There, lying on the floor, bleeding, was Scarlet. Her breath was rapid.She was covered in mud and dirt.She looked like she'd been dragged through Hell and back.
Scarlet's friends were watching her with looks of horror on their faces. A police woman was standing solemnly beside them.
Caitlin screamed in anguish and rushed forward to her daughter. She grabbed her limp body and pulled her into her chest.
“Drink, Scarlet,”she said, offering her arm to her dying daughter.“Drink. Please!”
Scarlet was trying to say no but she couldn't make a sound at all.
“Listen to me,”Caitlin said sternly.“I've read all the prophecies, all the texts and books and literature. I've been transported to Egypt, to the lost vampire city beneath the sphinx.I am the last vampire, Scarlet.Not you.Drink my blood and you'll become human again.”
As soon as Caitlin said the words‘human again’a strange look passed over Scarlet's eyes. It was a look of grief, a mournful sorrow.But the girl took her mother's arm in her mouth nonetheless.A tear trickled from her eye as she bit into the flesh and began to drink.
Caitlin winced but didn't want her daughter to see her in pain. She rocked Scarlet back and forth like a baby, trying to soothe her.Caleb stood by his wife, rubbing her shoulders, trying his best not to weep, to look like the strong protector he was supposed to be.
Scarlet drank and drank, and as she did so, she grew stronger. But Caitlin, in turn, became weaker.Then, suddenly, Caitlin lost consciousness.She fell to her side, flopping against the marble floor with a thud.Caleb swooped her up into his arms and settled her into a window seat, holding her limp body tightly against his.
“I'm sorry!”Scarlet cried as sat up and wiped the tears and blood from her face.
She stood and ran over to her parents.
“Mom!”she screamed.“Mom, I'm sorry!Wake up. Please!”
But it was too late, her mother was on the brink of death, and Scarlet knew that if she died, it would be all her fault.
The doors to the mansion burst open and Kyle ran in, covered in mud from his wrestle with Sam on the banks of the Hudson. He surveyed the carnage, took in the sight of his floundering vampire army, and roared in despair.
“You!”he said, seeing Scarlet.
He zoomed towards her as quickly as a bullet from a gun and grabbed her round the throat, wrenching her into the air. Caleb leapt up and pounced at Kyle.He began pummelling Kyle's back but it was no use.Kyle was far too strong and far too determined to be stopped.
As Scarlet dangled in the air, kicking her feet, Kyle squeezed. The look in his eye was one of murderous intent.
Then all at once, Kyle froze. He dropped Scarlet and staggered to the side as though in tremendous pain.Something was happening.Something strange and mystical.
“You're human!”he cried, spitting out the word at Scarlet like an accusation.
Scarlet touched herself all over. It was true.Her mother had been right.She'd had taken the vampire out of Scarlet and turned her back into a human.
But that meant that Kyle no longer had a sire. The mystical vampire bloodline that passed from one vampire to the next was gone, evaporating like steam from a puddle.It was as though it had never existed.
Kyle clutched his chest as he was gripped by pain. Elsewhere in the mansion, the sounds of screaming and shouting began ringing out.
“What's happening?”Scarlet cried.
It was Caleb who answered. His expression was gravely serious.
“They're reverting back to humans,”he said.“Without their sire, the vampire part of them is disappearing.”
“I don't understand,”Scarlet said.
Caleb looked back over at Caitlin slumped in the window seat.
“Your mother is an extraordinary woman,”he said. He smiled in spite of his anguish, proud of her wife and that amazing brain of hers.“She's changed the timeline, changed the course of events.By reverting back to the original vampire, it's as though you were never a vampire in the first place.And if you were never a vampire, then he couldn't have been turned.”He pointed at where Kyle was writhing on the floor in agony.“It's like he never existed in the first place.”
Scarlet watched on, her mouth agape, as the high schoolers who just moments before had been rampaging through the city streets killing innocent people became suddenly conscious of what they had done.
“Stand down,”Sadie Marlow cried into her megaphone.
She went over to Kyle and handcuffed him. Then everyone looked around as the former teenage vampire army dissolved into sobs of grief.
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