Let Me Go!

3 friends are kidnapped by a vampire cult. They are allowed to leave but at sunrise if they are caught outside they are killed. All the friends want to do is escape and will do whatever it takes to.

Let me Go!

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Chapter1 

Wind blew in my face as I rode my motorcycle up to Cleveland. I was going to The House of Blues to see a concert with my friends Xepher and Daydric. They weren't the kind of people that your parents would approve of. About once a week they break into the liquor store. I didn't mind that, I would grab a drink with them now and then. We're old enough to drink. Xepher and Daydric are twins, both 22. I just turned 21 last month.

"Took you long enough, love." Daydric said with her head tilted back against the building.  

"Yeah, well at least I made it at all. Traffic was awful." I said rolling my eyes.  

"Ah! There she is. Good old Zaila." Xepher said putting his gloves in his pocket.

We entered the main hall of the HOB's, gave them our tickets, and entered the concert room. The floor. We went to see Vampires Alive we loved them even though it wasn't a British band that we usually only listen to. They were a small band that started locally.

The band came on the stage and talked for a bit then started playing. Xepher, Daydric, and I jumped on the stage and sat on the amp behind the drummer. They didn't tell us to move or anything. It's like they didn't even notice until the end if the concert. As we hopped off the stage the singer of the band came up and asked us to help load their equipment up. Of course we said yes. Xepher and Daydric each took a guitar and I took a symbol and a drum. It only took us about an hour to pack up. Dripping with sweat, we laid on the floor back stage. Daydric sat up and took a random water bottle off the shelf and drank it.

"Ew! Germs, Daydric." I said as I kicked my foot towards her.  

"Oh, hell, let me live a little. PLEASE!" She annunciated.  

"Whatever. Aids and all.." 

"What the f-" She was cut off by Xepher squealing. A rat had crawled up his leg and was laying on his chest. Daydric and I laughed as I scooted the rat off of him. He jumped up as fast as he could and scolded us for laughing.

Back outside I got on my motorcycle and tried to start it, nothing. I tried again, nothing still. Xepher saw that some wires were hanging out of the bottom. Someone cut the wires. Who would do such an awful thing? We rolled it up against the building and went back inside for help. The building was empty. How? It had only been an hour since the concert ended. Quickly, we ran back outside. The bike was gone. I began to panic as my body slid down the building. Xepher and Daydric stared in disbelief at the spot where we left my bike. Someone was playing tricks on us.

Zechariah, the lead singer of Vampires Alive walked up to us. He had a smirk on his face that seemed to never go away.

"You okay?" Zechariah asked helping me up.  

"My bike is gone. I don't know how it went anywhere because someone cut the wires. I went inside to find help but the building is empty." I sounded a little crazy because just then a woman walked out of the building.  

"Okay. You guys need a ride home? My bus can take you."  

"Sure." I sounded a little desperate then, well I kinda was. A hot singer just asked if I needed a ride home in his tour bus and someone stole my bike. It was defiantly a weird day.

We all walked down to the bus. It was black with a red strip down the middle and the band logo under it. Zechariah opened the door and we got on. This was unbelievable. He told the bus driver to take us home, he started driving. I never told him where I lived. I thought as I held my breath. Xepher sat next to the drummer of the band and was making small talk. Daydric was locked on to me. She never let go of my arm. Was she as freaked out as me? We stayed quiet the whole ride to my house. Xepher eventually shut up when he noticed the fear in Daydric and I.

The bus pulled up to my house and we all got off as quickly as possible. Zechariah followed behind us. I turned around to ask him to stop following us. He stood there with my jacket in his hand.

"You almost forgot this." Zechariah said.  

"Oh. T-thanks." I said as I took the jacket from his hand quickly.  

"Good luck finding your bike."  

"Thanks. Have fun on tour."  

"Thanks. Bye." He spun around on one foot and headed back to the bus. We watched the bus drive away and then quickly ran inside.

