Eric? Devi wondered But how can that be?
"Stay out of my way!" Johnny yelled. "This is not your business!"
"Yeah, not going to happen." Eric told him. "If you're trying to kill my friend, along with innocent people, then yeah it is my business!" Eric jumped down off the tree to face him.
"You asked for it pretty boy!" Johnny said as he forced his energy out into a sword.
Eric actually started doing the same thing, he too could force his energy into a sword, except his energy was pitch black. This surprised both Tenna and especially Devi. Johnny charged at Eric who blocked his attack with his sword. Eric was very strong, being he was able to hold off Johnny's sword and then blasted him off, enough to push Johnny away a little bit.
Before Johnny could strike again, Eric leaped up over him, what was on his back stretched out and unfolded. Devi and Tenna looked up at him amazement as Eric hovered upon the air behind Johnny.
"Up here, genius!" Eric said and as soon as Johnny moved, Eric blasted him with a mix of his energy and a smoke bomb. Johnny looked up to see Eric had large bat wings. Johnny charged up and tried striking Eric but he flew higher.
Eric chuckled and said "Missed me!" He shot out a couple more small bombs made from his energy again. Johnny kept reaching out to strike him but to no avail.
"What's the matter?" Eric said teasingly like a child bullying someone shorter then him. "Can't reach?"
This made Johnny furious in rage as his power shot out and he managed to turn his sword of energy into a whip, that struck at Eric in the rib cage. Eric cringed at his injury and said "Okay, enough fooling around. Time to get serious..."
He held his hands to his chest like he was in a coffin. Then he shouted as he threw out his hands in two fists "Earth's Eternal Slumber!" With that two large blasts came out and shot Johnny, who went flying and tumbling to the ground.
Before Eric could blast him again, Johnny disappeared suddenly. Eric flew down and folded his wings on his back again.
"Hmph..." Eric replied "Looks like he ran off to coward somewhere..."
Then he walked over to Devi as if everything was normal and reached out his hand to help her up.
Devi looked at him for a moment. "Let me help you up." Eric said politely and then after a moment Devi asked "Who are you?"
"It's me..." Eric said "Eric Vanheart. You know from the club back then!"
"How can that be?" Devi said in shock.
'But it can't be!" Tenna said "Devi, you said Eric was..."
"Dead..." Devi said quietly "I was right there, I watched you die..."
Eric chuckled and as he took her hand to help her up he said "I thought I was dead too...When I passed out I thought I had died as well, but as it turns out, I still had some life in me. Lucky for me, some one knew I was alive and was willing to help me out."
*flashback*
Eric laid on the ground, breathing heavily in pain and fading in and out of consciousness.
"Is my life...really gonna end like this...?"
His life as a human was over, but little did he knew someone was gonna offer him a new life. He felt a hand on his shoulder, he had a manage muster enough strength to lift his head an inch off the ground and whisper "Devi?"
"Easy, dear lad..." Said a voice that sounded like an old English gentlemen. This surprised Eric a little bit. "You're about an inch away from death, child, so don't try to talk or move just yet."
The man that was kneeling beside him was very tall. He had along face . He wore what appeared to be long black, gothic like robe, styled elegantly with detailed silk and the sleeves were shredded at the end to complete a gothic look. His faded black hair was tied in a ponytail and he had weird cat like eyes. As he opened his mouth you could see sharp long fangs.
"I've watched you save that girl, young lad." Said the odd man. "And I say I'm quite impressed with your efforts in saving her, so therefore, I've come to make an offering. To start a new life as daring and elegant prince of the night."
"You're a vampire?..." Eric manage to say.
"Now, easy there..." The man said and nodded "I told you not to speak or move. Yes, I am but I'm not here to take any of your blood." He quickly took his long inch nails and stabbed his own hand with them. Gathering the blood in this hand, he lifted Eric's head and let some of it drip into his mouth.
