Interactions - Vampire Eddie & Werewolf Steve - Stranger Things - Steddie

Chapter 11

Eddie's P.O.V
I was hovering above the gang and all of the creatures coming at them, I had been playing as many riffs and solos on my guitar as possible, some were actually songs but most of the time it was just random. The demodogs reeled and the demobats following my every move, I told the demobats to attack the demodogs and they took off, clawing and biting at the dog like creatures. Steve was himself again, wielding a bat with nails sticking out of the top, hitting every single monster with it. I smiled happily at him, glad to call him mine, I saw everyone else with weapons and absolutely destroying the monsters in their paths. Nancy was manning a shotgun being a badass shooting every single monster dead, Eleven using her powers to tear them apart and everyone else with various sport related sticks. Hockey sticks, cricket bats, tennis rackets, you get the point. I flew down to the ground and hovered just above the ground, then I started to shred on my guitar up close, all of the demodogs ran away whimpering and whining in pain and the demobats entranced with my performance. I demanded the bats leave and they did so, leaving us with monster blood and a bunch of wounds on all of us. None of the wounds looked too bad but we went back to the upside down caravan anyways to recover. Steve became a wolf again and gave everyone who needed it a ride back, and I managed to carry Dustin and Mike with me as I took off into the sky towards the park.

Once we made it back, Steve and I got question among question. "Ok ok, we'll answer your questions but first I think Steve needs to be able to talk." I pointed out. Steve nodded, rolling his big yellow eyes, as if to say 'yeah, yeah I get it.' Within a second he was himself again, "now to explain what happened back there." He said flicking a spec of fur off his shirt.

"So wait Vecna possessed Eddie wayyyy back when he first became a vampire? So that he could control him?" Mike said trying to catch up. Steve and I nodded. "Do you think your still possessed? Like do you still feel like somethings wrong?" Robin asked me. I shrugged, "I feel like myself, I puked out a slug like thing and I managed to stop the possession, so I'm pretty sure I'm clear." "I'm glad your ok, but we still have Vecna to worry about." Steve said, worry laced his words. "We don't even know if he still has a hold on Eddie or not, he might even have a hold on you." Nancy pointed out. I looked at the ground sadly, I'd rather be the only one possessed by Vecna, than have Steve being possessed by him. "Maybe, but why would he want Eddie to convert me to his side instead of doing it himself?" Steve asked. "Maybe he's lazy?" Johnathan said shrugging, then it looked like Dustin had a lightbulb switch on in his head, "or maybe, he can't possess multiple people at a time! That's why he didn't just possess Eddie and Steve simultaneously! He probably has a hold on the both of you, but because he can only possess one person at a time, he needed one of you to be converted by the other. My guess is because Eddie died here to the bats that gave him an advantage, but whatever bit Steve that made him a werewolf, must've come from the upside down too." We all looked at Dustin, trying to process what he said, then Steve spoke up again. "Well, it was a demodog lookalike that bit me, it just wasn't as goopy. It looked like a weird mix between an actual dog and a demodog." "Like what you told me about your dream." I said, the gears clicking in my head. I saw Steve's eyes light up, looking like the gears had been turning for him too, "maybe those dreams were for a reason, maybe that was Vecna, trying to remind us that we are his! But that still doesn't explain the end of our dreams. They both ended with us in the woods while in the upside down, what does Vecna have to do with that?" "Maybe it was our brains trying to remind us that we could help each other with our own personal problems. I dunno man it's all so confusing." I admitted holding my head in my hands. "He's probably lost his connection to Eddie, but I guess the vampiric state is just permanent, no matter if the connection was severed or not." Robin states, I sighed and just softly nodded. Some of the others started to make their way to the gate again. Mike, Eleven and will already through, leaving me, Steve, Johnathan, Nancy, Robin and Dustin still in the upside down. "So now we have to wait until something else happens, we don't know what that could be..." Nancy said but her voice was drowned out by a clock ticking, I looked behind me and saw a grandfather clock imbedded in wall, I looked at it in horror. "I don't think we need to wait, it's already happening before our very eyes, well mine at least." I said to the group, not taking my eyes off the clock. All the voices behind me a blur, then before my eyes the scene changed to another part of the upside down. The Creel House.

For some reason this creel house was in shambles, the sky was red, bolts of bright red lighting pierced the sky. I knew it was the creel house because of the stained glass door, I remember the others telling me the details, ensuring that this was indeed the house. But why was it all in shambles? Why was it all split apart? And then I saw something even more terrifying, I saw corpses on pillars, I saw her. "Chrissy..." I said quietly to myself, reaching for the pillar, I brought my hand down quickly, clenching my fist as anger and sadness built up. Hot tears of anger threatened to fall. "I am so so sorry, you didn't deserve a death like that, no one did...I'm sorry I couldn't save you in time. I'm sorry I ran away..." I said sadness lacing my voice. Then I saw another body on yet another pillar, the body of Fred, then another with the body of Patrick from the basketball team. I then realised the terrible truth. This was a trophy room, a place where Vecna placed his past victims, to showcase their deaths. Hot anger built up again as I heard a familiar but terrifying voice behind me. "Eddie. You are not yet finished with your task. You and Steve are not yet finished your task." Vecna spoke, I whipped my head around only to be strung up on a pillar from oozing black vines.

A vine wrapped itself around my throat. "What are you doing cursing me when you could've possessed Steve? HUH?! We all know you can possess one person at a time, so why me? WHY STEVE?? WHY COULDN'T IT JUST BE ME?!" I screamed at him, he darkly chuckled. "Because you are both strong, both of you are stronger together. I saw your battle with my minions, you are both worthy of becoming my soldiers. Join me Eddie, I will not hesitate to do the same to Steve, as I did to you if you refuse, you may have refused my methods of persuasion but Steve has yet to do so. Because you have refused, you are forever cursed to be this way, as will Steve if he refuses. Either way, you will lose everything." He taunts. I blink back the tears of anger again, this dickhead wouldn't leave me and my Stevie alone, even if we refuse his persuasion tactics we will still be like this, like monsters. In a logical sense it would be better to be on Vecna's side, we can be monsters alongside other monsters, but then we would be forced to hurt our world, our family, our friends. In the distance I saw a small gate open, I saw my friends desperately trying to wake me up. I couldn't hurt them, not again, I knew what to do. "Ya know what Vecna, I'll admit your offer is very tempting, but even if I have to be stuck as a monster my entire life I will never truly get sick of it. Sure it can be annoying but what these last couple of days have shown me is that being a vampire, isn't all that bad. So thanks, but no thanks asshole!" I flipped him the bird and used my fangs to bite into the vines, making them drop me and I ran to the small gate. As I slipped back into consciousness I was greeted with questions and a ton of hugs. I was shaking but Steve held my hands close and kissed me, assuring me that he's right here, that he's not going anywhere.