My house was filled with steam-punk decor. Not a single inch of the walls were blank. Gears hung all over them. My living room was styled the same way. We sat on the couch still in awe about what happened.

"That was unreal." I said, "Anyone up for hot chocolate?"  

"Me." Daydric and Xepher said at the same time.  

"Milk or water?"  

"We want-" Daydric was cut off. 

"Milk." Xepher finished his sisters sentence.  

"Freaky twins."

I got up and went down the hall to the kitchen. The lights were off but I could still see enough to not turn them on because it was only mid-day. I opened the cabinet and got out three mugs an set them on the counter. Something moved behind me and brushed up against my shoulder. I jumped and gasped as I spun around to see what it was. Nothing. Someone tapped on my shoulder and I screamed.

"Calm down it's only me!" Daydric said holding her hands up innocently.  

"Sorry, I thought I saw something. I guess I'm just seeing things." I said sounding a bit shaky, "Never mind."

 

Chapter 2  

My eyes opened suddenly when I heard a knock at the door. I got out of bed and rushed to the door. A woman wearing a long black and green dress stood at my door. She looked sweet yet creepy at the same time. Her black eyes looked at me, she didn't move.

"Um, can I help you?" I asked. She said nothing but her mouth twitched to the right as she pushed her way past me and into my house. "Hey! You can't just walk into someones house like that without an invitation. Get the hell out!"

She stopped walking and turned around. Her cold, dead eyes stared as she gestured her hand towards me and flicked it to the side rapidly. I flew into the wall and fell to the floor. Gears fell around me as I moaned in pain. The woman ran towards me and grabbed my throat. I tried to push her away but she was stronger than me.

"Please." I choked out. "Stop! What do you want?"  

"You'll see when you wake up." she said with an English accent, laughing.  

"Wake up? Wait wha-" I was cut off when she struck me over the head with a metal gear from the floor. Everything went black and quiet. Soon I heard muffled sounds that made me force my eyes open. I was on the floor of a room that had an old Victorian style bed and a mirror on the wall that hung above a vanity. I got up quickly and realized I had been changed into a red and black vampiric style dress. My reflection looked different, not human. What did they do to me? Am I one of those things? I thought in my head while having an internal freak out.

"Not yet." The woman from earlier said standing in the doorway. "You still have one more phase to go, darling. Follow me." 

"What? No, I don't want to! You can't make me." 

She took my arm and pulled me towards her.

We walked out of the room and headed down multiple hallways until we came to these double doors. The woman pushed them open. It was a gothic cathedral filled with people, or vampires sitting in pews. A man stood at the front holding what looked like a goblet in his hands. We walked toward the man and stopped inches away from him. The woman let go of me, bowed, and walked to the back. The man wore a thick, black robe down his body and a mask to conceal his identity. I could see his cold, black eyes staring at me which sent chills ran down my spine. To the right of me Xepher and Daydric were sitting and staring at me with the same cold, dead, black eyes as everyone else.

The man took a knife out of his pocket and held it to his palm. Slowly, he cut it open and poured the dripping blood into the goblet. When the blood stopped, his hand was completely healed. He gave the goblet to me. The metal was cool but it was slowly warming because of the blood inside.

"Drink." The man said softly.  

"Okay." I said, not meaning to say that. I held the goblet to my lips and tilted my head back making the blood pour into my mouth. It tasted sweet yet salty and I couldn't stop drinking. I tried to pull away but involuntary impulse wouldn't let me. Finally, the goblet emptied and I fell down to my knees. The man walked behind me and put his hands on my shoulders. He whispered something. 'Sweet dreams'. I fell over onto my side, everything went black again.

It was still black but I could hear a conversation happening close by. I couldn't understand what they were saying; I think they were speaking Latin. My eyes started to burn and they came open. A woman stood over me staring. She held her hand out to help me up and I took it. We were still in the chapel but everyone was gone. The woman stood in front of me with short brown hair and wore a long black dress that matched her eyes.  

