“Hello, Kari” Hollie-if she could be called that
anymore-sang in her velvety voice. “Oh, Kam! You’re here too!”
“H-Hollie..!?” Kam was shocked and scared. Kari didn’t blame him. Whatever had
happened to Hollie scared her, too. Could this happen to Kari and Kam, too?
Would The Cursed Woman turn them into these monstrosities? She really hoped
not, but even so, what did The Cursed Woman expect to do to them? Kill them?
Too many questions raced through Kari’s head, with too little answers.
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“I think I found the building where they’re keeping Kari, and possibly Kam.”
Marisa laid out a map. “It’s old, and from what I know of it, it has no entrances.
But, I know someone who could probably get around that. That’s why I called up
my friend Rema Williams. Back at my, uh, ‘school’, she was the best at getting
around traps. Come in, Rema.” A dark-skinned girl with black-and-purple hair
walked into the room.
“Hello, everyone.” She said dully.
“Uh, hi.” Jenna said quietly.
“So, we have a lot of work to do. We think we’ve located where they’re being
held,” Rema continued on, paying no attention to Jenna’s greetings. “But the
problem is that there’s no entrance. No doors, no windows, no chimneys to crawl
down. We’re probably gonna have to find more creative methods of getting in.
Also, since Adrian is still getting over his wounds, him and Jamie are going to
have to stay here.”
“Uh, a-alright.” Jenna tried to get in a word before Rema continued on. “Why
don’t we call the police? I mean, I know we’ve been avoiding it but now would
be a nice time to get them involved…”
“And say what?” Marisa blurted. “That our friend was kidnapped by her magical,
immortal doppelganger and vampire twin sister?”
“I-I guess that wouldn’t be the best idea, then…” Jenna said, shyly. Obviously,
the stress was getting to everyone.
“So, when do we plan to leave?” Travis spoke up for the first time.
“Right away.” Rema said. “Go get dressed and grab whatever you might need, meet
down here in an hour.”
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“Travis?” Marisa walked into his room, and they both seem dressed and ready to
go, and Travis was staring into space.
“Huh?” Travis broke out of his trance. “Oh, hey Marisa. What’s up?”
“Do you…” Marisa hesitated a second, deciding whether to ask the question or
now. “Do you think we’ll win? That we’ll save Kari, beat the bad guy, and save
the day? I mean, in the movies and books the good guys always win… But this
isn’t the movies or books…” Tears started to pour out of Marisa’s eyes.
“Marisa, don’t worry.” Travis pulled her in to a hug. “Of course we’ll win. We…
We have to, right?” He was worried, but he didn’t want Marisa to know. He had
to be strong, for everyone. “Hey, let’s go downstairs, we’ve got to save Kari.”
“O-Okay…” Marisa sniffles. “Let’s go.”
“Alright.” Travis smiled at her, and they walked downstairs to where Jenna and
Rema were waiting.
“So, are we all ready to go?” Rema said in her plain, dull voice.
“Uh, yeah, sure.” Travis nervously said, looking at the ground.
“Alright then, let’s go.” Rema led us to her car, and we piled in and headed to
the place where Kari was being held, to a place where a fateful encounter would
occur that will change our lives forever.
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“No! Let me in! Let me in!” The blonde wailed and hit the wall in frustration.
“Hey, what’s going on?” Marisa ran up to the blonde and stopped her from
hitting the wall and hurting herself.
“Th-They took her!” The blonde cried.
“Took who? What happened?” Marisa calmly asked.
“The red-headed girl!” She screamed. “They just walked right through the walls!
I can’t get in! I can’t…”
“Hey, hey, it’s okay…” Marisa patted her hair, trying to calm her down, but
Marisa was feeling just as frantic. “What’s your name?”
“C-Crysta…” She replied.
“Alright, Crysta, we’re friends of the girl that was taken. Her name’s Kari,
and her brother and sister are also in there, now are you ready to go whoop
some ass?” She smiled, and Crysta laughed.
“Yeah, but how are we going to get in?” She wiped away her tears and tried to
calm down.
