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One morning Sherrell decided to go to the beach. She decided to wake up her twin brother, Tim.
“Let’s go to the beach,” she commanded.
“Oh go by yourself,” he mumbled.
Finally Sherrell talked him into going to the beach. She noticed that Tim was worried about something. She didn’t know what. They went through their magic mirror. When they came out, they were at the beach. Sherrell quickly went in the water, but Tim stayed out still worried about something.
“Aren’t you coming in the water?” asked Sherrell.
“No,” said Tim. “I’ll stay out here.”
That’s the way it was for the next ½ hour. Sherrell was swimming having a good time, while Tim stayed out picking grass or something while still worried. Suddenly he saw a U.F.O.
“Look over there,” said Tim. “Don’t you see it.”
“See what?” asked Sherrell for she could see nothing.
“I have come for you,” said a voice. It was the vampire.
“Don’t you hear it?” asked Tim for it was he the vampire came for.
“Hear what?” asked Sherrell for she could hear nothing.
Then the spaceship landed and a vampire stepped out. He held something up and there was a purple mist making things pitch black. Then a big wind storm began. Sherrell quickly got out of the water. Tim saw a streak of lightening headed right for her.
“Sherrell watch-,” started Tim but lightening hit him too.
Who knows how much later, they got up and looked around. The wind was gone. The mist was still there, but the sky was starting to get brighter. The woods were mysteriously untouched.
“Sure is quiet,” exclaimed Sherrell.
Suddenly the wind started up again. Tim and Sherrell quickly ran into the woods. First Tim got brushed back, then Sherrell, then Tim, then Sherrell. Finally they made it to safety. The wind was still going and the purple mist was there.
Way out in the ocean was a spaceship with a small figure outside. If they got in the water, they could see it was a vampire, and closer still, a small disk in its hand. It had many shades of purple swirling around the center. Then they would have heard a laugh.
Meanwhile Tim and Sherrell made it to the magic mirror. They quickly changed into some dry clothes and stayed out. Later, when Sherrell was near the mirror, it started glowing.
“If we don’t stop what you saw, it may come and destroy this world,” she declared. Just then it stopped glowing. “I don’t know where I got that idea.”
“I’m glad you did,” replied Tim. “but how do we stop it.”
They both went though the mirror. When they came out they saw a whole bunch of white buildings. Behind them was a brick wall 20 feet high and 100 yards across. They looked down. There were sidewalks but no streets. Then they saw a guy a few years older than them walking to their right.
“Hi, Tim. Hi, Sherrell,” he yelled.
“How did you know our names?” they both asked.
“I’m your cousin Vincent,” exclaimed Vincent.
“We didn’t know we had a cousin here,” replied Tim.
“How did you get here?” asked Sherrell.
“I’ll tell you later,” he said. “First follow me.”
They went to the largest building there and from there they went up three flights of stairs and turned. All the rooms had a light on except one straight ahead. That seemed to be where they were going.
“This is the only room without electric light,” said Vincent.
They went inside. Vincent got out some matches and lit a candle. Next to the candle was a big book. Vincent turned the pages, yellow with age. Finally he got to one page (The bottom looks like what’s on the inside cover) with the names of other relatives.
“You mean we come from here?” asked Sherrell.
“Not quite,” said Vincent.
“Then how come the books say-,” started Tim but then died off.
“Let me explain,” began Vincent. “A thousand years ago the Vanarian race was growing.”
“What are Vanarians?” interrupted Tim.
“People from Vanaria.”
“Where’s Vanaria?” asked Sherrell.
“This is Vanaria,” replied Vincent. “Now let me get on with my story. Somebody found a magic disk. Soon almost everybody had one. Those that didn’t really suffered. They grew lazy and let the disks do all their work. They started destroying one another. Then the disks lost their power. Some used it so much they could do magic without the disks, so the witches and warlocks were formed. They went to the unexplored land.”
“The Vanarians started to progress again. One day Abdual picked up a magic disk. He slowly formed a magic mirror and went inside leaving the disk behind. He looked around at all the strange contraptions of 1808. One day he married Nan from your side of the mirror. They decided to stay on this side. They had a nice big house and 12 kids.”
