The Middle School Tale

Chapter 6

I'm Afraid This is the End

I looked at Steven in bewildered eyes. "Ahh!" I screamed. I couldn't help it. All the words and questions just slipped out! "Who are you? What are you doing with us? What do you want? You can't get away with this!" The tattooed man slapped me across the face. I started sobbing.

"Shut up!"

"What do you want from me?!" I cried.

"I want your life." He pulled out a dagger and a part of it glistened from the sliver of light showing through the shades on the window. I couldn't think. I completely forgot about Steven and Kyle and Karen and Amy and Gabriella. I just suddenly felt this rush of energy. I tried to burst out of the ropes on the chair, but they were too tight and well knotted. I was stuck in a room with an angry, violent man with scary tattoos of dragons and daggers plunging into people's chest's. But worst of all, he had a dagger and an expression that will haunt me forever if I get out of here.

"What are you going to do to me?" I asked sheepishly.

"Well, you'll just have to find out by watching me demonstrate on this boy here."

As I watched in horror at the terrible torturing happening in front of my face, the screams of Stephan silenced me. The room fell black.

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I awoke with a jolt. I find that the underbelly of my elbow has been sliced through. I wasn't thinking very well. But strangely enough, it wasn't bleeding at all. The pain stung like I've never encountered. My head hurt. I looked around and saw a chair lying on the floor. 'That must be why my head hurts so much. He must have whacked me with that.' I put my hand up to my head but only to feel that a cold hand was placed there. I screamed with much effort and tried to tug it off. I couldn't turn my head around, so I had no way of knowing who was there. Then the man came around. But it wasn't a man at all. It was some sort of creature that had blood smeared around his mouth and hands. I looked at the blood around his mouth and teeth, then looked to my arm. It hit me. This creature was a vampire. When I looked up from my arm, it's eyes were about a centimeter away from mine. "Hello Kandy." It said in a deep, menacing voice.