PANDEMIC

Well, BOILS AND GHOULS, I, CREEPS, am HACK I mean BACK with another SCARE-RENADE that you all can SINK YOUR TEETH INTO hee-hee-hee! It was a DIE-A-BOLICAL DISEASE spreading fast. A rather FANG-TASTIC-FABLE OF FRIGHT I call...

It was over in south-Germany, back in 1970, that a man dressed in a black trench-coat and hat, wearing a pair of sunglasses wandered through a small town one summer day. He had a white face mask on and his skin was pale-white. The man walked into a bar and sat down up, at the bar. "Good afternoon, herr, vhat vill it be?" the bartender asked the man. "Ah, good afternoon to ye sir. I vill have ye strongest vhiskey please" he responded, answering. "Ah, yes, indeed herr" the bartender said with a smile and poured a bottle of German whiskey into a glass. "Zank ye sir!" the man said to the bartender and, reached into a pocket of his trench-coat, and pulled out a small pouch. He handed it to the bartender. The bartender opened it and poured out a small pile of pure silver coins. "Ah, zese are pure silver herr!!" he told the man, surprised. "Yes, indeed, they are sir. From Transylvania" the man said, explaining. "Vell, zank ye herr!" the bartender said, gratefully. "Ye are quite velcome sir" the man said, put his hand up to his face, and lowered his white face mask, hiding his nose with his hand. He drink the German whiskey. When he finished his drink, he pulled his face mask back up and looked at the bartender. "I am on ze look out for really bad people here vithin zis town sir. Fore I vill put an end to zem" he told the bartender. "Are ye a policeman herr?" the bartender asked. "No sir. Vhat I am is ancient indeed. Fore zere vill be a great pandemic. But, all ze vicked people shall be infected ye see" the man said, explaining to the bartender. "Vhat is ye name herr?" the bartender asked him, with a weird look on his face. "I am known as Count Rupert sir!" he responded, introducing himself as. Then, Count Rupert left the bar.

As Count Rupert wandered down the street with cars passing by him, he noticed a three teenage bullies on the corner of the street, surrounding a boy. "Come on, Finn, give us ye fishing-pole!" one of the teenage bullies said to the boy meanly. "No, Elias, my Father vill be right out of ze store" Finn said to him. "Give us that fishing pole, Finn now!" Elias ordered and shoved the boy to the ground. Finn screamed out in pain and Elias took his fishing rod from him. He and the two other bullies ran around the corner then. Count Rupert came to the street corner and helped Finn to his feet. "Good afternoon, my boy, are ye alright?" Count Rupert asked him. "Good afternoon, herr, yes I am zank ye" Finn responded, gratefully. "Zat is good. I vill get ye fishing rod back for ye my boy" Count Rupert said to him and rushed around the corner. He saw Elias and the two other bullies walking out of town with Elias carrying Finn's fishing pole. Count Rupert caught up to them and said, "excuse me young man, I believe ye have zat boy's fishing rod" to Elias. "Yah, it's Finn's herr, vhat are ye going to do about it?" Elias responded to him, asking. Count Rupert took it out of his hand and walked off. "Come on!" Elias told the other bullies and they chased Count Rupert. Count Rupert gave the fishing-rod back to Finn, but the three bullies showed up. Elias was behind Count Rupert and he pulled a knife out of his pocket then, aiming it at him.

The teenage bully stabbed him in his back and dark-blue slime dripped out of his trench-coat. Count Rupert hissed eerily, turning around at once. "I am going to kill ye first, then I am going to kill Finn herr!!" Elias said to him and Count Rupert lowered his face mask of white, revealing milky-white fangs in the daylight. He also did not have a nose, just a black nose-hole. Count Rupert was a vampire and he attacked Elias, gripping the bully's shoulders and sinking his fangs into the side of his throat, Elias screamed along with the two other bullies who then were also holding knives. People in cars were honking their horns and screaming, seeing the vampire. The thing let go of the bully and Elias transformed into one, his skin becoming a pale white, his eyes become a solid-black, his hair vanishing as he thrashed. The bully became a pale-white vampire, that was bald, with a black nose-hole. Now being a vampire, Elias tore off his clothes, having a pale-white, featureless body, and looked up at the sun, hissing away eerily. He ran off around the corner and the two other bullies grabbed Finn by his shoulders. They both were about to stab him, when Count Rupert hissed at them eerily and bit the one's neck, causing him to let out a scream. The vampire then bit the third bully in the side of his throat, making him scream too. They both transformed into vampires themselves then, writhing and looking exactly like Elias did. The pale-skinned-vampires gazed up, at the sun with their solid-black eyes and ripped off their clothes, also having featureless bodies of pale white. They hissed and ran around the street corner as well then. Count Rupert pulled his face mask up and raced around it too then.

