I do not own any of the characters except for Arabella.
~Arabella's POV~
"Phil's new garlic falafel balls are disgusting." Jack grimaced as we sat at a table in Falafel's Phil, I was cuddling closer to Jack and hugging his arm.
"Surprising, considering the cook is a goat." I said sarcastically.
"Yeah, I know. These are awful." Jerry said with a mouthful of garlic falafel.
"Then why do you keep eating them?" Jack asked.
"Mm. Because now I can do this..." Jerry said, swallowing than, burp. I lean over to Jack's shoulder, to cover my face.
"It's gross, but you gotta admit, the man's an artist." Milton said.
"So Belle, are you coming to see the movie with us tomorrow?" Jack asked me, "It's playing here in the Mall."
"What movie?" I asked.
"Only the best monster movie ever made." Milton unzipped his jacket and opened his button flannel shirt to reveal a shirt with a zompire on it. "Attack of the killer Zompires!"
"They're half-Zombie..." Jerry started.
"Half-Vampire." Jack added.
"And all-lame." I finished. "If you guys wanna see a good movie, go see "The Horse Tamer". It's a romantic story about a muscular 19-year-old boy, who sells his last shirt to save a crippled horse."
"Just hearing those words makes me feel like less of a man." Jack told me, as I gave a look of amused. "Oh really." I lean over to him and whispered, "I can make you feel a man big time."
Jack looked at me with a surprise look, then smirked, "Belle, come on, see Zompires with us. It'll be fun." Jack said to me.
"I don't know." I said, "Well, I like vampire and zombies, I don't."
"Come on, please." Jack told to me as he gave me a pleasing look.
"Okay, fine I'll go, you know I can't say no to that face." I said.
"Oh, I know."
"Hey, guys. You know what my new Explorer Scout patch means?" Eddie asked proudly as he sat down.
"You crossed the street by yourself."
"You threw out your nightlight?"
"You peed in the woods?"
"No, no. Eddie pointed at Jack and Jerry then to Milton, "And that's none of your business. What is means is I'm leader of my troop."
"Aren't you the only one in your..."
"Leader of my troop!" Eddie repeated cut off Jerry, "My Scout Master says I'm brave, bold and fearless."
"Great! So you're coming to see "Zompires" with us?" Jack asked.
"Are you nuts?! I looked at the commercial for that thing and I spent two days hiding in my mother's hamper." Eddie scoffed.
"Yo, Eddie. Check this out." Jerry said to him, as he bites into a falafel. It took a second as his stomach gurgles, making us all look at him with a weird and concern look. "Uh-oh. Oh, it's going the wrong way. Uh-oh. No, no, no,no, no, no! Yo, Phil, Phil! I need the key! Key to the bathroom now!"
"Oh, oh, okay. Let's see, uh... This one? No, that's not the one. This... oh, this is the key to my diary.But, uh..." Phil was about to continue when Jerry snatched the keys, "Whoa! I guess
he really had to go-o-o!" Phil yelled as he was dragged by his keys, to the bathroom, because of Jerry.
Don't you get all tough with me, I'm saying won't you come kick it with me? and we can have a ball,
run up the wall, this is how we do, and no matter how much, I chop and punch, it's not as cool as kickin' it with you.
Here we go, let's start the party, chop it up
like it's karate.
everybody, don't you get all tough with me, I'm saying won't you come kick it with me? and we can have a ball, run up the wall, this is how we do, and no matter how much I chop and punch, it's not as cool as kickin' it with you.
I was walking with Milton down the hallway at school from leaving science class, Milton let out a deep breath, "I finally finished my
science fair project. It's a light refractometer. By using a series of convex mirrors, I'm able to intensify a single beam of light." He exclaimed, "What's your project?"
"Grew a bean in a cup." I said proudly.
"Bella." Lindsay past me menacingy.
"Lindsay." I mocked. I heard music playing and saw Jack and Jerry dancing. Jerry don't notices that he was bumping into Milton, which result him dropping his project.