“Then one day a spaceship landed in South Vanaria now vampire country. They began to multiply. They attacked homes one by one. Then on New Year’s Day 1833 they attacked everyone. Rebecca, next to the youngest, somehow managed to get through the magic mirror. Her mother followed but fell over dead with a witch’s knife in her back. That’s when the witches came out. Mark was next to go.”
“Abdual quickly took a magic disk. It could wipe out the vampires but not the witches. Then one of the vampires got him. He quickly killed himself. The vampire that got him, the leader, took the magic disk and killed their children one by one.”
“Allen, the oldest, saw what was going on. He had a knife too. He killed one witch while she wasn’t looking. The rest fled in terror. The head vampire took the magic disk and aimed for him, but he threw with his knife. It hit him. It didn’t kill him though. He got the magic disk and killed him. Some of them fled. He got 2 or 3 of them. All who remained died, or so he thought.”
“He buried them, then realized one escaped. Just then a vampire bit him from behind the bushes. The vampire took the magic disk. He too realized one escaped. ‘I’ll be back 150 years from now to kill the descendents of the one that escaped, he said and then vanished in a purple mist."
“But it’s still 1982!” exclaimed Sherrell.
“The vampire has a fast watch,” Vincent replied. “The only one who can see or hear him is the one he is after. Tell me how you found the magic mirror.”
Tim and Sherrell told about their previous adventure against a witch taking turns telling the story.
“… And when I found out Sherrell had the same dream I ½ believed it, but when we found out it was Friday Sherrell and I went through the mirror. We saw then old folks home, then went back,” told Tim.
“Then,” continued Sherrell. “we went through it an hour everyday for the next two weeks. We slowly used it less and less. Tim seemed worried. I didn’t know. There was no trouble since our first adventure. Tim didn’t want to go through the mirror. When he did, this happened.”
“When was your first adventure?” asked Vincent.
“We got back 6 weeks ago,” answered Tim.
Tim and Sherrell said good-bye to Vincent and went back through the building. (They found all kinds of things which I will not go into detail about.) Then in late afternoon on the stairs between the 4th and 5th floors, a salesman stopped them to look at the bags he was selling. Tim stepped up, but Sherrell stayed back. Tim looked into the bag. Meanwhile the vampire got ready to bite him. Sherrell remembered what Vincent had told her.
“Run, Tim!” she yelled.
Tim quickly ran upstairs making the vampire (salesman) put his head in his own bag. He quickly went after Tim while he was running downstairs. Sherrell watched them go up and down, up and down the stairs.
Then somebody on the 5th floor asked what was going on out there. The vampire quickly went up the stairs and bit that person.
“That is enough for now,” he said.
Then they both vanished and that person was never seen again.
Tim and Sherrell were talking back on the 4th floor.
“I wonder what the vampire was doing selling bags?” wondered Sherrell.
Tim quickly picked up the bag and listened to it.
“Get back Sherrell!” he yelled running towards the window, opening it, and throwing it outside.
The vampire came from a mist in the back with his fangs out. Suddenly he realized he was falling and vanished less than 6 inches from the ground. Tim and Sherrell watched. They were disappointed to see him get away.
Vincent came back.
“How is everything going?” he asked.
“Fine,” they both said at the same time.
“Do we want to go on, though it has nothing to do with the vampire?” asked Vincent.
“Of course,” they both answered.
They quickly went back into the room where Vincent had started the story.
“Well,” continued Vincent. “Nobody knows much about Rebecca but she wondered on both sides. She raised 4 kids (one of which is your father). When they got older, my father decided to live on this side. Kathy followed, then Lisa, and finally when Robert (Rebecca’s husband died) Rebecca left and was never seen again.”
“That would make her over 150 years old,” declared Tim.
“And over 100 when our father was born,” added Sherrell.
“She aged slower mysteriously,” replied Vincent. “And now you know where you stand.”
