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Chapter 18 : 13 Orchard Park
"Tell Grandma to answer the phone." A disorientated Benny spoke as Justin carried him over his shoulder towards that parked car.
"Hold on, B. Stay with me." Justin grunted for Benny was a bit to heavy for Justin to carry, since he was taller than him. Alison was walking tiredly next to the two carrying the duffel bag. She groaned as she felt getting weaker from the lack of blood. She struggled to walk and fell to her knees, but Ozzie quickly flashed to her to keep her from falling. Justin put down Benny on the side of the car and looked back at the two vampires. "Come on. Hurry." He called back to them, "The alignment is in thirteen minutes and we have to find Jason." He checked his watch as he walked to them.
"Take the car." Alison could barely speak out and threw him the keys, "I'm to weak. And the hunger is getting stronger." Alison was beginning to speak in a deep voice.
"You have to come with us. We have to stop Jason-" he was cut off by Alison whose eyes had transitioned to golden yellow and her fangs came out; she spoke in a deep demonic voice.
"Just go. Now!" She hissed at him baring her fangs. Her face was beginning to lose its human features and she was becoming more monster-like. She could feel the burning sensation rise in her throat once again.
Ozzie felt sharp nails dig into his hand. He glanced down and saw that Alison was developing razor sharp, talon like nails. He quickly let her hand go and Alison fell to the ground. "You guys go! I'll make sure she's okay." The blonde haired boy spoke to Justin handing him the bag. Alison looked up and saw someone in the distance; she quickly flashed in the direction the figure flitted off to.
Justin walked to the car, opened the door, and threw the bag on the passengers seat. He went over to Benny and put his arm around his shoulder to support him while he walked him into the car, "Come on, B."
Ozzie looked back at Alison, only she wasn't there. Luckily he saw the last of a blur in the distance and followed it using his vampire speed. He knew Alison was weak from the lack of blood, so she couldn't have gone far. He noticed that he was heading in the direction of the school stadium. He saw Alison was in an altercation with someone he recognized as Erica.
Erica was about to drive a stake into Alison's heart and Alison couldn't do anything because she was too weak. "Erica, I'm your friend. Jason lied to you, and he used me, He used, us. You have to believe me." Alison spoke from the bottom of her heart, "I know I haven't been the greatest friend these last couple of weeks, but I want you to know," Alison's voice broke as tears began to form, as Erica was bringing down the wooden stake "that I would do anything for you. Even if it means that I have to die." Erica stopped millimeters away from impaling Alison when a sudden force attacked her.
Ozzie super sped at the two and tackled Erica off of Alison. Alison was able to get up and flit towards the nearby trees. Erica tried to pry Ozzie off of her but he was too strong for being a new vampire. She snarled in anger for letting Alison get away, she tried to kick him off one final time, and successfully kneed him in the ribs. She quickly turned the tables around and Ozzie was pinned to the ground.
Alison was able to feed from the blood of a squirrel. The blood quickly circulated through her body; she was slowly healing since it wasn't human blood and was beginning to look like her normal, non-animalistic self. She saw Ozzie being pinned to the ground by Erica and she sped off to help the boy.
"Erica stop! This isn't you." Alison pleaded with the blonde vampire but she wouldn't listen.
Ozzie managed to kick Erica into the air giving him time to get up from the ground. Erica regained her balance and landed on her feet. As soon as her feet landed on the ground she sped in the direction of the Alison. Ozzie quickly grabbed Alison by her jacket and suddenly flashed in the direction of the neighborhood. Erica sniffed the air hoping to find their scent and follow them.
As the moon was shinning brightly in the night sky, a shadow was beginning to move over the moon slowly, causing the moon's shine over Knightwood Bay to dimmer. Justin was driving the car towards Benny's house as he tried to run clues by Benny, who was lying in the back seat. Benny was groaning and talking to himself not listening to a word his friend was saying.
"Benny." Justin reached over the seat and tapped his friend while concentrating on the road.
"Hey." Benny groggily got out.
"Hey." He answered a tired Benny; "Jason must have set us up and is taking the crystal to wherever his followers are buried, okay?"
"Yep." Benny weakly stated as he sat up straight in seat still dozing in and out.
