The Dark
Side Of EDD
It all began in Biology class. Double D had found a
dead bat in his chimney. He´d also told the
Biology teacher if he could bring it to school for an
examination. The dissection tools in the
shool was better and he needed some very expensive
equipment that he only knew the school had.
And that´s were our story begins.......
"Watcha doin´ Double D?"
Double D looked up from the dissection table. Eddy had
taken a short pause from studying and
walked up to Double D. Double D knew all the other
kids in Biology was a bit jealous on him,
mainly because he´d got the opportunity today to miss
the "boring" reading on insects.
"I´m trying to get a tiny blood-sample from this
bat, Eddy."
"Why?"
"It´s simple. I belive it didn´t die because of
age. I belive it died from the chemicals that
the factory down the river, about 50 miles from here,
are said to be illegally dumping into it."
"Yeah, k....You´re lucky, you already know
everything about insects."
Eddy went back to his seat and bent down over his
books.
Double D looked at him a while and went back to the
bat. Suddenly he looked up again. He got up
and walked over to Eddy. There he bent down over
Eddy´s shoulder and whipsered:
"Bats aren´t insects, Eddy. They´re mammals, just
as cats and dogs."
"Told ya so." Ed said as he looked up from
his book.
"How did you know that, Ed?" Double D asked.
"I saw it in a movie. It was named; Giant Mutant
Space Ba.."
"Ed, shut up!" Eddy snapped as he looked up.
Double D went back to his dissection table and went
back to work.
About half an hour later, the bell rang, declaring it
was recess. Double D was still fiddling
with the bat, when Eddy walked up to him.
"I and Ed are going to the candy-store. Mono-brow
here found a one dollar bill in his pocket.
I´m just wondering, are you going to finish that or
are you coming with us. It´s an one hour
recess."
"I´m gonna finish this Eddy. You two can go, I
don´t care."
"Okay, but you don´t know what you´re
missing."
Ed and Eddy left Double D sitting there. When they
left, Double D picked up a pipette in his left
hand and made a swift cut with the scalpel in his
right hand. He had found the heart of the bat
and was quick to collect all the blood into the
pipette. After that he picked up a test-tube and
squirted all the blood into it. He put a cork into the
test-tube and walked off to the main lab
of the class-room. He put the test-tube into the
centrifuge and started it. He sat down on a
chair by the centrifuge and took off the sterile
gloves he was wearing. He threw them into the
waste basket and turned off the centrifuge. He picked
up the test-tube from inside and noticed
that the machine was making a print off the results.
"The technology is amazing." Double D said
to himself as he ripped off the paper from the printer.
He sat down by his desk and had a look at the paper. His
left hand instinctively went up to his
face as he contenplated the results. Double D licked
lightly on his forefinger. He got a scared
look on his face. He had felt the taste of blood as he
licked his finger. He looked shocked on
his hand and, yes, there was a fine, but deep cut in
his finger.
"My word, how could I be so clumsy?" he said
shocked and threw a look at the paper.
"Please don´t let it be..." Double D said as
he eyed through the paper. He stopped suddenly and
looked horrified. He slowly put down the paper and got
a sad look on his face.
"The only time I don´t want to be right and I am.
The darn bat died from chemicals." he said
and walked over to the first aid box that was on the
wall. He picked out a plaster and put it
on the cut on his finger. After that, he took the
dissection plate and shoved it into a plastic
bag. Double D put the plastic bag into the
waste-basket. He picked up the blood-sample and his
note-book. He also put the results-paper into his
note-book. Then he just quietly walked out of
the class-room, looking on his left forefinger.
"Where the heck is Double D?" Eddy asked
whispering to Ed.
It was the last lesson for the day; Art.
"Huh? What Eddy?" Ed asked as he looked up
from the drawing he was doing.
"Haven´t you noticed, mono-brow? He has never
been late for one lesson, except those days he´s
sick. Something is wrong here."
"Maybe he got a headache. It can happen if you
study too much."
"Yeah, maybe. But anyhow, he would have told us
firstly."
"Eddy, Ed. Be quiet." Miss Jackson, the
Art-teacher said. "I want your perspective project today,
Eddy and Ed, you´re late with the study on shadows. Just
so you know."
"I would call her something very unsuitable if
she weren´t so darn pretty." Eddy said quietly
to himself.
(Meanwhile, home at Double D´s.)
"Boy, do I have a headache. I should be in
Art-class right now, but I´m too tired for such a
thing." Double D said as he put down his
school-bag on the floor in his room. He took out the
note-book he had in Biology and had a look at the
test-results paper one more time.
"So it was true that they illegaly dumped
chemicals into the river." Double D thought to himself
and sat down on his bed. "Wait till the
newspapers hear about this."