 

"I'm Anastasia. You must be the girl that just got turned." She said in a sweet, low tone.  

"Sure, I guess. Um, I'm Zaila." I said.  

"I bet you want to find the way out."  

"That and my friends."  

"Twins?"  

"Yeah! Do you know where they went?"  

"They just left."  

"Then I have to go. It was nice meeting you."

I ran to a door to the outside and everything was bright. It was daytime. I dropped to my knees and covered my eyes. How could I have forgotten that vampires can't stand the sun? I found a pair of sunglasses in my pocket and put them on. Daydric and Xepher we're walking towards a bar about a half a mile away. I started running to them frantically screaming their names. They turned around and stared in shock and started to run towards me. I wanted to cry, I couldn't tell if I was happy or scared though.

In A flash, we all collided in a hug. My eyes were closed but I could tell they were both crying. when we all pulled away from our hug I opened my eyes. What I saw jolted me to attention.

Chapter 3  

In the corner of their eyes were three black diamonds in a row. They matched their eyes in a way that scared me. I jumped backwards and they gave me scared and confused looks. Had they not noticed their tattoos? This whole thing was unbelievable, I had to be dreaming. That's it, I'm dreaming, no, having a nightmare. It will all be over when I wake up. Xepher and Daydric are sleeping on the couch peacefully. I kept thinking to myself, thinking it would all be okay but there was something that made this feel all too real.

"Whats wrong?" Daydric asked frantically. 

"Diamonds in the corner of your eyes." I answered in a low tone.  

"You have them too, love. Don't worry, we freaked out too when we saw them, apparently it's a way to identify us from the humans."  

"Why would they need to tell us part from humans?"  

"Well, this woman came up to me and told me that humans can't see them unless under black lights or UV light. She also said something 'Don't be out after noon.' I couldn't fully hear her because Xepher and I started to run out of the chapel. By the way, where the hell are we?" 

"What? Holy, hell. I have no clue."  

 

I looked around at the foreign city, streetlights high above our heads were surrounded by tall building that were covered in neon signs. All the people that were walking down the street were oblivious to what was around them. Aside from the cars and the music playing from the bars, it was peaceful. It was normal. I made one last overall look of the city when I saw a familiar looking building, a little cafe that I went to when I went to Paris last summer for a trip. I walked toward it, Daydric and Xepher followed behind me closely.  

 

The door open to the cafe as a woman walked out in a hurry, she was carrying two cups of coffee in each hand. When the door closed behind her scents of freshly ground coffee and cinnamon flew into our nostrils that made us all want a cup of coffee. We walked in and saw a cafe half filled with people talking to each other, some were talking in French, some in English. Across the cafe was a teenage girl sitting alone at a table. She seemed normal until I focused on her right eye, three black diamonds. I walked up to her and sat in the chair on the other side of the table across from her.

"Hey, um, do you speak english?" I asked her.  

"Yeah. I'm a freak. Why do you want to talk to me? "She said keeping her head down. 

"You're not a freak, love. I'm Zaila, by the way."  

"You don't know, trust me. I'm not even human. I'm Nicole."  

"Neither am I, or my two friends over there standing over by the door."  

"What?" She looked up at me and saw the diamonds on my eyes, then she saw the same with Daydric and Xepher. "It's almost noon, you guys will be killed if you don't get back to the chapel." 

"Wait, what? Aren't you coming too?"  

"No, I'm sick of being a freaking vamp, my brother is the leader and they changed me when I was 2. I've been hiding from humans since."  

"Who's your brother? Plus, won't he just stop you from being killed?"  

Nicole let out a sigh. "My warnings are up. My brother is Zechariah. Not the archangel, the singer of a band and the leader of a vamp cult. Anyway, you guys need to leave, now."

I got up from the chair and walked towards my friends and told them we had to leave. They didn't ask why they simply turned around to the door and walked out. We looked around to see which way was our way back. Behind a huge building stood the chapel that was covered in concrete with black, hypnotizing swirls that ran up the wall behind growing moss.