"With this you will gain a long lasting youth and will be able to live much longer than most living things. Along with powers beyond your own dreams." The vampire said
Eric felt a strange pulsing through his body. He felt pain in his heart as he curled over and held his chest. He let out a yell and gasp of pain. He felt almost worse then before but at the same time, he wasn't weakening but getting a bit stronger.
"The pain will subside soon..." The elderly vampire said.
Eric’s ears became slightly longer and tearing through his shirt were two medium length wings, that spread about three feet. This also hurt as he felt like something was cutting out his back from the inside. His nails became longer and almost claw like.
Eric then felt held his chest where his heart was. He twinged and shiver from the pain once felt. It was finally easing down.
"Must it hurt so much?" Eric replied in a whimpering kinda tone, still breathing a bit exhaustively.
"Such a great gift of power and life comes with a price." Said the vampire.
He got up slowly and felt a weird tingling in his mouth which made him finally said "Woah! I've got fangs! Real fangs!" He looked at his now even more pale skin and long nails. "This is real! I'm really a vampire!" Then he notice his shirt torn from his wings and said with slight disappointment "Aw man...That was my favorite shirt."
"You will be able to get another one, dear lad." Said the vampire.
Eric then notice his heart was beating as he put his hand over his mouth to feel his breaths. "Wait...How am I a vampire? I'm still breathing...I thought vampires had no breath."
"The undead have no breath." The vampire said. "Those books and movies delude our kind's existence. We're that of mystical creatures like that of dark elves or sirens, not the undead. The undead are mindless creatures. Unless resurrected with a soul, they're just a bunch of dead cells powered by energy. We are different. We were once creatures like demons, reborn into a living creature of the night, that harnesses and controls the dark magic that remained within us. But that magic comes with a price. That is why we still feed on blood."
"I see..." Eric replied a bit surprised by what he just heard. "Thanks...for saving me..."
"No need to thank. I just couldn't leave you lying there especially after your sacrifice for another." The vampire said smugly. "Unfortunately, those silly books exaggerate on our kind living forever. We don't live forever. Just longer than most creatures, so don't get your hopes up on that. "
"So you live extra long instead of forever?" Eric asked a bit surprised. "How long do vampires live?"
"Depends. There's no exact number of how long we live." The old vampire replied. "I, myself, is almost a thousand years old, but some of the ones I turned into only lasted a hundred or a couple hundred years after their transformation. You may live longer or shorter. Vampires gave up their eternal life for a soul that outlives the body. We did so because if there are things that can kill us like hunters and sunlight, isn't much of an eternal life, if your soul is tied to a body that can be destroyed. That is, if we had an eternal life to begin with. Some believe, we've always had just an extended life and humans just thought we live forever. I'm sorry that I might have disappointed you with that..."
"Wow...." Eric replied in an interested tone, which sorta surprised the old vampire. He was use to ones that didn't want to hear all that crap. He would explain to them anyway just to give fair warning to his pupils.
Eric then went on and said "Well, living to a thousand or a hundred years is better than dying now."
"Hmm, you say that now." The vampire replied "But one day, you may regret it." This guy was serious. He hardly any sense of humor unless it was a slightly sarcastic one.
"Well..." Eric replied a bit uncertain and then boldly replied "Well, then I'll have to just see for myself. I'm thankful for you of saving me at least. Um, is there anything you want me to do in return? After all, you saved me and well, I always thought of me being a vampire so..."
"No." The vampire said. "Now, go on and find that girl you sacrificed your human life for. I believe in the future, she will need your help."
"What do you mean?" Eric asked but the old vampire just eyed him, as if he wasn't gonna tell. This caused Eric to back away little nervously as he said "Okay, never mind then...Will I ever see you again?"
