Not Another Vampire Story - Chapter Five "Rest and Restoration"

Eyes fluttered open, back inside the mansion. Three sets of moans were audible, as the brothers Seville, and Jeanette, watched in anticipation as Brittany, Eleanor, and Cydra regained consciousness.

"I feel funny..." Brittany mumbled.

"It'll pass, Brittany," Simon said, "it'll pass."

Brittany sat up, along with Eleanor.

"Hey... what's going on here?" Eleanor asked.

"Oh, nothin' much..." Alvin said, "Simon just saved you is all."

"What do you mean?" Brittany asked, before she felt her upper teeth. "Hey..."

Eleanor did the same, realizing their fangs were gone. "Does this mean?"

"Indeed!" Simon said. "That syrum worked like a charm, you've been returned to your original state of mind and body."

"You mean... we're not vampires anymore?" Brittany asked.

Simon shook his head.

"Hooray!" Brittany shot up, and began dancing in circles. "We're not vampires anymore! We're not vampires anymore!"

"Fabulous!" Eleanor cheered, as she shot up, and joined Brittany in their little victory dance.

Alvin nudged Simon's shoulder. "Way to go, bro!"

"I'm so glad you girls are back to normal!" Theodore squealed.

"Me too!" Jeanette agreed.

Brittany and Eleanor suddenly stopped their happy dance.

"Wait..." Eleanor said, "so... if we're back to normal... then, what happened to..."

All eyes turned to Cydra, she remained on the floor, unconscious, she wasn't breathing, and she wasn't moving.

"Gee..." Theodore mumbled, "you think... you think she was always a vampire?"

Eleanor hesitantly bent down, and poked Cydra, but she still didn't move.

"Oh god, she's dead!" Brittany yelped, freaking out at the possibility of being in the presence of a dead body.

Finally, there was some movement, to the relief of the others, as Cydra slowly began to come to. "Where am I?"

"Everything's okay, Cydra..." Simon said, "you're free again."

"Huh?" Cydra asked, as she sat up. She looked at her hands, and slowly began to lick her teeth. "Hey... I'm... I'm... I'm human again!"

Alvin gave Simon a huge slap on the back, nearly knocking his glasses off his face. "You can thank my brother for that, the big lug! I taught him everything he knows! He couldn't have done it without me, though."

"Thank you for the modesty, Alvin." Simon said, sarcastically, as Simon slipped his glasses back on.

"What was that about a syrup?" Brittany asked.

"No, a syrum..." Simon said, "I discovered the formula for a syrum that reverses the effects of a vampire's bite, thus restoring an individual to his or her original state of mind and body, once the syrum is successfully injected into the individual's bloodstream... or, to put it in laymans' terms... I gave a shot that turned you back to normal."

"Simon!" Cydra squealed. "You're my hero!" Cydra tackled Simon to the ground, in a loving embrace. "Oh, thank you Simon! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I didn't think the curse would ever be broken!"

Simon struggled to breathe, Cydra's embrace was so strong, it nearly suffocated him. Easily, he pushed Cydra away. "Curse? What curse?"

"The curse that I was put under." Cydra said.

"Care to explain?" Simon asked.

Cydra let out a long sigh. "It happened a few years ago... I got involved with the wrong kind of person..." she explained, "deep down... I knew something was up with him... but he made me feel special... he made me feel like I was important... my friends... my real friends... they knew he was just playing me, but again, I was too blind to see it..."

"What, was he a loser boyfriend, or something?" Brittany asked.

"No," Cydra said, "he was just a friend... or rather someone who pretended to be my friend... then one night, he said he wanted to take me to a party... I said I'd go... my parents didn't care... they never cared about me... as far as I was concerned, I was a mistake... I guess that's why when the chance to... feel like I belonged came along, I took advantage of it... but he took advantage of me... it wasn't a party he took me to... it was something much worse..."

"How worse?" Theodore asked, nervously.

"Well... there was, like, this big bon fire..." Cydra continued, "and... these guys... they were stabbing pets, and things like that..."

Theodore fainted from Cydra's story.

"I've heard about those kinds of guys from TV," Alvin said, "aren't they like some kind of evil, brainwashing cult?"

"Sorta..." Cydra said.

"So... what happened?" Simon asked. "What did this 'friend' do to you?"

"He used some kind of force on me... a force that made me feel numb... a force that made me feel like I was slipping in and out of it... all I remember was him making all kinds of promises... like immortality and such... I thought he was being metaphorical... but when I woke up... I was the vampire that you guys got to know..." Cydra said.

The others sat there, with their jaws dropped.

