Ethan and Benny were left to rot in their cells for a few hours as the others prepared the spell. The boys had fallen asleep at one point, but were woken up by a loud bang. The two jumped as Jesse appeared against the wall in front of them, a smirk on his face.
Ethan got up off the floor and approached the bars. "Where are Sarah and Erica?"
"They're collecting the supplies for the spell." Jesse explained. "Soon, we'll be able to commence and everything will go my way."
"What kind of spell am I gonna have to cast, Dorkwod?" Benny threatened as he poked his head out of the cell.
"I'm not a Dorkwod." Jesse replied, grabbing Benny's collar while banging his head against the bars, "And this spell, this spell is going to bring back my followers."
"The ones that got killed by a mob of villagers with pitchforks?" Ethan questioned with a raised brow.
"Yes." Jesse said, banging Benny's head against the bars again just for the hell of it. "Except this time they will be the ones burning this town to the ground."
"It has been over a hundred years, let it go." Benny insisted as he tried to remove Jesse's hand from his shirt. "We defeated your "flock" last time and we will do it again."
"I don't think it'll be that easy this time. They're coming back as spirits and must possess a human body. Are you prepared to kill your friends and neighbors?" Jesse asked with a sadistic smile. "This town took everything from me and now I'm going to return the favor. This time my followers and I will come out on top."
Ethan shook his head. "The people of this town are innocent people. No one in town even knows about you and your friends. They have nothing to do with this. Taking revenge on them would be pointless."
"They might have no knowledge of what happened, but that doesn't change anything. The people of this town will pay for their ancestor's actions." Jesse said, letting go of Benny's shirt.
He took a step back as Erica and Sarah entered the room. Both had blank expressions plastered on their faces as they turned to Jesse, speaking in unison. "Everything is ready."
"Time to begin."
Jesse snapped his fingers as the girls approached the cells in a very robotic nature. Erica went for Benny and Sarah went for Ethan. Benny tried to fight against Erica, but he was no match. Ethan on the other hand went with speaking to Sarah, but she responded with silence.
The girls took Ethan and Benny from their cells. They were transported through a very dark hallway into a stone room. All the walls were made of cement and the only lights inside were candles scattered across the floor.
In the middle of the room was a podium with a stone bowl on top. A bunch of liquids and herbs sat near the bowl, ready for use. Surrounding the podium was a salt circle and a little to the left was another. Benny was put by the podium with the ingredients and spell book while Ethan was put in the other salt circle.
Erica threw Benny to the floor inside the circle as Jesse crouched down beside him. "Read the spell exactly how it says or things will get complicated.
Jesse pulled a knife from his back pocket. The dagger looked ancient with a curved handle made of bone. It was a wicked blade and deadly sharp.
Ethan stood in his circle and tried to get out of it, but an invisible barrier kept him inside. He banged against the buried, but his hands kept bouncing off. This is when he tried to get through to the girls. "Sarah! Erica! You guys need to snap out of it, please."
Benny placed his forward and realized he too could not get out of the circle. He had to try anything to get out of this and a great idea popped into his head. If it didn't work, he might end up hurting himself, but he had to try.
Benny pointed his hand toward Jesse and whispered under his breath. "Fulmen…"
Sparks flew from Benny's hand and went through the invisible barrier surrounding him. It flew directly at Jesse, throwing him over the table he was leaning on. When he hit the ground the boys tried to leave the circles again, but something was keeping them from doing so.
Jesse got to his feet and started to laugh, "Once you entered the salt circles invisible force fields went around you. You're trapped until someone from the outside breaks the salt. Are you ready to begin, Benny? Or should I give you some motivation."
Jesse went from his spot to Ethan, raising the blade toward Ethan's chest. Benny saw this and freaked. "Okay...I'll do it."
Ethan frantically shook his head. "Benny don't."
"What else am I supposed to do?" Benny asked, looking from Ethan to Jesse.