Without knowing it, Double D slowly went to sleep,
there, on his bed at 14.00. But the wound in
his finger started to slowly heal itself....
When Double D opened his eyes again after the nap, he
saw that the time was 5.00 in the morning.
"My, was I really that tired?" he said to
himself. He got up and walked into the bathroom.
He felt like needing to brush his teeth, direly.
As he looked into the mirror, he had a shock. What he
saw is really hard to describe, but I´ll
try anyhow. He was very pale, and I mean VERY pale,
and from his lips, small fangs were visible.
But before his eyes, he got his skin colour back and
the fangs grew back into normal sized teeth.
"What is happening to me?" Double D asked
himself. As he started to brush his teeth, an odd taste
seemed to get stronger. As he spat out, the toothpaste
was coloured red.
"Blood? But how?"
-Hello! a voice said. (This voice is meant to be read
like Death´s voice in the Discworld novels
by Terry Pratchett)
"Who said that?" Double D asked and looked
around.
-I did. the reply came. And stop looking around. I´m
just in your mind.
"Whaddya mean "just in my mind"?"
-Let me introduce myself; I´m Count Edward, vampire
Count of Peach Creek for the mo.
"Edward? That´s my name! But that means...."
-Yes! We are the same. And may I report that I know
your friends well, I wont hurt them. And
the being I took as my first meal was not even human.
"What? First meal?"
-No time to talk, the sun is rising. Gotta hide in the
deeper parts of your mind. Arrividerci!
Double D felt a small pain in his head as the vampire
fled into his mind. It was not big, but it
was enough to force Double D down onto his knees. He
held his hands on head and mumbled
quietly:
"It can´t be, it can´t be! I´m a vampire! Nooooo!!"
Double D quickly got over the fact that he had a
vampire inside him, and that all evil that
Count Edward did wasn´t his fault. He thought so all
the way to his locker, where he heard Rolf
telling about something that had happened. He took out
his books and joined the little group of
kids that surrounded Rolf.
"I tell you, the thing was drinking the blood of
one of my cows!"
"What did it look like Rolf?" Kevin asked.
"It was in the middle of the night, but as it was
a fullmoon out, I saw the siluette of the face.
It seemed familiar but I don´t know in which
way."
"What did you do?" Eddy asked.
"I grabbed one of my pitchforks and told it to
rise and reveal itself. It did so, but instead of
giving up, it jumped against me and pulled the
pitchfork out of my hands, with ease should I add.
After that, it threw me into the wall, like if I was a
dummie. After that, it disappeared."
"Sounds like a vampire, but they´re not for
real." Ed said.
"This is as real as it gets. I woke up in the
shed by the dead cow."
Double D slowly walked out of the group and went back
to the lockers. It wasn´t visible, but he
was forcing the vampire up from the depths of his
mind. It tried to get back but Double D blocked
it psychicly.
-OK. What do you want?
"You said you wouldn´t hurt my friends."
-I didn´t. So what´s the problem?
"I thought you knew how much Rolf loves his
animals?"
-I´m undead, I have no feelings.
"Hiya Double D! Where were you yesterday?" Eddy
asked as he saw Double D by the lockers.
"Huh?" Double D turned his head and looked
at Eddy. By doing so, he let go of the vampire and it
fled into his mind once again.
"Darn!" Double D said to himself.
"What´s the matter Double D? And where were you
yesterday?"
"I got a headache and had to go home. Sorry for
not telling you Eddy."
"I told you so." Ed said as he joined them.
"Well, hope you feel better now. Let´s go." Eddy
said and so the Eds walked away for their first
lesson for the day.
By lunch, the guys formed up again. Every teacher they
had knew, that if the Eds were to sit all
three together, there would never be silence in class.
And another fact was that Double D had
the same math-class as Kevin and Rolf, while Ed and
Eddy were in another one.
Ed and Eddy were already by the table when Double D
came, but without any lunch.
"Aren´t you hungry Double D?" Ed asked and
offered Double D a half banana.
"No, I´m not hungry Ed." the reply came.
"Of course he isn´t hungry Ed. Do you really
think he wants your half-eaten banana?"
Eddy paused a moment. He looked like if he was
thinking hard.
"Did you have a big breakfast? Is that why you
aren´t eating lunch?"
"You can say that." Double D said and rested
his head in his hands.
"Are you hiding something for us Double D?" Eddy
asked suspiciously.
Double D shot up from his thoughts.
"No, of course not."
"OK, just wondering."
Nothing more happened really in school that day. Maybe
the fact that Ed demonstrated how to use
a fire extinguiser in chemistry when he was clumsy
enough to set fire to his note book. Eddy had
a hard time to stop laughing on the way home and Ed
became a bit angry on Eddy because of that.