"Where is that?" Justin questioned once again hoping his friend had some idea.
"I told Alison to give Erica my address." Benny clumsily spoke, "Told her to come anytime." He motioned with his hands and fell against the seat, "Ow."
"Benny what did the book warn the townspeople of?" Justin was going over all the clues once again in his head. "Neath the swallowed moon the dead take route, for the barren orchard bears the devil's fruit. Okay, a swallowed moon and barren orchard. Benny?" Justin yelled at his friend for lack of help.
"13 Orchard Park." Benny mumbled into the seat.
"Wait, the orchard." Justin thought for a second, "And the tree from my vision. I know that tree." He sounded surprised when it suddenly clicked, "Okay, it's not possible."
Justin pulled into the driveway of Benny's house and quickly slammed the breaks causing the car to rock. He turned to Benny who was laying his head on the passengers seat, "Benny? Benny, I'm gonna call your grandma to come get you, okay?"
"Okay." Benny weakly answered back as he was drifting to sleep.
"Okay. We've got three minutes left to save the world. You hang touch, okay?" He patted his back and got out of the car. He looked up at the moon that was more than half engulfed in darkness. He ran towards the path that lead to Benny's backyard, and ran down towards the gate that opened towards the park. He ran a few more feet until he saw the tree up ahead and stopped to look at it. "I never did like that tree."
The tree was probably over one hundred years old. Justin has never seen the tree filled with leaves; growing up he always saw a dead, lifeless, barren tree. Seasons passed and the tree never blossomed, the branches always empty. Benny and him had always been scared to play around the tree when they were little. It casted shadows at night in Benny's room and they always steered away from it.
"Funny how they name places after what they tore down to build them." Someone spoke out emerging from the shadows, "This used to be an orchard." Jason stood in the light holding a small wood carved box in his hand. "One of my favorite spots until your idiot ancestors burned my family alive."
"Yeah? Well, I'd say their only mistake was not finishing the job." Justin retorted back.
Jason chuckled as he held the box up, "You saved me the trouble of having to do my own dirty work." He looked at the box; he had waited so long for this moment. "I now posses in my hands, the Redivivus Crystal; and with it I will resurrect some of the most vicious and powerful vampires that ever lived!" He stated victoriously and looked up at Justin, "And you'll have the honor of being their first midnight snack."
Justin had a worried look on his face; Jason was so sure of himself that the crystal would resurrect his family. Was it in fact true that maybe they read about the wrong crystal, or maybe there were two? He was very confused and the eclipse would start any second now.
The moon's last outer quarter was shinning brightly white as the darkness continued engulfing the moon. The moon's glow was beginning to turn slightly red as the rest of the dark moon turned completely red. The moon was now being engulfed by a red hue color as it reached the outer edge; it was only a matter of seconds before it reached totality.
"Well, you won't have to wait, because I'm gonna reunite you with your family right now." Justin crouched down to pull a dagger that was strapped to his leg, "Just not in this world. Heh, heh." He whirled it in his hand triumphantly.
Jason watched the clumsy boy pull the dagger out and rolled his eyes. He waved his hand in the air and a dark energy wave flashed towards Justin's hand knocking the dagger out of his hand. He grunted as he saw the dagger fly in the opposite direction. Jason then lowered his hand down at Justin sending continuous waves of dark energy towards the boy. Justin was grunting as he felt his legs tremble and wobble, his legs gave way and he fell to his knees.
"It's funny, I knew your great-great-great grandfather's great-great-great grandfather. He was a loser too." He chuckled maniacally while Justin watched carefully behind him.
Jason looked up at the eclipse as it reached totality, shinning a blood red in the eternal night sky. He raised the box into the air as it began to unhinge glowing brightly purple as the top was opening. The royal purple crystal began to hover out of the box and into the sky. The crystal began to draw energy from the total lunar eclipse as the purple glow intensified in the dark sky. The purple glow was too much for the vampire to look at and turned away. A few seconds later the crystal was fully energized and began to float down; Jason reached out to grab the crystal and placed it in the box. It was now time to transfer the three vampire sacrifices he had collected while standing outside the school grounds. Justin nodded to the figure that was hidden in the darkness.