"No! My light refractometer!" Milton exclaimed, "It's ruined! It's gonna take me all
night to build another one."
"You want a bean?" I offered as he looked at me then look at Jerry very angry look, "You!"
"I have a date! Not the face!" Jerry shrieked as Milton chased him up the stairs.
"So are you excited for the movie tonight." Jack asked me as he walked up to me.
"Are you really asking him that, you beg me to go, but I'm glad that I'll be with you." I smiled and pushed him closer to kissed him.
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I entered the theatre with a red shirt and jeans on, I walked down and saw Eddie.
"Uh, Eddie?" I said, surprised to see him here, "What are you doing here? I thought you were too scared to see this movie."
"Now that I'm Scout Leader, I'm going to show people my bravery." Eddie told me with a proud smile.
"Now there's time to get-" a song started to play and Eddie let out a loud shriek. "Something to eat..."
"What's that?" Eddie asked in horror of the commercial.
"A cartoon dancing hotdog telling you the snack bar is open." I replied.
"Well, joke's on them. That terrifying wiener
made me lose my appetite." Eddie said as he set down his popcorn.
"Bella." I heard Lindsay said.
"Lindsay." I mocked back, "You a Zompire fan?"
"Not really. I'm here on a date." She answered snotty, "Oh, I'm sorry. You probably don't know what that is."
"Actually, I'm on a date too." I scoffed at her.
"Oh." Lindsay said in disbelief, "And here's my date now. Hi, Jack."
"Wha... you're here on a date with Jack?!" I asked very angrily.
"Yes, I am!" Lindsay said.
"I'm here with who now?" Jack asked confused.
"Come on, Jack. I saved us seats." Lindsay spoke sweetly, "Uh, buh-bye, Bella."
"Whoa, what the hell, what does she mean you're here on a date with her?" I asked, angrily.
"Uh, no, no. I... I'm not." Jack insisted turning to Jerry, "Jerry, what is going on?"
"No hablo ingles, señor." Jerry responded. (Translation: I don't speak English, sir)
"Jerry! Don't let me hurt you."
"Guys, I'm sorry, it was the only way that I would get Katie to go out with me." Jerry exclaimed, "You gotta do this for me, man. Please."
"Ok, let's do this instead, I sat next to Lindsey na you sat next to me, and Jerry, sleep with one eye open because I'm coming for you for this." I explained.
"I'm frightened." Jerry ran toward where Lindsay and Katie were sitting. I looked at Jack and at the corner of my eye, I thought I saw Rudy, maybe it was him, I don't know.
I walked over to where they were sitting. Lindsay saw me walking over, "What are you doing?" She asked me. " Whatever do you mean Lindsay? I'm here on a date with my boyfriend aren't I'm not." I said in a sickly sweet tone, " This is where we going to, sweetheart you sat next to me and Jack sat next to me. So we all can enjoy the movie." As I sat next to her and Jack sat down next to me as I lean on his shoulder, as the movie started to play, and half way through I fall asleep.
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I woke up, looking around my surroundings which resembled of the movie theater, I was in. "What the hell? Am I in a dream? But why this movie of all dreams." I walked out of the cinema to see a trashed Seaford. "Jack? Rudy? Anybody?" I yelled into seemingly nothingness. I heard banging as I turned to see Jerry as he was banging on the wall.
"Jerry? What happened? What's going on around here?" He turned around, and looked like a zompire from the movie.
"What it do..." Jerry started to walking up to me quickly, "Girl?" He tried to burp in my face but I back away. He tried to punch me to which I dodged.
"Ok." I dodged, "No way." I dodged, "You are turning me!" I dodged, the grabbing his arm to flipped him over. He rebounded, taking another swing at me, but I round kick him back from me.
"Hey, Zompire!" I heard Jack's voice. Jerry turned to Jack and they fought a bit then I heard an another voice, "Hey! Over here, pasty face." It was Rudy. He had a slingshot to shoot a falafel into Jerry's mouth, "It's falafel time. Hoo-ah! Right between the fangs!"