Luckily enough, Double D solved the problem. It was
all calm, until he came home.
"Welcome home Edward!" a call came from the
kitchen when Double D closed the front door.
"Mom? What are you doing home?"
"I ended work early today. I wanted to after what
happened yesterday."
"So you know?"
"Yes, you were sleeping when I came home and I
found your Biology note book on your desk."
"Um, I took it with me home because I made a
dissection on that bat I found. I took notes on it
in my book."
"Did your little theory hold?" his mom said
and caressed Double D over his right chin.
"Yes, it died from chemical infections. Can I go
to my room now?"
"Of course. Dinner will be done in half an
hour."
"I´m not hungry." Double D said and rushed
upstairs.
As he got to his room, he locked the door and put his
school bag on his bed, as usual.
-Your mother has got really warm blood.
"Don´t even think about it." Double D said
to the vampire in a snappy tone.
-Yes, you´re right. But I must survive and so must
you.
"I noticed your little nightly visit to Rolf´s
has slaked not only your hunger but mine too."
-So you realized? Maybe I should tell you that I can
be in your conciousness all the time,
except at the hour of mid-day?
"Ok, my turn to tell you something. You may not
take blood from any living creature."
-Then what should I live off?
"There´s a blood-bank at the hospital. I belive
you can get in un-noticed. How often do you "eat"?"
-About two times a week.
"That´s okay. Now where do you hide the dress
suit? I know you have one. All vampires have one."
-Oh boy, humans. In your closet. I even made a cape. Didn´t
take so long, I´m acctually very
proud of myself.
Double D walked over to his closet and opened it. There,
on a coat-hanger, was a black dress suit
hanging, and tied around the neck was a long, black
cape with red inning.
"My word." Double D said to himself. "But,
it seems to big to fit me."
-It is to big for you, but it fits me.
"How?"
-Stay awake tonight and you´ll see.
Double D closed the door to the closet and walked
downstairs. His mother had called on him that
dinner was ready. He was acctually a bit hungry now.
Time past by and soon it was 22.00. Double D´s mom had
said good-night to him and closed his
door. Double D slept with one eye opened until he was
sure his mom and dad had also gone to bed.
When he went out of his bed, his clock stood on 0.00. He
sneaked out of his room, with the
coat-hanger with the dress suit in his left hand, and
walked away to the bathroom. He needed a
mirror to see the transformation.
"Everything for sience." as he had said
once.
As he got into the bathroom, he turned on the lights
and hung the dress suit on the door-knob.
"I´m ready."
-Are you sure you wanna do this?
"Of course. I´m not afraid of you."
-Curiosity killed the cat. And you´ll soon fear me.
"Huh? Whaddya mean with that?"
But it was too late. The vampire had emerged and
Double D was slowly turning into Count Edward.
The first thing that happened was that the fangs grew
out. After that, the skin turned pale on
him. Double D was quick to realize what was going to
happen next. He almost litteraly jumped out
of his pyjamas and got into the dress suit. A few
seconds after he got the suit on, he felt that
he grew taller and suddenly, everything went black. The
vampire had full control of his body now.
"How good it feels not to be bond to your mind
any more. And better still, is that you can´t bug
me in my mind, like I do with you. Hahaha... Now, I´m
gonna have a look around in your cul-de-sac."
(Please note that Count Edward and Double D are two
completly different personalities. Count
Edward is definetly darker in his deeds, and a whole
lot stronger.)
Count Edward walked back into Double D´s room with the
coat hanger and the pyjamas. He put down
both on the bed and walked against the window. He
opened it and jumped out, without a sound.
Nothing really happened for two weeks time. Double D
and Count Edward got along good with each
other. No one really noticed the nightly visits on the
blood-bank at the hosiptal. But tell me
what luck that lasts forever......
"Good morning Eddy!" Double D called as he
got to the lockers on Tuesday morning.
"Good morning Double D. Where´s Ed?"
"His first lesson was cancelled. He called me
this morning."
"Wait a second! Our first lesson is language,
right?"
"Yes, I´m off to French-class. Au
revoir, Eddy."
"Wait, Double D! You´re good on languages, can
you help me with my words in Spanish? I forgot
them completly. Mr Gonzales gonna kill me if I missed
the words again."
"Oh, all right. I´ll help you. Let´s go, we got
20 minutes to do this on."
Eddy and Double D walked towards the Spanish
classroom, but when they almost were there,
Double D turned pale and falled to the floor.
"Double D!" Eddy shouted. "Somebody get
the school nurse!"
Double D slowly woke up on the bunk in the school
nurse´s room. He felt that he had an ice-bag on
his head. He took it off and sat up.
"Oh, looks like you´re coming too, Edward."
the school nurse´s voice said.