"I will check up on you from time to time." Said the vampire. "Might guide you if you are ever in a sticky situation. I do this with a lot of my pupils, oh and one thing, about your wings, they kinda fold into the slits that are now in your back. The bones in the wings aren't really bones, just substance that hardens in when needing to fly. You can fold them up tightly to where it won't interfere with clothing, least not that much. You might want to wear tops slightly bigger than what you are use to, because people may see two odd lumps, if the outfit is too tight. You can't make them fully disappear and I suggest you put in holes in the back of each of your tops, in case you do need to take flight." He said this and showed his long wings which were much longer than Eric's.
"How do you fly, anyway?" Eric said as he struggled a bit with his wings.
"Simple." He said "Just focus on where you want to go and focus a little on your back. If needed, move your shoulders a bit, especially when flying in one place. Just think of your wings as sort of an extension of your arms. Eventually, your body will take in the new wings as extra pair of limbs and will eventually be automatic to your body's nervous system."
"Oh, right..." Eric said happily again, though he was a bit surprise by the science talk about vampires and flight. Then he bowed to him slightly as introduced himself. "By the way, my name is Eric Vanheart. Nice to meet you and thanks again!"
"What a polite young man." Smirked the vampire impressively and told him "You may call me, Magnus."
With that Magnus took off the other direction before Eric could say anything. Eric then realized he should be going too and flew off as well.
*End of Flashback*
Eric put his hands behind his head and with a bright smile said "So, that's what happen!"
Devi and Tenna looked with their jaws open and their eyes were wide.
"So, you're really are a vampire..." Tenna said in shock and kinda excited.
"As real as the night sky." Eric simply put it.
Devi couldn't help but be overwhelmed with emotion. She couldn't help but cry a bit. First, she sees this weird doll like creature in her mind, talking to her about some "darkness" and "light" in her heart. Then two guys from her past showed up. One tried to kill her and might come back to kill her again and one she thought died trying to protect her, shows up again to protect her.
"Devi?" Eric asked in concern. "Are you alright?"
With that she went up to Eric and hugged him. Eric was surprised at first but then hugged her back. "I thought you were dead this whole time..." Devi said "And I always thought it was my fault..."
"Hey..." Eric said as he made her face him and gently touched her nose.. "I thought I made you promise not to blame things that aren't in your control. I tried to look for you after the incident, but they said you quit school after that. I still kept trying to find you but no luck."
Devi just looked down and said "Yeah, I did after that. I went through therapy and left town after a bit and found a job else where. What happened traumatized me so much I just wanted to get away from everything. I feel cowardly but I didn't want to face your friends after that.... I eventually came back to town, once I had put it all behind me."
"Devi, you can't keep running and hiding every time things get like this." Tenna told her.
"Well, what I am suppose to do?" Devi said annoyedly "My psychotic ex from my past is after me! It's already bad enough I keep hearing a voice in my head and seeing things! The reason why I lock myself away, is because crazy things like this happen! And I don't want to be a part of it!"
She sighed and said "Well, nice to see you again Eric. I'm glad you're alright. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to go be by myself."
"Devi!" Tenna shouted.
"Relax, I'm not going home just yet!" Devi said "I'm just gonna go on a walk for a little bit... I need to clear my head."
"Devi!" Eric called out but before he catch up to her, Tenna grabbed his hand.
"Leave her alone for a little bit." Tenna told him.
Tenna and Eric talked for a bit as they walked around. Tenna explained to Eric what had happen in the past, including what happen between Johnny and Devi. Eric was surprised upon listening to what had happen to her.
"So that's why she's like the way she is..." Eric said. He felt bad about it. He felt like he should have found her sooner, then maybe she would have had a different life. She would never met Johnny nor get into a situation like that, but what was done had been done. Eric knew thinking of what could have been was not the answer to the problem.
"Devi..." Eric mutter sadly.
"She has been like this for a while." Tenna told Eric. "She keeps talking about a voice she can hear and sees this little doll."
"Really?" Eric said even more worried.