Jerry swallowed the falafel and got his stomach to gurgled and he ran away.
"Hey, you all right?" I asked him.
"Yeah."
"Hey, that was my last falafel ball. It's only gonna slow him down for a few minutes." Rudy intervened, "We should get back in the rebel base."
"I'm not going anywhere until someone tells me what's going on." I insisted as a Zompire roar and a screaming was heard.
"Or you know, we can go inside first. I'm flexible."
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"What is going on?!" I asked once we made it safely back to the base.
"I'll tell you what's going on." Rudy assured, "We're at war with the Zompires.When they first came we thought there was one or two... Or three or four, five..."
"Rudy!" Jack interrupted.
"There were thousands of 'em. They came crawling up from the sewers below Seaford." Rudy grimaced.
"I was on the toilet when one came up." The old man said.
"The multiplied by burping into humans' faces." Jack told me, "And the worst part, they
never say "excuse me"." We all looked at the poles to see Lindsay slide down. Why is Lindsay here? Whatever.
"Where did you go?" Rudy asked.
"Jack sent me to get supplies." Lindsay answered.
"Fresh water, batteries." Rudy guessed.
"Hair spray." Lindsay corrected.
"Really?" I looked at him with a 'really' look.
"The end of the world doesn't have to mean the end of my beautiful bouncy hair." Jack defended as he sprayed on the spray. I shook my head in disbelief.
"I'm Lindsay, Jack's girlfriend." Lindsay 'introduced' herself, "Who are you?"
"I really hate this world." I muttered in annoyance.
"Her name's Bella. We found her wandering outside and had to use our last falafel ball to save her." Jack answered.
"You wasted our last ball on her?!" Lindsay asked in disgust, "I don't trust her. Give her...the test."
"There's only one person that can give her... The test." Rudy said, "I'll summon the rebel leader. Rebel leader!" Eddie came out of a room with a bat, hitting it threatening into his hand.
"Can we trust you?" He asked after approaching me.
"Um. Yeah." I nodded.
"She passed. Hey, you play softball? We really need a first baseman." Eddie told me.
We were interrupted by a beeping noise and a clank. Jack walked over, grabbing a note.
"It's from the Professor! He wants us to come to his secret lab. He's found a way to turn Zompires back into humans." Jack told us.
"This means we'll have something we haven't had in a while." Eddie said.
"Toilet paper?" The old man guessed.
"No. Hope." Eddie listed off.
"Let me know when you get toilet paper."
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We entered the lab, taking off our shoes and looking around. Light jazz music played in the background as we admired the lab. Milton turned off the music. "Welcome, Rebels, to my secret lab." Milton welcomed, "Thank you for removing your shoes." I heard Jack shuffle and kick his shoes away. "I give you mankind's salvation. The Krupnick coil! This super powerful refractometer emits a light so intense,it pierces the Zompire's inner darkness... Turning them back into humans." Milton explained.
"Yeah." Jerry said as he and a bunch of zompires entered the room, "Not gonna happen." He zoomed forward and a second later the invention crashed to the ground. "Oopsie."
"You fiend!" Milton exclaimed, "He just destroyed our only chance of survival against the most evil force man has ever known."
"And he didn't take off his shoes." Eddie added with a glare.
"How did you find the Professor's secret underground lab?" Jack asked.
"Why don't you ask your girlfriend?" Jerry smirked.
"Ohh...plot twist." I acted surprised.
"I did it. For us." Lindsay defended, "I made a deal, Jack. The Zompires will spare us. You and I can be together."
"That's so cute, but still betrayal." I said as Jerry started to chuckle.
"Yeah... about that deal." Jerry zoomed forward so he was inches away from Lindsay, "I lied." He belched in her face.
"I'm gonna go on record and say she may be the worst girlfriend ever." I said and the zompire Lindsay turned around to hiss at me.
All the Zompires started to hiss and growl as they slowly walked towards us. "Sir, it has been an
honor to serve with you." Rudy saluted to Eddie, "One last request, rebel leader. Permission to cry like a little girl."