They both thanked him for the story and left. They went down to the 3rd floor to see what was there. Just then the vampire appeared on top of the building and another wind came up. Sherrell quickly ran downstairs. She was outside in 30 seconds. Tim followed and caught up. They kept on running until they were ½ a mile away. The vampire didn’t know they were gone and kept on making the wind.
“I am tired,” puffed Tim.
“Me too,” puffed Sherrell. “How will we destroy him?”
“I don’t know,” replied Tim. “but we must find a way.”
“I don’t know either,” added Sherrell and there they stopped to rest.
When they woke up it was nighttime. They got up and walked some more. It was dark and scary (especially if you knew that a vampire was after you) yet they walked on.
Meanwhile the vampire was searching room by room, floor by floor (starting at the top and going down).
Tim and Sherrell looked back on the city. It was closer than they thought. It slowly vanished behind the hill.
The vampire realized they left the building and knew they didn’t stay in the city (4 big blocks), so he began searching for them.
“How long do we have to go on like this?” asked Tim.
“I’m not sure,” answered Sherrell. “But we haven’t eaten since breakfast.”
More and more, Sherrell and Tim at this point began to think about food. They thought about it so much that they forgot about being scared and about the vampire. They decided to go back. Then they remembered about the vampire. They had to keep going or face the vampire and be killed.
The vampire had found their trail and he was following them. He moved quickly (though not as quick as Tim and Sherrell when they first started out) to keep their trail. He soon passed their resting spot. He made himself disappear and reappear where he thought they were. He overestimated so he hid in the bushes (like he did Allen) and waited for them to come.
Way back in the distance he could see two dots moving at a slow speed. It was Tim and Sherrell, very hungry and very tired. The vampire didn’t know this and waited to see who it was.
“I don’t think we should walk any further,” stated Tim.
“Why not?” asked Sherrell.
“I feel danger ahead,” declared Tim.
“I believe you,” stated Sherrel. “Let’s rest. I want to do that anyway.”
The vampire saw then resting and snuck up to the tree closest to the bush, then went to the next tree, and the next bush, and so on and so forth. They would have heard him if they weren’t tired. (The vampire’s not that good a sneaker.) If they weren’t tired, they would have heard a far off noise. And they were so hungry they couldn’t get their mind off the thought of food and shelter.
The vampire was past the 1st hill. (They went on top of the third hill. The vampire couldn’t see that it was Tim and Sherrell.) He quickly ran down the hill.
“Did you hear a noise?” asked Tim.
“Yes,” answered Sherrell. “It came from one of those bushes over there.”
The vampire got absoultely quiet.
“It was probably a wild animal,” stated Tim.
“Probably,” agreed Sherrell.
Soon the vampire started up the 2nd hill. When he got to the top he could see who they were, so he quickly got out his magic disk and disappeared. He reappeared right in front of Tim and Sherrell. The vampire quickly hypnotized them before they could get away.
“I have won! I have won!!” yelled the vampire.
“I have won! I have won. I have won. I have won,” came the echo.
The vampire quickly got out his magic disk and all 3 of them vanished in a purple mist.
When they woke up, it was early the next morning and they were in some sort of cylendar container.
“Welcome to Vampire Country,” welcomed the vampire. “I shall save you two. You’re breakfast!”
The vampire pointed at Tim. Sherrell looked for a way out.
“I don’t make a very good breakfast,” Tim stated.
With that the vampire left.
“What has a solid floor, round walls, and a ceiling you can push open?” Sherrell asked.
“This is no time for jokes!” Tim yelled.
“The answer is this place,” said Sherrell.
They both looked at each other and knew neither one needed to say anything else. Sherrell took a jump. Missed by a mile. Now Tim. Not much better. Sherrell took a high jump and touched the top but could not push it. Tim took a high jump. He got the top to wobble but that was all. From then on each jump got lower and lower and lower.
“I got an idea!” exclaimed Tim. “Get on my shoulder and push the top off.”
Tim got on his knees so Sherrell could get on his shoulders. Then Tim very carefully got back on his feet. Sherrell pushed the top off, jumped to the ground, and landed safely. After getting herself together, she started looking for a way to get Tim out. Tim waited impatiently for Sherrell to come back. Five minutes later, Sherrell came back with a ladder.
