Episode 3 Return to Oxford

It was a dark stormy night as a lone car drove towards oxford, inside Luke smith turned to his metal dog K9.

"I think its getting worse K9" Luke said.

"Affirmative master Luke, precipitation will take place for at least 8 more hours" K9 replied.

As Luke continued to drive the rain became even heavier, but Luke soon saw the familiar lights of Oxford University.

Luke was now starting his 2nd year at oxford and was looking forward to seeing his friends josh Danny and Sanjay.

He soon arrived at his dorm building and quickly parked his car.

"You best wait here till morning K9, don't think this rain will do you much good" Luke told his metal friend.

"Understood master Luke, I shall close down till morning" the dog answered.

"Ok, see you in the morning" Luke replied.

And with that K9's head dropped down as his systems went offline.

"Good dog" Luke said as he patted K9 on the head.

Luke then looked at the car window, which the rain was lashing against.

"Not really dressed for this" Luke said to himself as he looked down at the clothiers he was wearing.

That day had been really hot and even when he had left bannerman road it hadn't cooled down much, so Luke was only wearing a pair of shorts and a t-shirt.

"Guess I'm gonna have to get wet" Luke told the now inactive K9, as he grabbed a hoodie from the back seat and slipped it over his head.

Luke then flung the car door open and quickly headed outside slamming the car door behind him, the rain was coming down so heavy that Luke felt like someone had dumped a bucket of water over his head.

He soon gave up running, as he was completely soaked, Luke pulled his hood off his head as he walked into the entrance hall of the dorm building.

It was nice and warm inside and Luke slipped off his sopping wet hoodie and headed to his room,

but as Luke headed down the corridor one of the doors flew open and a teenage girl ran out of the room followed by Luke's friend Josh.

"No, no" The girl screamed with laughter.

Luke could see that josh had a water balloon in his hand, but he stopped when he saw Luke standing in the corridor.

"Hey Luke, I see you only just got back," Josh said with a grin when he saw how wet Luke was.

"Yeah, the weathers awful" Luke replied as he swept his wet hair out of his eye's.

"It was like a summers evening when I left bannerman road, but about an hour later it was chucking it down" Luke continued.

"That's England for you" Josh added.

Josh then grabbed Luke's arm and pulled him out of the way as a water bomb just missed them, they turned to see the teenage girl grinning to herself.

"Almost got you that time Josh" the girl sniggered.

"Oh you're so going outside" Josh said as he returned the grin.

He then ran towards the girl who ran down the stairs laughing as josh followed, Luke shook his head smiling to himself as he walked into his room.

Luke quickly took off his wet things, and pulled on a pair of jeans and a clean t-shirt, there was then a knock at the door Luke opened it to see his friend Danny.

"Hi Luke" Danny greeted.

"Danny, good to see you" Luke answered.

"You too, josh said you've only just got back" Danny replied.

"Yeah" Luke said as he cast his eye to his wet clothiers on the radiator.

"K9 not with you" Danny asked.

"Left him in the car, don't think the rain would agree with him" Luke explained.

Danny began to laugh, a year ago thoughts of a real robot dog from the future would have been ridiculous,

but now Danny and josh had met Luke and knew that aliens really existed, Luke's metal dog didn't seem odd at all.

"Sanjay back yet?" Luke asked.

"Don't know, haven't seen him around yet" Danny answered.

"I've only seen Josh and that girl he was chasing" Luke replied.

"Oh that'll be Jay she's stating uni this year, She's only been here a week and her and josh are getting on like a house on fire," Danny told him.

"Looked like they were having fun," Luke said.

"How are Sarah Jane and the gang?" Danny asked.

"Good thanks" Luke replied.

"And Maria?" Danny continued.

"She's fine, she came over and stayed with us for the holidays" Luke told him.

"Guessing you had a good summer then" Danny added.

Luke nodded.

"Best one ever, even though we had to fight a Pan-Dimensional liquid beast from the magydon cluster, and help a lost Draconian find his way home," Luke explained.

"So a normal summer then" Danny said with a grin.

Luke smiled back as they both began to laugh.

"Yeah" Luke replied.

Just then there was a huge crash from Josh's room

Oh what they broken now" Danny sighed.

He then turned to leave.

"Best get em to calm down, it's getting late," he continued.

"Good luck with that" Luke answered with a grin.

"Thanks, guess I'll catch ya later" Danny replied as he walked into the hall.

"See you in a bit Danny" Luke added still grinning to himself.

Luke then closed his door.

"Good to be back" Luke said to himself.

Luke's first week back seemed to go by really fast, but something was bothering him, neither Luke Josh or Danny had heard from or seen Sanjay all week, and Luke was starting to get worried.

