Chapter 2: The Vampires bite

Vanessa walked slowly towards where the bicycles were parked looking exhausted. She leaned on her bicycle, closed her eyes, and wished she was leaning on her car, and...she got interrupted by the shaking of bicycles. She looked back to see a guy trying to free his bicycle but seemed stuck. She drew hers closer for him to be able to get it out only to find out her bicycle had been chained together with the guy's bicycle. The two of them looked at each other, "what the hell, who did this?", they both asked at the same time. The guy turned away.

"shit!", he cursed in between his teeth.

"I knew who did this", they both said at the same time and looked at each other again

"Who?", they said together.

"Are you trying to frustrate me or what?", Collins fumed,

"you are the one trying to piss me off", Vanessa fumed,

"Seriously?, I even met you here",

"so..?, does that mean I did it?",

"Hey, guys! what's going on here", Max walked up to them, "Collins you are still around?",

Collins looked so pissed and showed Max what was happening. Max chuckled.

"is this funny?", Vanessa said feeling irritated.

Max looked at her,' what an attractive lady, he thought.

"This is Mary's handwork, she must have thought this is mine, our bicycles looks alike you know",

"so what are we going to do now?", Vanessa asked sounding so angry, "cause I don't understand how that is my business",

"It's easy, ride together", Max said nonchalantly,

"WHAT!!?" they both exclaimed and looked at each other.

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Collins was outside the hospital busy trying to tug the padlock off but it was all abortive. Getting pissed, he looked around to see if anyone was watching, and on confirming, he squatted between the bicycles, his black Iris turned to gold, and in a flash, the padlock came off. He smirked and his eyes changed back to normal. He stood up and packed the bicycles properly, then proceeded into the hospital to get Vanessa.

Vanessa sat beside her mother who had been unconscious for years. Vera breathes well and regains consciousness every midnight but loses it every time she sees the light. She could not tell how many years she had been in the hospital but she recollected her daughter's name for sure. Vanessa held her mother's hand, "Mum don't you think it's time you hold my hands also?, don't you think your daughter has missed you so much?, I need my mum's special meals, and protect me from injections", she said with a broken heart.

Collins was moved by her words, he said and coughed slightly alerting Vanessa. She quickly straightened up and cleared her throat.

"Still the same?",

"nope",

She nodded and took another look at her mother before heading out with Collins.

"let's ride home together", Collins said all of a sudden. He suddenly felt the urge to be friends with her.

"why?",

"I always ride home all by myself, but I quite enjoy it when I ride with you",

She rolled her eyes, "your choice",

"the woman in the hospital, is that your mum?", Collins asked on their way home,

"yes, and am her only hope",

"Why? What's wrong?",

"that's none of your business",

"you can't say, I might be of help",

"there's no help, she can't be cured, she's been there for years.... just don't ask",

Seeing her reluctance, she seems to have lost hope. Collins wondered what the illness could be and that there wouldn't be a solution. They got to a duplex building. "here we are", Vanessa announced as they got to her home.

"Ok, thanks",

"For what?",

"For letting me ride home with you",

She nodded, "you are welcome", she said and made to leave.

"don't you think I should know your name, well mine is..",

"Collins",

He was surprised, "how do you know",

"your friend called you that earlier back in school",

"ho! So what's yours?",

"it's not necessary", she said smirking, and went inside not ready to listen to anything else.

"Really?..ok", Collins said and rode away to get something at the nearest store before going home.

Vanessa's mouth was covered from behind immediately when she entered the living room. She was taken aback and began to struggle with the unknown man, she hit him hard in his tummy with her elbow and quickly moved away when his grip loosened.

"Dad?!!", She looked at him and the injection in his hand. She was hurt, angry, and disappointed at the same time." why Dad?", She yelled at him,

"It's for your safety, Vanessa",

"but I don't want",

"you have to take it, it's to protect you",

"Will you stop Dad? protect me from what? I don't think am the one that needs the so-called life-saving injection", she yelled as tears streamed down her cheeks." I think it's mum, she has been there for years, and yet you claim to have a life-saving injection. If you should inject me again, I'm gonna report to the police", she said and stormed out of the house angrily. Immediately, Paul picked up his phone and made a call.

