“If I were an spice where would I be hiding?” Ottery thought to himself as he walked down the corridors of the castle, disguised as just another vampire guest of the evil dark lord Dracula. “No wait, its supposed to be a plant.” He smacked himself on the forehead and silently wished Teddy was with him to remind him of these things.

Then perhaps by divine providence, the alignment of the stars or sheer good luck, perhaps God was listening and feeling particularly kind to Ottery, but a door went flying past the dark haired boy, just missing his nose impaling itself on the wall opposite the room it came from and flying after it came Teddy D. Bear. Ottery's quick thinking caught him mid-flight.

"What the--?!" Teddy exclaimed as he floated in mid air, his deadly flight arrested by the dark haired boy's quick thinking.

"I guess I wasn't meant to die without you, Teddy," Ottery replied suddenly succumbing to a fit of coughing. He lowered the boy slowly to the floor. In an instant three vampires were around them.

The leader of the vampires grabbed Teddy by the throat and slammed him against the wall, the other two grabbed Ottery and slammed him into the floor. Then seemingly out of nowhere a dark shadow appeared and grew to encompass the whole other side of the hallway. Then it slowly shrunk down to the size of a very tall man. Standing there surrounded by what were surely two hounds of hell was Dracula and next to him a young girl, Evangeline. She was holding a crucifix in one gloved hand, where it didn't burn and a stake on the other hand. She winked at the boys.

Now what is going on here," Dracula complained. "You all are disrupting the rest of my guests."

"Well ... it seems ... your goons here ... were ... harassing my ... pal," Ottery complained. "See if ... I ... ever stay ... here."

"Ottery, silence your foolish tongue," the dark lord of vampiredom exclaimed calmly, "I meant my important guests."

"Ottery, it's a trap!" Teddy exclaimed.

"I ... think ... the ... choke hold ... kinda ... gave it ... away, Teddy," the boy replied.

"Now, about you becoming a vampire Ottery," Evangeline remarked. Here Dracula ran a long nail along his wrist and caused it to bleed. "The dark lord is going to give you the pleasure of being your sire."

"Okay," Ottery thought to himself, "What now?"

Teddy as if knowing what his friend were thinking answered, "I swear I thought this was supposed to get better not worse."

Jewel


'Cause if you wanna go, baby, let's go
If you wanna rock, I'm ready to roll
And if you wanna slow down,
We can slow down together
If you wanna walk, baby, let's walk
Have a little kiss, have a little talk
We don't gotta leave at all
We can lay here forever
Stay here forever

AN: Thank you all for reading ...

The End

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