Jesse moved away from Ethan as Benny sighed. He reluctantly began reading the spell ingredient list. Once he knew what to put in the bowl, he started filling the bowl with ingredients. Green goop, bazel, newts tail, cinnamon, ogre toe jam, werewolf fur, Jesse's blood and some kind of animal eye. He had everything until he got to the very last ingredient.
"A Seer's blood." Benny said to himself as he realized what that meant.
"No problem." Jesse said, snapping his fingers as Sarah appeared by his side, "Stab Ethan."
"What!?" Benny exclaimed with worry. "Use the blood from his wrist. It's already cut open and bleeding."
"What fun is that?" Jesse said, turning toward Sarah. "Why don't you do the honors?"
Jesse motioned for Sarah to approach. When she appeared beside him he placed the blade in her hand as he whispered in her ear. She stood in front of the circle, twisting the blade around in her hand.
Ethan and Sarah's eyes met. "Don't do this. Fight through his control, I know you can."
Sarah blinked as the control broke entirely. She looked dropped the knife and hissed toward Jesse. He hissed right back, "Sarah, why do you have to make everything complicated?"
She rushed at Jesse as the two battled one another, but Sarah was a new full vampire and Jesse was hundreds of years old. With one move, he grabbed Sarah by the hair and slammed her head into the table, knocking her out instantly. Ethan tried to get through the circle to check on Sarah, but the barrier kept him inside. Jesse picked the blade up in his hand and grabbed Ethan by the collar of his shirt.
"Doing this won't bring you happiness." Ethan said with conviction. "Killing me won't solve anything."
"Maybe not, but I'll still enjoy it."
Jesse took the blade and without warning shoved it deep into Ethan's stomach, the hilt touching his stomach. "Ahh…"
A tear rolled down Benny's cheek filled with fear and anger. With two raised hands he began to whisper another shock blast. Jesse sensed what he was doing and looked toward him with a shaking head.
"Ah ah ah. Shoot me and I'll kill you tool." Jesse threatened, beginning to twist the blade within Ethan's stomach.
A sharp pain shot through Ethan as his limbs began to tingle. A chill spread from his back to the rest of his body. He felt cold and hot all at the same time. He lost the strength to keep his head up and leaned it against Jesse's shoulder.
"Stop, please." Benny begged as tears fell from his eyes.
Jesse silently nodded, pulled the blade from Ethan. He had been the only thing that kept Ethan on his feet so with his crouch gone, Ethan collapsed onto the floor. Benny and Ethan's eyes met as blood appeared on Ethan's lips. Both were crying, but it was clearly obvious by the look in his eye he wanted Benny to finish the spell so he could get the hell out of there.
Jesse took the knife and walked over to Benny, dripping some of Ethan's blood into the bowl as he licked the rest off. "Finish the spell before I lose my patience."
Benny looked at Ethan for confirmation before whispering the latin incantation. "Mundi est tenebris, et tenebrae eam cruel ut aliqua. Afferte Isai sectatores ab inferis revocasse hic vocatus!"
The podium with the bowl began to shake and fizz. The contents inside the bowl lit a flame, a thick black smoke billowing into the room. The gas formed into 219 human shaped beings.
"It's done. You got what you wanted, now let us go." Benny demanded
"Fine. You'll be ended soon enough anyway." Jesse said, swirling his hand around.
Erica blinked with a gasp. Sarah woke up soon after with the same reaction. Both were brought back to reality, with everything that just happened hitting them like a brick wall.
"Ethan!" Sarah yelled, running to his side.
Erica didn't really care for any of them, but freed Benny from his circle and went to Ethan just for Sarah. The three freed Ethan from the salt and circled around him, his blood filling the girl's senses. It was difficult for both, but they kept their cool.
"Hey...mhm...mhm." Ethan whispered with blood on his lips. It was getting harder and harder to breathe and the pain was like fire. He felt like he was drowning in his own blood.