A loud siren went off and we all stopped mid run. We looked around and saw everyone around them hurry into pockets and purses for a little flashlight. They all turned them on and I noticed that the lights were mini black lights. They shined them in the corner of their right eyes showing that they are humans. Do vampires own Paris? Why is everyone freaking out so much about vampires? I thought.

"Kids, why are you out so late? You do know that it will get you killed?" Zechariah said walking towards us. 

"We were just on our way back. Uh, the siren scared us and we stopped we didn't know what it meant, please don't kill us." I pleaded.  

"Hmm, since you three are new I will give you a warning, you get three, actually. But, do not use them up like my sister. Do you know where she is?"  

"No." I lied. 

"Fine, just go back to the chapel and sit in a pew until I return. Now, go."

Daydric dug into her pocket and took out three cigarettes and gave one to me and one to Xepher, we lit them and continued walked towards the chapel. When we got to the door we stopped to finish smoking. The buds hit the ground and we stomped them out. We walked over to the front and Daydric and Xepher walked through. I stopped in the doorway, I couldn't move, the fear was too strong. My heart was racing, knowing that when Zechariah got back he would do something awful.  

 

"Come on, love." Xepher said as he turned around.  

"Xepher, how the hell did we get here? I mean I woke up a few hours ago in Paris only to learn that I've been vamped out. When Zechariah gets back he will probably kill his sister right in front of us." I sounded like I was going insane.  

"Calm down, calm down. You're overreacting. Now, let's just go into the chapel and sit down."  

"Then what? We wait for our possible death?"  

"Zailia! Jesus, fine you can either come in and sit peacefully or you can leave and get killed. Your choice. I don't care."  

"It was nice knowing you guys."  

 

I felt a cold hand rest on my shoulder and I jumped up. Zechariah and two men stood behind me. The two men were holding Zechariah's sister, her long, brown hair was tossed over her unconscious face. They pushed past us all and walked inside the chapel and into the main room.

"You aren't leaving, Zailia. This is your home now but if you break the rules, this will be you. Come with me, kids." Zechariah said as he pushed past us all and walked into the main room of the chapel. We followed him knowing that something was going to happen to Nicole. "Alright, you three. This is Nicole my sister. She didn't follow the rules because she doesn't want to be a vampire. You know what that means? It means she gets to stay, locked up here forever. Follow the guards, kids. So you can see where you could end up if you misbehave just because you want to die." 

 

The two men turned with Nicole tightly in their grips and walked out of the chapel. We followed close behind in a tight little group. We walked outside into the street where people seemed to be living their normal lives until they heard Nicole screaming. She was begging for them to kill her. A crowd gathered as we walked down the street and the one guard scolded Nicole by slapping her across the face, making everyone flinch.

We reached the gates of an old cemetery that had to have been here for thousands of years. Cobwebs grew up tombstones and dust covered the mausoleum in thick blankets. The guards walked over the the mausoleum door and opened it, it made a horrible squeaking sound. We all walked down the stairs leading to a room that held the other bodies is pure concrete tombs. The room has secured by a gate so no one would get in. The guards opened the gates and shoved Nicole into the room.  

 

"Is that all you've got? I could easily break the bars and escape." Nicole sounded a little hysterical.  

"Check again, iron bars. No demon is getting past them." One guard said. 

"So what? I'm going to sit here in a room for the rest of my long life? Doesn't seem so bad."  

"It's not at first but just wait until your extreme hunger sets in. You will go mad. Have fun."

The guards led us up the stairs and out the the cemetery. We headed towards the chapel slowly, hearing Nicole's screams for help get quieter and quieter. I looked over and Daydric and Xepher, who were holding each others hands, I took Daydric's and we walked in a straight line the whole time back. We would have ran but the terrifying thought of being locked in a mausoleum for the rest of our lives didn't sound so great, and we have no clue what's waiting for us back at the chapel.