"Permission granted." Eddie sobbed and the two started crying.
I saw Jakc swiftly turned around, "Jack, what are you doing?" I asked him.
"Getting us out of here." He told me as he played Jerry's playlist.
"Can't resist..." Jerry said as he started to dance, "Urge to... Dance! Zompires, let's do this thing." As the Zompires started to dance a very synchronized dance which gave us an opportunity to slip away unnoticed.
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We arrived at the base and Rudy barred the door behind us once everyone was inside. "How did you know that music would make Jerry dance?" I asked Jack.
"Well, before he was a Zompire, Jerry was one of us." Jack said, "Music was his weakness. And girls. And math. And tying shoelaces. He had a lot of weaknesses."
"Seems to be right."
"The only thing left of my refractometer is this crystal diode, wrapped up in this wad of toilet paper." Milton said in a stated tone.
"I'll take the toilet paper." Mr Rosenbaum said standing up, "See you people in about a week."
"Is there anything we can do with the crystal diode?" I asked.
"Well, there is one prototype coil." Milton remembered, "But it's in the darkest,
scariest, most evil place on Earth."
"The snake cave on the edge of town that goes down to the bowels of the underworld?" Rudy said.
"Worse." Milton said, "School!"
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"We're going to the Zompires' lair." Eddie told Phil once we made our way to Falafel's Phil's safely, "The school."
"That place is scarier than the snake caves on the edge of town that reach into the bowels of the underworld." Phil said.
"That's why we need all the falafel balls you got." Eddie said, waving his bat around.
"Happy to help." Phil said, "5000! Each!"
"But we're trying to save humanity!" Jack argued.
"Oh, why didn't you say so?" Phil asked, "1000!
Each!"
"Don't you care about saving the world?" I asked annoyed
"No, not really." Phil answered my question, "The Zompire apocalypse has been great for the business. No falafel ball for you! Get out!"
We were about to leave when a sound of a goat bleating could be heard and Phil called for his pet, "Tootsie. What's wrong? Something
seems different about you?"
"Is it my demonic red eyes?" Tooties asked as I jumped back in surprise and horror, "My mouth full of fangs? The fact that I'm talking to you right now?"
"What was the first one again?" Phil asked dumbly.
"I'm a Zompire goat, you dimwit!"
"Yes, that's it! That's the one!" Phil exclaimed and then Tootsie bleated loudly and just as the green fog was about to hit Phil, Eddie jumped in front of him and taking the hit.
"No!"
"Eddie!"
Tootsie zoomed away and Eddie growled with no new Zompire face before he too zoomed out of the restaurant. "EDDIE!"
"Not my Tootsie!" Phil wailed.
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The school didn't disappoint, everywhere zompyres were sleeping. Some inside a locker, some on the floor and others hanging upside down from the roof. They had all put on make up, to make them look like zompyres in case the sleeping ones woke up.
"I'm sorry for yelling at you to do my makeup, Bella." Rudy whispered as we followed the other inside, "But as the new rebel leader, it wouldn't
look right if I had to do my own."
Rudy turned around as the others as they looked very unimpressed when they realized that instead of making him look like a Zompire, I made him look like a panda.
"No, I get it." I smirked, "Happy to help."
"If it's here, the coil will be in the multipurpose room with the other science fair projects." Milton whispered.
"Guys, we have to be quiet." Rudy told us, "Nobody make any loud noises." We started walking when Rudy's cellphone started to ringing, "Seriously? Who's the jerk?"
"It's you, dummy." I snapped.
"Oh right, that's me." Rudy said awkwardly, turning off his phone, "Sorry. That's just poor planning."
The sound of lockers clattered causing all of us to jump into defense mood and seconds later the Zompires started to wake up. "Oh, no. You woke up Joan!" Milton exclaimed, "Queen of the Zompires."
"Oh... Lookee what we have here." Joan said in a baby voice, "A cute little panda boy and his friends."
"I'm not a panda. Bella, why does she think I'm a panda?" Rudy asked before turning to glare at me, "Oh, you panda'd me, didn't you?"