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"Beth! Beth!!, Beth wait",

"wait for what?",

"you can't disobey Lord", Coly said worriedly,

"I can't anymore Coly, we are powerful creatures, like the Powerful beings on earth, but why do we have to hunt secretly?",

"I think Lord has his reasons",

"I am destined to be a brave vampire, not a coward",

"I support Beth",

"you can't do this, you should be convincing her also",

"I support Beth too", Cynthia and Mark joined Beth and before he could say any other thing, they flashed away.

They appeared at a playground and saw four kids playing. They looked at one another, looking excited. Their long canine teeth became visible with their claws getting ready to attack their prey. Just then, the kids begin to fight and a young schoolgirl rushes to them.

"hey stop", she separated them, "don't you know fighting is bad, when we fight each other how are we to promote peace and harmony? You beautiful kids should learn how to understand one another and become one so we can fight the demons together, okay?",

The kids nodded.

"Are the demons the vampires?", a kid asked,

"yes, the vampires", Vanessa replied, "when we become one, we'll be able to put an end to the vampire's existence and also be saved from unwanted injections"

"Yes ma'am", they replied in unison

"Now go home, run", she said and chuckled as the kids ran. By this time, the vampires were so pissed. Vanessa stood up adjusted her backpack and turned to go back home but fear gripped her as she saw the angry-looking vampires. Without having another thought, she took to get heels and ran as fast as she could but soon got to a place with no other directions. She looked around nervously but it was now too late as the vampires surrounded her. She was moved to tears as she saw death staring at her in the eyes but just then, she felt someone leaning at her back. Collins was on his way back home when he sensed the presence of the vampires and trailed it to her. Vanessa looked back and was surprised to see him, holding two knives. Before she could say anything, the vampires attacked. Within a twinkle of an eye, Collins killed Cynthia and she turned to dust. On looking back, he saw two other two vampires bite her at her neck and wrist. Collins ran to her rescue and kicked Beth off, but before he could do anything else, they flashed away.

Vanessa stood up holding her neck. Collins rushed to her, "are you ok?", he asked, though she didn't look like she was in pain which is unusual.

"yes, but what are you doing here?",

"That's not necessary",

"Thanks for saving my life",

Collins pulled her closer to take a closer look at her neck and found the signs of the bite. He knows a lot about vampires.

"Are you feeling dizzy?",

"Not... really", she held her neck and started groaning in pain,

"Hey! Hey!! hey!!!", Collins called panicking. Black blood started streaming out of the holes of the bite, both her neck and hand. She was neither conscious nor unconscious as she was seriously groaning in pain. The last thing she could remember was Collins carrying her in his arms.

He flashed to her house with his power but no one was around but met the key at the key point. He opened it and took her to one of the rooms he guessed would be hers and dropped her on the bed.

Collins was confused as he had never witnessed this before but he knew once a victim got bitten and didn't die, then he or she would turn into a vampire.

"but I can't kill her, am not sure what's going on and she also has a sick mother",

He was so confused but he had to do something, he quickly closed all the windows, ran out and locked the doors taking the keys away with him. He did that in case she later turned into a vampire, she would become weak if she didn't get any blood to drink and he would check up on her later hopefully things didn't get out of hand.

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"Didn't I warn you", Lord fumes,

"we're sorry", Beth and Mark said with their head bowed,

"fight each other till one of you dies or you both get killed", he ordered without blinking an eye and relaxed on his red throne.

Beth and Mark looked at each other, they both had no choice but to obey the order. The other vampires watched as they fought. After some minutes, there was a winner. Mercilessly, Mark was killed. A vampire then came forward,

"This should serve as a lesson to others, the Lord has only shown mercy, any other person who disobeys the order would suffer the worst consequence",

"Our loyalty remains to you!!!", they said in unison.