Where Thunder Roars

The group was suddenly transported to Vesper Publishing, LLC. Damien Vesper stood in front of them.

“You have a choice, Tiberius,” he sneered, “either I stop publishing the Black Books, or you get a copy of the Tangled DVD… with a DVD player!”

Vampire Lord’s face remained stoic for a moment, then contorted with fury. “First,” he said slowly, taking a step forward, the power in his voice, “I chose the Black Books,” he took another step forward. “Second, it’s not Tiberius.

“It’s Vampire Lord!”

He flew at Tiberius, blind with anger. He began clawing at Damien’s eyes, killing him with his bare hands.

When the deed was done, he turned to face Sunny-Rue and Nireth. “It is done,” he said tersely, coated with his enemy’s blood.

“Oh, thank the Gods!” Nireth said.

Sunny-Rue heaved a sigh of relief.

Out of nowhere, a crowd of Vespers came and kidnapped Nireth.

“Help!” she cried as she was carried away.

Sunny-Rue and Vampire Lord charged to her rescue, and Vampire Lord shot them down with a single blast.

“Thank you!” Nireth stammered. “I—I’m so glad you’re my friends!” Nireth ran, giving her friends a hug.

“I’d never let you go,” Vampire Lord said comfortingly.

“Thanks, Vampire Lord!” Nireth patted him on the back. “I owe you one!”

Vampire Lord looked up sharply. “Wait,” he said, “there’s still—wait. We aren’t finished.”

The group was teleported to Madrigal’s stronghold. The floor began to shake violently—someone had set off an explosive!

“Under here!” Vampire Lord cried, shoving them all beneath a table.

When the worst of the tremors were over, there was a loud groan. Nireth and Shadow-Rue turned to see Vampire Lord pinned under a bookshelf.

“Vampire Lord!” cried a new voice. A girl and two boys came running into the room. “Jonah, Dan, get that bookshelf off of him!” the girl ordered.

Jonah, Dan, and Nireth began trying to get the bookshelf off their fallen friend.

“We have to get the serum to heal him,” Amy (the girl) said. “It’s through those doors,” she pointed Shadow, Nireth, and RC towards a door at the far side of the room.

Using a sheet like a hammock, they carried Vampire Lord through the doors. All of them were open—all except for the thirty-ninth one.

Shadow-Rue read the clue, then said aloud, “It says something about lost Shakespeare poetry,” she said slowly.

RC slapped Vampire Lord. “Do you know anything  about lost Shakespeare poetry?” she asked.

Vampire Lord opened his eyes and blinked slowly, “Um… there’s the one… I only know of one,” he coughed, his face wracked by pain. “Love Labour’s Lost.”

“Love Labour’s Lost,” Nireth said aloud, punching it into a keypad. The door swung open.

Another girl ran by.

“Natalie!” Shadow-Rue called out.

Natalie turned and, while she was distracted, accidentally ran off of a cliff.

“Get the serum!” she cried. “Just forget about me!”

Nireth set Vampire Lord down and ran to the lab .

“Serum, serum, serum,” she said, looking through everything. “Where could it–”

“Looking for this?” a voice asked. Isabel Kabra stood there with the Serum, holding it tauntingly.

“Yes!” Nireth cried. “Oh, thank you, thank you! I–”

Isabel tossed it over the edge of the cliff.

“No!” Vampire Lord cried, lunging and grabbing it before it could fall.

Isabel snarled. “Fools. You think that you–you, half dead,” she pointed to Vampire Lord, “you, a cat,” she said to Shadow-Rue, “you, half my size,” she sneered at RC, ”you, still a naive child,” she scoffed at Nireth.

Suddenly, there was a loud explosion. A hole had been blasted in the ground. “Go!” Vampire Lord cried. “I’ll follow you!”

“We won’t leave you!” Nireth cried.

Shadow nodded, “We’re your friends!”

Vampire Lord used what was left of his energy to lurch forward and push them towards the hole.

“Ahh!” RC cried, losing her balance. As she fell, she grabbed ahold of Nireth, who fell down with her.

Vampire Lord reached out again and knocked Shadow down with the others, sealing the hole after she fell.

Isabel smirked, “So, Tiberius, we meet again,” she said, pacing in circles around him. “Pity–I was hoping to get a bit of fight out of you before you died.”

Vampire Lord stared her in the face, refusing to say anything.

“Very well,” she shrugged. “A fight for words wasn’t what I was gunning for. I guess this is it, Tiberius!”

She jumped at him and he felt a prick in his arm. He looked down and saw a red spot on his arm. A tiny line was creeping its way up his arm–she’d poisoned him!

When Vampire Lord looked up, however, Isabel was gone.

The poison began its deadly work. He had to do something–he remembered his friends he had sealed into the hole. Using all he had left, he teleported books to them, opened up the way out, and summoned a ladder for them to get out. He hoped he would be able to see them one last time before he died.

As the group was falling, Nireth jumped suddenly, “What’s this?” she asked; a book had appeared in her hands! “The Secrets of the Branch of Janus?”

“Over there–another one! The Secrets of the Branch of Lucian! And–and there! The Secrets of the Branch of Ekatarina!” Shadow exclaimed.

“I’m more interested in that cookbook,” RC said sullenly as a random cookbook appeared with the others.

“And Madrigal and Thomas!” Shadow continued. “All the Cahill branch books–the’re here!”

And then another book appeared.

“The Vespers?” Nireth guessed.

Shadow shook her head, “No! It’s a note from Vampire Lord! It says, ‘Isabel poisoned me! Please hurry!’”

“Oh, no!” Nireth cried.

“Oh, hey, look!” RC said, “a ladder! That wasn’t there before.”

The group scrambled up to the top, where Thunder Ninja was waiting for them.

“Guys, what’s going on?” She asked. “Is Vampire Lord all right?”

“He’s poisoned,” Shadow said grimly.

Nireth ran to Vampire Lord’s side, followed quickly by Shadow-Rue.

“How can we save him?” Nireth asked Shadow-Rue.

“Try the serum,” Shadow suggested. 

Nireth looked around for the vial–she knew she had seen Vampire Lord save it!–when she spotted it rolling towards the edge of the cliff. “No!” she cried, jumping towards it.

At that second, Vampire Lord groaned. “Not… the serum,” he said weakly. “I need to go to the Cahill Command Center!”

Nireth turned away from the Serum and knelt beside her friend, half-lifting him by the armpits.

RC, who had been skipping along, tripped and hit her head on a rock. “Augh!” she cried, a wound in her head beginning to bleed profusely. Nireth watched helplessly in horror.

“Here, I’ve got you,” Thunder Ninja came to the rescue, giving RC some herbs to put on her injury and some blue gatorade to replenish her system.

“Thanks, Thunder Ninja!” RC said brightly.

“No problem,” Thunder Ninja nodded kindly.

As she did so, a gunshot rang out. Shadow hissed and ran to the edge of the cliff. “It’s that lady again!” Shadow shouted. “Isabela! She’s got a gun!” Shadow gasped. “Oh, no–she’s shot Natalie!” Shadow ran over to Vampire Lord and Nireth. “Nireth, take this!” She nosed the sheet Vampire Lord had been lying on towards Nireth. “Pick Natalie up–we have to get out of here!”

Vampire Lord got to his feet, and somehow he remained standing. “I can’t believe it,” he said, “Isabel is Natalie’s mother!” he turned to Shadow, aghast. “She shot her own daughter!”

As Nireth inched Natalie onto the makeshift hammock, Vampire Lord saw that Natalie’s brother, Ian, was tied to a post nearby. Vampire Lord untied Ian, who said, ‘Thanks!” he stared after Isabel. “I don’t want to understand why she did this. Our own mother!”

“Are you all right, Natalie?” Thunder Ninja asked.

“I’m fine,” Natalie forced a smile, “I just got shot in the ankle. Nothing too serious.”

A harsh laugh distracted the group. “You think I’m gone? I’m not leaving until I’ve won this thing!”

Everyone whirled around and saw Isabel with a pair of knives, smirking.

Shadow-Rue was the first to charge her. Isabel slashed out with a knife, hitting Shadow’s left eye.