"Yes..." Tenna said "She thinks she's going insane but she's really a mage and I think the voice and doll she keeps seeing is her familiar."
"Her familiar?" Eric asked.
"Yes, mages and witches and such sometimes get doll like familiars." Tenna explained. "They turn into weapons and are suppose to be great companions." With that Mr. Spooky jumped on Tenna's shoulder. "Like me and Mr. Spooky!" Tenna added.
"Mr.Spooky?" Eric asked as he noticed the doll on her shoulder.
"Yes, he's my familiar." Tenna said. "We're best friends and are never separate from each other!"
Eric smiled and said "Well, its a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Spooky." This made Mr. Spooky jump on Eric's shoulder. Eric chuckled at it and pet the little doll on the head gently.
"Aww, I think he likes you!" Tenna giggled. "Course, he likes everyone, but if he jumps on your shoulder or your head that means he really trusts you."
"Spooky!" Mr. Spooky replied
"Well, pleasure to make your acquaintance." Eric said as he shook Spooky's little hand with his finger.Then Spooky jumped back onto Tenna's shoulder.
"But if Devi's a mage, you're a mage and Johnny is a mage, I think," Eric stated with a pondering expression. "that's kinda odd for many magic users to be together in one spot, along with why and how did you get your powers?"
"It just suddenly happened." Tenna said. "I heard a legend that people are sometimes chosen to have powers, depending on one's heart and some like me, are born with it or it runs in the family. That is just a part of fate and can be a gift or a curse, depending on how you take it."
"Hmm..." Eric replied. "But why is Johnny trying to kill her? I mean, she said he's her ex but even before that....Why did he suddenly lashed out like that?"
"Beats me." Tenna said "I think it has to do with Devi and her powers developing. Well actually, she did blast him when he was trying to kill her during their last date, but why he wanted to kill her in the first place before, that is a mystery even to her."
"I see..." Eric replied as he looked down.
"Hey, Eric?" Tenna asked
"Hmm?" Eric responded as he looked up at her.
"What was Devi like when you two met?" Tenna asked
"Well, she was a lot cheerful..." Eric told her then smiled as he remembered. "She seemed so happy, mature and down to earth. Kinda funny."
"Really?" Tenna asked in surprised.
"Yeah..." Eric replied "I'm guessing she changed a lot when you met her?"
"Well, kinda..." Tenna said "We met when she was half way to isolating herself for good. I asked her for a cup a sugar once and well decided to use her kitchen to make brownies, despite she kept trying to throw me out. But I could tell she wanted me around inside, so I used my super ninja skills to stick around and help her out! Eventually it worked cause she stopped trying to throw me out and ignore me!"
*Flashback*
It was over a year and a half after Devi left town since the incident at the club. She had went to a private school and done much tutoring and therapy, enough to allow her to function in society well enough to say the least. She had just moved into the apartment and was settling down a bit. A knock came to Devi's door and she answered. It was Tenna, dressed in an orange, sleeveless midriff that button and had a collar, like that of a button shirt. She wore green denim capris and black sandals.
"Hey! I'm your neighbor from down stairs!" Tenna said in her usual cheerful attitude. " Actually I literally live right under ya, sorta speak. Anyway, I'm here to say, welcome to the neighborhood! I'm Tenna, by the way!" She stretched her hand out.
Devi didn't look as enthused by her. "Nice to meet you..." She said. Then proceed to close the door but Tenna pushed in and said "Mind if I borrow some sugar!" It'd only take a minute."
"Um...sure." Devi replied but Tenna barged in. "Hey! Wait! What are you doing!? You can't just bar-"
"I just need to get some sugar to make some brownies!" Tenna replied. She then proceeded "Oh, by the way, you never told me your name?"
"It's Devi..."
"Devi, eh? That's a unique name...I like it!" Then she looked at some of Devi's paintings. There was still some things in boxes and such, but her paints were one of the first things that Devi unpacked.