"Sarah, he's dying and if you don't want to lose him, you know what you have to do." Erica said, saying what none of them wanted to hear. "He was willing to become a vampire for you mere days ago. You got him into this mess, now you gotta get him out."
"Do it." Benny said, giving a nod.
"Forgive me."
Ethan was barely awake but he knew what was happening. He was trying to tell her he was far from saving but no words left his mouth. She tilted his head and sunk her fangs into his neck as she cried. He tried to scream but again nothing came out, only gasping. Her bite was masking the pain from the stab wound but the pain from her bite was worse. She then lifted her mouth as he passed out.
"Do you think it worked?" Benny asked as he looked toward the girls.
"I don't know." Sarah said, cleaning the blood from her face.
A clapping sounded from behind them. The three stood up and turned around to have Jesse appear with a mocking smile. He spoke with thick sarcasm. "Such a cute moment."
"I'm gonna kill you." Benny threatened as Sarah held him back.
"Not if I kill you first."
Jesse appeared in front of Benny and grabbed him before Sarah could intervene. His hand wrapped around Benny's throat, dragging him across the room. When they were a good distance from the girls, he lifted Benny into the air so his feet dangled above the floor.
"Let him go!" Sarah yelled
"He missed an ingredient. My army is present but they will not move until the final ingredient is added." Jesse said with a devilish grin. "The spell caster must add some of their own blood and since you defied me in doing so, I'll just have to take your blood my way."
Jesse's fangs extended as he lowered Benny low enough for Jesse to imbed his teeth in Benny's neck. Benny gasped as he struggled against Jessie's grip. He now understood why Ethan had reacted the way he had as it was excruciating.
Jesse moved around toward the podium while he drank from Benny. He lifted his mouth and spit all the blood from his mouth into the bowl. He then continued to drink from Benny until he was near death.
"Mhm mhm mhm just as delicious as Ethan was." Jesse said, dropping Benny to the floor, wiping the blood from his face. Jesse didn't drain enough to kill him so Benny was convulsing on the floor as he turned.
"You're sick." Sarah spat with disgust.
Jesse mockingly curtseying. "Why thank you."
"It wasn't a compliment."
Everyone turned to notice Ethan standing on his feet, looking down toward the floor. Even Jesse, who was across the room, felt the power radiating off of Ethan. He wasn't worried, but intrigued more than anything else.
"Looks like Sleeping Beauty is awake." Jesse mocked. "Are you ready to take me on, Ethan?"
"Never more ready." Ethan growled
He looked up from the floor with glowing red eyes. Not yellow, or blue like his, but a deep red. All of them were shocked, including Jesse.
"What are you?" Jesse asked with confusion.
Ethan smiled. "I'm your worst nightmare.
He bared his fangs as he rushed Jesse. As those two fought, Erica and Sarah ran to Benny's side. He was screaming as he shook back and forth. Benny had never felt pain like this before and now he knew why Ethan screamed.
Sarah began to lean in when Erica grabbed her arm. "Let me save the dork."
"Are you sure?" Sarah questioned
"You saved the other nerd, let me save this one. If I start to kill him, pull me off, no matter what. Promise." Erica said with a serious tone.
"I promise." Sarah replied quickly
"Alright Benny, this is gonna sting a little."
Erica took a deep breath before sinking her fangs into Benny's neck. His eyes went wide as he screamed even louder, clutching onto Erica's sweater like it was life or death and in reality it was.
Meanwhile, Ethan and Jesse were still fighting. It was an even match for the most part. Well, until Ethan pushed Jesse into a stone wall that is.
"What are you?" Jesse asked again
"Something much more powerful. Something that can defeat you." Ethan said as he knocked Jesse to the ground.
Jesse then grabbed Ethan's foot and tripped him, getting on top punching him. They rolled around taking turns giving and receiving punches until Jesse threw Ethan to the side getting to his feet, putting one foot on Ethan's throat.