Shadow realized, horrified, that she was going to be blind in that eye.

Isabel laughed–one opponent down, three to go.

Vampire Lord stepped up next, charging at Isabel. She slashed out at him with one of her knives, and stuck the other into his chest. He stumbled backwards and fell. He tried to get back up, but realized that whatever strength he had left was slowly ebbing out of the wound in his chest.

“You could just let go,” VL told himself. Already,he was slipping in and out of consciousness,imagining lights dancing all around the room. “No.” thought VL. He had been fighting to be the best Cahill in the world ever since he could pick up a machete,and he wasn’t one to give up.

He looked up and surveyed the battle.

Thunder Ninja ran at Isabel with her own blades, managing to dodge Isabel’s slashes. Isabel was visibly growing angrier–her eyes were flaming red.

Nireth watched, her heart filled with fear for her friends. “Isabel!” she cried, “I really, really don’t know who you are, or why you’re doing this, but I do know that this is wrong! Please, just leave my friends alone!”

Isabel turned away from Thunder Ninja and ran at Nireth. Nireth ran at her, too, but when they met Nireth tried to give her a hug.

Isabel slashed out at Nireth, barely clipping her stomach, but cutting deep enough to draw blood. Nireth just hugged her tighter.

Vampire Lord, seeing what Isabel had done to Shadow-Rue, Thunder Ninja, and Nireth found energy in some locked away reserve and attacked Isabel, knocking her head clean off with a single punch. Thunder Ninja and Nireth winced at the gruesome sight, and Shadow-Rue was glad she was blind in the eye facing that direction.

“Oh, Vampire Lord!” Nireth cried. “You look awful! We need to get you to a doctor–”

Vampire Lord snapped his fingers, cutting her off. His wounds were instantly healed.

He looked up suddenly, “Where’d Ian and Natalie go?”

Suddenly, a shower of sleep darts rained down on the group. All fell to the ground unconscious except for Vampire Lord, who struggled to remain conscious. As the light faded, he saw two familiar faces standing over him and grinning maliciously.

No, he thought. It can’t be…

With that, he faded into unconsciousness.

When he reawoke, he was tied to a post, and Ian stood before him, smiling smugly.

Overwhelmed with anger, Vampire Lord tried to punch him, but was shocked by a collar that had been placed around his neck.

“Nuh-uh-uh!” Ian held up a remote. “Tsk, tsk, Tiberius. You really don’t learn, do you?”

Meanwhile, Natalie was waking Thunder Ninja and Nireth.

“Wakey, wakey!” She said in a mockingly sing-song voice.

“Wha–where are we?” Nireth asked sitting up and rubbing her eyes.

Thunder Ninja sat straight up, and her eyes widened at the sight of Natalie. “Natalie?” she asked, refusing to believe what she saw.

“Natalie!” Nireth said, completely oblivious. “How is your ankle?”

“It’s fine,” Natalie said, pulling out a gun, “but I’d be more worried about YOU, if I were in your shoes,” she said, pulling the trigger.

Nireth threw her arms up to defend herself, and the bullet grazed her elbow.

Vampire Lord heard a gunshot and began trying to bite through the ropes, a seemingly futile effort that actually worked!

Thunder Ninja used her knives to break herself and Nireth out of the cage.

“Vampire Lord!” Thunder Ninja cried, “Are you all right?” she cut the collar from his neck.

“Fine,” he said, rubbing his neck, “now that that thing,” he nodded to the collar, “is gone!”

Nireth felt something cold press against her head, and she cried out involuntarily.

Vampire Lord turned to see Alistar holding a knife to Nireth’s head. He picked up Natalie’s gun and shot Alistar before he could hurt Nireth.

“What has this come to?” he said morosely, half to himself, half to Thunder Ninja. “Now, we must kill Cahills, as well?”

He took a look at the gun in his hand, then looked at his friend. “This needs to be brought to an end. And only we,” he looked at them intensely, “can bring that to pass.”

TO BE CONTINUED…

DUN-DUN-DUUUUUUUN!

PS: I’m sorry if this is really inaccurate! The Role Play session went really fast today, and I didn’t get any screen shots ^^” Feel free to correct me on anything I got wrong!

O.K., as the theater season starts up again, I will probably be online less and less. I’m trying to figure out a consistent time to come online; so far 8:00 has been good, but when I start staying after school until 5:00 I don’t know if I’ll be able to make any promises ^^”

Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE theater! And there’s never a guaruntee that I’ll actually make it into the shows ^^”

Also, as a new month dawns, I can now go on my monthy shopping spree!

I can.

But should I?

I really like the CDs I got last time, and I don’t feel like I’ve listened to them enough. Eek, I don’t know what to do! TT_TT

Also:

Um… Well, I forgot what I was going to say, but I just wanted to let EVERYONE on this site know that they’re AWESOME, and very amazing friends! ^^

Hay yall.

Today before I went to school, my mom told me to check to see if our dog Ray would come in from his dog house, so I went outside. It was really damp, not to mention cold. I had to wear a heavy hoodie just to go out there.

Ray was in his doggy house, asleep (as usual by the time I go to school in the morning). I looked around and I saw Cookie sniffing something. I went to see what it was, and when I saw it, I about screamed POLICE.

It was a dead chipmunk.

EW EW EW EW EW. But in a way, COOL.

I blamed Cookie, of course, because she was the only cat I knew to hunt mice and chipmunks in our yard/house.

Once I told Tony and my dad, my dad shrieked and moved back once he saw it. He immediately ran inside to get a garbage bag.

Tony said “That looks AWESOME.” I thought he was completely out of his mind, but then I got an idea. “If you think it’s so cool, I triple dog dare you to touch it with you hand.”

Tony just stood there. At that moment he bent down and he actually touched it. 0_0

EW AGAIN. But in a way funny. :3

Then later after school I found 2 dead mice on our back porch. (Wut the crud?) I blamed Cookie…

Ok…random…

Well, other than that I have found my own celebrity crush like RCG and Thunder. Not exactly a “celebrity” but he’s famous from Sonic the Hedgehog.

SHADOW.

Isn’t he CUTE? ;D

Ok, he may not look as charming in that pic…he’s mostly frowning all the time xD

See what I mean? Lol

FUNNEH GIFS AND PICS TIME.

Sorry if the pics are small…

VL held up a black book. “Aah,the Black Book of Buried Secrets. It’s said to reveal everything about us Cahills.” He skimmed the book,searching for anything the book could tell him about the Vespers. He stopped at the agents page. Nireth,Shadow,Lady RA,ML,Radiance,and Elainia were just some of the agents.

“What’s this?”

WE INTERRUPT THIS POST FOR AN INCOMING MESSAGE FROM VL.

“If you’re watching this,it means you’re a Cahill,and the world needs you. You see,I trapped Damien’s spirit in the moon after killing him. But when I did that,I made a fatal mistake. He’s grown stronger,and in exactly a month,the stars will aid in his escape. I’m sending out copies of The Black Book of Buried Secrets to you all. It’s best you find out as much as you can,so you’ll be strong enough for the fight that’s coming. The Vespers are rising… And the entire WORLD is in jeopardy.”

(Ooc: I know,isn’t this an amazing plot idea? )

 

IF ANYONE IS ONLINE,PLEASE COME TO THE CHAT.

FIrst, I want to thank RC SO MUCH for being so kind and becoming unconcious in our battle. We’d discussed  it over chat, I argued at the last minute I should because I felt likke crud, but then she went, “TOO LATTEEEEE.” That little piece of bad awesomeness. >:U

So… how do I find my next opponnent?

And second, to RCG, how about RCG mistakens Panny’s parents (YERR I CALL HER PANNY) for some of her deadliest enemies?

Third, to Nireth. What should Hiccup be doing in my drawing? (:

Sorry for REALLY short post. Imma procrastinatin’ now.

~Panny out

I was cleaning out my bookmarks from when I switched computers, and I thought that it would be cool to post this link!

http://www.dreamself.me/clothes.php?action=view&id=0

It’s a dollmaker from TinierMe! But it has all the clothes and items!