Tim looked at her, then the ladder as he started to climb. Then very quietly they snuck out the building. Sherrell, in the lead, was getting hungry again. As soon as they got out they ran for it.
“Turn right!” commanded Tim. “I remember that South Vanaria is also know as Vampire Country.”
“And it’s morning,” added Sherrell. “So the sun’s in the east and it’s directly behind us.”
They turned. Sherrell got tired and hungry, more with each step they took. Tim was watching. He gave her a nudge to speed up. Now they were running side by side, then jogging, then trotting, then walking. They were just about to rest when they spotted something that made them run again.
A farm, vampires didn’t need to eat food. When they got to the farm they each had 2 ears of corn.
“I wish we could repay whoever lives here for the food we took,” commented Sherrell.
“Maybe we can,” suggested Tim.
“What are you talking about?” questioned Sherrell. “We don’t have any Vanarian money.”
“Maybe we do,” said Tim making himself look older and wiser than Sherrell (the difference is slightly over 3 ½ minutes). “Remember those coins our father gave us? (12 each) I happen to have one with me and according to the story our father can go through it too.”
They went in. (It was a screen door and it was left unlocked.) They put the coin next to the stove and four corn husks there too and left feeling much better. There was no need to run because nobody was chasing them.
They continued to move north. They’d see something to let them know where they were. Even if they went too far east or too far west, something would let them know they had done so.
Meanwhile Vincent was worried and was ready to follow them when suddenly an idea popped into his head. Go to the house of Rebecca. He didn’t know how the idea popped into his head. He just looked to see where it was and went there.
Meanwhile the vampire was ready. He appeared in the S.V.B.S.C. (Space Vampire’s Blood Sucking Chaimber or the cynender container they were first in) only there was no blood to suck. The vampire figured they had enough sense to go north so he went north. Soon he got to the farm. He knew they had been there recently. He quickly vanished and reappeared on the other side of the corn field.
Tim and Sherrell were just out of his sight. Suddenly the north wind (which had been no problem for them so far) began to blow real hard as the purple mist thickened.
“You know what this means!” yelled Tim.
“Let’s hold hands so we don’t get lost,” explained Sherrell.
Right between the two of them the mist seemed the thickest.
“Your hand is cold!” said Tim.
“Yours is too,” added Sherrell.
They both felt up with their free hand.
“THE VAMPIRE!” they yelled.
They ran directly away from the vampire just as lightening struck on both sides of the vampire where they would have been standing. The vampire went after Tim. He ran as far as his legs would carry him against the wind. And as for Sherrell, she was busy dodging lightening bolts.
They both went directly against the wind. The mist got clearer and clearer and the wind was blowing down on them more and more. Finally it was blowing straight down. It was hard to get through it and very hard with a vampire chasing you or trying to dodge lightening bolts.
When they finally got past that, it was mysteriously clear with no wind at all. Directly south of them there was a large two story house. To the west there was a large mountain range extending from where they were to the house and beyond. They saw a distant figure near the southeastern horizon. They watched it as it got bigger and bigger. Eventually it began to take shape.
“Vincent!” they both yelled.
“Tim! Sherrell!” he replied. “Boy am I glad to see you. I thought I’d never see you again … This year at least.”
“We did too,” said Sherrell.
“How did you find us?” added Tim.
“I wasn’t trying to find you,” explained Vincent who was right next to them now. “After you left the vampire searched every spot in the building. When he didn’t find you, he left. I don’t know where. I thought he got you and I was worried about you. I got as much sleep as usual. The next morning an idea popped into my head saying to come here and there you were.”
Tim and Sherrell told their story. They had just finished when the purple mist started moving towards them. Then the mist was gone and the vampire was there.
“Hey! It was a false alarm,” stated Sherrell.
“Don’t you believe it,” disagreed Tim.
A ray came out of the magic disk towards them. Sherrell and Vincent didn’t see the ray so it got them, sealing them in a purple electronic cage. Tim however saw it and got out of the way. Suddenly they all could see the vampire.