"Uh, my head. What happened?" Double D asked
as he got out of the bunk.
"You fainted. I´ve warned you before not to work
too hard."
Double D walked over to the mirror in the room and
looked. He´d felt clearly that the vampire had
taken control for a short while. He opened his mouth
and loked after the fangs, but they weren´t
there.
"Your teeth are okay." the nurse said and
went back to the papers she was working with.
"Now I´ve got all right to fear him."
"What?"
"Uhm," Double D looked stumped. "Can I
go now?"
"Yes, of course. And please don´t work that hard
as you do now. You´ll faint more times then."
"I´ll try to. What time is it?"
"14.30." the nurse said after checking her
watch.
Double D stood paralyzed. 6 ½ hours, this wasn´t
possible.
He grabbed his bags and rushed out, almost running
down Ed and Eddy, who were waiting for him.
The three boys crashed into a heap on the floor.
"Hey, Ed! Look who´s awake." Eddy said when
they got up.
"Hi Double D! I was so worried. What happened to
you?"
"I don´t know Ed. The school nurse says it has
something to do with me working too hard."
"She could be right ya know." Eddy said with
a worried look.
Double D didn´t answer. He was having big problems in
finding Count Edward in his mind and that
needed his full concentration. Eddy and Ed didn´t
notice this and began talking about the latest
monster-movie. Double D on the other hand, had found
Count Edward and was having a discussion
with him, mentally. Usually Double D talks out loud
with Count Edward, but now he couldn´t do
that. Double D got a more and more frustrated look on
his face as the vampire inside him said
that he had a plan and that he needed Double D´s help.
And if Double D wouldn´t help him, Count
Edward would do something very nasty to Double D. In
the end, Double D couldn´t stand it any more.
"Shut up!" he shouted out, with out thinking
of Ed´s and Eddy´s nearing.
"I haven´t said one word that would upset you,
Double D." Eddy said and looked at Double D.
"Neither have I." Ed agreed.
"What´s the matter with you acctually?" Eddy
asked Double D and looked suspicious.
"Nothing." Double D said and ran from his
friends.
"What the heck is the matter with that
dork!?" Kevin asked as he slowed in to a stop behind Eddy
and Ed.
"We have no idea, Kevin." Eddy answered.
"Well, he´s not the only one turning weird. Rolf
has been acting really weird after that thing
with his cow. He says he won´t rest until the
"deamon" that killed his cow is dead."
"Anything else?"
"Yeah, he has a feeling it will appear
again."
"It won´t."
"Why in the world am I talking to you two
droks!?" Kevin shouted and drove away from there.
"This is getting weirder and weirder Ed."
"Yeah, weird, weird, weird."
Double D closed the door with a bang as he got home. He
looked into the kitchen for his mom, but
she wasn´t home.
"Good. Okay, what do you want?"
-I thought you told me to shut up?
"It was because I was with Eddy and Ed, and I
don´t want them dragged into this."
-Seems resonable.
"I got two things to tell you, Count Edward. One;
I have all right to fear you now as I know that
you were behind that thing this morning. Don´t you
know you could have killed us both by transforming
in sunlight?"
-I know, just wanted to demonstrate my power.
"And number two; what is your plan? I know that
if I disobey, you´ll probably go berserk on my
friends."
-You´re an intelligent boy. I want you to go to the
church after school in exactly ten days, that´s
on Friday in two weeks, and have six to seven large
sheets with you.
"Why?"
-I want you to cover all the crucifixes, so I can walk
there.
"May I ask why I should cover them?"
-Preferably not. And you don´t need to worry about
what I´m gonna do there either.
"Okay. Now, I have some friends I have to
apologize, so can you please leave me alone for a while?"
-Sure.
Double D felt a chill in his spine as the vampire
disappeared from his upper mind. Double D picked
up his bag and walked upstairs to his room. In there
he picked out all his homework, and a strange
blue note book without any thing written on it. He sat
down and put the note book in one of his
drawers, and after that he began doing his homework. This
was the first time in two weeks he did
his homework without the vampire´s help. When he was
done, he walked downstairs and went out to
meet with Ed and Eddy. As usual.
And so, ten days past. Double D did as he was told. He
went to the church after school, but to
his dismay, the beadle stopped him from entering.
"No visitors today." was his simple reason.
Double D turned his back upon him and walked back to
the cul-de-sac. As he walked back, he shot
the beadle an angry look and said quietly:
"You wont get rid of me that easily. I´ll come
back tonight."
And so it was. Double D came back at 23.00 with the
sheets. He had no problems in picking the
lock to the porch, and it slid open easily. When he
got in, he acted fast and covered the largest
crucifixes with the sheets. The one that was most
troublesome was the one at the altar. He had
also written a note on which it said:
"Cover the crucifixes with the sheets after the
morning service on Sunday."
