Later that evening, as Dave and his sons sat over dinner, the conversation regarding the whereabouts of Cydra continued.
"So two men abducted Cydra from the party?" Dave asked.
"Not so much men," Simon said, "they only looked to be somewhere in their late teens, or early twenties."
"Did it look like they targeted Cydra specifically?" Dave asked, "or do you think this was a badly timed coincidence."
"Probably a badly timed coincidence." Alvin said.
While Alvin, Theodore, and Dave continued their discussion, Simon sat in silence for a moment. He got to thinking about it, and somehow, it seemed to him that the two did target Cydra. He also thought about how Cydra seemed to faint for no reason before she was abducted. His eyes then widened, and he let out a rather loud, "That's it!", taking his brothers and father by surprise.
"What's it Simon?" Theodore asked.
Simon glanced at Dave, who waited for Simon to continue.
"Uh... it... just now slipped my mind..." Simon lied.
"Must not have been too important then..." Dave commented, while both Alvin and Theodore glanced at Simon.
After dinner, the boys met in their room.
"Alright Simon," Alvin began, "what have you figured out?"
"I have a suspicion that these two guys, or maybe just one of them, were perhaps acquainted with Cydra before..." Simon said.
"What are you getting at?" Theodore asked.
"I mean, I believe either of them could very well be from Cydra's deep, dark, past." Simon said.
"You mean more vampires?" Alvin asked.
"Yes, I believe so..." Simon said.
"What do you think they've done with Cydra?" Theodore asked.
"That I don't know," Simon said, "but if this is the case, and they see that the curse has been broken, then I believe what's yet to come won't be very pretty."
"What, like you think the entire population of vampires will declare war on us?" Alvin asked.
"I hope not." Simon said.
Moments later, Alvin was tossing pebbles at the chipettes' bedroom window, trying to garner their attention. Brittany finally opened the window.
"Who's out there?" Brittany asked.
"Down here!" Simon said.
"What's going on?" Brittany asked.
"Come out here, we need to have an emergency meeting!" Alvin said.
Within a matter of moments, the chipmunks and chipettes gathered in the chipmunks' old backyard treehouse.
"Here's what I've deduced," Simon said, "I believe that possibly one or both of those guys are somehow from Cydra's past... what they want with her, or what they plan to do with her, I don't know, but I do have a sickening feeling that there may be an upset when they see that Cydra's curse has been broken."
The girls sat there, uneasy over what Simon had just told them.
"That makes a little bit of sense..." Jeanette said.
"You think that's why Cydra was targetted?" Eleanor asked.
Simon shrugged. "It's just an assumption really."
Alvin groaned. "Seriously? Come on Simon, when you assume something, all you're really doing is making an..."
"Actually," Simon interrupted, "perhaps that wasn't the best way to put it, but I digress."
"So what are we going to do now?" Brittany asked.
"You don't think we can actually explain this sort of thing to Cydra's parents, do you?" Eleanor asked.
"No, I don't," Simon said, "however, I think I may know what we can do..."
"What's that?" Theodore asked.
"Remember that story Cydra told us?" Simon asked. "About a satanic ritual she was taken to, where she said she woke up the vampire we knew her to be?"
"Yeah, that was a pretty scary story..." Theodore said, shivering.
"Perhaps, maybe," Simon continued, "Cydra may be taken to another one..."
"And what are we going to do about that?" Brittany asked.
Simon sighed through his nose, even he knew that his idea was dangerous, "My plan is this: after Dave and Miss Miller are asleep tonight, we go out in search for such a ritual."
Everyone else's eyes widened.
"We look in the parks, other wooded areas, places like that," Simon said, "it would probably be easy to find, all we would really need to look for is a huge bon fire, like Cydra described."
A bon fire did, indeed, burn. In a clearing in a wooded area, a large bon fire burned, a number of sinister-looking characters gathered around it. Kyle made his way around the fire, leading his band of minions behind him, as they carried the tightly bonded Cydra. Kyle continued his march around the fire until he came upon a very large wooden stake that was driven into the ground. Kyle stopped, and had his minions deliver Cydra to him. Kyle stared Cydra dead in the eye, before he had their lips meet.
"This is your last chance," Kyle said, as he broke away from his kiss of death, "are you going to talk?"
"Never." Cydra said.
"Very well..." Kyle said.
Kyle walked away from Cydra, but before Cydra could react in any way, she was levitated off the ground, and suspended in mid air, for all those attending the sacrifice to see. Cydra's clothing was then ripped from her body.
"Now what that really necessary?" Cydra asked.
"Let this be an example for those of us, and all of us..." Kyle announced to everybody, "this is what happens to those who step out of line... those who betray their fellow vampires... those who are rejects..."
Cydra was manuevered above the large wooden stake, and was slowly lowered to it. Just as slowly, Cydra finally realized what was about to happen, and when she could feel the top of the wooden stake slowly making its way into her rectum, she cried out.
"There's a syrum!" Cydra cried out.
"What was that?" Kyle asked, surprised at Cydra's outburst.
"The curse can be broken by a..." Cydra continued.
Before Cydra could finish her sentence, Kyle erased everything and everyone from sight, causing Cydra to fall to the ground in a dark gray room, which had no windows or doors. Cydra tried to calm her heavy breathing as Kyle grabbed her head, and lifted her off the ground, to his eye level.
"Watch what you say in front of the others," Kyle said, "we don't want anybody out there to get any kind of ideas..."
Cydra's breathing settled down, she could feel her guts beginning to tie themselves into tight knots.
"Now then... you were saying?" Kyle asked.
Cydra decided that she would admit what it is that broke her curse, without naming names, figuring that information alone would be enough to satisfy Kyle.
"The curse can be broken... by a syrum..." Cydra said.
"A syrum?" Kyle asked.
"Yes..." Cydra continued, "I don't remember, exactly, what the ingredients were, but the main, key ingredient is the blood of someone pure-hearted..."
"The blood of someone pure-hearted, eh?" Kyle asked.
"Yes," Cydra said, "a full pint of pure blood... that, and the other ingredients work to reverse the effects of a vampire's curse."
"So tell me, my dear," Kyle said, "what pure-hearted 'friend' of your's discovered this syrum?"
"He didn't discover it," Cydra said, "he only read about it... he didn't create it or anything, he found the information from the internet..."
Kyle smirked. "Very well... we have ways of finding information as well..."
Suddenly, Kyle and Cydra found themselves back at the ritual, where once again she was levitated into the air. Cydra began to panic, as she was once again positioned about the wooden stake, only this time, with lightning speed, she was brought down, as she let out a deafening scream.