“I thought you wanted to see your relative’s end!” declared the vampire as he walked towards Tim.
“This isn’t 150 years yet,” Tim said backing up from the vampire. “It’s a couple of months early.”
“So I just have a fast watch,” answered the vampire.
Tim turned and ran until he got to the mountain. It was too steep. Fortunately a magic disk (green) was in the mountain and fell right into Tim’s hands.
“Let’s see how you like a taste of your own medicine!” shouted Tim.
He fired a ray to release Sherrell and Vincent. The vampire fired one at Time, but Tim quickly fired one back. The two rays hit each other about 4/5 of the way. It was already closer to Tim and slowly getting closer.
“He helped us now it’s our turn to help him,” commanded Sherrell.
Sherrell ran to the mountain and started to climb, but Sherrell’s hands just weren’t made for the job.
“Where there’s a will there’s a way” was her motto. The 3rd time she made it up. She certainly had the will and found the way. Sherrell dug with her hands and found about 5 magic disks. Sherrell had to act fast. She jumped down, got up, and ran.
His luck was just about to run out when Sherrell came. He was glad to see Sherrell AND THE MAGIC DISKS. They put them together and a ray came out with every color of the rainbow (except orange). That colorful ray was much too powerful for the purple ray. The point where the two rays met began to move towards the vampire.
There had to be an explosion where the two rays met sometime and it did right next to the vampire making the mountain cave it on him. When the rocks stopped and the smoke cleared off, there was just a pile of rocks where the vampire used to be.
“Do you think the vampire’s gone?” asked Sherrell.
“I think so and I hope so,” Tim replied.
“Let’s go home,” commanded Sherrell. “Take us back to the city.”
They followed Vincent until they got to the city. From there they took turns leading until they got to the wall.
“Now we must find the exact spot,” explained Tim.
They all felt on the wall for a special opening. But alas that was not the last of the vampire, for if they were still by the mountain they would have seen some rocks fall out from the pile. They still hadn’t found the opening. A hand was out reaching from the pile to one of the magic disks. He got one. A ray came out of the magic disk making the rocks vanish one by one. He pushed the last rock to the side and sat up. He wondered where they could have gone off to. He thought a little while. He decided that they must return to the city sooner or later.
“Here I come,” said the vampire getting up.
He put the magic disk next to his heart (if vampire’s have hearts) and vanished in a mysterious purple mist.
Meanwhile Sherrell, Tim, and Vincent were still searching for the opening to the world they (Tim and Sherrell at least) knew best and called home.
“Found it yet?” asked Sherrell.
“Not yet,” answered Vincent.
Suddenly Tim felt the very center of the wall. His hand seemed to pass through.
“Did you see that?” asked Vincent.
Just then a purple mist formed right in front of them. Sherrell felt her heartbeat quicken. They started grouping towards Tim.
“How did the vampire know where we are,” they wondered.
They were so close to victory and now it could all end right here. Then (just like they worried and thought would happen) the vampire appeared. He took the magic disk and pointed it at them and a ray came at them.
“JUMP!” yelled Tim jumping into the magic mirror.
Sherrell and Vincent had no time to disagree. They jumped in too just as the ray hit the mirror.
“Where did they go?” thought the vampire for he didn’t know about the magic mirror 150 years ago and still didn’t know about it. The ray hit the mirror and bounce back towards the vampire. The vampire yelled for if the ray touched him at all he would vanish never to be seen in that would forever (as far as I know). They ray swirled around the vampire but would it hit him?
When they thought it was safe, they all went through the mirror. Tim and Sherrell said good-bye to Vincent and left going back home. They would see him again someday and maybe they would explore the mysterious house they saw.
When they did they saw no trace of the vampire. They would have said the vampire was gone for good except that’s what they said about the explosion right next to the vampire. They saw no vampire body, no purple mist, no lightening, nothing to show whether the vampire was destroyed or escaped again.
The only thing that Time and Sherrell saw that had anything to do with the vampire, was the remains of a cracked magic disk.
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