Welcome To Fright Night

Chapter 1

Job offers had started popping up left and right recently so there were hardly any days when the guild members weren't busy with some kind of work. Team Natsu had decided to accept the biggest job offer that had the greatest amount of money reward. The job took place in a foreign town where people had mysteriously been disappearing at night. As expected Natsu, Lucy, Happy, and Gray were apart of the group going but Erza couldn't come this time because she had already agreed to help Jellal with a secret investigation. Juvia begged the group to let her take Erza's place and they didn't want her to flood the guild with her tears of rejection so they agreed. Before the crack of dawn, they packed up their bags and caught a train to the mysterious town known as Nightshade.

"Oh man somebody please kill me." Natsu gagged as he suffered his usual motion sickness.

"Hang in there buddy." Happy said.

"Here Natsu, have some water. It might help." Juvia said handing him a cup.

"Nothing can help me except stopping this train."

"Too bad we couldn't bring Erza with us." Gray said. "She would have been able to knock him out for the train ride."

"How much longer till we get there?" Natsu asked while struggling not to vomit.

"Just another hour and we'll be in Nightshade." Juvia said.

"What a weird name for a town." Gray said.

"According to this." Lucy said reading a book. "This town is known for it's many myths and legends of vampires."

"Vampires?!" Natsu said. "We're going to a place that has vampires?!"

"Of course not Natsu. Vampires don't exist." Lucy said.

"How do you know? If dragons and wizards exist then anything is possible!"

"What kind of legends do they have?" Juvia asked.

"A lot but their most popular is the legend of Count Thanatos. A cruel vampire lord who attempted to steal all the human souls of Nightshade. He would have succeeded but he was defeated by five individuals."

"Who were they?" Happy asked.

"Archibald Utterson a doctor, Samuel Warren an explorer, James Proctor a solicitor, and Warren and Proctor's fiances Charlotte Harris an aristocrat and Elizabeth Carew a school teacher. Dr. Utterson had been chasing after Thanatos for years but Samuel and James didn't get involved until Thanatos began trying to turn Charlotte into his vampire bride."

"So what happened?" Gray asked.

"According to this turning Charlotte into a vampire was just one part of his plan, the second part was to unlock the power to claim the souls of the living but to do that he had to sacrifice a mortal to hell on the night of a blood moon. He chose to sacrifice Elizabeth but as she was being abducted she left little clues to lead Archibald, Samuel, and James to where she was. It ended with Thanatos being defeated and Elizabeth getting saved but Charlotte had become a full fledged vampire so Samuel was forced to kill her."

"That's rough." Happy said.

"And so very sad." Juvia said. "What happened to the others?"

"It says here that James and Elizabeth married then left town, Samuel fell into a depression over being forced to kill the love of his life, and Dr. Utterson traveled the world as a professional vampire hunter. But before he was staked, Thanatos swore that he would one day return and finish what he started years ago."

"If that's the case then we must prepare ourselves." Natsu said. "Happy as soon as we arrive we're going to buy these items: holy water, garlic, and...A doggy bag."

"Natsu it's just a myth." Gray said.

"Besides vampires aren't considered scary anymore." Lucy said. "Now they're romantic and dazzling."

"What's so romantic about a guy who drinks blood and can turn into a rat with wings?" Gray asked.

"It's the mystery and the charming nature of the vampire that is so attractive. Don't you think Juvia?"

"In my opinion vampires are just monsters and the real charming one is my darling Gray." Juvia smiled as she clung to Gray's arm.

"Juvia please, at least not in public." Gray said blushing.

"Dude you like it! You're blushing!" Natsu teased.

"Shut up!"

When they finally arrived to the town called Nightshade they were escorted to the mayor's office. There the mayor explained to them the situation that the town was facing.

"You see for the past few weeks, every night at least one person from this town has disappeared without a trace." He told them.

"Have you found any clues or leads?" Natsu asked.

"No and after awhile things started to get really strange. Some of the missing people have turned up but they're not the same. They've changed."

"How so?" Lucy asked.

"It's hard to explain. We've tried everything to figure out how this is happening and why but we always end up at a dead end."

"Don't worry we're professionals." Natsu said. "We'll figure out, what's really going on here."

"Thank goodness." The mayor said. "In the meantime feel free to rest at the local inn downtown."

"Thank you sir." Juvia said.

With that conversation finished the five of them went over to check into the inn unaware of what they were in for.

Fright Night, Fright Night Part 2, and Lost Boys inspired this. Eat your heart out Twilight franchise, you'll never be as good as them. And before you ask no I am not an old person, I'm almost twenty I just happen to like movies from the 80's and 90's. This will also draw inspiration from the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. In fact the original characters from the myth are based off of the characters from the novel.

Thanatos - Dracula

Archibald Utterson - Abraham Van Helping

James Proctor - Johnathan Harker

Samuel Warren - Arthur Holmwood

Emmaline Carew - Mina Murray

Lenore Harris - Lucy Westerna