"Courage!" The figure yelled as he charged towards the vampire. Jason turned around and threw him towards Justin. Benny flew into the air and landed on Justin, both grunting in pain. "Oh, sorry, bud." He clutched his stomach and sheepishly grinned at his friend.
Jason chuckled at the failed attempt to stop him from completing the resurrection. He lifted the box once more into the air, "The hour of rebirth has come. Arise from the ashes and walk this earth once again-" Alison and Ozzie jumped from behind Jason and surprised the vampire as he threw the box in the air.
Jason struggled and grunted with the two but he quickly grabbed them by their necks and slammed them against the tree, snarling angrily at the two as his eyes turned neon blue. He looked over to the box, which was now in the boy's possession.
"Hey, we've got your crystal." Justin proudly stated.
"And I've got your two friends." He snapped at them in his deep demonic voice, "Give me the Redivivus Crystal! The life energies must be transferred now." He angrily spoke as he looked up at the eclipse, already beginning to end totality.
"Ozzie! Alison!" Justin exclaimed to the struggling vampires.
"Just give it to him," Benny began, "What are we gonna do with a resurrection crystal anyway, eBay it?"
Justin was quickly trying to think of something, there is only one way to know for sure, he thought.
"Now, hand it over or they die!" Jason spoke demonically.
"Justin, no don't." Both Ozzie and Alison struggled to say through grunts.
Suddenly the ground started to shake violently near the tree Jason was holding Alison and Ozzie. He struggled to keep his balance and was forced to let them go as he floated in the air to escape the trembling under his feet. Alison and Ozzie quickly headed to where Justin and Benny were kneeling and helped them up. Justin wondered what had caused the quake to start and looked around, the neighborhood and park were the same. No damage was caused and it seemed only this particular area shook violently. He saw what appeared to be Benny's grandma near the gate to her backyard. He looked back towards Jason who had floated down once the quake had stopped.
"Hey, you can have the box, but not what's inside." He opened the box and picked up the crystal. It immediately began to glow violently purple, and he felt surges of energy enter his body as soon as he made contact with the crystal. The group was knocked on their feet from a wave of energy Jason flung at them. Justin lost his grip on the crystal and it flew into the air.
"No! No! NO!" Jason yelled as he flew into the air to catch the crystal. A strong force knocked him from his flight. He slammed onto the ground with great force that it left a hole in the ground.
The group sat up and saw the crystal as it began to rapidly spin in midair. Bolts of energy began to erupt from the center of the crystal as it spun faster. A sphere of energy erupted from within the crystal, engulfing it completely before it was absorbed back into its center. Moments later the crystal began to glow one final time before it sent out small, shocking waves of purple energy in all directions.
Jason stood up and saw energy waves, "What have you done?" his demonic voice had gone away, he sounded terrified of the turn of events.
The voices appeared again and he held his head. Failed us, you have!
"No, I did everything you asked!" Jason spoke into the air as he heard the voices in all directions. The group saw the torment in his eyes and fear in his voice.
The blasts of energy quickly hovered in the air and started to enter and attack Jason's body. He let out pained cries of terror and frustration as every energy wave entered his body. His eyes and mouth were exerting black fumes of vapor as the waves entered and exited his body. Jason let out one last cry before his body vanished leaving a black vapor behind that was quickly absorbed by the purple crystal as it fell from the sky. The crystal's purple glow began to fade as Justin picked it up and put it back in the box.
"I can't believe you dated that guy!" Benny exclaimed to Alison, who only rolled her eyes in annoyance. Justin smacked him in the chest, while Benny smirked all knowingly at his best friend. He patted Justin on the back as they began to walk towards his backyard.
Benny's Grandma had driven Ozzie and Alison home. The last stop was Justin's house and Benny had convinced his grandmother to let him spend the night at Justin's, even though it was a school night; she reluctantly agreed. Benny was downstairs getting junk food for Justin and him. Justin was searching the web for some kind of answer to his seeing ability.
His mom knocked on the door, "Hi." She walked in with his clean laundry and he quickly closed the computer browser. "Sorry to interrupt. Just dropping something off." She motioned to the laundry basket she was carrying.