We could make ourselves, and characters, then post them here (On this post to avoid post build-up if you don’t mind. ^-^;; )

Here’s me! http://dreamself.me/full.php?action=view&back=10432941&hat=0&bg=10383701&face=10411171&hair=10460434&accef=0&accen=10382491&top=10358055&coat=0&acceh=0&bottom=1034501&shoe=10429671&bodycolor=17000198&action=change&id=0&

Then RC! http://dreamself.me/full.php?action=view&back=10421821&hat=10472373&bg=10536872&face=10464911&hair=10364452&accef=0&accen=0&top=10345686&coat=1036493&acceh=10327553&bottom=10419573&shoe=10344951&bodycolor=17000198&action=change&id=0&

The beanies with the skulls were the only ones that didn’t seem to bad..

Add yours now! 8D Don’t forget to label!

Raven Avelina! ^^

http://dreamself.me/full.php?action=view&back=0&hat=0&bg=0&face=10479123&hair=10481371&accef=0&accen=10485371&top=10506643&coat=10362653&acceh=10450001&bottom=0&shoe=10375041&bodycolor=17000198&action=change&id=0&

RCG

http://dreamself.me/full.php?action=view&back=0&hat=0&bg=0&face=10468741&hair=10481521&accef=0&accen=10406991&top=10401971&coat=0&acceh=0&bottom=0&shoe=10343491&bodycolor=17000198&action=change&id=0&

Nireth of Normandy

Gosh, did I have issues navigating this dollmaker/thingy! ^^” My computer is simply too slow.

Anyway, here’s Nireth!

She’s not supposed to be an angel ^^” The halo was just the closest thing I could find to a kransen.

I’m so bad at making dolls! ^^” Everyone else’s look SOO much cooler! ^^

Phoenix Thallassa

Oh My Rowling you HAVE to see the animation-it’s perfect for Phoenix! Click here!; and here’s a picture^^

And here’s me:

Both of them definitely aren’t accurate to the eyelash; I get so annoyed with these-I’m bad at making them. There’s just so much patience involved!^^

Vampire Lord woke up, his head in a neck brace to help his decapitation injury heal, but otherwise unharmed.

“You’re alive!” Nireth cried.

Vampire Lord nodded, but before he could finish, an axe flew from the bushes towards Nireth. A large stone flew through the air and knocked it out of the way.

“Axes are lame,” RC said, dropping out of a nearby tree.

As she spoke, another axe flew towards Nireth! Vampire Lord heroically jumped in front of her, saving her, but at the cost of grave injury. The axe hit him in the chest, and he fell to the ground.

“Vampire Lord!” Nireth cried, running to his side. “Oh my Gods,” she whispered. “This is all my fault!”

“Just leave me here,” Vampire Lord said weakly. “I’ve accomplished all I was meant to.”

“I’m not going to leave you!” Nireth said stubbornly. “You’re NOT going to die!”

RC rolled her eyes and wrote a rune on Vampire Lord’s shoulder. “You owe me,” she muttered.

The rune, however, did not work; Vampire Lord kept losing blood. He closed his eyes, and when he opened them he was standing before the Counsil.

“You know why you are here,” a Counsil member said.

Vampire Lord nodded, “We need your aid in defeating the Vespers.”

Another Counsil member laughed, “We can offer you no physical aid–you know that! However, we can tell you this: the secret to defeating the Vespers is in The 39 Clues.”

Meanwhile, Nireth was panicking, afraid her friend was dead.

RC calmly surveyed the situation and said, “We’ve got to hurry–help me make a tonic, so we can fully heal him.”

Vampire Lord was losing blood at a frighteningly rapid pace. RC dug a hole in the ground, “Now we need blood and water to fill this up,” she said.

Nireth cut her hand on a sharp rock and offered her blood to RC, who dropped it into the hole and poured a canteen of water in after it. “Now help me splash this on the wound,” she said.

Nireth and RC began splashing the potion on Vampire Lord’s injury.

“All right, now he should be fine,” RC said, leaning her back against a tree.

“Hello!” a man popped out of a nearby shrub.

“Oh!” Nireth said, startled. “Hi!”

Vampire Lord regained consciousness at that moment; “The only way to defeat the Vespers is with The 39 clues!” he exclaimed. “Of course–the Cahills have hunted those for centuries!…” his voice trailed off, “But no one has found them.”

“Are you all right?” Nireth asked Vampire Lord. “And what are The 39 Clues?”

“What are you doing on my land?” the strange man asked suddenly, pulling out two pistols.

“We mean no harm!” Nireth tried to calm him.

The man began to weep, “I’m sorry,” he said, “it’s just–it’s been so long since I’ve seen another human being! My wife died three years ago.”

RC pursed her lips and stayed quiet.

Nireth approached the man cautiously. “It’s all right,” she patted him on the shoulder. “We’re looking for The 39 Clues so we can defeat the Vespers–would you like to help?”

“No,” the man shook his head, “I have to go. But I may be back later!”

“Good bye!” everyone called.

RC felt her hat lifted off her head. She looked up and saw Cobalt smirking, holding her hat.

“Get down here, Cobalt,” RC ordered. “So what, exactly, are these 39 Clues?” she asked, turning to Vampire Lord.

“The 39 Clues are the ingredients to make another batch of Gideon’s Serum,” Vampire Lord explained. “Once we make a new batch, the Vespers will be defeated!”

Cobalt dropped RC’s hat back onto her head. RC stomped in mock anger, “Get down here, Cobalt!”

Cobalt dropped nimbly from the tree.

“This is Cobalt Free, everyone,” RC introduced Cobalt. “He’s a friend.”

“Nice to meet you, Cobalt!” Nireth said, shaking his hand.

Vampire Lord’s face grew pale. “William McIntyre just made contact with me. He offered us a choice between a million dollars and the first clue.”

“First clue!” Nireth shouted before she could stop herself.

Vampire Lord shook his head, “You don’t understand. There will be a price. With the choice of the clue comes a promise from the Vespers that they will destroy one of us.”

RC, Nireth, and Cobalt froze.

“They’ll destroy me!” Nireth said finally. “I was the first so speak, so I’ll be the first to go–”

“It was funny of them to say that,” a clear voice rang out through the clearing. Raven Avelina stepped out from the shadows of the trees.

“Raven Avelina,” RC smirked, “I haven’t seen you in a while.”

“Rune Crafter,” Raven Avelina said coldly, nodding to RC.

“No one has called me Rune Crafter in a long time,” RC said, still smirking. “Not since I had to go to school, anyway.”

Suddenly, the whoosh of powerful wings interrupted their discussion. Vampire Lord had vanished while no one was looking–and now he was back with a dragon!

“Climb aboard if you want to defeat the Vespers!” he cried as the dragon settled onto the ground.

Nireth eagerly climbed onto the dragon’s back. “Do you want to come?” she asked RC and Raven Avelina.

“I’ll pass,” RC said, her face turning green at the sight of the dragon. “I’m not exactly good with flying on dragons.”

“Trust me,” Cobalt said, “you do NOT want her on board!”

“Vespers?” Raven Avelina asked, curious. “Why on Mir are you dealing with Vespers?”

“The Vespers are responsible for creating the dark figures that have been wreaking havoc all across Mir,” Vampire Lord explained. “Not to mention that I’m a Cahill and therefore their mortal enemy. Now that they’ve found me, they’re trying to kill me.”

“A Cahill,” Raven Avelina said, a hint of amusement in her voice. “Well, then. I hope you don’t mind if I tag along.” Not that she cared if they minded or not.

“I don’t think I’m going,” RC said, looking fearfully at the dragon. “Unless you have some other method of transportation.”

Suddenly, there was a sickening thud. All eyes turned to Vampire Lord, who was now slumped over on the dragon, an axe stuck in his back.

“Where do these things keep coming from?” RC asked.
Astrid ran away before anyone could see her, “I have got to work on my aim!” she whispered furiously.
Nireth slid off the back of the dragon and tried to get Vampire Lord off of his perch so he could be treated.

“Well, there’s not a chance I’m getting on that dragon now,” Raven Avelina said. “Not with axes flying everywhere!”

