Halloween Tales

Chapter 1: A Night Of Sorrow

We walk through the woods. Moonlight shines down on us. My mother scans the forest. Her bat like wings unfurl.

The four of us wear the same outfit, a simple red dress with a black hooded cape. My two sisters stand next to me.

Rebecca is the youngest and Emily is the oldest. We use to belong to a group. Vampire hunters wiped out the rest of us. I walk ahead of the others towards a campground.

Ahead is a woman sitting by a fire. She has her back turned to me. I creep up behind her. She turns around with a crossbow in her hands.
She's a vampire hunter. I claw at her. She falls back. Four claw marks are on her face. She reaches for her crossbow. I kick it away. A scream draws my attention.

I run to the sound. Emily is hovering over a body crying. As I get closer, I realize that the body is Rebecca's. Blood is pouring out of a stab wound. Emily sits next to her, holding her hand. She's gone. Vampire hunters are running towards us. I charge at them. They murdered my sister. They have to pay!

I grab the throat of the vampire hunter in front of me and throw him back. I pick up one of their spears off the ground. I throw it at the person in front of me. My mother fights alongside me. Once we finish off the rest of them we return to Emily. I look up. The sky is now dark blue.
The sun is rising. It won't be much longer until daylight. I put a hand on Emily's shoulder.

"We have to go. The sun is rising," I say.

"What about Rebecca?" she asks.

"We'll take her with us," I reply.

Emily picks up Rebecca.

I run through the woods. Our cave isn't that far. We should make it there soon.

The sky starts to get brighter. My skin starts to burn and sting. I can see our cave now. We make it inside just as the sun rises.

Candles illuminate the dark cavern. Four coffins are to the right. Emily lays Rebecca in her coffin. She looks as if she is only sleeping.

"The vampire hunters think we're the monsters. They are. They murdered my daughter. They took her from us," our mother says.

"What are we going to do? They'll come after us," Emily says.

"We attack them first. We take our revenge," our mother says.

A war has been started today. A war that won't end soon.