"Wow..." Tenna said in amazement. "You did these?"
"Y-yeah..." Devi came over to her.
"They're great...A bit sad in some of them..." Tenna said in an honest tone. "I can tell you put a lot of passion and emotion into them. It seems like each one speaks..."
Devi was a bit surprised to hear this, especially since it reminded her of her old friend Mirta. In fact, Tenna seemed to have the same kind of energy as Mirta, which both sadden and yet made her feel comforted inside. Devi then asked "Do-do you draw?"
Tenna got a bit more deep and slightly serious but still retaining a warm expression. "I doodle sometimes... but my main passion is cooking. It's sorta the same thing almost."
"How?" Devi asked, not truly convinced.
" You create something that's part of you. You put passion into it. The only difference is how people get the emotion. By food, you taste the passion. By painting, you the see the passion, but you feel it in both ways."
"Tenna..." Devi was surprised, again reminding her of Mirta. Devi didn't know whether to shun her away because of that, but she felt it wouldn't be fair to Tenna. Devi was here to put her past behind her and start a new. Meeting new people, even those who reminded of the past, was just one of those things she had to deal with.
"Oh..." Tenna replied putting left hand behind her head nervously. "I didn't mean to get that dramatic about it."
"No, no..." Devi replied finally smiling. "It's kinda nice to meet someone that understands... Someone also said the same things long ago. A very close friend...She was kinda like you."
"Wow...I guess we're both the struggling artist?" Tenna asked.
"In our own way, I guess."
Tenna had stayed a bit and helped Devi unpacked, before making the brownies and gave some for Devi to try.
"These are excellent!" Devi replied in surprise. "Where you learn to cook like this?"
"My family." Tenna then proceeded to talk a bit about her mother, grandmother and so on and so forth!
"That's nice that you were close with your family."
"What about you?"
"Eh, my mom died when I was young. I don't remember her much. Dad struggled making little money and keeping the two of us a float. We're close, but I guess kinda average family close...Sorta speak."
"I wouldn't know about average family, but I kinda get what you're saying. Why you move here, if you don't mind me asking...?"
"I kinda rather not talk about it..." Devi looked down sadly. "Least, not ready yet now..."
"Say no more..." Tenna replied with a smile. "It's not good bottling up things, but some things are better left to be told when ready and you just met me, so I shouldn't barge in."
"This is coming from someone barged into another's home..." Devi reminded.
"That's because I knew that you needed a little hand in settling in."
"Well...I did appreciate you helping me unpack a bit..." Devi replied
"Not just that..." Tenna replied as she winked at Devi. "Call it a hunch but I can often tell when someone's good, bad and I especially can tell when someone just needs a friend."
"A friend?" Devi eyed Tenna peculiarly.
"Yeah, everyone needs a friend." Tenna explained. "A true friend is always there no matter what..."
Devi looked into Tenna's eyes with uncertainty. She had tried to force herself to be away from people, but her therapist told her that she needed to learn to open up to others. That what happened to Eric and Mirta and a few others in the past, wasn't her fault. Just mere coincidences.
She still wasn't sure but she looked at Tenna's warm expression that seem to hide nothing, she was a bit like Mirta and that sorta bothered Devi about her, but at the same time it was welcoming and she just decided to see what would happen.
She then replied finally with a small smile. "Thanks, Ten."
"No problem, Dev!"
*Flashback End*
Eric looked at her as if she was a maniac and said "Um...okay..."
Tenna then got a little serious "You can tell she tries to cheer up so that no one will worry about her, but lately she just has been stressing out. I can’t blame her. I worry about her too and I just want to help because I know she’s hurting and confused and I have magical powers so I want to help her with that. I feel like, I’m the only one that can... "
"Yeah, you seem like a good friend." Eric replied warmly as he clutched his fist to his chest. "I want to help her too. Magnus, told me I needed to find her because he felt she would need my help soon. Maybe this was what he meant?"