The beadle would belive it was from the parson and
obey it.
Double D sat down on one of the benches and relaxed. He
sighed lightly. This was going his way,
or did it go Count Edwards way? He wasn´t really sure,
but he didn´t care.
Suddenly the bells began tolling, proclaiming it was
midnight.
"Oh my." Double D said quietly and hurried
to get into the drees suit which he´d taken with him.
It was in the nick of time that he got the cape around
his neck and tied it before he got that
weird feeling that comes from that somebody takes
control of your body.
Count Edward looked around. He got a pleasant smile on
his face, revealing the fangs, which
glittered in the moon light. He took up Double D´s
clothes and walked out of the church. He had
felt no pain at all when he walked in the church.
When he got out he said quietly to himself:
"The youngster did a good job. So sad he doesn´t
know why I wanted to do this. Sleep well, Double D.
You´ll need it! Hahahahaha!"
Count Edward jumped swiftly into a bush nearby and
disappeared into the night. Only thing revealing
his position was the birds that were awakened by the
black shadow of evil that passed them in
blinding
speed.
When Double D came to school on Monday morning, he met
Rolf who was in a serious hurry to his
first lesson.
"Good morning Rolf." Double D said as Rolf
ran past him.
Rolf came to a screeching halt and turned round. He
looked at Double D with a terrified look on
his face.
"Good morning on you too, you dark creature of
the night." was all Rolf said before disappearing.
"How odd. Could it be that....oh no." Double
D said to himself. He ran for the lockers the
fastest he could and almost ran down Ed on the way.
"Good morning Double Deeeee!!" Ed said as he
started to spin around in classical cartoon manner.
Double D didn´t care in apologizing. He had to get to
the lockers, quick. He had ten minutes
before French class and he didn´t want to help Eddy
with his Spanish words.
When he got to the lockers, he sat down by the wall
and rubbed his brow. He couldn´t understand
how Count Edward could have done this to him.
-What´s troubling you?
"There you are. What did you do last night?"
-I made a visit to Rolf´s again, but I let his animals
be this time. I just wanted to teach him
a little lesson.
"Go on."
-Unfortunaly the moonlight came in so he saw my, or
should I say your, face.
"Are you nuts? He´ll tell Eddy. And Ed. And the
rest of the kids in school."
-I can save you from a horrible fate, if you give me
complete control over your body, tonight.
"Do whatever you can do, just fix
everything."
-Oh, I will. I will.....
Double D got up from the floor and took out his French
books. He checked which classroom he was
going to be in and ran against the clock.
As Double D came home that afternoon, he reflected
over his day. Apparently Rolf hadn´t told
anyone. Eddy and Ed had acted like if they didn´t know
anything, which they hopefully didn´t.
It wasn´t easy to find out when talking about Eddy,
but it was easier with Ed. If Ed has known,
he would have made cross-signs with his fingers as
fast as he saw Double D.
"Maybe Rolf is too petrified to tell
anyone?" Double D said to himself.
-I don´t think so.
"Who invited you?"
-Are you getting cocky?
Double D felt a surge of pain in his head. It was an
enormous pain, which forced him down on his
knees, screaming. But just as suddenly as it had
begun, it ended.
-Never ever act like that against me again. I demand
respect!
"Ok." Double D answered panting. "I´ll
never do that again."
-Remember what you promised me. If you break the promise,
I can´t tell you what I´ll do.
After that, Count Edward disappeared. The chilly
feeling in his spine was there again for a
brief second. Double D got to his feet and walked
upstairs. He had to gather his thoughts, as
good as he could.
Later that evening, at 21.00, Rolf went over to Eddy´s
house, with a pitchfork in one of his
hands. He knocked on Eddy´s bedroom window as he´d
seen the other two Ed-boys do.
Eddy opened the door and looked at Rolf.
"What do you want?" Eddy asked a bit
irritated.
"I want you and Ed to follow me on a vampire
hunt."
"There is no such thing as vampires, Rolf."
"If I told you that I seen it twice, would you
belive me?"
"Same vampire?"
"Yes!"
"I´ll come over to your house after I´ve fetched
Ed. You may be telling the truth."
"You get Ed, I´ll get Kevin and Nazz."
"I can understand Kevin, but Nazz?"
"Bait." Rolf said and ran away, towards
Kevins house.
"Bait?" Eddy replied to himself quietly. He
shook his head and went out of his room. He closed
the door and ran to Ed´s house.
"Ed!" Eddy called as he got to Ed´s.
"Shhh! Eddy! Sarah´s sleeping!" Ed whispered
harshly in a low voice.
"Oops. Sorry." Eddy replied in a lower tone.
