Having closed her eyes and
concentrated, Michelle’s appearance suddenly changes. She then opens them to
reveal they have turned completely black.
“All
vampires who have my blood in them, come to my location immediately,” she
called with her thoughts.
Athena was in her room studying when
her eyes suddenly turned black and her appearance changed. She gets up out of
her chair and walks over to a window and opens it. She climbs out and jumps to
the ground receiving no harm from the fall.
Susan awakes from her bed and gets
up and heads for a window and climbs out.
Two roommates get up from watching a
movie and exit their home leaving it available for thieves to come as they
please.
During a basketball game, several
people including coaches, players, and referees began exiting the gym.
As the clan gathers in front of the
cave, Michelle stands there to greet them.
“Welcome, my children,” said
Michelle, “I’m sure a lot of you have questions as to why you suddenly had to
leave your lives to come here but your loyalty to me forced you to come. I
appreciate you coming without hesitation. That being said, we have a lot to
work to do. Inside the cave, there are stone statues of your future brothers
and sisters in the clan. It will take all of us to free them from this spell.”
There is a moment of silence where
the vampires murmur amongst themselves.
“You are probably wondering how we
can do this and I have an answer for you,” said Michelle, “One of you when you
first became a vampire killed a witch on a night like this, with a full moon,
and doing so gave you her gift of magic and that was transferred into me and
then into each and every one of you. So let’s each go inside and stand in front
of a stone statue and focus our collective energies to break this spell.”
The hundreds of vampires followed
Michelle inside.
An alarm goes off.
“What’s going on?” asked a voice.
“Sir,” said another voice, “Another
Vampire Queen has called her clan together and sir it’s the one we have feared
the most.”
“Michelle Van Helsing?” asked the
first voice.
“That is correct,” said the second
voice, “It looks like the prophecy is being fulfilled sir. And the world is in
danger because of it.”
“Not if I can help it,” said the
first voice.
“But sir,” said the second voice, “she
is the granddaughter of the Fairy Queen. We can’t just go and find and kill
her.”
“Oh yes we can,” said the first
voice, “Oh yes we can.”
Still in chains Wanda and her
daughter Wendy, the true heir to the throne of Atlantis are thrown before the
girl sitting on the throne as queen, Whitney, Wendy’s younger sister.
“Welcome vampires,” said Whitney,
“Have you found your accommodations appealing?”
“Stop the small talk sis and give up
the throne and crown right now,” ordered Wendy.
“Uh no,” said Whitney, “I can’t do
that. The council has ruled that if you die, you are no longer eligible to be
crown queen of Atlantis and guess what vampire you are dead.”
“But I am still the rightful heir,”
said Wendy, “My mom was married to the king and I was born first. You are
nothing more than the daughter of a maid who tricked dad into sleeping with her
a couple of times.”
“Dad was the one who instruct the
council to put me on the throne before he died,” said Whitney, “they followed
dad’s orders.”
“Dad was scared and contacting the
council is what killed him,” said Wendy.
“Wait, what?” asked Whitney, “you
were there when dad died?”
“We both were,” said Wanda, “now do
as my daughter says and give her the crown.”
“I’m sorry,” said Whitney, “but as
far as I and the council are concerned, my sister and her mom were killed
months ago and therefore I became eligible to crown queen. Now you may look like them and sound
like them but what you are is two monsters indwelling in their corpses. But I’m
a generous person. Willard wants you dead. But I don’t. Agree to serve me in
the palace and I’ll let you live. Don’t agree and I’ll allow Willard to stake
your hearts.”
Wendy stands up, pulls off her
chains and walks over to Willard. She removes his weapon and cuts her wrist. It
begins to bleed.
“Now, you have 30 seconds to give up
the crown or you will have another vampire to deal with,” said Wendy.
“Don’t be ridiculous,” said Whitney,
“We’ll just lock him up for 24 hours until the vampire blood is gone.”
“Yeah,” said Wendy, “are you sure
about that?”
“Why?” asked Whitney.
“Because,” said Wendy, “this blood
is still the queen’s blood. If I feed him he will turn the instant he dies no
matter if it is within the next 24 hours or not. It’s your choice.”