Tenna notice this and said in a tease "You must really like her, don't you!?"
"Um!" Eric replied nervously and said "Yeah...Well, it's been years and we just met then, I wouldn't go that far...."
"Well you must, cause you've been searching for her all this time!" Tenna laughed
"Not all this time..." Eric replied. " I had to leave my old life behind since it would have been too difficult. I tried searching for her for a bit but then decided to move on for a little bit. I still hoped to find her one day. I wanted to find her to let her know that I was alright and wanted to know if she was alright...I guess I was wrong."
"Yeah.." Tenna said sadly and explained "When I first met her, she wasn't as solitude as this. Course I met her before she dated Johnny. "
"How long were they together?" Eric asked
"Not that long." Tenna explained. "A couple weeks but she didn't talk to me much about him. All she said was she felt connected with him. Like he understood what she had been feeling and been through. Then he attacked her as she described it and locked herself away for weeks. She did an online job and only time she came out was to do grocery shopping at night. Eventually she slowly got out of it, but still was more confined to solitude."
"So she developed her powers during that time?" Eric asked
Tenna explained "Yes, in fact the moment she fought against Johnny when he tried to kill her, was the moment she awaken her powers. She totally flipped out when she found out and when she found out, not too long ago after that, that I had powers too. But the only reason why she still talked to me was I guess, I had something she could relate too and help her out."
"I see...." Eric said with concern in his tone along with anger, anger towards Johnny and a little anger towards himself for not finding her sooner. "No wonder she's like this..."
"But hey, don't worry!" Tenna said cheerfully. "With us beside her, we'll protect her and makes sure she's okay!"
Eric looked at her in surprised and cheered up as he said "Yeah!"
"Anyway, where do you live?" Tenna asked.
"Um..." Eric replied "Anywhere, where I can find a decent place to sleep and shower."
"Huh?" Tenna replied "You mean you don't have a home?"
"Well, not a permanent place." Eric said. "After I became a vampire I struck out on my own. I'd kinda do the robin hood thing where I steal from robbers, after catching them. I'd return most of the stuff they stole, but keep some stuff for me to survive. Like enough money to rent shelter and buy food. It's kinda hard making it as a vampire, being I have to work at night, cover my wings and well being I dropped out of school too, yeah, hard to keep a job with that status..."
"Oh..." Tenna replied "You can stay at my place! I live in a two bedroom apartment that's right over Devi's! Its how I know what's going on with her or when she needs my help."
"Um, you really wouldn't mind me living there?" Eric asked. Kinda odd for a girl asking a guy to live with them, but then again Tenna was as odd as she was kind.
"Yeah!" Tenna said "I can tell you're a good person, so I trust you! And don't worry, Mr. Spooky doesn't take up much space!"
"I guess that would be nice." Eric replied "I don't take up much space either, especially during the day. Thank you."
"No problem!" Tenna replied. Though she wondered "especially during the day". She'd find out in the morning.
Meanwhile, Devi couldn’t stop gathering up with just happened.
He was alive this whole time? Devi thought to herself.
“I was mad, I would admit. Why didn’t Eric come during the time after? Was it really that hard for him to find me? But then again, they questioned me and when I had a mental break down, I was taken in for therapy and everything. During that time I was in my thoughts, I had wish he had died that night, because I went through all that hell after that. Though, I would never admit of this to him, especially when I would later learn of his past and what he went through. Besides, it wasn’t his fault. I was kept in high security and therapy. It wasn’t like I was easy to get to.
Funny how we all seem to hate and let our anger get the best of us. Letting us say and think things we normally wouldn’t say. I guess that’s just how fucked up we humans are.”
Devi then thought about Johnny and kept looking around, as if he would pop up. She realized how stupid it was for her to be all alone.
Maybe, I should just have let him kill me...Devi thought to herself. She heard the little doll go
“Do you honestly think that?”