"Hey, mom?" Justin began to ask as he turned around in his chair.
"Yeah?" His mom answered back as she was putting his clothes in his closet.
"You ever, like-" he squinted his eyes thinking of a way to ask, "see things? Like, things that aren't there?"
Miranda knew where this conversation was headed and wanted to avoid the subject, so she used her best acting skills to answer her son's questions. "Are we, uh, talking about drugs?" she quickly thought of as she took a seat on his bed, while Benny walked into the room.
Justin awkwardly laughed, "Heh, heh. No. Like a vision? Or strange images that just appear?"
Miranda felt guilty, her son felt really lost and wanted some sort of explanation and guidance, but she couldn't bring herself to tell him the truth. "No, I don't think so, honey."
Justin didn't know what else to say. "Okay," he nodded as he turned back in his chair. Miranda saw the expression on his face and felt utterly bad with her decision. She was about to leave for three months in a couple of hours and leave her son alone to discover things on his own.
"But, there was this one time." She began to say while Justin turned around to listen, "I used to watch you sleep when you were a baby." Justin gave her a hopeful smile, "One night, I had this image of you and you were all grown up, and you were strong and smart and decent." Justin's grin grew with embarrassment, not exactly the answer he wanted to hear. "And I knew then that you were going to do great things one day."
"Thanks, Mom." Justin's cheeks flushed with embarrassment, but appreciated the kind and loving words from his mom as Benny tried contained his laughter.
"But you do know that if you ever touch drugs that your father and I will have to kill you." She seriously stated to her son; Benny no longer able to hold his laughter began to laugh uncontrollably.
"Uh, got it. Okay." Justin clearly understood.
"You too, Benjamin!" She turned to the laughing teenage boy who suddenly sat up straight and stopped laughing. She got up off the bed and motioned for a hug, "I'll miss you boys. Behave; I actually want to come home to a non-burning, non-trashed house. Don't stay up too late, good night." She called out behind her and closed the door.
Justin, Benny, and Alison walked onto the school campus and were heading towards the entrance. "Do you think they'll find out about, you know?" Justin asked for the tenth time.
"Again, it's like we were never there." Alison quickly stated wanting to end the discussion.
"Besides, town is safe, Jason's rejoined his family. It's all good, right?" Benny added to calm his best friend down.
"Yep," Justin stated and Alison sounded relieved, "You're not still dying, are you?" Justin asked realizing what happened yesterday, "I mean, you mortal body seems to be doing just fine."
"Thanks. Well, Benny's grandmother makes a mean human-blood substitute." They all stopped to quickly discuss about this before they headed into the school when they heard someone call to them.
"Hey guys!" Ozzie exclaimed to them as he stood next to Erica. Alison and Ozzie had discovered that she was being compelled by Jason to do all those things, but they still didn't know exactly how and Erica didn't want to talk about it.
Erica turned around and smiled at them, Benny waved back at her, "Hey." He quietly spoke as he continued to stare at her. Justin smacked his shoulder to snap him out of it. Ozzie leaned next to Erica and she scooted away in annoyance.
"It's pretty much all over." Justin stated to Alison and Benny as they nodded in agreement. The school bell rang signaling the start of first period, students were walking into the school building as others parked their cars and walked past the trio. "Let's go to class," he quickly stated.
"Good idea." Benny answered as the three began to walk towards the school entrance. "The trick with spells is, you kind of phrase it like Klingon, with kind of like a Romulan twang, and just a splash of Cylon-" Benny began his spell explanation but was cut off by Justin and Alison.
"Benny-" Justin annoyingly stated.
"Shut up!" Justin and Alison stated in unison.
Benny sheepishly stated, "Sorry."
Two figures were watching the group from a far smirking at the outcome, hoping it would end this way. Their hair blew in the wind; the light from the now ever so slightly glowing sunrise hit their hair revealing a red haired girl and a golden blonde haired girl. "They have taken the bait." One started to say, "Fallen right into your trap." The other one finished saying. They flew into the sky and waited for their next instructions.
Thanks for Reading! And that concludes this story. I am currently working on Part Three of this story. If I get enough reviews I might just post a preview of the first chapter. ENGAGE!
-Dominus Trinus 13