"I told you, you can't beat me." Jesse said to Ethan as he turned to his flock. "Now my army, go out and wreak some havoc!"
The room shook as all the gaseous figures made themselves into a giant gas cloud breaking through the only door in and out of the room, "Have fun defeating and killing 219 of the people you know."
"I'm gonna save them all." Ethan gasped, struggling under Jesse's foot.
"And how are you gonna do that?" Jesse asked with a raised brow.
"Every group falls without a leader." Ethan threatened, pushing Jesse off as he got to his feet and slammed Jesse's back into the wall, cracking the cement.
Ethan pinned Jesse to the wall as he retrieved a stake hidden away in a secret pocket. Jesse looked from the stake and back to Ethan with a laugh. "You don't have the guts to kill me."
Meanwhile Erica was continuing to suck the venom from Benny. When his blood was clean Sarah pulled her back. He would live, but need some rest for a long while.
"We should get him out of here." Erica said as Benny's blood dripped from her lips.
"Clean up and take him home." Sarah ordered, glancing over at Ethan and Jesse. "I'm going to go help Ethan."
Erica silently agreed as she picked Benny up bridal style before vanishing from the room. When she left, Ethan and Jesse were still at each other's throats. While Ethan still had the stake in his hand.
"Go ahead, do it. I dare you." Jesse egged, smiling as Ethan positioned it over his heart. As he did his hand started to shake and Jesse noticed, "You can't do it, can you? I've bitten you, almost killed you and caused almost every problem in your life and you still can't do it?!"
"I'm not a killer like you." Ethan muttered
"But you are. You're a vampire now, a weird looking one, but still a vampire. You'll crave human blood and once you have it you'll be a full vampire like myself. If you don't kill me now, a whole lot more people will die. Do you want that blood on your hands?" Jesse warned, smiling.
"I'll do it if you can't." Sarah said, appearing by Ethan's side.
"Aww what a cute moment. Sharing the kill. It's like your vampire first date." Jesse mocked as Ethan and Sarah shared a look.
"Goodbye, Jesse." Sarah said as she took the stake from Ethan, stabbing it through Jesse's stomach.
Jesse looked down at the stake and back up at Sarah. "You missed."
"That was the point. If I kill you now we can't get the information we need." Sarah said with a devilish grin.
"You won't be getting anything from him." Said a familiar voice. Both Sarah and Ethan turned around to find someone neither of them expected, "Rory?"
"Hey guys!" Said Rory as Jesse appeared by his side. While Ethan and Sarah were distracted he pulled the stake out and walked away.
"What are you doing, Rory?! He's evil!" Ethan exclaimed
"I always miss out on the action, so I chose a side. This side sounds like an endless party." Rory said with a fangy grin.
"Rory, please don't do this. We're your friends." Sarah pleaded
Rory raised a brow. "Are you? Whenever I'm around you're either annoyed, weirded out or all of the above."
"Rory…"
Rory shook his head as the two vanished from the room. Ethan and Sarah were left with a terrible feeling in their stomachs. Jesse was free and so was his flock. It was the end of the town as they knew it if they didn't come up with something fast.
"Great. Now there is an army of gaseous vampires out there, Rory joined the dark side, and Jesse got away. What are we gonna do?" Ethan asked, looking toward Sarah with worry.
"We fight and we don't stop fighting." Sarah said
"How do we fight against family and people we care about?" Ethan asked, while on the verge of a panic attack.
"We stay strong." Sarah said, leaning up and kissing Ethan. His eyes went wide and his breath caught in his throat. He had no time to react before she pulled away.
"What was that for?" Ethan asked while in a bit of a daze.
"I just wanted you to calm down." Sarah said with a smile. "Now let's get back to Erica and Benny so we can plan our next move."
"Benny…" Ethan whispered, vanishing from the room.
"Ethan!" Sarah yelled, running after him.