Suddenly, as if he were in a trance, Vampire Lord stood straight up. “Rainbows are nature’s rainbows,” he said before slumping to the ground, unconscious again.

Nireth knelt by Vampire Lord and looked curiously to RC and Raven Avelina. “‘Ranbows are nature’s rainbows’?” she echoed.

“Don’t look at me!” RC said, putting her hands up by her face. “I don’t know what it means!”

“Perhaps we have to create a rainbow,” Raven Avelina mused.

“Or perhaps we have to use a rainbow like a bow,” Nireth said, poorly mimicking an archer drawing an arrow, “and shoot something!”

“Archery?” Raven Avelina brightened. “I could do that!”

“I could provide mist,” RC offered.

Vampire Lord groaned, and the groups attention was drawn to his grave state. Nireth hurriedly tried to find something to block the bloodflow. “Help!” she cried, completely overwhelmed.

“Here,” Raven Avelina said, handing Nireth her quiver. “Hold my arrows.”

Nireth nodded and gingerly took Raven Avelina’s quiver.

Suddenly, a rainbow appeared. Something shiny sat at the top!

Raven Avelina stopped what she was doing and stared at the rainbow in wonder.

“That shiny thing at the top,” RC said, “do you think it’s our clue?”

As Raven Avelina picked up her bow and an arrow. “I’ll try shooting it down,” she said, taking aim. Just as her arrow was about to strike its mark, a gust of wind blew it away. Raven Avelina frowned. “There must be something protecting it!”

“Maybe we have to climb up the rainbow!” Nireth suggested.

“It’s made of mist,” RC pointed out.

“Oh,” Nireth blushed, “good point.”

As if on cue, Phoenix appeared.

“Phoenix!” Raven Avelina exclaimed. “Just who we need.”

“What’s our situation?” Phoenix asked.

“We need to get that–” RC pointed to the object at the top of the rainbow– “down here. Could you fly up and get it?”

“Sure,” Phoenix said, starting to zoom towards the object, but she was deterred as an arrow whizzed by her, narrowly missing her wing.

The arrow zipped through the air and knocked the object off the top of the rainbow.

Raven Avelina whirled around to see Vampire Lord holding her bow; he had shot the arrow. “Don’t touch my bow!” she cried, her eyes burning fiercely.

“Vampire Lord!” Nireth cried happily, running to hug her friend. “You’re all right!”

“I think you might want to put down that bow,” RC warned out of the corner of her mouth.

“I’m sorry,” Raven Avelina said, ashamed of her outburst.

Vampire Lord nodded, “It’s all right.”

Phoenix, who had caught the vial before it could hit the ground, flew back over to the group.

“Aha,” Vampire Lord said, examining the vial, “uranium. Here, we need to pour it into this bottle.”

He held out a clear glass bottle with a stopper made out of red cork. He took out the cork, and Phoenix poured the uranium in.

“Also, I found five more vials–they were hidden in the axes!” Vampire Lord said, pointing to a stack of vials to his right.

With the help of the others, the six ingredients were mixed together. As they were pouring the last drop of the sixth ingredient, a drop missed the vial and fell to the ground.

The small splash opened up into a large hole. Out of nowhere, a dark figure appeared and shoved Vampire Lord in.

“No!” Nireth cried, jumping in after him without really thinking things through.

Luckily, it was not nearly as deep as it had first appeared, and the landing was soft. When Vampire Lord reached the bottom of the hole, he exclaimed; “Look! I’ve found three more!”

“Oh, good!” Nireth clapped. “But how do we get out of here?”

“With this,” Vampire Lord said, springing open his Ladder-in-a-Can. He and Nireth climbed to the surface unharmed.

As soon as they emerged, they were greeted by an old friend:

“Hello,” Shadow-Rue said, stepping out from the shade of the trees.

“Shadow!” Nireth cried, running to hug the cat.

A sleep dart whistled through the air and struck Vampire Lord. Attached to it was a note that read:

“You’re running out of time… -The Vespers”

“Not again,” sighed Shadow.

“We’re running out of time?” Nireth asked, reading the letter. “Oh, no!” she looked to Shadow. “Do you have any idea how we might find the clues?”

“No idea,” Shadow said simply.

“Oh, please wake up!” Nireth pleaded, gently shaking Vampire Lord.

Shadow began to lick Vampire Lord’s face.

Vampire Lord came to; “Ugh,” he groaned, “what happened?”

“You got hit by another sleep-drug dart,” Shadow explained.

Suddenly, two more darts came sailing out from the trees; one headed for Nireth, the other for Vampire Lord. Nireth jumped towards Vampire Lord, trying to save him, but to no avail. One of the darts buried itself deep in her neck, and the other hit its mark: Vampire Lord.

“Oh, no!” Nireth whispered weakly as she fought for consciousness. “Shadow, run!”

Shadow morphed into Raider and tried to pick up their unconscious bodies, but Raider, too, was hit by a sleep-drug dart.

Everything went black.

When they came to, Raider and Nireth discovered that they were locked in a cage! Vampire Lord was dangling from a rope outside with a time bomb strapped to his neck.

A dark figure smirked and said, “Aha, Tiberius Cahill. I thought we’d never meet,” he turned to Nireth and Raider. “Now give me the clues!” he commanded.

“Or what?” Raider sneered.

“Or I kill your friend,” the dark figure said smugly.

Raider thought for a moment, “Let us out,” he said, “and we’ll give you the clues.”

“Raider, no!” Vampire Lord said. Raider shot him a look, and Vampire Lord stopped.

The dark figure opened the cage. Nireth raced towards the exit, but the dark figure blocked her way.

“Going somewhere?” it asked with a snarl.

“Yeah,” Raider said, “I was just on my way to do the first thing on my list: claw your eyes out!”

With that, Raider jumped on the dark figure and knocked him out of the doorway.

Nireth raced out after him and cried, “Go! Save Vampire Lord!”

Raider nodded; he knew Nireth would have no idea what to do with the time bomb strapped around Vampire Lord’s neck.

Nireth distracted the dark figure as Raider cut the time bomb off of Vampire Lord’s neck.

Raider raced back to the dark figure and made short work of him, while Nireth took Raider’s place next to Vampire Lord.

“Are you all right?” she asked.

“I think Raider nicked me as he was cutting off the bomb,” Vampire Lord said, pointing to a small cut at the back of his neck, “but other than that, I’m–”

A loud THUNK cut him off. They turned to see Raider sitting, unconscious, on the ground.

Vampire Lord and Nireth ran to Raider’s side.

Nireth felt Raider’s head and winced, “There’s a large knot,” Nireth said. “I hope it’s nothing too serious!”

Raider regained consciousness. “Wha… what happened?”

“You were knocked unconscious,” Vampire Lord explained.

Raider blinked slowly, “By whom?”

“What?” Nireth asked.

“By whom?” Raider repeated himself. “I defeated the dark figure. That means–”

“Someone else is there!” Vampire Lord sprang to his feet just a man prepared to pounce on the group. Grabbing a knife, Vampire Lord threw it at the man, killing him instantly.

Suddenly, as if he had been struck in the face, Vampire Lord’s facial expression shifted. “Oh my gosh,” he said, “That’s Alistar. That’s Alistar! I just killed a Cahill!”

“A Cahill?” Nireth exclaimed. “But why would a Cahill be working against us?”

“Probably because of that,” Vampire Lord pointed up a nearby cliff. “The tenth clue is up there. One of us will have to climb up there and get it.”

“I’ll do it!” Nireth volunteered. “You’ve both done so much, and I feel like I haven’t been of much use!”

Without waiting for an answer, she raced towards the cliff, examined her options for handholds and footholds, and began climbing.

She had only made it about ten feet off the ground when a loud BANG distracted her. She looked down to see Vampire Lord fall to the ground, the sand turning red with blood around him.

“Vampire Lord!” she cried, trying to climb back down. She lost her footing and fell, but it wasn’t far so she remained uninjured.

“Vampire Lord, Nireth!” Shadow cried, racing to Vampire Lord’s side.

There was a deep wound in his back–a bullet hole.

Nireth stared at her friend anxiously. “Oh, I’m useless with medicine,” she whimpered. “Shadow, do you have any ideas as to how we can save him?”

