CHAPTER 7

After arriving with Eric, Alice cast a protective spell on Bill, Eric and their respective progenies and a couple other vampires. If Marnie/Antonia were planning on winning without giving it a sweat they were wrong.

Only five minutes were left until midnight and Marnie wasn't there yet. Good she thought. It gave her time to cast a barrier that made Eric and the rest invisible. Only she was beside Bill's side under his request. I'll feel much more comfortable if you are by my side Had been his exact words while he took hold of her hands. She couldn't say no to her oldest friend.

"I see you are not alone." Marnie's thick accent said while her figure became noticeable from the woods.

"She ain't alone either" Alice whispered to Bill. Marnie had used the same spell she had, though she was hiding more people than Alice. There must have been at least twenty people.

"Neither are you" Marnie was shocked at Bill's statement and decided to reveal her troops. Alice did the same, and in a second she could feel the five vampires behind her and Bill.

"I see there is a traitor amongst you" Alice knew that she was referring to her. "Bad mistake" Marnie began casting a spell and Alice warned Bill and deflected it.

"Powerful little thing aren't you?" She was in front of Alice. She remained still. She felt Bill and Eric stiffen a little. "Come to our side and you'll be spared, we can admit a filthy bloodsucker." Alice fangs became noticeable and Marnie backed up a few steps.

"One, I'm not and I will never be a traitor" She took a step closer to Marnie. "Two, I don't appreciate your tone, and three I'm far from being filthy" Her voice was practically a hiss. "We are here to negotiate" She retracted her fangs and went by Bill's side.

"I don't negotiate with blood suckers" With that being, said she cast a spell towards them. A fireball blasted in front of them. It was useless they moved faster than the fire.

The fight had been what Alice had expected. She had spotted Lafayette and who she assumed was Jesus right before they left. They both nodded at her. She needed to find Holly to make sure that she was all right. She had docked every attack that had been thrown on her way without returning them. She wouldn't hurt anybody she could get away from without attacking them. Which implied almost everyone there. As soon as she spotted Holly's blond bob she got closer to realize that she wasn't alone. Shit. It was one of the vampires she had come with.

"Leave her to me." Alice's voice was threatening and her face seemed mischievous.

"Why would I leave her to you?" The vampire smelled Holly. "She smells verrrry good" Her voice was a purr.

Alice's usually pretty face darkened into a rather frightening one making the vampire leave.

"You have to go" She was now addressing to Holly and her face was now normal.

"Thank-"

Holly's voice was interrupted as a rather intimidating mat hit her across the face. He was holding silver chains in each hand.

Alice took a step backwards. Silver weakened her more than it would to a normal vampire. Being in touch with it burned her and took away her Wiccan powers, delaying her healing, even being at the distance- which was a meter aprox- she was to the man's chains she could feel a little slower.

She knew she couldn't get close to the man without scraping either of the chains, but she also knew that she couldn't leave her fellow waitress alone with him.

"Holly ran, now" Before the man set another hand on her almost friend she pushed him away allowing her to run. She was weak, but she was still a vampire.

"Thank you" Holly said as she ran away.

The man was standing up and running towards her now. He was way to strong for a human, and fast as well. A strengthening spell perhaps? Wait.

"You damn us but you still drink our blood? How does your leader feel about that?" The man's baldhead turned red and he begun running towards her even faster. Due to his "Skills" Alice realized that he had been taking a rather high daily dose. His body crashed towards a tree as she moved from where she had been standing. Her speed was reducing.

"I'll kill you blood sucker!" He now crashed towards her. He flew five meters away landing on a grave. She had moved fast, yet not that fast to avoid the chains. She had a rather large cut across her stomach and several tiny ones in her arm.

She could sense that Marnie had left and that only her "team" was only a few meters away. She ran as fast as she could towards them, feeling the hand that was covering her stomach soaked in blood. As soon as she saw Eric's blond head and Bill's brown one she relaxed and felt safe.

"Alice?" Bill's voice sounded confused as her legs begun trembling. Before she fainted Eric was holding her limb body.

She needed blood. Urgently.