"He's probably hunting aliens with mark or something," Sarah Jane told him as he spoke to her via web chat one day.

"Don't worry I'm sure he's fine, classers don't start till next week remember, he'll be back soon enough" Sarah Jane continued.

"Yeah your probably right" he replied.

"So how's that new friend of yours" Rani asked changing the subject.

"Still mad as a box of frogs, she got Josh big time yesterday" Luke answered with a grin.

"What did she do?" Rani said as she also started to grin.

"She propped a bucket full of custard above the door, and when josh walked in he got absolutely coved" Luke explained.

Luke began to snigger just thinking about it.

"Oh it was so funny, me and Danny were on the floor," he laughed.

Luke continued to laugh as the image of josh getting coved in custard played over in his head.

"Anyway, I'm gonna have to go soon it's Saturday band night at the student union" Luke told them looking really excited.

"What you're going to watch a band," Clyde said as he appeared behind Sarah Jane and Rani.

Luke nodded his excitement still showing.

"We're talking music here, electric guitars drums," Clyde continued.

Luke carried on nodding as Clyde spoke.

"Not some physics experiment with elastic right" Clyde added.

Luke was now laughing again.

"Oh don't be soft, soon Luke will have seen more cool bands then you've ever heard of" Rani told Clyde as she came his arm a playful squeeze.

"Yeah you'll be so after my tunes next time I'm home" Luke told him.

"Oh Luke I can't wait" Sarah Jane replied with a smile.

There was then a soft knock at Luke's door.

"Look I got to go now, so catch you later" Luke said as he headed for the door.

"Love you" Sarah Jane called as Luke left the room.

Outside Danny Josh and Jay were waiting.

"You ready" Jay asked.

"You kidding, I've been looking forward to this all week," Luke answered with a huge grin on his face.

The student union was buzzing with excitement when Luke and his friends arrived.

"Hey look it's Cathy" Luke said as they headed towards a teenage girl.

Cathy was with a group of her friends some of who were members of one of the student bands Hokey Kokey.

"You guys playing tonight" Danny asked.

"Sure are, in fact were headlining" One of the teenagers answered.

"Cool" Josh said.

Luke then turned to Cathy.

"Hey Cathy have you seen Sanjay at all" Luke asked.

Cathy suddenly looked really angry.

"And why would I know where he is" She snapped.

"What?" Luke said looking confused.

"You obviously haven't heard, we've broke up," Cathy quickly explained.

"Oh I'm sorry" Luke answered.

"I'm not, Sanjay Hawkins is a complete an utter dick" Cathy spat as she stormed off.

Cathy's friend Marcy then came up to him.

"Don't mind her Luke, it's just Sanjay really broke her heart" she told him as she headed after Cathy.

About 15 minutes later the first band of the night started to play, and the rest of the evening seemed to have just whizzed by, when Hokey Kokey were playing were playing the last song of the night.

As the song came to an end a load of balloons fell from the ceiling, and Rob the lead singer decide to chase the balloons around the stage popping them with his guitar.

Then frosty the bass player and Ash who played keyboard, both ran over to the drums and dived on Callum the drummer, all 3 teenagers then decided to Grab rob.

"Thank you oxford goodnight" Rob yelled as he scrambled back to his feet.

Everyone cheered and clapped as the band left the stage, and soon everyone began to head off in different directions including Luke and his friends.

As they left the student union a figure appeared unseen from the shadows and watched them leave, the figure then began to follow.

"That's was just brilliant" Luke said as they walked back to there dorm building.

"Cathy's mates just get better and better" Danny answered.

"Love the new song" Jay said in a misty voice.

Josh turned to her.

"So which one you got you eye on then" Josh replied with a cheeky grin.

Jay was about to give Josh a playful slap, but before she could the night was shattered by a scream.

"What the" Jay yelped as she Jumped.

"Sounds like someone's in trouble" Danny replied.

"Over there" Luke told them as he pointed towards a teenage girl running away from a dark figure.

The girl ran down an alleyway but the figure suddenly appeared from nowhere and pushed her to the ground.

"Let me go" The girl sobbed as the figure grabbed her.

But the figure gave her an evil grin, and pushed her against a wall.

"Leave her alone" Luke yelled as he appeared with the others.

The figure turned towards them, and all 4 teenagers grasped in shock, as the figure didn't appear to look human,

"No way" Josh said.

The forehead was distorted and had no eyebrows, the eyes were yellow but it was the teeth that shocked them the most, as 2 large fangs hung down dripping with blood.

"Oh my god…. it's...it's a vampire" Jay screamed.

The vampire then roared like a lion, and changed towards them.

To be continued.