“None come to mine,” Shadow replied morosely.

Vampire Lord groaned weakly.

“Stay with us, Vampire Lord!” Nireth pleaded.

“I’ll try,” he said faintly.

Nireth forced a smile. “You’ve got to–you can’t die! You won’t die!” she took a deep breath, “All right, how can we save you?”

“I don’t know,” Vampire Lord coughed.

“Does it have anything to do with the tenth clue?” Shadow-Rue asked.

“Probably,” Vampire Lord said.

Shadow turned to Nireth, “You have got to get that clue!”

“Don’t let him die,” she said anxiously to Shadow. “And make sure Shadow stays out of trouble,” Nireth turned to Vampire Lord, making a bad attempt at lightening the mood.

With that, Nireth ran to the base of the cliff and scrambled up as fast as she could. When she reached the top, she saw a strange silver structure about as tall as her shoulder mounted on a stone pedestal. There was a small opening at the base. She peered into it and was startled when a bee flew out. To her relief, it didn’t appear to have any interest in stinging her.

A small vial sat next to the structure–which was, in fact, a beehive. Nireth realized that the next ingredient (and the tenth clue) was honey! She filled the vial with as much honey as she dared and walked to the edge of the cliff. It was too far to jump, but trying to climb down would take too much time. She would also run the risk of breaking the precious vial!

She knew she had to get down and help her friends–but how?

“Blood,” Vampire Lord said finally. “The last ingredient is blood.”

He had miraculously made it to the top of the cliff—with the others’ help, of course.

He added it to the Serum, but as he did so, a change overcame him.

Vampire Lord laughed and dropped the bottle.

“No!” Shadow cried, snatching it before it could hit the ground.

“Vampire Lord, what’s wrong with you?” Asked Fern, stepping forward.

“You fell right into my trap!” Vampire Lord laughed. “You thought the Vespers would let you get away with this? You thought wrong!”

Vampire Lord grabbed Nireth and raced towards the cliff, tossing her off.

“Nireth!” Rainbow Dash cried, trying to fly out and save her.

Fern Koa sent out a vine to catch her, and Shadow lunged for the edge. As she did, she accidentally tossed the Serum over the edge.

Vampire Lord was the first to reach her, however; “I’m sorry!” he cried. “I don’t know what came over me! I— AH!” he cried, as he, too, lost his balance and began to fall. Before he did, though, he caught the Serum vial.

“Vampire Lord!” Nireth exclaimed as they fell, “you didn’t have to do that! I–”

“Here, take this!” Vampire Lord took a big gulp of the Serum. “Drink it!”

“What’ll happen?” Nireth asked, scared. “Will you be O.K.?”

“Just trust me!” Vampire Lord cried.

Nireth took a big swig and closed her eyes.

Vampire Lord expected impact, but nothing happened. “Are we dead?” he asked, opening his eyes.

“I don’t know!” Nireth said, frightened.

“No, look!” he said, pointing to the orb that was surrounding them, keeping them safe.

Suddenly, it popped!

Vampire Lord managed to save Nireth from a ghastly fate, flying her away from her doom, but he had to pay a price: a sharp rock stabbed him in the chest. Rainbow Dash helped fly them back up to the top of the cliff.

“Vampire Lord!” Nireth cried, seeing his spilt blood. “You’re hurt!”

Vampire Lord collapsed to the ground. He was dying!

“No!” Nireth cried. “You won’t die!”

Fern’s eyes grew wide, “This all seems vaguely familiar! And there’s something about the way you two look…”

“Flower, gleam and glow,” Nireth sang softly, “let your power shine…”

Rainbow Dash nodded, “I know this song, I know this song!”

Vampire Lord sprung up from the ground, healed!

“Oh my gosh, her hair glows!” Vampire Lord cried. “Why does her hair glow?”

“Really?” Rainbow Dash asked, fainting.

A small reptile smirked up at Vampire Lord.

“Why is he smiling at me?” Vampire Lord asked nervously.

Nireth twirled a strand of hair around her finger. “It doesn’t just glow,” she said slowly. “How much of the Serum do we have left?” she asked, getting sidetracked.

“I think the glass shattered,” Shadow said sadly, holding up shards of glass.

“Oh, no!” Fern cried. “What’ll we do?”

“We’ll use the backup,” Vampire Lord said, pulling a back-up vial from his pocket. Suddenly, his face changed again. “You’re not going to win that easily!” he said, his voice sounding strange and garbled. He picked up Nireth and threw her again, this time at an Acid Lake!

“Ahh!” Nireth cried as she sailed through the air.

“Hey, Nireth!” RC called, “do you ever use your frying pan for cooking?”

“No,” Nireth yelled back, “I’m terrible at cooking!”

Suddenly, Hiccup swooped down from the sky on a Night Fury. “Nireth!” he cried, soaring underneath her and catching her.

“Wow, it’s Hiccup!” RC exclaimed. “But that doesn’t mean I’m not still hungry,” she peered at Vampire Lord accusingly.

Vampire Lord summoned an entire buffet out of nowhere. RC began to eat happily, until she realized: “Blech!” she cried, spitting out what she had eaten. “Everything is made out of shrimp!”

Vampire Lord was too busy flying around on his unicorn to notice.

“Hello,” Machine Lord said, stepping out of the shadows. He charged his blaster, “and goodbye,” he said, firing it at the ground, laughing madly.

As the entire world began to blow up, Vampire Lord turned back time!

“Incredible!” exclaimed Fern.

“Oh, no!” Vampire Lord cried. “I think I’ve gone back to fa–AAAH!”

Everyone there had been turned into babies, even Machine Lord who turned back into an unhatched egg.

Vampire Lord summoned up some rattles for the babies, and a bowl of milk for Shadow-Rue.

Nireth crawled over to a rattle and began to play with it.

Thunder Ninja appeared out of nowhere, and Vampire Lord’s diaper grew larger. A nasty smell filled the room.

Vampire Lord began to cry, and Thunder Ninja asked, “Eww! What smells so bad?”

Shadow wrinkled her nose. “Ickie!”

Thunder Ninja crawled over to Vampire Lord and patted him on the back, but he threw up on her head! As might be expected, baby Thunder Ninja began to cry.

Shadow coughed up a hairball, and Vampire Lord hit Thunder Ninja with his rattle. Nireth began to cry and crawled over to hug Thunder Ninja. Thunder Ninja then kicked Vampire Lord in the side, so Nireth began to cry harder and hugged Vampire Lord. Shadow hacked up a hairball and walked over to the group, licking Nireth’s head.

Vampire Lord slammed his dirty diaper down on Thunder Ninja’s head.

Thunder Ninja morphed into Miranda, who was one very confused baby! She couldn’t figure out where she was, or why she was a baby!

Suddenly, Vampire Lord sped up time. The group was four years old now, and attending a pre-school.

Vampire Lord smacked Miranda, who levitated the tables and chairs before throwing one at Vampire Lord. Vampire Lord threw it back.

“Don’t be mean!” Nireth shouted, standing up on one of the desks. “Please!”

Miranda ignored Nireth, and Vampire Lord dumped a bucket of paint on her head.

Shadow walked over to Nireth and began licking her hair. Nireth grabbed Shadow and hugged her.

Vampire Lord sped up time once again; this time they were teenagers. They were in the mall, and many of the Beings who had never seen neon lights before were in awe.

“I’ll get us some movie tickets!” Vampire Lord cried, running off to the Movie Plex.

Nireth spun in circles, “I could do this all day!” She laughed.

Thunder Ninja grinned and began breakdancing.

Shadow, too, began to spin, but she fell down the stairs!

“Shadow!” Thunder Ninja cried, running to help Shadow-Rue.

“I got the tickets!” Vampire Lord called. “We’ve got to hurry if we want good seats!”

Thunder Ninja sighed, “But I wanted to go in that shoe store!”

“We can do that after,” Shadow reassured her.

Vampire Lord ushered them into the theater, leading them to front-row seats.

“What movie is this?” a boy behind them asked.

“Saw 6,” his friend answered.

