Part 1
Today at school was tough, Randy the pothead was just enough then back home was harder since Mom brought a guy home, really? My Boss seems to think hitting on the waitress will get a good day. In the middle of the early evening, as I keep on walking on my way back home from work, I start thinking to myself. Even though I do not have a good relationship with most people I still have one friend, Fate Moore, we hardly hang out so it's tough. Then the nightmares and my spirits that haunt me, yes I'm a psychic medium. As I keep on walking, I then start to hear yelling, maybe it is just Randy with his friends-I should just take the long way back home. As I got onto a different street, I saw two people fighting with a third person lying on the ground, not moving a muscle- but yet one of them seems to be like Superman, with his super strength and speed. The man then jumps onto another guy and I gasp in fright. The super strong guy then turns his head and looks at me, he had blood in his mouth, and he had long fangs unveiling from his lips. He then got up and jumped towards me when someone shot at him and at that moment, he turned to flame, and dust fell to the ground. I look around and I see a man with a shotgun looking straight at me.
"Thank God I made it here in time," the stranger says to me.
Okay, what the Hell's going on here? I look at who saved me straight in the eye. I wonder if he had killed that 'thing' to have me for himself. When I continued to stare at him, his eyes softened when he saw my discomfort.
"Let's go kid, we need to move before more come,," his voice urges me to follow him..
"Since when were there cannibals here in California? I thought it was illegal!" I say, lacking air to breathe. My breathing was deep, and my vision was blurry, but it did not affect what he replied with.
"He was not a cannibal, that was a vampire, and you, one Hell of a lucky bastard almost became his next meal, what the Hell were you doing in the middle of the fight?" the unknown man asked.
"I was walking home, wa-wait did you say vampire?" my eyes bulged out of their sockets and my heartbeat accelerated even more.
"Yes, I am Cain, I kill the vampires who harm humans, you are lucky, son," Cain crossed his arms over his chest as he leaned against a big metal door.
"Lucky? Please tell me, in what way is almost getting eaten by a vampire lucky? Honestly, I am not seeing it," I stood back up straight and folded my own arms across my chest.
"Look, you are alive, now right? The least you could do is thank me,"
"Fine, thank you, I am John by the way," I relaxed as I realized my rude behavior. He saved my life after all.
"You are welcome, now come on in, you cannot stay out here when the vampires know you, it is your fault that one of their own died, they'll be after you, come and meet the team, they'll tell you what is going on,"
As we walk into the abandoned mall where everything seemed quiet, too quiet, and then all of a sudden, I am being slammed against a wall by an unknown woman and she is holding a knife to my throat!
"Cain, what the Hell were you doing?" she yells out in question.
"He is not a vampire Hope; I saved him from one that was two blocks away from here," Cain explains. she looks at him, then at me and then lets me go and puts the pocketknife in her pocket.
"What is your name, boy?" she asks as if she were my mother.
"My name is John, and why were you holding a knife to my throat?" I ask loudly. she sighs and ignores my question.
"Do not pay any attention to her, she does that with everyone," Cain explains but Hope gives him a glare that could scare anyone, and I mean even like the devil himself.
"Do not start Cain; you are still new to this war against the vampire race so I would suggest you watch it," she says, snapping at him like a snake snapping onto its prey.
"Well excuse me, the daughter of the first hunter of this group! I did not think that I was just nothing but a recruit..." He just wants to smack her for that since he is older than her.
"Hope! You go back to your quarters where I can talk to Cain and this young man here," a man calls out.
"Dad, Cain acts as if he can just recruit whoever he wants! We need to keep the humans safe, not just let them know that there are monsters out here that want to eat them!" she says protesting against her father. But he looks at her with silent eyes.
"Leave now Hope." he says quietly. She nods then gives Cain a quick glare and leaves.
"I am sorry if my daughter was being rude, but she has been trying to keep the burdens of being a hunter on her shoulders for so long; What is your name young man?" he asks.
"My name is Johnathon Haven Stone," I replied, wondering if this was really a dream. His eyes widened and went extremely pale.
"You are the boy that I saw in my dreams," he says just by looking at me.
"I am sorry sir, but what are you talking about?" I ask him, feeling confused. He looks at me and goes into deep thought for one long moment then he replies.
"I am sorry John, but the thing is, I just happen to be a man of the Lord and have been living in a war that has been going many of hundreds of years trying to search for the demon that we have been going up against, and that same demon that also has on numerous times from the past and up until now has been trying to kill me, but there is someone that the Lord mentioned to me in the far, far, past on how to defeat this monster," He explains. I look at him wide eyed.
"What?" I ask, then continue on.
"What are you and who are you?" I just want to know the truth. He smiles then looks down at his own worn-out hands.
"My name is Father Van Helsing," he answers.
"Because of my past with fighting against these monsters, it is not something I was going to bring up unless I knew who my descendant was, you are the one who must kill Vlad Tepes, also known as Vlad the Impaler," Father Van Helsing says looking at me. Okay, so I am 'destined' to stop and kill this vampire dude known as Vlad the Impaler? Um okay.