Chapter 4  

We all walked into the chapel and all the pews were set up against the wall. The chapel looked like an unlit ballroom. Zechariah walked over to a small trunk that was on a pew. He opened it and took out his black mask and put it on. Slowly, he walked over to Daydric and messed with her hair. She flinched back and Zechariah grabbed her by her arm and he continued to play with her hair.

"Hey! Get off of my sister!" Xepher yelled grabbing at Daydric.

"What would you do if I didn't, squeak toy?" Zechariah said, letting go of Daydric.

"I'll-I'll make sure that you, um."

"Exactly, you don't have the guts and until you get them I will be doing this." He took Daydric and started kissing her neck. Xepher boiled up with rage and pushed Zechariah away, making him fly over into a pew.

Xepher stood in shock because of what he had just done. Daydric and I went over to Zechariah to check if he was alright. He struggled to get up but managed to do it. We all thought that he was going to rage towards Xepher but instead he laughed and said that he was impressed. He walked up to Xepher and shook his hand. Good boy. He told Xepher trough his thoughts. Xepher jumped back as it happened. Zechariah laughed and walked over to me. He set his hand lightly on my shoulder. At that moment, all I could think about was us, in bed. I tried to get the though out of my mind but I couldn't.

As if he could read my mind he led me out of the main room and down the hall. We went to his bedroom and I didn't even realise it until i sat on the bed. I snapped back into reality and realised where I was. Did I just get hypnotized? As I was thinking, Zechariah walked out of his walk in closet. I looked up to see that he was completely naked.

"Oh my, wow." I said staring at him.

"Why don't you get ready while I lay in bed?" He said walking over.

"Uh, okay. Wait, how are you doing that? Are you..never mind, I'm just going to go get ready." I walked into his closet and began to strip down until I was completely naked. I walked out and over to the bed.

"Beautiful, love. Come and lay down with me. Maybe cuddle or maybe something else?"

"That sounds nice." My voice cracked. I climbed in the bed next to him.

Back in the main room Daydric and Xepher stood there freaking out about where Zechariah took me. They wanted to go look for us but something told them that we were going to be fine. Some guards walked up to them and took them out of the main hall and down a hallway to a small room, it had three beds in it and the floor was covered in dirt. It looked like a cave. The guards pushed them into the room and locked the door. Daydric ran over to the the door and tried as hard as she could to open it. Nothing.

They walked over the two beds and laid down on them. From what they did today, they were exhausted.The beds were really cots that were very uncomfortable. As soon as Daydric laid down she fell asleep. Xepher though, couldn't sleep. Everything that happened in the past two days has been running through his at a too slow pace. Suddenly, there was a loud crash from the hall. Daydric snapped awake and Xepher told her to go back to sleep and that it was just a guard outside. She quickly went back to sleep and Xepher went back to thinking.

Back in Zechariah's room he and I laid in his bed asleep. His arm wrapped around me. What had just happened had been the best thing ever for me. I had been hypnotized too! Of course, I didn't have a care in the world at that moment. Zechariah scooted closer to me and then sighed. Suddenly, we were awoken by a noise. His alarm clock. That was when I became aware of what was happening.

"Holy crap. Did we do anything last night?" I asked. He shook his head.

"Yup, and I have to say, you're pretty good. Well, even if you were hypnotized by my dazzling looks." He replied, smirking.

"Well, thanks for the amazing time but I was kidnapped and so were my friends and I would very much like to be with them." I went to the closet to put my clothes back on.

"Fine, but you are welcome back here anytime you want. Just knock, love."

"Don't worry, I will. Hey! I didn't mean to say that. Stop messing with my mind."

"Alright."

I got dressed and walked out of the closet. Zechariah stood, now fully clothed, at the door of the room. He opened it and motioned me to walk out. I walked forward and almost through the door way when Zechariah stopped me and asked for a goodbye kiss. I leaned forward and gave a kiss. Again, messing with my mind. I shot him a I-Swear-To-God look and he laughed. Sorry, It's fun. I walked out. A guard stopped me and asked were I was going. I told him that I was looking for my friends. He knew exactly who I was talking about and we took me down a few hallways to a room.