The movie began rolling. The group gasped at the horrific sights on the screen—Nireth had Shadow in a death grip and Vampire Lord wet his pants, clinging desperately to Thunder Ninja’s head.

They walked out of the theater in a sort of horrified daze. “That,” Vampire Lord said, breaking the silence, “was awesome!”

“Shoe store!” cried Thunder Ninja as the group forgot all about their fear.

“Abercrombie and Fitch!” Vampire Lord ran towards the store. “And there’s Build-a-Bear!”

Nireth stopped in front of a store with a sparkly window display. “Dis-knee Store,” she said slowly.

Vampire Lord raced in and bought a pink dress for Shadow. Shadow glared at Vampire Lord and ripped the dress to shreds, her eyes narrowed.

Out of nowhere, young Damien Vesper appeared and stabbed Vampire Lord.

“No!” Nireth cried, stumbling to her feet. “Leave us alone!” she stood in front of Vampire Lord to protect him.

Time rewound once again, and the group found that they were babies. Vampire Lord hit Thunder Ninja with a rattle. Nireth crawled over with a baby blanket, which Shadow shredded.

Vampire Lord bit Shadow, turning her into a Vampire. Shadow-Rue then bit Thunder Ninja, turning HER into a vampire!

Radiance and Camile walked in and stared around, “Um,” Radiance said, confused, “why is everyone a baby?”

Nireth cooed and grabbed her feet.

Vampire Lord’s diaper grew larger again.

“Aww!” Camile said, “You guys look adorable!”

“Now how do we change them back?” Radiance asked, tapping her chin.

Vampire Lord began to cry—no one had changed his diaper!

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Fear not,beloved fans! The fight against the Vespers isn’t over yet…

 

Okay,I only have a limited amount of time to write this,so forget the disclaimer.

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“All right,” Vampire Lord said, “I found the map to the source of the dark figures in a book. Apparently,” Vampire Lord paused, “it’s on earth.”

“Really?” Nireth was startled. “But that’s where I’m from!”

Vampire Lord nodded, “We have to get to earth to stop the dark figures.”

Out of nowhere, a cab drove up. The driver said, “I’m looking for Vampire Lord and Nireth. If you’re them, then get in!”

Nireth and Vampire Lord climbed into the cab, which drove off rather abruptly.

“What is this?” Nireth asked, looking around in awe.

“It’s a cab,” Vampire Lord explained, “something from earth.” He was obviously distracted.

“We’ll be at the hotel in a few minutes,” the cab driver said.

Suddenly, as if someone had stuck him with a pin, he jumped and said loudly, “I forgot to take my medication on the way! We have to stop!”

“Are you all right?” Nireth asked, concerned.

Vampire Lord shook his head, but said, “I’ll be fine.”

When the cab stopped, the taxi driver asked if he could get their bags.

“Yes, please!” Vampire Lord said.

While the cab driver was busy, Vampire Lord grabbed Nireth and ran as fast as his legs could carry him. “Taxi!” he called, hailing another cab.

“Get in!” he cried. Nireth and Vampire Lord climbed into the cab.

Vampire Lord issued all sorts of weird directions, confusing the cab driver immensely; “Take this alley–NO! Not the street, the alley!”

Finally, Vampire Lord asked the cab driver to let them out near a small hotel. The cab driver, who was relieved to have his crazy passengers out of the car, drove away. Nireth and Vampire Lord went into the hotel lobby, which was strangely empty, where they stood and discussed their adventure so far.

“What was that all about?” Nireth asked, rather sick from their car drive.

“I never gave the first cab driver a location,” Vampire Lord said gravely, “but he clearly had somewhere he wanted to take us. He was a dark figure in disguise. And as for the ride: I had to make sure we weren’t being followed.”

Nireth gaped, “So–they could be anyone?”

Vampire Lord nodded solemnly. “That’s right. But I know a way to stop them. I know of a ring that will make my powers strong enough to stop them–the ring of my ancestor, Gideon Cahill.”

“That sounds useful!” Nireth said. “How can we find it?”

“It is usually kept in a bank vault in Switzerland,” Vampire Lord explained.

Nireth bit her lip. “Oh. How far is Switzerland? And why would a family ring help defeat the dark figures?”

Vampire Lord took a deep breath, “I really shouldn’t be telling you this, but my real name is Tiberius Cahill. The ‘Vampire Lord’ thing is fake.

“There are four branches in the Cahill universe: Janus, Tomas, Lucian,and Ekatarina. I am a Janus.

“But we have to keep the Cahill name secret for a reason. You see, the dark figures are created by the Vespers, our mortal enemies.”

Nireth shivered, “But why would anyone do something so awful?”

Vampire Lord shrugged, “That’s just it; I don’t know.”

“Will the ring take away their power to create the dark figures?” Nireth asked.

“Probably,” Vampire Lord said, “but there’s just one problem: the Vespers know the location of the ring, as well. And they are fully capable of getting it–they have every weapon imagineable!”

Nireth bit her lip, “We’ll just have to beat them to the ring!”

“Nope!” Vampire Lord said with a grin, “I actually got it last night. It’s right here.” He held up a silver ring.

“Oh, good!” Nireth said, clapping happily. Then, slowly, realization dawned: “Wait,” she said, “if they know the location of the ring, and the ring is here, does that mean they know our location?”

Vampire Lord nodded, “Allright, so now we have to go to–” his sentence was cut off by a voice on the intercom system:

“Ah, Tiberius and a friend,” the voice said maliciously. “All of your Cahill training, and you walked right into our trap. Not even you two are immune to knock-out gas!”

A thick, green gas filled the hotel lobby, and both Nireth and Vampire Lord were knocked unconscious.

Vampire Lord was the first to re-awaken. He realized, with growing dread, that he could not find the ring. “Nireth, wake up!” He cried. “They took the ring!”

“What?” Nireth asked, suddenly wide awake. “Oh, this is terrible!”

Vampire Lord nodded glumly, “Now they can overthrow the Cahills and steal the only other thing that can beat the Vespers: Gideon’s Serum.”

“Gideon’s Serum?” asked Nireth. “What is that?”

“It’s a compound made of every chemical known to mankind, and it was also hidden in the bank vault…” Vampire Lord stopped short. “Wait a second, I stole that, too!”

“Oh, good!” Nireth said happily. “How do we use it to defeat the Vespers?”

“We combine it with the ring,” Vampire Lord frowned.

Nireth’s eyes narrowed. “One of us will have to get the ring then–I’ll do it!” she volunteered herself.

Vampire Lord shook his head and took a drink from a nearby glass of water and began to choke. “Oh!” he cried. “They dropped the ring!”

“Really?” Nireth asked. “Where?” She began looking all around for the ring.

“It was–” Vampire Lord coughed–”in the glass!”

“Oh, no!” Nireth said. “Are you all right?”

“I’m choking!” Vampire Lord cried.

“Oh, um, right!” Nireth ran around behind Vampire Lord and began thumping him on the back, trying to get the ring to dislodge from his throat.

Shadow appeared out of nowhere, “What’s going on?” she asked, staring at the strange sight.

“I’m choking on a Gideon Cahill’s ring!” Vampire Lord exclaimed.

Shadow-Rue changed into Raider.

“Am I doing this right?” Nireth asked anxiously, pounding harder on her friend’s back.

Despite their efforts, Vampire Lord still choked.

As Vampire Lord choked, Fern appeared.

“Please, help!” Nireth cried. “He’s choking, and we can’t figure out how to save him!”

“Use Gideon’s Serum,” Vampire Lord said wealky. “It will ignite the ring’s power. The Serum is located in my pocket; just pour it in my mouth.”

Meanwhile, Fern Koa used a small vine to dislodge the ring from Vampire Lord’s throat.

“Stand back!” Vampire Lord warned as the serum started to take effect. His eyes turned red, and he burst into flames. Then, using his power, he teleported to the source and punched it. The source’s destruction caused an explosion so big that Fern, Nireth, and Shadow–who were a mile away–could feel it!

Even thoguh Vampire Lord had destroyed the source, the Vesper Leader, Damien, was still alive and well. He shot an energy blast at Nireth.

Vampire Lord snuck up from behind and stabbed Damien in the neck. “It is done,” he said.