“Leave that…” Marisa got up, faced the wall, and pulled something out of her
bag, it looked like a stick, a long, wooden stick… a wand. “…to me.”
“W-What is that?” Jenna asked, although she already knew the answer. “What are
you doing?!”
“You’ll see.” Marisa said, and then
there was a flash of light and part of the wall was gone. “Now, are we ready to go
in?”
“Uh, ye-yeah.” Jenna had a shocked expression on her face.
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There was an explosion, but The Cursed Woman stayed calm.
“Ah, so it seems your friends are here for you, Kari.” She giggled. “Let’s
scare them a bit…”
A loud crackle sounded throughout the tomb, and screaming came after.
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“Wh-What just happened!?” Marisa screamed, as she saw Rema crumple to the floor.
“Ah!” Crysta screamed and started crying again. “I-I think she was just hit by
lightning!”
“Lightning!? But it’s SUNNY!” Jenna was confused, but Rema was on the floor,
looking electrocuted.
“I guess The Cursed Woman is more powerful than we thought.” Marisa checked
Rema’s pulse. “Yeah, she’s dead.” Marisa said, and started to walk towards the
tomb. “Let’s go in.”
“What!?” Jenna yelled. “Your friend just got electrocuted to death and you
don’t even care!”
“Of coursed I care!” Marisa retaliated. “But there’s no use wasting time when
we need to be saving Kari! Now, let’s go!” She walked into the tomb, and her
friends followed without saying a word.
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It took a minute for the group to get to the room where Kari was being held.
When they got there, they were stopped by a door.
“Well, we can get in, right?” Travis asked. “We just have to break down this
door…”
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“Hmm, it seems your friends are trying to get in…” The Cursed Woman said. “Well
then, time to break out the ‘big guns’, as you modern people say.” She got a
vial of a red liquid-blood-out of a bag in the corner of the room. “This,” she
held it up. “is Vampire Blood. If someone drinks it, they slowly start to die,
and when they reawaken, they turn into a vampire. A Vampire without any morals,
common sense, they kill when need be. The only few exceptions to this rule is
if someone is turned before they turn 18. They turn into a half-vampire. They
don’t have all the features of a vampire, but still require blood to survive.
But, they do not lack the morals full vampires have. W hen they turn 18, they turn into a full-vampire, all
their features come into play and they have all the powers—but they still have
morals, they aren’t the monster most vampires are. Neat little exception, hmm?”
She walked over to Kam, and fed him the blood. Kari watched as her brother got
weaker.
“K-Kam? Kam!” Kari started to scream. “Kam! No! Kam!” Her vision, the story,
her dreams, everything predicted this, and she still couldn’t save Kam.
“KAM!!!!!”
A white flash. Her friends breaking down the door, her outfit change. It was
all the same. This was fated to happen from the very beginning.
Kari felt her body moving, magic rushing out of her. She didn’t know how it was
happening, but she knew it was. Hollie was enveloped in a white flash, and a
pile of ashes lay in her spot. Kari didn’t feel sorry, she was a monster. She
died when the vampire blood entered her system. Kari pushed the Cursed Woman
into a cell, the cell that blocks out all magic.
“Why are you sparing me?” She asked.
“Because, I don’t want to give you the pleasure that is death. I want you to
stay here and rot for all the trouble you’ve caused me. I want you to feel
remorse, and the bitter feeling of losing this battle. For the rest of
eternity.” Kari said, as she closed the gate. Soon, her energy died down and
she was back to herself again. She lied down to where Kam was lying, right as
he started to wake up.
“W-What’s going on?” He said, puzzled. Kari saw that his green eyes were
glowing and he had fangs. “Hey, Kari, you’re okay…”
“Yeah, Kam, let’s get out of here…” She started to cry.
“Kari, wait.” Travis ran up to her and kissed her suddenly.
“I’m so sorry.” Travis looked at her with sorrowful eyes. “About everything,
it’s my fault and I wish none of this eve--” Kari interrupted him with another
kiss.
“You idiot…”
