1. Before

I was a pretty normal girl up until my twelfth birthday. That’s when they came. The darks. They had dark hooded cloaks on. I was in my science class set 81b (top set for year eight) when our class room door swung open. Three people came into the room, a female with a pure red cloak and mask on and two men wearing black masks and cloaks. People started screaming and when the teacher couldn't calm everyone down the female pulled out a gun and told the class to "shut the hell up before I use it". Naturally the class shut up.
They split up, so the woman stood at the front of the class and the men stood at the back. Then one of the men started chanting under his breath and the worst pain I had ever experienced exploded in my head. I tried my best not to move or show any sign of the pain in my head, but I couldn't keep quiet for lung and a scream that I was sure people in Australia hear burst through my lips.
Crutching my head I fell to the floor in agony. I heard the chanting stop and slowly the pain left me. Gasping for breath I felt Jeremy's hand on my shoulder (Jeremy was my best friend in those days, the good days. he was always there for me, always when I needed him). I glanced up at him, but he looked wrong, he looked good, too good, and it scared me. His reaction to me was even worst though. He gasped and took several steps back. What was wrong? Why didn't he want to be near me, argh this was confusing.
I looked into his eyes and all I could see was fear. He was scared!! ! After about ten seconds of looking into his eyes everything went black then back again, no not back again I was looking at me! How? Was I could think.
Looking at myself I saw why Jeremy was scared, I was scared. I was paler than normal, my hair was curlier and it was the colour of fire and my eyes were a menacing red colour and were gazing straight into my eyes, no not my eyes, Jeremy's eyes. I was in his head. But that was impossible was all I could think. I was me and Jeremy was Jeremy.
Through Jeremy's eyes I saw one of the men come over to me and hit me hard across the face. Pain boiled in my cheek pulling me back into reality, MY reality. I started shaking. What had just happened? Jeremy staggered back, his breathing ragged.
"w-what was t-that," I staggered at the cloaked man behind me. Then I froze. Had I just said that? I was sure I had but that wasn't my voice. It was too bell like, like you could dance when you heard it.
"Hmm. powerful," he said ignoring me "we could use her couldn't we Jane?" Jane looked me up and down. "I'm not sure," she finally said "she looks a bit small." small!! ! I was the tallest in my year! A small growl escaped my lips. Jane looked at me like she amused. A chuckle came from behind me. Great now they were laughing at me. Anger suddenly pulsed through me and I felt it leave me but it was still in me. The wave of anger hit something and I heard a gasp from behind me and stood up and spun around. The cloaked person who had been behind me was pinned to the wall. I stood there staring at him. I was doing this. I could feel it. The other guy suddenly came in front of me and grabbed me by the throat. "What are you doing?" he snarled in my face. What was I doing? What was I doing? I didn't have the slightest clue what I was doing. Who did he think he was, talking to me like that? This made me angrier so I let the man who was pinned to the wall go, and focused my energy on the rude, tall man in front of me. He lost his hold on me and flew to the other side of the classroom, hitting the wall.
Crouching he started snarling at me. I snarled back. "Enough," a loud voice came from the front of the room. Jane. "come." for some reason I felt like I had to follow her order, so, slowly I followed her out of the class room with the two men close behind.
When they all got in a van I wasn't sure what to do so just stood looking at it for a while. "You coming or not," the man who had been rude to me earlier said. I bared my teeth at him and got in. oh my god. I had just bared my teeth at him, and earlier I was growling and snarling. What was happening? "Hey, get out of la la land and focus," Jane said snapping me into reality "I'm Jane and this it...."
"Ben," the rude one said "and..."
"Joe," the last one said "what's your name?"
"Charlotte," I said then quickly added "but everyone calls me Charlie. Who are you?"
"You ask too many questions. Now who wants Charlie?" Jane said. She was, apparently, the leader of the group.
"I do, I like red heads," Ben said snaking one hand around my waste pulling me closer to him and running two fingers down my cheek and neck. I was seriously uncomfortable. Small growls started escaping my lips as Ben's hand that was stroking me pulled my chin up so that he could brush his lips against my throat. "Ben. I not sure that's the best idea. Remember what happened last time you got the powerful one? We don't want that happening to her," Joe suddenly said seeing or hearing my discomfort. "I'll take her Jane if that's OK?" it looked like Jane was thinking about it, then; suddenly she started the engine of the van. "Yeah Joe your right. Ben you shouldn't have her yet. She’s too powerful. You can have her." a smile played on Joe's lips as he snagged his hand around my waist and pulled me closer. "Don’t worry about Ben. He likes to ... intimidate people. You get what I mean?" he whispered in my ear. I replied with only a nod of the head. “Good. Now sleep." as Joe said it I felt unconsciousness creep up on me and I was soon asleep.
When I woke up I wasn't in the van any more but in a bed. At first I could only hear silence but then I was aware of a figure next to me. The figure was breathing slowly in and out and their heart was beating in a slow rhythmic pattern. I would have thought they were asleep if I couldn't feel their hand stroking my hair.
I stopped breathing. I could hear their heartbeat? But that wasn't possible. "Are you awake yet?" Joe's voice cooed in my ear. Slowly I opened my eyes. I was in a very modern room. There were big white curtains and a huge modern sofa. "Where am I?" I asked ignoring his question. He chuckled. "You’re in your room," he replied from my left. "This isn't my room. My room's red and older than this," I answered back smugly, causing him to laugh again. That’s when I felt it. That same anger that had pulsed through me earlier.
Before I could use it Joe was suddenly on top of me with his hands either side of my face. I flinched under his touch and speed. "Calm down now," he said in a stern voice. "You can't attack anyone like you attacked Ben and me yesterday. If you do you will be in serious trouble. Do you understand?" I nodded as a reply. "Good!" he said then smiled and planted a kiss on my forehead "Now I sense you have more questions for me, but, before you ask I think I can do something that will answer most of them." at the same speed he had travelled to me a second ago he reached behind him and pulled out a small knife. Before I could stop him there was a deep gash in his hand.
My throat exploded. It was like someone had shoved a roasting hot iron down my throat and it hurt. My hands flew to my throat and Joe smiled. He was enjoying this! He moved closer (though I don't know how it was possible, he was already on top of me) and brought his bleeding hand to my lips. Then, without me consciously thinking about it my tongue glided over his wound. Then again and again. I started moaning. It was amazing. His blood was as sweet as nectar, and it soothed the burning. Then he starting pulling his hand away, but too soon, I wanted more. I bit him. Then i started to suck. It was like i needed this more than i needed to breathe!
Chuckling Joe held me down with one hand and pulled his other away and licked it and it just healed.
As the amazement of what had just happened wore of all I was left with was shock. What HAD just happened? Joe climbed off of me and lay at my side. "Your face is priceless." he said looking at me "now... time for questions."
I spent about three hours with Joe that night and however weird the answers he gave me I believed him. In that night I learnt that I had become a vampire and that the mind entering and the anger waves were two of my gifts, but only a few people got gifts and the most anyone had here was three. I was lucky. Apparently it was unusual to show signs of gifts so shortly after been changed let alone been able to use them.
Also, the place I was in was called A Vampires House, and it was basically a big college for vamp students age 10+. The average age for a vamp to die was at 550 years old (we aren’t actually immortal) and in this school we would be trained to kill bad vampires or track down clever human criminals that even the best human detectives couldn’t locate. Basically the school taught you to become an assassin! For the good. I also learnt that Joe had two powers. Firstly he could sense people’s emotions and feeling and charge them. That’s how I fell asleep in the car. The second was that he had heightened senses. He could hear further than anyone, see longer distances, smell things 4 miles away, was extra strong even taste poison in food or water.