“It’s over?” Nireth asked.

Shadow nodded, “Yes,” she said. “It is.”

“Look out!” Vampire Lord cried suddenly. An arc of sleep darts was raining down on them. Vampire Lord was the first to get hit, and Nireth fell shortly afterwards.

Shadow was also hit, but Fern Koa avoided all the darts. One of the Vespers approached her with a poison-soaked cloth.

“You fool!” laughed Fern. “I have power over plants–poison ivy included! I’m immune to your poison!”

However, another Vesper had snuck up behind her. He laughed, “That was merely a distraction!” and suck her in the shoulder with a sleeping dart.

When the Vampire Lord woke up, the group was in a cage.

“Tiberius Cahill,” a familiar voice said, “so we meet again.” Damien Vesper paced outside of the cage, surveying his new catch.

As the rest of the group began to wake up, a new round of sleeping darts was fired, knocking them out again.

“I’m not going down without a fight, Vesper,” spat Vampire Lord. “You may have me in a cage, but I’m by no means cornered!” he climbed out of the cage and grabbed a windshield wiper off of a nearby car to use as a weapon.

As Vampire Lord fought Damien, he realized his weapon was of little use. “Now would be a good time for a frying pan!” He called to Nireth, who was waking up slowly.

“Oh!” She said, pulling a frying pan off of her belt. “Vampire Lord, catch!” she tossed him the frying pan.

Vampire Lord caught it and began to fight with Damien. Unfortunately, Damien pulled out an axe and chopped off Vampire Lord’s head!

“We have to help him!” Nireth cried, and Shadow-Rue raced to aid Vampire Lord as Nireth awkwardly squeezed out of the cage.

Vampire Lord, however, stood up even though he had no head. He grabbed Medusa’s head, turned Damien to stone, and punched him to pieces.

“My head, please?” he asked a stunned Nireth.

Nireth returned Vampire Lord’s head to Vampire Lord, who put it back on his neck. It healed itself back on.

It had only been a few seconds, however, before another sleep dart sailed through the air, striking Vampire Lord. Vampire Lord fell to the ground, unconscious.

Shadow ran over and read the note:

“Although our leader has fallen, we will continue to fight. -The Vespers”

Nireth swallowed hard. “So–so it’s not over?” she asked Shadow.

“No,” Shadow said, “apparently not!”

Soon, another dart came whistling out of nowhere, hitting Shadow in the head. It read, “Leave now or DIE!”

Right after that, came yet another dart, hitting Vampire Lord once again, that read, “Yes, LEAVE!”

Nireth picked shadow up off the ground and tried to pick up Vampire Lord, but she was too weak. She grabbed the back of his collar and began trying to drag him away from the scene of the fight.

Luckily, Shadow-Rue regained conscience.

“Will you help me carry Vampire Lord?” Nireth asked.

Shadow-Rue nodded and turned into raider, picking Vampire Lord up. “Now let’s get out of here, and fast!” said Raider.

Nireth nodded and followed behind, picking up the frying pan as they ran.

Vampire Lord soon regained consciousness: “Sleep darts again?” he asked.

“Yep,” Raider answered.

Out of nowhere, a large crowd of Vespers appeared! They began hurling bombs at Vampire Lord, causing him to explode. Raider bravely went after the Vesper soldiers, and Nireth tried swatting away the bombs with a frying pan, but it didn’t work very well.

Vampire Lord re-appeared,  however; “Don’t worry!” he reassured his friends. “That was only a dummy; a distraction!”

However, the Vespers kept attacking. Raider fought bravely, but got shot in the leg.

LOL! I can’t even finish adding the rest! XDDD  Part 2 coming directly after this!

(more…)

Re-do of my first ever post. xD Learn more at the bottom.

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Pandora is my name.

I may be a fifteen-year-old-girl who dresses like I’m from the future (as in 2011 lol). I may not know my own real name. I may only have an old lady and a girl like me for guidance.

I may not be the wisest. Not the strongest, either. Nor the bravest. I don’t have a doomsday machine and a black hole for a home. I don’t have the endless power of magic and the wisdom of God, if there is one.

I simply twist like a spaghetti string. I may have the worst split personality anyone could ever have, which sucks.

But I have a strong heart. And that’s got to count as something. I have things to fight for, like my parents in the heavens, like my guardian who smells like strawberries, like my best friend who has strong faith in me.

You, RCG have things to fight for, too, I know that. ML, you’re a machine. But sometimes it’s not just the smartest or strongest or most resourceful who wins all the time. Sometimes it’s simply the one who has the strongest faith, the strongest heart. Which I’m not saying I do. But I believe I’m pretty close.

I don’t actually want to fight in this war. But I have to fight. I’m fighting for my own life, for everyone I know and love. For Mir, and the innocent deceased and even the alive citizens.

I don’t believe you’re being vain. Gazing back at my younger nine-year-old self has made myself snort. I was the one being vain. And you people were simply stating what you can do.

So, I want to apologize for being a hypocrite when I was young. And I want to say – don’t guarantee yourself you’re going to win. It’s unlikely I’ll win, though. But I’ll try. And I’ll try through anything, I’ll keep trying and I’ll keep going until I can go no more. I will fight to the DEATH for people who have died for nothing at all.

Because what I believe in, I will fight for.

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Well, I just replied to my first ever BotB post (look at the recent comments thingy). And I sounded hilarious in the post. xD SO… I felt like doing something to do with BotB which wasn’t roleplay, adventures or drawing. And I’ve got to complete Part 2 of my adventures so you understand some of this stuff!

Also, Machine Lord: Would you mind if I said in my adventures that some of your robots killed my parents?

Oh god that was a spoiler.

Flockdraw with me? ^^

Turns out that after six computer-free hours of school my eyesight with two hours is better.

I guess that… I have six hours to look in the ditance. Then I spend six hours (or something) on the computer ruining my eyes again. NGGH.

So, I’m here, procrastinating. xD There’s a heavy storm alert. I’m holding my torch clos, hoping I won’t have to use it. Freaking thunder is rumbling in my ears. I almost can’ t think.

Nice. It just started raining like mad.

Haha. “Where thunder roars.”

AMG! Lightning just hit my building! :O It has like 10000000000 lighting conductors.

JA!

~Pandora out

“Blood,” Vampire Lord said finally. “The last ingredient is blood.”

He had miraculously made it to the top of the cliff—with the others’ help, of course.

He added it to the Serum, but as he did so, a change overcame him.

Vampire Lord laughed and dropped the bottle.

“No!” Shadow cried, snatching it before it could hit the ground.

“Vampire Lord, what’s wrong with you?” Asked Fern, stepping forward.

“You fell right into my trap!” Vampire Lord laughed. “You thought the Vespers would let you get away with this? You thought wrong!”

Vampire Lord grabbed Nireth and raced towards the cliff, tossing her off.

“Nireth!” Rainbow Dash cried, trying to fly out and save her.

Fern Koa sent out a vine to catch her, and Shadow lunged for the edge. As she did, she accidentally tossed the Serum over the edge.

Vampire Lord was the first to reach her, however; “I’m sorry!” he cried. “I don’t know what came over me! I— AH!” he cried, as he, too, lost his balance and began to fall. Before he did, though, he caught the Serum vial.

“Vampire Lord!” Nireth exclaimed as they fell, “you didn’t have to do that! I–”

“Here, take this!” Vampire Lord took a big gulp of the Serum. “Drink it!”

“What’ll happen?” Nireth asked, scared. “Will you be O.K.?”

“Just trust me!” Vampire Lord cried.

Nireth took a big swig and closed her eyes.

Vampire Lord expected impact, but nothing happened. “Are we dead?” he asked, opening his eyes.

“I don’t know!” Nireth said, frightened.

“No, look!” he said, pointing to the orb that was surrounding them, keeping them safe.

Suddenly, it popped!

Vampire Lord managed to save Nireth from a ghastly fate, flying her away from her doom, but he had to pay a price: a sharp rock stabbed him in the chest. Rainbow Dash helped fly them back up to the top of the cliff.

“Vampire Lord!” Nireth cried, seeing his spilt blood. “You’re hurt!”

