One makes simple decisions in life and death situations. Kill or be killed. Most of us will kill.
Jeremy whispered, “Bloody good deal! I didn’t know if the ring would work. I had the stakes in my car, you see, and actually forgot to bring them…”
No time left, a female vamp, her eyes nearly glazed over with blood thirst, was on me, hissing like an angry cat.
Just as she hugged me to her and bent to bite my neck, I brought up my stake, hard and fast, and she slapped it powerfully out of my hand. Uh-oh.
Damn, didn’t see that coming. Maybe it was because her fangs were dug deep into my neck?
Jeremy staked his vamp and was on her, pulling her off me. He took up my wooden stake from the ground and as she lunged at him, he rammed the stake into her heart.
Like the other one, she burst into flames.
One of the vampires still on the stairs watching, and holding back three male vampires of the ugly breed with his outstretched arms said, “Witches. They are witches.” He looked at us hard and asked, “What business have you with us?”
“None,” Jeremy said. “We came for something we need. It has nothing to do with any of you.”
A female vampire appeared down the long hallway and said, “If you leave now, you leave with your lives. We have no quarrel with you.”
“We can’t leave just yet,” I told them, and marveled at my boldness. “We need something. Allow us to find it and we’ll let you live.”
Jeremy chuckled and then bellowed with anger as a vamp dove at me and took my throat in his long-nailed hand.
Life and death situation. He never saw it coming. I rammed that pointy wooden stake as deep as I could, however, not being a natural born killer, I missed his dead heart and caught him somewhere in the chest.
It didn’t kill him, but made him stagger backwards. He, of course, threatened to take me apart, piece by piece he said. Didn’t like the picture that conjured in my mind.
I put out my hand and called the stake back to me and once more I was on the attack while he was still recovering and Jeremy was fending off the other three with his magic balls of pain. Those magic balls look like fire and burn the vamps from the inside out—ooh, so cool. Another thing I’ll have to learn how to do.
Out of nowhere, another four vampires appeared on the stairs.
They watched their pals suffer in agony before turning into ash, and stopped in their tracks.
Jeremy said, “Want us to stop? We don’t have a fight with any of you.”
A female vampire in a slinky silver cocktail dress took a step towards us. Her expression told it all, but she just had to scream, “You filthy bastards! I will suck every…” She didn’t finish her sentence, as the next thing we knew, she was climbing the walls like an insect and throwing herself at me.
She landed on me and I went backwards hard onto the floor. She was on top of me and I felt her nails tearing into the flesh of my throat.
“I’m going to rip out your insides and feed them to my friends,” she growled.
Jeremy had her by her auburn hair. He threw her off as though she were a feather weight and shouted at her, at all of them, “Enough!”
They began arguing amongst themselves as I jumped to my feet and dusted myself off. Damn, but I had thought I was skilled in karate. Hmm. I was going to have to really practice because vamps were fast and they were strong…and apparently could climb walls!
“Well, what is it going to be?” Jeremy continued, “Do you each want to burn, one by one?”
None of them answered, but neither did they attack.
One of the vamps came forward and said, “What do you propose?”
Jeremy nodded at him and said, “Right, look, like we said, we didn’t mean to intrude. We have no fight with any of you…unless you want to try and kill us. What we want is for you to stand aside and allow us to conduct our search.”
One laughed, the others joined in.
“I take it that means no?” I said.
The female vampire flew into a rage again. She answered Jeremy by throwing herself across the room and into Jeremy, who immediately, and without hesitation, staked her undead heart and stood back so we could all watch her burst into flames. She screamed out in agony before her body was reduced to ash.