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Chapter 12: Vampires And Screams

We slowly got off the table as they came closer with their fangs ready. They let out ugly hisses like a snake. My heart began to raise when my anxiety went up a notch, sweat coming to my forehead. "Grab your phone, quick," I urged, motioning Hannah to get it. She quickly snatched the phone off the ground just as one of the vampires almost grabbed her with his skinny fingers. "Does your phone still work?" I asked.

She didn't answer and began to press the button that turns on the phone. "Is it working?" I repeated.

"My phone's broken," she declared, answering my question. "The screen is broken and so my phone isn't working. And I just got this two days ago!" She let out a frustrated grunt, throwing the phone back on the ground, causing the back of it to pop off. "Now I can't call dad," she said. She gazed at the vampires that came closer, with me and her backing away. "We need to use something against them," she told me.

"Like what?" I questioned.

"Well... What do you use against vampires?" Hannah quizzed me. My eyebrows wrinkled together, trying to think of what we can use to get rid of these vampires. "Okay...how about this. What do vampires hate?" she asked since I'm having a hard time figuring this out.

"A wooden stake...?" I guessed.

"We would use one, but the problem is that we won't be able to find one in time," she clarified. "What else?" A vampire stepped closer to her, reaching out to grab her. She picked up her foot, kicking it in the shins. "Back off!" Hannah yelled. "Hazel, what else do vampires hate?"

"Garlic?" I answered, even though I wasn't sure it was the right answer.

"That's right. Now let's out run things as best as we could."

"Um... hello?" I waved my hands. "Did you know that vampires have super speed? Like in those Twilight Saga movies?"

"Vampires don't have speed, Hazel," Hannah corrected me. "But they do turn in vampire bats and fly." She put her mouth close to my ear, whispering. "On a count of three, we run as fast as we can."

"Got it," I confirmed.

"One..." she began to count. "Two..." We got ourselves ready to dash away from these monsters. "Three!" As fast as we can, we began speeding away from them, my feet picking off the ground. "Go, go, go!" Hannah hollered.

The vampires let out hisses. I turned my head over my shoulder, my eyes going wide when I saw them transform into bats. They let out screeched, flapping their wings, flying towards us. "Yah!" I let our a holler when one of the bats landed in my hair, its talons scraping my scalp. I reached and grabbed the critter, pulling it out of my hair, then flung it away from me. The bats screeched when that one bat hit them, sending them a few feet back.

"Where are we suppose to find garlic?" I cried, catching up to Hannah.

"Over there!" Hannah pointed at one of the snack stands that you normally find at any amusement park. We went up to it, seeing a Horror wearing a vampire cape just like the ones that are now bats. "Do you have anything with garlic?" she puffed.

"Yes, I do," the Horror exclaimed in his rough voice. "I have animal blood with mix garlic, raccoon with garlic on top. In fact a lot of our food stands in Vampire Village has garlic on everything. We even have garlic powder for those who just wants to eat that instead."

"We'll take the garlic powder," I said, looking back to see if the vampires are still coming after us.

"Small, medium, or large?" he asked, putting each container of garlic powder on the stand.

"The large, thank you," Hannah quickly said, grabbing the container. "Let's go," she directed towards me. We ran back to where the bats are. "Hey!" Hannah grabbed a handful of the powder, throwing some at them. The powder hit them, and they turned back to regular vampires, all letting out angry hisses.