Slowly, I opened the door. Inside the room sat my two twins. They looked up and ran towards me in a hug. The guard that still stood at the door informed us that we were aloud to leave and go outside. Daydric and Xepher ran as fast as they could out the door, I ran behind them.We got to the chapel door and pushed it open and ran out. The streets were dark and almost empty. Well it was 3 AM. We all agreed that we would go visit Nicole. 

We ran down the the cemetery and over to the mausoleum. The gate to the mausoleum creaked as i opened it. We walked down the stairs to be greeted by Nicole sitting in the corner of the locked room. She looked up to see and and ran up to the bars. They burnt her hands as she went to grab for them. 

"Guys, oh, it is so good to see someone." She said then looked at me. "You smell like sex and guilt."

"Long story. You don't want  to hear it, trust me." I quickly replied. 

"Fine. I'm just gonna go ahead and ask this, why are you visiting me? Don't take it the wrong way, I just mean that I am not a person people tend to want to hang out with?" 

"Dunno, you seem fine to us. We just wanted to see how you were doing before we explored Paris as some creature. See what changed, you know."

Oh, I see well have fun with that and if you see anyone who looks good enough to eat you should send them my way. I'm starving."

"I'll try."

We turned around and headed out of the mausoleum, leaving Nicole to sit alone in her prison. It was sad seeing her like that, although I barely knew her it was still terrible to see anyone locked up for something so minor. Daydric walked over to a grave stone right before we left. She stared at it for a few seconds and then walked off. Odd, I thought. I shrugged it off and then kept walking.   

Everything caught our eyes. Lights of small stores and smells of the cafe's and bakery's caught our attention very quickly. We quickly got hungry and went inside a cafe to get a quick snack. The inside of it was covered in pink and brown lace and smelled better than what it did from the outside. Over at the counter there was a man who was dressed in an apron that matched the cafe, we walked up to him and ordered some pastries and small coffees. They were quickly gone and we left to explore more of Paris' wonders. 

As we walked around we suddenly felt strange, almost hungry. But we had just eaten it couldn't have been that. I quickly understood, we had to feed. I explained to the twins and we all were not happy about this. Of course, we needed to live so we had to do it. Our only problem was that we didn't know how to exactly get someone to come towards us. I mean Daydric and I could act like w****s but what would Xepher do? We split up all thinking of ways to capture a human and agreed to take the alive human to the chapel and ask Zechariah for help.

I walked around the city as the light barely shown above the horizon. Few people were out that I could choose but for some reason none of them seemed right. Venders started pulling out their carts onto the sidewalk. It would be too obvious if I tried with them. Suddenly, I saw a man sitting on the side of the rode, drunk. Perfect. He wouldn't know what was going on. I walked up to him and grabbed him by the arm, he smelled absolutely awful, and waddled back to the chapel.

When I finally got inside the chapel, the twins were there and so was Zechariah. The twins each had a person sleeping right next to them. I walked over to them and flopped the man on a pew and sat next to him. Zechariah walked over to him and put a white pill in his mouth. 

"It puts them to sleep. Makes it a lot easier to kill them because they don't squirm or attack back." Zechariah stated. 

"Oh, I see makes perfect sense. So, do we have any rules to this thing?" I asked.

"Good question, only the pill but it is entirely optional. No other rules beside that. Have fun draining them until they die kids." 

He walked off leaving the three of us with our sleeping victims. Daydric got tired of the awkward situation and grabbed the sleeping woman next to her and bit her neck. She stayed in that position for about a minute and then dropped the lifeless body on the ground. Xepher quickly followed with the same thing. As it was my turn, I pulled the man in front of me and stared at his neck, I couldn't believe I was about to do this. I closed my eyes and did it. It was amazing how sweet and savory it tasted, plus a bonus of liquor. When I finished we all looked at each other satisfied.

Author's Note

Unfinished!