look I'm half vampire, half witch and half human I'm not supposed to be a tribryed some sort of thing that walks this earth...I dunno what I am" Val looked down and tried not to cry, sometimes she wondered why she was like this.

" Your a triforce" Ethan giggled, Xavier walked over and punched him in the head.

" Your not helping Ethan and how in the hell does a triforce represent Val?" He asked slightly confused.

" Easy she's part vampire, part witch and part human put them together and you got a triforce, now speaking of which can we get back to the damn game already?" Ethan growled as he curled his lips into a frown.

" Not yet I got some stuff I gotta do alright?" Xavier peered back at his sister and hugged her greatly.

" Valance, were all worried about dad...I bet mom's more than we are just don't take this out on yourself..." Xavier smiled and looked into her face, "Besides, I'm proud to be a brother of a vampire/witch hybrid I mean you can cast spells we can't do shit so...cheer up ok?" Xavier chuckled and before Val knew it she was smiling as well. Xavier patted her on the back and contuned the game.

Val stood up and walked to the kitchen where she found her mom cooking some blood stew. All it was beef, and lots and lots of blood, throw in a few herbs and thats blood stew. That was different, Mom usually cooks that when there company. Mom sighed as she peered up at the calander and looked at the date. Val whinced.

It was November 21st...Dad's birthday.

Val walked over and placed a gloved hand on her mothers and smiled, Mom smiled a little bit before she contuned cooking. Suddenly a loud knock and everyone jumped.

Xavier rushed to the door and opened it to reveal a man with blond hair, dazzling eyes and wearing a silk top hat. Val smiled as she ran to the door with a huge little girl grin and hugged the man.

" Great Uncle Otis! It's so good to see you again" Otis gave a small chuckle and held out Val so he could see her.

" My my Valance, last time I saw you, your brothers were 2 and you were 1 and oh my your looking like your mother every day" Val let a small blush paint her cheeks.

" Otis!" The boys rushed out and were awarded with noggies and laughs. Otis smiled at the two twin boys.

" Xavier and Ethan, your looking just like Vlad when he was younger" He russled their hair once more before walking into the kitchen and smiling at Hayley.

" Mrs. Tod how lovely it is to see you again" He smiled as he hugged her closely and kissed her forehead. Hayley giggled as she playfully swatted him with a dishrag.

" Otis are you staying for dinner? I made plently" Otis looked up in thought before he smiled kindly.

" I would love too it looks delicious"

Val set out the plates on the table. A glance outside she saw the outline of Stokerton and frowned. Her own Father couldn't make it home for his own birthday. She set the last plate down when she heard Xavier gasp.

She walked out and saw that Tammy had arrived, she wore a strapless black dress with mauive stokings and black flats. She smiled as she walked in and shut the door on a man behind her.

A tall man with short brown hair and glasses stormed inside of the porch and glared at Tammy. Tammy didn't even awknowledge that he was there, instead she walked by and smiled at Xavier.

He blushed and shrunk his neck up while the man looked at the girl.

" Tammy Alice Poe I forbid you to date that...monster!" Yep, it was Eddie.

Tammy turned around and flashed her father a look.

" Father! His name is Xavier and no he is not a monster now leave me alone" Tammy stormed into the living room before Eddie could say another word.

Eddie started to sweat as he saw Xavier, Ethan, Val and Otis peer at him.

" Y-you...all are monsters..." He stuttered as he began to physically shake. Mom walked out and smiled at Eddie.

" Eddie, hello nice to see you" She flashed a fake smile and watched as Eddie turned bright red and smiled goofily at her.

" Hello...Hayley...long time no see"

Xavier and Ethan began to chuckle and roll their eyes.

Val watched with Otis who both flashed each other an eye.

" Yes like the last time you took a picture of me when I slept at Vlad's house" She snarled as Mom reminced on the time before Vlad and her fight on Elysia and how Eddie took a picture.

Eddie blushed.

" How could you let yourself be tainted by letting these things out of your body? I dare to even think that Vladimir touched you" Eddie whispered to himself.