Devi frustratingly looked up at the sky as tears gathered in her eyes and shouted “Why does this happen to me! Why!? What did I do to do deserve all this shit!?”
She cried as no answer came to her.
****
Tenna's apartment complex was of a decent size. The moment you entered the door, to the right was Tenna's room and to the left was the bathroom. When you walked in further, there was a kitchen on the left and the living room on the right and then the second room for guests. Tenna kept it as a guest room in case a family member or someone was visiting.
"This is nice." Eric said as he enter the guest room in which he would sleep until he got his own place, that is if he ever could. The guest room was small with a window over the bed and brownish-red carpet. The bed had white sheets and a white pillows and a dark blue blanket upon it. The room had a closet to put his stuff in. To Eric, that's all that mattered. Shoot, Eric was just glad he was finally gonna keep a roof over his head for a while.
"Not much..." Tenna replied
"It's fine." Eric replied gratefully "This is a lot better than the places I've slept in, believe me."
"Well, its no coffin..." Tenna replied and joked "Hey, you won't bite me right? I mean you are a vampire."
"No, I don't bite people often." Eric replied. "It's only when I'm desperate and I especially don't bite those who help me."
"Where do you get blood from then?" Tenna asked
"Hmm, well sometimes I go to the store to buy meat packages." Eric replied embarrassed by the thought, being it wasn't exactly a topic he felt comfortable discussing. "Though occasionally I need human blood, so I tend to go to a pharmacy or hospital to get a blood pack there."
"That in some ways is kinda wrong..." Tenna replied about the pharmacy. "But then again a vampire needs survive too."
"I'm not all proud of it..." Eric replied with a sigh." I mean even though a bite from a vampire is rarely fatal, I don't want hurt someone. Less of course I have to. Besides, I don't need to drink every day nor do I need all that much. In fact, sometimes I can go more than a week without drinking blood, but it makes me weak and its kinda risky."
"I guess whatever you need to do to survive. " Tenna replied. "After all, if you tell someone you're a vampire, doubt they will help you."
"Exactly!" Eric replied "Why I quit school and such...Not that it was the brightest choice but after becoming a vampire, things just became more complicated for me."
"I guess you understand the whole 'be careful what you wish for thing' now." Tenna replied as she sat down on the bed with Eric.
"Oh, boy yes..." Eric replied but then he cheered up "But I have no regrets. If I didn't become a vampire, I wouldn't be here today and never would have met Devi again, despite she's not what she use to be. And hey, meeting you and Mr. Spooky came as an extra bonus."
"Really?" Tenna said as she chuckled with Spooky jumping on her shoulder.
Eric chuckled and nodded "Yeah!"
"Aww, ha!" Tenna replied as she slapped him on the back, making him nearly fall over. "You're a good man! Err, vampire, whatever!"
They heard a door slam underneath them.
"Sounds like Devi's home!" Tenna replied cheerfully. Then she went to the phone and called her.
"Hey Devi, you home?" Tenna replied "Are you okay?"
"Yes, I'm fine..." Devi replied inexhaustibly "Remind me to kill you tomorrow..."
"Hehehe, yay!" Tenna replied cheerfully.
"I'm going to bed..." Devi replied.
"Okay, good night Devi." Tenna replied as she hung up.
Eric yawned as stretched out. "Yeah, its been a long night. The sun will rise pretty soon anyway."
"I'm guessing you sleep most of the day or all day?" Tenna asked
"I do go out and about and stay awake during the day." Eric explained "Sun doesn't hurt me, but it does make me feel sleepy. In fact, you might say I feel shrunk or light headed, so I try and take it easy during the day."
"Okay..." Tenna replied curiously. "Well I'm gonna hit the hay. You're welcome to watch TV or whatever, just try to keep it down."
"Alright" Eric replied "I'm probably just gonna go to bed anyway. Dawn will be soon approaching and its been along night..." With that they went to their rooms for the night.
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