"Um, I think you got the wrong guy," I say, explaining as I start backing up against the wall feeling scared shitless.
"Son I cannot kill him as he put a curse on me that says I am not able to kill him with anything I have but you are chosen by the witch that cursed me into this world of immortality to kill Vlad himself," he explains. I look and laugh at him just wanting to wake up from this very disturbing dream.
"Um, I think I need to leave," I say, but Cain holds me down and glares at me.
"Either you do this, or I will kill you instead of letting that bloodsucker have the chance," Cain says as he growls at me. I look wide eyed and I see the priest sighing calmly and then placing his hand on Cain's shoulder.
"It is alright Cain, but John; all I ask is that you think about it, for now, we will see you again in a week and if you still feel the same way as now, we won't bother you anymore," Father Van Helsing explains. Cain then lets me go and I stand up slowly.
"Thank you, Father Van Helsing," I say, then leaving the abandoned mall hoping not to get stuck in the middle of a vampire fight again.
I get back home quietly and sneak into the kitchen where I can grab a bite to eat. As I was eating, I saw mom walk in.
"I did not think I would find you scarfing down food at this time of night," she says.
"I had run into some people and I had to lend a hand with something," I explain, just not wanting to deal with this right now.
"Well, I guess I will see you tomorrow," Mom says then leaves then hearing her mumbling out freak underneath her breath. Like I could care less anymore.
After I finished eating leftovers I had gotten from work and cleaned up the mess, then as I left the kitchen I turned off the lights and I got upstairs and got started on my homework- not wanting to deal with anything else since that moment I got attacked by that bloodsucker.
"You are a fool, Van Helsing!"
I wake up covered in sweat and feeling like I have been stabbed in the gut. I do not know how much more I can deal with this! How can I possibly go through night after night of these dreadful nightmares? Why can't they just stop?
I sit up and I go into deep thought. The visions that I am having are too vivid and they keep becoming more and more real each and every time. I get up and walk into my bathroom. I turn on the light and look into the mirror when I see a man behind me that looks just like me and he then starts talking.
"You will never win," he says, then vanishes into thin air. I gasp just wanting this to end. I turn off the light in the bathroom and I quietly rush back into bed and shut my eyes tight. Not wanting to hear, see or be near anything at that moment and then after five minutes of laying in bed, I fall asleep.
Getting up was a pain, because it's Hell…
It is Friday and it is at the end of the school day. As I walk out of the building, I see Fate running up to me and smiling her ass off.
"Hey, Johnny!" she says so excitedly.
"You ready to hang out?" she asks.
"Uh yeah, sure," I say, smiling back. She laughs and holds my hand gently; her touch makes me flustered, and I start to blush.
As me and Fate walk towards my truck so she can give me directions to her place, I see people huddled in groups whispering some stuff. Probably about me and Fate- I mean come on it is not like we are dating! I wish they did not make such a big deal. We get to my truck and she makes pointers to how to get to her place and I just nod, trying to understand what she is saying.
"You got it?" Fate asks, smiling. I nod. Then she does the most surprising thing- she kisses me on the cheek.
"I will see you when you come over," she said, then walked her way over to her car and pulled out of the parking lot.
I am driving to Fates house and trying to comprehend that she kissed me on the cheek. I mean no one has ever done that to me before. No one. I pulled into the driveway and I walked to the door and knocked on it. I am scared her parents might freak out by my appearance. But when I see the door open, I see a woman with golden blonde hair and bright hazel eyes in front of me.
"Oh hey, you must be John! I am Fate's mother, why don't you come in," she says as she opens up the door fully and lets me in. I walk in and I see pictures all over the walls as Fates mom leads me into one of the rooms in the house.
"Here's the family room, Fate will be here in a bit," she says then leaves. Wow, Fate's Mother was really nice. I look around the family room and I see so many pictures of this family. They seem so happy and loving and something that I will never have.
"Hey, Johnny!" someone calls out and I jump in surprise but seeing it was Fate. I look at her and smile, getting up she then walks over to me and grabs my hand.
"We finally hang out!" Fate was the one who would drink monsters mixed with kool-aid and cherry coke every day. I mean come on man you need to be careful! Listening to her talk about her family of hunters like Hope and Father Van Helsing, A.K.A. her father, was great. I got to learn and it was nice. Walking back inside home, or what it should be called to others, Mom pops in then makes a remark that'd depress anyone.
"Why are you back? Aren't you supposed to hang out with someone, or did she see how much of a freak you really are too?" Mom said, eating her sandwich as I walked into the kitchen to grab an apple.
"I left because she had things to do, so we only hung out for a little bit," I said, quickly grabbing my apple and then leaving the kitchen, walking upstairs and into my room as I sat down and immediately sat down and began doing my homework.
"Okay John let's get started" I say to myself