"I just wondered if you want to go on a vampire
hunt with me, Rolf, Kevin and Nazz?"
"Vampires are not for real. You told me so."
"I know, but Rolf has seen the same vampire
twice."
"Then it has to be for real."
"Yeah, get your baseball bat."
"Hey Eddy?" Ed said as he returned with the
bat.
"What is it Ed?"
"Don´t you get it. We´re chasing a vampire, a
bat."
"Really cheap Ed." Eddy said and dragged Ed
with him.
"Are those dorks going with us!?" Kevin said
shocked as he saw Ed and Eddy join him, Rolf and Nazz.
"They are important." Rolf simple reply
came.
"Hey, where´s Double D?" Nazz asked.
Now firstly did Eddy notice that Double D was missing.
"Maybe he had one of those headaches again."
Kevin said in a snappy tone.
"Sounds reasonable." Eddy answered. "Where´s
Rolf?"
"Here I am, and here you have."
Rolf handed each one a small iron crucifix.
"For protection." he added.
"Hey, Eddy." Kevin said and tapped Eddy on
the shoulder. "I´m going to dig down the old battle-axe
for tonight, just to get the vampire."
"Fine with me." Eddy answered and smiled. Eddy
and Kevin shook hands and Kevin handed Eddy a
torch.
"It´s a dark night, and only the full-moon´s
light shows us the world." Kevin said softly.
"Enough talking. Let´s go find ourselves the
vampire." Rolf said and gripped his pitchfork
firmly.
"Right!" came the reply from the others.
The five "hunters" went away from Rolf´s
backyard, unaware of the dark figure watching them from
a nearby tree. It smiled for itself, revealing the
fangs of vampire.
"The fools are playing me right into my
hands." Count Edward said quietly to himself.
"And that something they´re going to regret
dearly."
"Are you sure about this Rolf?" Kevin asked
as they walked along. "Shouldn´t we just give up?
We´ve been searching for almost two hours."
"Kevin has got a point." Eddy agreed.
"I belive the vampire is afraid of all the
iron." Ed said. "Vampires has always shunned iron."
Rolf stopped and sighed. He was walking first and was
getting tired of hearing the complaints
from the others.
"So what do you want me to do?"
The answer was silence.
"As I thought. Let´s move out!"
Nazz looked down on her shoes.
"You go first, I´ll tie my shoe and join
you."
"That´s not good Nazz." Kevin said to her,
worried. "A lone girl is the perfect prey for a
vampire."
"Oh, don´t worry. I´ll do fine on my own. I´ll
catch up with you later. Now
go."
Against
his will Kevin kept on going with the others.
"I
don´t feel right about this." Kevin said to himself.
"You´re
not alone on that point." Eddy agreed.
"Who
asked you, you dork?"
Suddenly
they heared a scream.
"I
knew it!" Kevin and Eddy said in unision and ran back to were Nazz was
left alone.
When
they got there, Nazz was gone, without a trace. The only thing that was left
was the
iron
crucifix neckless she was given by Rolf. Kevin picked it up.
"I
warned her." he said.
"Odd."
Eddy said quietly.
"What?"
Kevin asked as Ed and Rolf joined them.
"Before
you picked it up, it was pointing towards the church."
"It
stinks trap a long way." Kevin said.
"But
it´s our only chance to save Nazz-girl." Rolf said and looked upwards
along the street.
They
were far away from the cul-de-sac now.
"Did
I say I cared?" Kevin snapped.
"Nope."
Eddy answered. "Let´s save Nazz."
Kevin
and Eddy turned on the torches and started walking towards the church. Rolf
looked at Ed,
who
looked back at him. They both let out a sigh, and followed Eddy and Kevin close
behind.
The
porch to the church slid open easily. The two torches held by Kevin and Eddy
went like
snakes
of light around in the darkness. Eddy´s light fell upon the altar and shone
right at a
Nazz
who was haplessly tied to feet and hands, with a muzzle for her mouth.
"Nazz!"
Kevin shouted and began running for her.
"Kevin!
No!" Eddy shouted and tried to stop Kevin, but it was too late.
A black
shadow moved and busted Kevin right in the face. Kevin falled to the ground,
but was
still
awake. So he took the torch and shone it on the face of the shadow that had
knocked him.
He got
a terrified look on his face and crawled backwards, towards Eddy and the
others.
"What
is Kevin?" Eddy asked.
Kevin
didn´t reply, he just pointed at the figure in the shadows.
"He....looks...exactly....like....like..."
Kevin stammered out.
"Like
who?" Ed asked curiously.
Eddy
turned his torch at the face of the figure. He and Ed also had horrified looks
on their
faces
but Rolf wasn´t moved. He already knew.