"A little bit." I answered.
"How dare you dress up and sneak into my lair?" Joan said as she zoomed in front of Rudy and burped in his face, who seemed to loose consciousness as Joan carried him away while laughing, "Pandas."
"Phil, cover us!" Jack ordered.
"Okay, Jack. I'll hold them back." Phil agreed as the rest of us started running up the stairs.
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"The coil has to be around here somewhere." Milton said. As I was wiping the makeup off my face. Jack snorted as lifting up a tarp.
"Look. Some loser grew a bean in a cup." He snickered. I gave him a glare.
"Here's the coil!" Milton exclaimed, "I just need time to install the crystal diode, and it'll work."
"I don't think that's gonna happen." Jerry said and our head snapped in the direction of his voice to see him standing there with a smirk.
"Jack! Bella! Stop him!" Milton ordered us.
Jack went to attack but Jerry kicked him away as I joined jn, trying desperately to hold him back. Jack rejoined the fight and we tried to keep the Zompire at bay while Milton worked.
I tried to punch him but he grabbed my arm and used that advantage to get a grip on my shoulders, keeping me in place. "Bella, falafel ball!" Jack yelled throwing the ball to me and I pushed it into Jerry'a mouth.
Jerry's stomach started to gurgle, "Oh no! I hate school bathrooms." He whined as he clutched his stomach while running away.
"Bella, we did it." Jack grinned, "We did it!"
I saw Lindsay behind Jack, "Jack, behind you!" I warned him, "It's your crazy Zompire ex-girlfriend!"
But it was already too late as Lindsay quickly zoomed over and belched on Jack's face.
"No!" I shouted, running over to him, "Jack?"
"Bella. Get away from me." Jack told me.
"How are we coming with that coil?" I wondered, looking back to Milton.
"The diode's in place. I just need to turn it..." Milton was interrupted when Lindsay belched on him too. "Little bump in the road." Milton ran out of the room.
Jack started to growl and the next second he and his crazy ex-girlfriend was attacking me. I defended myself and it was kind of easy against Lindsay, but Jack was a challenge. I kicked him in the stomach but he caught my leg and spun me around.
Suddenly J found myself backed up against a wall and I closed my eyes as Jack prepared himself to belch on me.
"What are you doing?" Lindsay asked angrily. "Don't turn her, Jack. You are supposed to be spending the rest of eternity with me."
"I've literally been a Zompire for 10 seconds and you're already smothering me." Jack complained as I discreetly started moving away from the wall.
"You just wanna burp on her because you like her, I knew it!" Lindsey accused as I hopped away from the wall. "Admit it!"
"Oh, so this is how it's gonna be for all eternity." Jack rhetorically asked as I slowly made my way towards the coil.
"My mother warned me about..."
"Let it go! Woman! Shh! Shh!" Jack cut her off before they started overlapping with words making my maneuver towards the coil much easier.
"You guys need to lighten up." I shouted over their arguing, turning on the refractometer. The light flashed, turning Jack's pasty skin tone back to its original tan one. "You okay?" I asked worriedly.
"You did it. You saved me." Jack beamed.
"I was not gonna let you spend eternity with her." I shook my head, "You belong with me. You belong with me."
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"You belong with me. You belong with me." I mumbled waking up. 'Oh thank god it was just a dream.' I was leaning on Jack's shoulder, I looked over to him and looked around to see it was just us in the cinema. "Um...I belong with you, that's was you were muttering." Jack said to me as I was bashful and blushing.
"I had a weird dream." I said to him as we stand up and started to leave as I explained the dream.
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"Maybe your back legs don't work so well, but I used my bicycle to make you some braces." The movie played, as horse whinnies, "Oh, yeah! There you go! There you go, boy. Now run!"
I had a disbelief expression on my face at this movie, "This may be the worst movie I've ever seen." Jack said deadpanned, "But I'm glad I'm here with you." He smiled at me.
"Yeah, me too." I smiled at him and lean over on his shoulder.