“I’m calling your bluff on that big
sis,” said Whitney, “Go ahead feed him the blood then after 24 hours you can
kill him and if he comes back as a vampire, I’ll gladly give you the throne.”
“My queen,” said Willard, “Why? I
don’t want to die.”
“Don’t worry,” said Whitney, “like
all vampires, she’s lying. The blood there isn’t queen’s blood so you want come
back.”
“But my queen,” said Willard, “I’ll
still be dead.”
“I know,” said Whitney, “and you are
an excellent chief guard but everyone has to make sacrifices for the good of
the kingdom and that includes you now drink that blood!”
“Yes, my queen,” said Willard.
“And what if he does come back,”
said Wanda.
“He won’t,” said Whitney, “I guarantee
it.”
Willard drinks the blood flowing
from Wendy’s wrist.
“Now Willard escort these two back
to the dungeon and place them back into their cells and choose one for yourself
for the next 24 hours,” said Whitney.
“That won’t be necessary,” said Wendy
who immediately breaks his neck causing him to collapse and die.”
“You just murdered my chief guard,”
said Whitney.
“No,” said Wendy, “I just turned my
chief guard into a vampire. In exactly 12 hours, he’ll wake up ready to feed
and I think you will be the perfect one to feed on.”
“Uh,” said Whitney, “Hello, vervain
in my blood 24/7. There is no way he’ll be able to drink my blood and survive.”
“You know what I just remembered
mom?” asked Wendy.
“What’s that sweetie?” asked Wanda.
“Vampire blood in Atlantisians turns
them human temporary and in our case and Willard’s, Vampire Queen’s blood does
it permanently,” said Wendy, “Do you know what that means?”
“What?” asked Wanda.
“It means that I shouldn’t have
killed Willard by breaking his neck,” said Wendy, “I could have just bit him
and drank his human vervain less blood.”
“That doesn’t make any sense,” said
Whitney, “He’s still Atlantisian. I mean look at him.”
“Have you ever been to the human
world?” asked Wanda.
“No,” said Whitney.
“Then if you ever do go,” said
Wendy, “you will be human too. Or at least look like it. Oh wait just because
you look like a human doesn’t mean you are one. That means that just because
Willard looks like an Atlantisian doesn’t mean he is.”
“But he is one,” said Whitney, “He
was born one. He lived as one. He died as one.”
“So were we,” said Wendy, “we were
born here and lived here. The only difference is we didn’t die here. And we
were humans at the time we died and he was turned human before he died. So
trying to claim we’re invaders is just your way of securing your claim to the
throne which you didn’t have anyway because I was born first and my mom is the
late King’s wife.”
“I’ve heard enough,” said Whitney,
“I won’t all three taken to a dungeon cell. And at exactly 12 noon a stake is
going to be placed into each of your hearts killing you instantly because of
the time of day.”
“I don’t think the Atlantisians will
go for that,” said Wanda, “I mean killing the true heir to the throne and me her
mother. There’s going to be a riot!”
“Silence!” yelled Whitney, “I have
spoken!”
The spell that turn people,
suspected to have Michelle’s blood in them, to stone had been reversed thanks
to the collective witchcraft magic of Michelle’s clan. The bodies of the
victims collapsed to the ground as they each turned to normal. Now that she has
them out of the way Michelle began decorating the cave and making it the way
she wanted it. She even put a dungeon section in the cave to keep prisoners.
For now each victim of the stone spell was placed in one so the clan could wait
and see which ones wake up as vampires.
Preview
of Chapter 18:
The
Atlantisian Palace Execution chamber…
The bright sun came shining in the
chamber where Wanda, Wendy and Willard, now a vampire, were standing. The
people of Atlantis gathered together to watch these three vampires be executed
for invading the kingdom. Their faces were covered so the people couldn’t see
who they were.
“These two vampires,” said Whitney,
“somehow managed to enter our land in order to make us one of them and they
succeeded with this one. My fellow Atlantisians I beg you to ask for each of
them to be staked in the heart immediately!”
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