"This
can´t be." Eddy said shocked.
"It
is." Ed said in the same shocked tone. Almost teareyed.
"I
should have told you. But I decided to not." Rolf said from behind them.
"So
should I." Count Edward said and walked out into the moon-light. His face
was in a pale color
and the
fangs gittered as moon-light struck them.
"I
should have told you of Double D´s dark secret, but he wouldn´t let me."
he added.
"So,
Double D is the vampire." Eddy said and walked up to Count Edward. Kevin
had gotten to his
feet
now and stood between Rolf and Ed. In his thoughts, he admired Eddy´s courage
to approach
a
vampire like that.
"Ah,
yes." Count Edward said and knelt down to get in height with Eddy.
Now
firstly did Eddy notice how tall Count Edward was, taller than Ed.
Count
Edward rised from his knees and walked off towards Nazz. She tried to crawl
away from him,
but to
no avail. He lifted up her chin and looked her in the eyes. She had a terrified
look on
her
face.
Kevin
could stand this. He took Ed´s baseball bat and ran towards Count Edward with a
war-shout
on his
lips.
"Leave
Nazz alone you bastard!"
When
Kevin was an arms length from Count Edward, the vampire shot out with his right
arm and
took a
firm grip around Kevin´s throat. It wasn´t strangeling, but the sudden move
shocked Kevin
very
much. Count Edward lifted up Kevin in eyes-height with himself and wnet close
to Kevins face
and
whipsered: "I can snap your neck as a twig if I so want, but I don´t want
to."
After
that, he threw Kevin back to the others, like if he was a puppet. Now firstly,
Count
Edward
noticed a burn mark in his hand.
"So,
you´re wearing crucifixes?"
"Yes,
I knew your identity since that second incident." Rolf said and aimed the
pitchfork at
Count
Edward.
"You
should know I can take control of unprotected souls, so this was a smart
move."
Count
Edward looked around. He got a worried look on his face.
"Where´s
Eddy?" he asked.
"Hey
bright-boy!" Eddy called from a dark corner. He had sneaked away and were
at one of the
ropes
that kept one of the chandeliers up in the roof of the church.
"Share
your brightness with some candles." Eddy ended and untied the rope with a
simple jerk of
his
wrist.
Count
Edward looked up, just in time to get the heavy chandelier in the head. The
mass of iron
on his
body was too much, so he fainted away. Kevin got to his feet and rushed over to
Nazz.
He
pulled of the muzzle and untied her. She embraced him when she was freed.
Eddy
had walked over to Rolf and Ed, who were standing by the chandelier, looking
down on the
fainted
Count Edward.
"And
so it was put to an end." Eddy said and looked on Ed and Rolf. "What
are we going to do
with
him? I mean, Double D is still stuck in that things body."
"Yes,
but I was amased of what he said of taking control of...." Rolf´s voice
died away.
"What
is it Rolf?" Ed asked.
"DIE!"
Rolf shouted and kicked Ed in the stomach and hit Eddy in the face with a right
hook.
He had
been possed by Count Edward. He took both Ed and Eddy in a firm grip and kept
them
still
when Count Edward got out from underneath the chandelier. He looked at the two
Eds in Rolf´s
grip
and smiled maliciously. After that he turned round and leaped at Kevin. He
lifted up Kevin
and
threw him over to Rolf.
"You
should have listened to me much more. I said I could take over the souls of
unprotected."
Count
Edward gave Rolf a look and Rolf let go of Eddy and picked up a half unconcious
Kevin.
Eddy
didn´t attempt to flee, mainly because he knew that Count Edward had
"borrowed" some of
his
vampire strength to Rolf.
"Eddy,
the Double D you knew, is going to be gone, from this night and forth."
"Don´t
think you´ll get away with this."
"Oh,
how cliché, Eddy. Look around you." Count Edward said and gripped Eddy´s
right arm hard.
"I´ve
got control of Rolf, and Ed and Kevin are no threats to me. And what can you
do?"
Eddy
looked past Count Edward. He saw something in the shadows. He looked Count
Edward deep in
his
eyes and said:
"Hope
for a miracle."
A
split-second later, Nazz landed the organpipe in the back of Count Edwards
head. The vampire´s
eyes
rolled over and he fainted away, this time for real.
"I
liked the old Double D a LOT better!" Nazz said panting as she let go of
the organpipe.
Rolf
had snapped out of the mind-control and let go of Ed and Kevin. They joined
Eddy an Nazz
by the
unconcious body of Count Edward.
"Got
any ideas about what to do with him, Eddy?" Kevin asked, rubbing the back
of his head.
Eddy
looked up from the vampires body, and smiled when he said:
"Get
some rope, Double D´s clothes and a blue note-book he keeps in one of his desks
drawers."