" Eddie you are insulting my children and I do not like that now please leave" Mom recoiled as her eye browns crossed and her mouth frowned.

Eddie slouched his shoulders and peered a lip upwards.

" And if I don't?" He tested.

Xavier and Ethan laughed and showed a sly fang, together in unison voice they sang out.

" Or else you'll be our dinner"

Eddie scouted out the door without saying good bye to Tammy. Val licked her lips in laughter as everyone was seated at the dining table.

Mom poured the blood stew on everybodys plate and took her seat. Otis then stood at the head and raised a wine glass and began his toast.

" To my nephew Vladimir Tod, though he cannot be here on his birthday we still salate him and hope he comes home soon from the hell in Elysia"

Everyone raised their glasses and clinked together. Val started to sip her bloodwine and then heard the doorbell ring. Mom looked up at Val,

" Val, do you mind getting the door?"

Val nodded and excused herself as she walked to the door and opened it. In front of her stood a tall man in a black suit, with midnight black hair, pale complexion and bright amber eyes. Val stood silent for a minute before she heard a hearty chuckle.

" Has it been that long Valance?"

Val's agape mouth slowly creeped to a smile before she wrapped her arms around his waist and buried her face in his chest. He let his arms rub her head.

" Dad...I missed you"

After supper Vlad took the boys out to work on their skills, while Otis, Val and Mom stayed in to clean up the kitchen.

" He sure likes the boys doesn't he?" Otis smiled as he placed the dishes in the dishwasher, only after lesisurly licking the reside of blood stew off of them first, when Mom caught him, he blushed.

" Yes and Ethan and Xavier love him back, Vlad though close to 30 is very energetic and the boys love him for that" Mom replied as she started cleaning up the dining table. Val stayed behind and washed excess dishes in the sink and sighed.

Yes, Dad did love the boys didn't he? She put the dishes one by one on the drying rack and peered out the window occasionally to see Vlad either being tackled by one of her brothers or Vlad chasing them around the yard. Even in sunlight they still loved playing around with their speed and powers.

Otis closed the dishwasher and leaned against the island in the kitchen and drummed his fingers.

" I wonder if the trouble in Elysia has passed over us" He whispered as his eyes solemly closed.

" 'Fraid not, Vlad told me they decided to let him home for a week for a break, apparently he's been in and out of meetings and apparently he's getting very cranky" Mom came back and put her dishrag in the drawer and walked close to Otis who had a sly look on his face.

" Endorfins from you know will help that problem right away" Val's face turned bright red as she knew what they were talking about sex.

She heard it many times from her parents, dispite that she didn't want too. She was raised it was natural and a part of nature but sometimes she wondered, if the noises her father made were nature or not...weird.

She turned around abruptly and tried to smile.

" Please with a capital P do not talk about that around me"

Otis and Mom chuckled and stopped talking for a while.

Vlad walked back in with two panting boys hinged under his arms. He too looked tiredless as he smiled and kissed Mom. Ethan made gag noises while Xavier slapped him in the back of the head for it.

He patted the boys on their backs as they went upstairs to their rooms. Vlad held onto Hayley and snuggled her close, kissing her neck and very dangeriously close to her cleavage, it was Val's turn to gag.

Otis smiled as he unrolled his sleeves and grabbed his tophat.

" It's getting late, I best be off it was nice seeing you guys again"

He gave Vlad a huge hug and patted Val's head and smiled as he kissed Hayley's hand before he grabbed his coat and walked out.

Val smiled shyly as she walked up the stairs and into the bathroom. She ran a tub for herself and washed up and threw on her fuzzy black pajamas. Her room was weird the only way to enter was through the bathroom, she opened the door and found herself in her bright red room and unfitting bright pink bed. She grabbed her laptop and sat on her bed and began talking to Tammy.

Then the noises started.

She rolled her eyes and closed her laptop and crawled under her sheets and closed her ears with a pillow. Before she fell asleep she mummered.

" Welcome back Dad"

Okay, sorry if you guys think i'm a pervert or something but it's just a chapter in the story.