Vampire Lord collapsed to the ground. He was dying!

“No!” Nireth cried. “You won’t die!”

Fern’s eyes grew wide, “This all seems vaguely familiar! And there’s something about the way you two look…”

“Flower, gleam and glow,” Nireth sang softly, “let your power shine…”

Rainbow Dash nodded, “I know this song, I know this song!”

Vampire Lord sprung up from the ground, healed!

“Oh my gosh, her hair glows!” Vampire Lord cried. “Why does her hair glow?”

“Really?” Rainbow Dash asked, fainting.

A small reptile smirked up at Vampire Lord.

“Why is he smiling at me?” Vampire Lord asked nervously.

Nireth twirled a strand of hair around her finger. “It doesn’t just glow,” she said slowly. “How much of the Serum do we have left?” she asked, getting sidetracked.

“I think the glass shattered,” Shadow said sadly, holding up shards of glass.

“Oh, no!” Fern cried. “What’ll we do?”

“We’ll use the backup,” Vampire Lord said, pulling a back-up vial from his pocket. Suddenly, his face changed again. “You’re not going to win that easily!” he said, his voice sounding strange and garbled. He picked up Nireth and threw her again, this time at an Acid Lake!

“Ahh!” Nireth cried as she sailed through the air.

“Hey, Nireth!” RC called, “do you ever use your frying pan for cooking?”

“No,” Nireth yelled back, “I’m terrible at cooking!”

Suddenly, Hiccup swooped down from the sky on a Night Fury. “Nireth!” he cried, soaring underneath her and catching her.

“Wow, it’s Hiccup!” RC exclaimed. “But that doesn’t mean I’m not still hungry,” she peered at Vampire Lord accusingly.

Vampire Lord summoned an entire buffet out of nowhere. RC began to eat happily, until she realized: “Blech!” she cried, spitting out what she had eaten. “Everything is made out of shrimp!”

Vampire Lord was too busy flying around on his unicorn to notice.

“Hello,” Machine Lord said, stepping out of the shadows. He charged his blaster, “and goodbye,” he said, firing it at the ground, laughing madly.

As the entire world began to blow up, Vampire Lord turned back time!

“Incredible!” exclaimed Fern.

“Oh, no!” Vampire Lord cried. “I think I’ve gone back to fa–AAAH!”

Everyone there had been turned into babies, even Machine Lord who turned back into an unhatched egg.

Vampire Lord summoned up some rattles for the babies, and a bowl of milk for Shadow-Rue.

Nireth crawled over to a rattle and began to play with it.

Thunder Ninja appeared out of nowhere, and Vampire Lord’s diaper grew larger. A nasty smell filled the room.

Vampire Lord began to cry, and Thunder Ninja asked, “Eww! What smells so bad?”

Shadow wrinkled her nose. “Ickie!”

Thunder Ninja crawled over to Vampire Lord and patted him on the back, but he threw up on her head! As might be expected, baby Thunder Ninja began to cry.

Shadow coughed up a hairball, and Vampire Lord hit Thunder Ninja with his rattle. Nireth began to cry and crawled over to hug Thunder Ninja. Thunder Ninja then kicked Vampire Lord in the side, so Nireth began to cry harder and hugged Vampire Lord. Shadow hacked up a hairball and walked over to the group, licking Nireth’s head.

Vampire Lord slammed his dirty diaper down on Thunder Ninja’s head.

Thunder Ninja morphed into Miranda, who was one very confused baby! She couldn’t figure out where she was, or why she was a baby!

Suddenly, Vampire Lord sped up time. The group was four years old now, and attending a pre-school.

Vampire Lord smacked Miranda, who levitated the tables and chairs before throwing one at Vampire Lord. Vampire Lord threw it back.

“Don’t be mean!” Nireth shouted, standing up on one of the desks. “Please!”

Miranda ignored Nireth, and Vampire Lord dumped a bucket of paint on her head.

Shadow walked over to Nireth and began licking her hair. Nireth grabbed Shadow and hugged her.

Vampire Lord sped up time once again; this time they were teenagers. They were in the mall, and many of the Beings who had never seen neon lights before were in awe.

“I’ll get us some movie tickets!” Vampire Lord cried, running off to the Movie Plex.

Nireth spun in circles, “I could do this all day!” She laughed.

Thunder Ninja grinned and began breakdancing.

Shadow, too, began to spin, but she fell down the stairs!

“Shadow!” Thunder Ninja cried, running to help Shadow-Rue.

“I got the tickets!” Vampire Lord called. “We’ve got to hurry if we want good seats!”

Thunder Ninja sighed, “But I wanted to go in that shoe store!”

“We can do that after,” Shadow reassured her.

Vampire Lord ushered them into the theater, leading them to front-row seats.

“What movie is this?” a boy behind them asked.

“Saw 6,” his friend answered.

The movie began rolling. The group gasped at the horrific sights on the screen—Nireth had Shadow in a death grip and Vampire Lord wet his pants, clinging desperately to Thunder Ninja’s head.

They walked out of the theater in a sort of horrified daze. “That,” Vampire Lord said, breaking the silence, “was awesome!”

“Shoe store!” cried Thunder Ninja as the group forgot all about their fear.

“Abercrombie and Fitch!” Vampire Lord ran towards the store. “And there’s Build-a-Bear!”

Nireth stopped in front of a store with a sparkly window display. “Dis-knee Store,” she said slowly.

Vampire Lord raced in and bought a pink dress for Shadow. Shadow glared at Vampire Lord and ripped the dress to shreds, her eyes narrowed.

Out of nowhere, young Damien Vesper appeared and stabbed Vampire Lord.

“No!” Nireth cried, stumbling to her feet. “Leave us alone!” she stood in front of Vampire Lord to protect him.

Time rewound once again, and the group found that they were babies. Vampire Lord hit Thunder Ninja with a rattle. Nireth crawled over with a baby blanket, which Shadow shredded.

Vampire Lord bit Shadow, turning her into a Vampire. Shadow-Rue then bit Thunder Ninja, turning HER into a vampire!

Radiance and Camile walked in and stared around, “Um,” Radiance said, confused, “why is everyone a baby?”

Nireth cooed and grabbed her feet.

Vampire Lord’s diaper grew larger again.

“Aww!” Camile said, “You guys look adorable!”

“Now how do we change them back?” Radiance asked, tapping her chin.

Vampire Lord began to cry—no one had changed his diaper!

TO BE CONTINUED…

DUN-DUN-DUUUUUN!

(PS: Sorry this took me so long! ^^”)

We are working on Part 4 of the Vesper fight. If anyone wants to join,feel free to do so.

Sorry for spamming.

If anyone is online, come on in to the chat… ^_^

A lot of posts by the same author… intresting. This post is trying to break that chain. Sorry for it being usless. The purpose of this is only to break the chain. Thank you.

~BT

Guys, the worst thing happened to me this morning.

Everything was blurry.

I knew my right eye would crack soon. My left eye has been short-sighted for a long time but eyesight with two eyes was perfect. Now… it’s not.

So, I’m going to be going away for a while. I’ll be excersing my eyes (as in staring out the window for hours) and I’ll come back in a few weeks.

Thanks.

~Pandora

I’m sorry I’ m not on chat much! I just have relatively copious amounts of homework to do at the time being ^^”

And, um, other than that pathetic excuse, I have not much to say ^^” So here’s a question:

O.K., so cartoon characters usually have pretty decent looking hair, even as they’re fighting in battle or something. So why doesn’t that happen in real life? It’s not fair TT_TT

I want to be a cartoon character–do you?

 

I know why I can’t post, it is because I don’t have a phone. And I can’t aford an iTouch until next year. So give me money. JK. But anyway I probaly will post even less because of school, soccer, and piano. That is all.

A lot of you know the blog Miscellaneous Stories. Violet (who Nireth would have been besties with xD) sadly left, and no more stories have been posted since then.

I know that we have this blog to post stories on, but sometime you get the feeling nott everyone reads them, and MS is a blog dedicated to stories… so, what if we started posting again? I mean, Pt has mysteriously disappeared and this blog is still up and running.

I was just thinking, don’t kill me, kay?