"What
are we going to do, Eddy?" Ed asked.
"Crucify
the bastard!"
Count
Edward slowly came to, only to find himself hanging high in the air. He tried
to break free,
but to
no avail.
"What
on Earth is this?" he shouted as he realized that he was tied to the
crucifix by the altar.
"A
crucifixion." Eddy´s calm reply came. He was holding in a blue notebook.
"What
time is it?" Count Edward asked shocked. He didn´t like this at all.
"She´s
almost four in the morning, and the sun will soon rise." Kevin answered.
"This
can´t be!" Count Edward shouted as he tried to break free once more.
"Do
you really think Double D was afraid of you?" Eddy asked.
"Yes,
I did, but I was a fool to do so, right?"
"Precisely,
as Double D would have said." Ed answered.
"He
took careful notes on how to get rid of you. He knew exactly what to do. He
just needed some
help."
Eddy said.
"The
trap was Ed-boy Double D´s, not yours, deamon." Rolf added.
"I´m
gonna read an extract from this book, written only a couple of days ago:"
Eddy began and
clreared
his throat. "Friday May 12th; I´ve found out a way to get rid of the
vampire inside me.
I need
my friends help though. I´ll try to tell Eddy or Ed in some way about my plan
without
Count
Edward fiding out."
Eddy
took a pause to see if the words had any effect. They had.
"Double
D send me a letter, which I recieved yesterday. I thought he was talking about
someone
else,
but he was talking about himself."
Count
Edward suddenly got that malicious smile on his lips again. Eddy shuddered a
bit when he
saw the
fangs. He didn´t like that smile at all.
"So,
how are you going to chase me out of Double D´s body, hmmm?"
"Easy."
Rolf said confidently. "When the sun shines through the church windows,
its rays will
hit you
and thus forcing you to leave Double D´s body."
"What
if I transform back to Double D, I´ve got full control over his body."
"Yeah,
you have. But not over the mind." Eddy said calmly. "You see, Double
D promised you full
control
over his body, but not complete control over his mind. In other words, you
can´t
tranform
back to Double D. You´ll be burned away by the suns rays."
Suddenly,
Count Edward heared avoice in his head. It was Double D´s.
-Give
up. Your as good as dead anyhow.
"What
the....?" Count Edward said silently to himself.
-See
you on the other side, vampire!
And as
mail ordered, the morning broke and the sun´s rays shone into the church, right
on
Count
Edward. He groaned as the purifying light of the sun slowly broke the soul and
spirit of
him.
Before
their eyes, Eddy, Ed, Rolf, Kevin and Nazz saw the transformation from vampire
to human.
The
first the happened was that Double D took over the body as the vampire lost
grip. After that
he
shrunk to normal size, regained his skin colour and the fangs grew back. All
that was left
of
Count Edward was a grey mist which dissappeared into nothing. The ropes which
they had used to
tie up
Conut Edward with, was too wide for skinny Double D, who fell out of the ropes
and landed
on the
ground with a bang. In a two sizes too large dress suit.
"Are
you okay Double D?" Eddy asked worried as he kneeled down by Double D.
"I´m
fine Eddy." Double d said and sat up. "Thanks for the help."
"Hey,
dork!" Kevin called from behind. "The truce is dissolved. We´re back
to fighting as before."
After
saying that, Kevin and Nazz left. Rolf, on the other hand did not. He and Ed
was busy
taking
down the many sheets that Double D had put up.
Eddy
helped Double D to get dressed in his usual clothing.
When
they all were done, Rolf took off his iron crucifix, and so did Eddy and Ed
too. They handed
them to
Rolf, who put them in his pocket.
"This
was one night full of horror." Rolf said to himself.
"IF
it was." Eddy agreed. "Good thing it´s over."
The
four friends walked out of the church, and Double D, who went last, closed the
porch.
"Hey, Double D?" Ed asked.
"What Ed?"
"Can I have this dress suit for the next
Halloween? I want to be a vampire like you."
"Of course you can have it Ed."
The four friends walked back to the cul-de-sac. Rolf
entertained the other three with some juggling.
He picked up 5 rocks and started juggling with them. Eddy
couldn´t resist the temptation on
throwing a 6th rock to Rolf. Rolf was prepared for
this, but he didn´t catch the rock properly.
Instead of catching it with one of his hands, he got
it bang on his nose, which started bleeding
seriously. He took one of the sheets and covered his
nose with it.
Double D looked at Rolf´s bleeding nose with great
interest.
"What is it Double D?" Rolf asked.
"I just came to thinking of how hungry I am."
Rolf and the other two had a terrified look on their
faces.
"Just kidding." Double D said.
The others saw the funny in it, so they joined Double
D in his laughter.
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