"He was gone..." Cydra continued, "they were gone... everything was gone... I was all alone... and now, I was a vampire... a mind-altered vampire... I had been cursed."

"Oh, how horrible." Eleanor said.

"I apologize for dragging you guys into this curse..." Cydra said, "I was... I was... I was upset that I wasn't getting any respect... when I get upset, my only instict was to bite those who didn't respect me... and once they were in my power, I could command respect from them..."

"But, how can you earn the respect of others, when you were rather insulting to begin with?" Eleanor pointed out.

"It's hard to control your thoughts and sentences, when your mind is being altered..." Cydra said, "if I was insulting towards any of you, I deeply apologize."

A silence fell over the room.

"Well, as long as all of this is over with, I'm cool with it. And you." Brittany said.

Eleanor nodded in agreement. "I can forgive you too, Cydra... or, at least, the altered you... I really would like to get to know the real you better."

The others all agreed, and forgave Cydra for what happened, knowing it wasn't really her who drug them into the curse, but the altered Cydra.

Cydra sighed. "And thanks again, Simon... you're an amazing genius!" Cydra leaned over and kissed Simon on the lips, much to the dismay of the others. Especially Jeanette.

"Um... that's... perfectly alright..." Simon said, nervously tugging at his collar.

"Um, Cydra?" Jeanette spoke up. "There's something I need to discuss with you... you see, Simon's mine..."

Cydra sighed again. "I know... I know that... I'm sorry, I couldn't resist... you're wonderful, Simon..."

"Thanks..." Simon replied, still nervous.

Cydra turned to Jeanette, with a smile. "You're a lucky girl, Jeanette."

Jeanette nodded. "I know."

"Well... I don't know what to do now..." Cydra said, "my parents disowned me years ago... I've been going around on my own all this time..."

"So that explains why your stories didn't check out," Eleanor spoke up, "your father didn't really get a job transfer, did he?"

Cydra shook her head.

"And you're not really from Sacramento, are you?" Eleanor asked.

"No..." Cydra said, "and this has been the third new school I enrolled myself into... I don't really have anywhere to go, and no one to turn to."

"Don't worry," Alvin proclaimed, jumping to his feet, "we'll help you out!"

"We will?" The others asked.

Sure enough, Alvin remembered a couple of neighbors who lived down the street, who were interesting in adopting, and he managed to talk them into taking in Cydra. Cydra decided she would continue to attend the chipmunks' school for the rest of the semester, while they continued to let her know that she has friends who care for her. They never mentioned any of this to Dave or Miss Miller, in fact, that night when all the kids didn't return until the next morning, all six of them were grounded for quite awhile, but in their minds, they felt it was worth it, since things could've been much worse, had Simon's syrum didn't work. About a couple of months later, spring break had arrived, and Dave took the kids on a vacation to the beach. Two bungalos were rented - one for Dave and his boys, and one for the girls. The first day of their vacation, the boys, clad in their trunks, dropped in on the girls next door.

"Ain't you girls ready to hit the beach yet?" Alvin asked, as he barged in.

"Don't you know how to knock, you perv?" Brittany barked.

"What?" Alvin asked. "Afraid I'm gonna see something?"

The others groaned.

"Hey Brittany..." Alvin said.

"Yes, Alvin?" Brittany asked.

"I bet I can beat you to the shoreline!" Alvin took off.

"Not fair, you got a headstart!" Brittany said, racing after Alvin.

"Come on, Eleanor," Theodore squeaked, "there's a man with an ice cream cart out on the beach!"

"Great!" Eleanor followed Theodore out of the bungalo.

"Are you coming, Jeanette?" Simon asked.

"Yes..." Jeanette called from the other room, sticking her hand out the door. "Could you toss me my sunscreen, please?"

"Where is it?" Simon asked.

"On the counter, next to the TV." Jeanette said, as Simon spotted to bottle.

Simon grabbed it, intigued by the information he read on the bottle, before tossing it to Jeanette.

"Thanks!" Jeanette said.

"I didn't realize you burned so easily, Jeanette." Simon said.

"What do you mean?" Jeanette asked.

"I couldn't help but notice," Simon replied, "your sunscreen... SPF 70+?"

Jeanette sauntered out of the other room. "Well... it was the strongest sunscreen I could find."

Simon paused, completely confused. "Wait a minute..." He looked down to see two, large puncture holes in Jeanette's thigh, before he slowly looked up, and saw Jeanette smiling, revealing two large fangs. "Oh no!"

"Oh yes!" Jeanette screeched.

Simon darted for the front door, but Jeanette swooped in front of him, locking him in, and tackling him to the floor.

The end?