Chapter 6: The Shit Hits The Fan

The Golden Spike

Austin and the girls were opening the place up, fixing all the tables and all the other things that they had to do.

"Candy, how many times do I have to tell you not to let these guys rub off on the table cloths?" he asked while holding one away from him.

"I can't help it if they cream their pants all the time, Austin. I'm a performer not a maid." she grabbed her cleaning supplies and walked off.

"Oh come on, baby. It's not that big of a deal."

"Whatever." Candy said as she walked into the VIP room.

"Damn." Austin said as he continued on with cleaning. Just then a set of 3 women walked in. All the same height, each one paler than the last. They could pass for triplets if not for the different hair colors. Austin looked up as they walked up to him.

"Woah, you chicks are hot enough to work the pole. Why don't you sign up for a job, babes?"

Candy looked at the on goings through a sliding plate in the VIP room's door.

"Here we go again with the lover boy routine." she said as she rolled her eyes.

"Where is Sandra Drake?" they all asked in unison, almost robot like.

"I haven't seen her but hey why talk about that, when we can do some business huh?" he leaned his arm over one of the girls' shoulders. His whole body felt cold instantly and he jumped back a little bit.

"Where is Sandra Drake?" they asked again, this time more forceful.

Austin's street smarts told him something wasn't right and even though he was an asshole, he wasn't going to give up any info.

"I don't know where she is. I haven't seen Sandy since Friday and if that's all you wanted, beat it."

One of the women threw a large stack of money on a table. Austin's mouth watered and his fingers twitched. There had to be at least a few thousand there. But he wiped his mouth and came back to his senses.

"Look, I'm a lot of things, but I ain't a rat. So like I said, beat it."

He turned to walk off, but one of the girls shot in front of him in an instant.

"What are magicians or something?"

She grabbed him by his throat and bared fans. He pushed her off of him.

"What the fuck are you?"

All three circled around him.

"Last chance, where is she?" they howled.

"Go fuck yourselves."

The women all piled onto him, biting every inch of his body.

"Get off of me, you fuckin' cunts!"

"What the fuck?" Candy looked through the plate again to see Austin being attacked. Blood flew everywhere, she threw her hand over her mouth to keep from screaming but it slipped out anyways. One of the girls stopped gorging herself and looked toward the door. She simply pointed and the other two girls flashed in front of the door. Candy ran through a back door in the room that lead to an outside alleyway. She ran as the other vampires broke into the VIP room.

Meanwhile

Jeremy laid on the couch, dreaming of his beloved family, like he had done for years.

"Daddy! Look!" Melissa giggled as she did a cartwheel. She and Emily ran around the backyard as Jeremy looked on laughing. Then a voice shook him out of his dream.

"Do you want to play, Daddy?"

"Wh...what?" Jeremy rolled over and looked in the direction of the voice.

The eyes. Same as Melissa's. The face. Same as Melissa's. The VOICE. Same as Melissa's. The
only difference, like Sandra, was her hair.

"Wha...what did you say?"

"Do you want to play Playstation with me, Mr.?"

"I'm sorry Jeremy, did Carly wake you?"

"Oh, no, no. She didn't."

"Come on Carly, take the Ps2 in the bedroom and let him sleep."

"Ok." the cute little girl skipped off to Sarah's bedroom.

"It was OK, she didn't bother me."

"I needed a break anyways, we've been up all day."

"Oh, what time is it?"

"7 pm."

"Really?"

"Yep, you've been out all day. Are you alright?"

"Yes, I am just so tired. I haven't had a good night's rest in a long time."

Alex walked into the room as Sandy nodded. He looked at Jeremy and walked into Sandy's bedroom.

"Don't mind him, he's just trying to get adjusted to you being here."

"I'm sorry if my being here has been a problem for you."

Before Sandy could respond, there was frantic banging on the door.

"What the hell?" Sandy got up to answer it, she looked through the peephole and saw that it was Candy. As she opened the door, Candy burst her way in.

"Hey! What's the matter with you?"