A man came out of a store by the street corner and Finn grabbed his hand. "Father, please come vith me quickly!" he said to the man. "Alright, Finn, that's zis all about Son?" Finn's Father asked, going around the corner with him. Count Rupert rushed into a warehouse and the bullies who were vampires hissing eerily within the darkness of the place. The warehouse-door opened and in rushed Finn and his father. "Ah, velcome, Finn my boy" Count Rupert said. "Zank ye, Count Rupert herr. He saved me from Elias and those other bullies, Father" Finn replied to the vampire and then told his father. "Ah, I see Finn. Zank ye for saving my Son herr" Finn's father said to him, then thanked Count Rupert. "My pleasure sir. Do not fear both of ye. Fore I am a vampire and I made ye tormentors into vampires as vell to keep zem from causing more vickedness!" the vampire said to Finn's father, then explained to Finn. "Zey took refuge from ze sunlight within zis dark varehouse here. Zat is vhy I vear sunglasses vithin ze sunlight!" he went on explaining. "I shall dispose of zem ze vay vampires are disposed of. I vill create a pandemic for ze evil humans zat I find, making zem vampires so ze vill hide from ze daylight, to keep zem from doing more harm. Then dispose of zem all" Count Rupert explained to Finn and Finn's father.

Count Rupert removed his white face mask and his sunglasses, showing his pupil less eyes of pure black, his black nose-hole and his fangs. Finn's father gasped in fright and put his arm around his son. The other vampires hissed at Count Rupert and he turned eerily hissing back at them then. A teenage girl came into the warehouse then and called out: "Elias, are ye in here babe? I hope ye vere going to kill zat little jerk Finn like ye planned to". "Oh no Father and Count Rupert herr, it's Elias's Girlfriend, Ursula!" Finn told them. Ursula looked their way and said to Finn: "oh, it's ye, Finn. My Boyfriend Elias is going to kill ye, ye little jerk! But if he does not, I vill". Ursula held up a gun and Finn and his father both gasped in fear and surprise at it. Ursula then saw Count Rupert and screamed, as he hissed eerily at her. She shot him, but only more dark-blue slime oozed out of the vampire's trench-coat around its chest. She ran into a closet and latched the door in the dark. The four vampires crept to the closet and hissed eerily. Ursula heard their hisses from within the closet and then the sounds of pounding on the closet-door started. The voice of Count Rupert called to Ursula: "Ursula, ve know vhere ye are young lady. Join ze pandemic of vampires zat I vill create to infect ye vicked humans sat I discover". As the group of vampires pounded on the closet door and hissed with their fangs, Finn and his father watched in horror. Ursula found a telephone and picked up the receiver then.

"Hello, please help me! My name is Ursula Fischer! I am locked in ze closet of ze varehouse vithin town here. Please send ze police!!" Ursula said on the phone, panicking as the vampires pounded on the door, hissed and the voice of Count Rupert repeated, "Join ze pandemic, Ursula! Join ze pandemic, Ursula! Join ze pandemic, Ursula! Join ze pandemic, Ursula!". Just then, Count Rupert got a wooden stake out of his black trench-coat and, put his hand on one of the other vampire's shoulders, making them turn around, and stabbed them in the chest with it. The vampire hissed eerily in pain and melted into a spot of white slime. Finn and Finn's father screamed and ran out of the warehouse together. Count Rupert jabbed the second vampire in its chest with the wood stake, causing it to hiss in pain and melt. Then, Count Rupert plunged the third vampire in its chest, causing it to eerily hiss and melt. It was quiet within the dark-warehouse, as Count Rupert stepped to the side of the closet-door. Suddenly, the closet opened slowly and Ursula Fischer peeked her head out of it. The terrifying face of the vampire came hissing into her face, she screamed and Count Rupert sank his sharpened-fangs of white directly into Ursula's throat. Then, as the vampire watched with its pure black eyes blinking, Ursula Fischer writhed about, transforming into a vampire, looking just like it. As the brand new vampire hissed and writhed with its solid-black eyes blinking, and white fangs growing within its mouth, the pale-white thing eerily hissed and ripped off its dress. It also had a featureless pale body, just like the others did. As the bald vampire hissed within the darkness of the warehouse, Count Rupert hissed back at it and plunged the wooden stake into its heaving-chest. The vampire let out a high-pitched screech of pain, wailing and shrieking terrifyingly, as it melted into another spot of white slime. Count Rupert put his wood stake back into his black trench coat, pulled his white face mask up, over his mouth and black nose-hole, put his sunglasses back on and walked out of the warehouse then. "Ah, I am Count Rupert and my pandemic of ze vicked humans zat I discover from land to land, vill continue. Have a vonderful day my boy and sir" he said, seeing Finn and Finn's father outside the warehouse. Count Rupert wandered off out of the town, as Finn and his father smiled at each other in relief.

Well, Ursula Fischer played a game of HIDE AND SHRIEK eh, kids? As for Finn, he learned he could COUNT ON RUPERT to help him ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Count Rupert's victims have to CREEP outta the SUN-FRIGHT, but don't know that he has prepared a STAKE for them aha-ha-ha-ha-ha.