"Austin! Attacked! Vampires!"

Jeremy raised an eyebrow at the mention of vampires.

"Candy, what are you talking about?"

After catching her breath, she tried to explain again.

"Austin and I were opening up the club. I went into the VIP room to clean and then these chicks came in. I didn't hear what was said but the next thing I knew they were attacking him. I ran out of there as fast as I could."

Sandy sat Candy down and tried to calm her. Alex came out of the bedroom with a confused look on his face.

"What the hell is going on in here?"

Sandy quickly explained the situation. Alex's look of confusion continued for a second and then he burst out laughing.

"Hahhahahaha, vampires? Oh you've got to be shitting me."

"Alex." Sandy shot him a dirty look.

"What?"

"If Candy says that's what happened, then I believe her. Listen, why don't we go down there and see if Austin is OK?" she asked Candy.

"No!" Jeremy practically screamed. Everyone looked at him weird.

"If something is wrong, I don't want you guys to get hurt. Alex and I will go and check things out."

Alex made an annoyed face, "Why do I have to go?"

Jeremy stood up, "You are the man of the house, are you not?"

Alex took a more serious stance.

"Let's go." with that Alex walked out of the door.

As Jeremy followed, Sandy grabbed his arm.

"Be careful."

He nodded and followed Alex.

At The Spike

Jeremy and Alex walked up to the building with caution. It looked alright, except it was unusually quiet. Around this time of night, patrons would be hollering and carrying on. Jeremy pushed the glass door open, it was empty a side from a mass of blood on the floor. Alex swallowed hard.

Jeremy's senses kicked up as he made his way further into the room.

"Something's off."

"What was your first clue, the blood?" Alex said sarcastically.

"Look, I know you have a problem with me, but now is not the time to..."

Jeremy was cut off by someone falling on top of him. It was one of the vampire trio from earlier. She hissed and bared her fangs.

"What the fuck!?" Alex yelled, unsure of what to do.

"Alex, get out of here!" Jeremy screamed, while trying to fend off the vamp on top of him. Alex turned to run toward the door but other vamp chick blocked his path.

"Going somewhere?" she growled.

"Ahhhh!" Alex yelled as he ran off.

"Damn it." Jeremy snapped the vampire's neck and pushed her off of him.

The other one had caught up with Alex, she licked at his neck.

"Sweet." she said as she was about to bite down. But Jeremy came up from behind her and snapped her neck.

Alex backed away and bumped into a spinning wall and fell through. On the other side, was a secret room with a disco ball spinning around. The room was littered with bodies. No wonder the place was so quiet, all the patrons were dead. Jeremy grabbed Alex and pulled him back to the other side.

"We have to get back to the house NOW." he and Alex made their way out of the house of death,

The Apartment

"Sandy! Carly!" Alex yelled as he ran to the apartment. Once he got inside, the place was trashed and there was no sign of Sandra or Carly.

"What the fuck?!"

Jeremy sniffed around, he smelled an unforgettable scent.

"Draven." he growled.

Alex looked at him like he was nuts. Jeremy's fangs grew longer, hanging from his mouth. Alex backed up into the door.

"What are you?"

"No time." Jeremy went to walk out the door but Alex pushed him back.

"You are going to explain to me RIGHT NOW what the FUCK is going on! God so help me, if you got my sisters hurt I will fuckin' kill..."

"LOOK, there is no time for this. Either you come and help or you don't. Either way I'm going after them."

He tried to push past Alex again but he grabbed his arm. His eyes stayed fixed on the ground.

"I've already left them alone for so long, I'm not going to do it again," he looked up "I'm coming with you."

Jeremy looked at him, he could see the love for his sisters and the determination to save
them in his young eyes.

"Fine," he knocked over a chair and broke off a leg. "Get as many of these as you can and
make sharp points at the end. You're going to need them."

"Alright, but what about you?"

"These," Jeremy held up his bare hands. "Are all I need."

With that Jeremy and Alex stormed out of the apartment and in search of Draven and the girls.