2. Training

After Joe had left me for the night (which was now your day) I got dressed into my night cloths and had a wash. Finally looking at myself in the mirror I noticed how different I looked. My eyes were getting a slight brown tinge but my hair really did look like it was on fire. Even my lips were a deeper red than normal. My eyelashes were longer and my skin was as white as snow. I wouldn’t have recognised myself if I didn’t still have that annoying small scare above my right eye (not that you could see it too well now). I could never remember how i got that scar. When i asked mum she always changed the subject.
The bed was nice. It was big and modern like everything else in this room. I got under the white and black silk covers and melted into the mattress. It was like lying on a sheet of the softest feathers, and I soon fell asleep.
I light rapping on the door woke me in the morning. “Mmm,” I murmured. “Can I come in?” Joes slightly amused voice sounded from the other side of the door. “Yeah,” I barely whispered but I knew he had heard me.
He entered the room and took my breath away. He was wearing a white T-shirt that was so tight you could see his muscles rippling every time he breathed in. His light chuckle drew my eyes away from his chest to his face. I smiled weakly. “Morning beautiful,” he said with an answering smile “have a good sleep?” I looked at him for a second. Was he serious? I was many things but I wasn’t beautiful. Looking into his eyes I saw the depth of his comment. “I'm not beautiful,” I said climbing out of bed. "So stubborn!" i heard him say under his breath. I was sure i weren't meant to hear it so i ignored his little comment.
Walking towards the bathroom. I looked at Joe and stopped dead in my tracks when I noticed Joes eyes on me had widened a little. “What?” I asked puzzled. Then I looked down at myself and realized the nightdress I had on came half way up my thighs and was a bit to clingy. Going red I turned around so my back was facing him and started to walk to the bathroom so I could get changed into something more suitable, when I felt his warm arms snag around my waist and pull me closer to him. “If you’re not beautiful, I don’t know what is,” He whispered in my ear than let me go and walked over to my bed. “Go get changed and whatever then come here. Today’s your first day of training". He coughed
My first day of training wasn’t so bad, but I couldn’t say I enjoyed it. I had one on one lessons for six hours straight everyday with Joe. If I did well at the end of the lesson Joe would let me feed from his hand but if I didn’t do well I went hungry for the night which meant I was weaker the next day. It was hard. Joe trained me to push my abilities to my maximum so I was able to control my anger waves and instead of throwing things away from me painfully, I could pick them up and move them were ever I wanted them to go. I could control what people could say and do. I could even enter someone’s mind and talk to them or listen to what they were thinking. I learnt i had two more gifts at "a vamps house" as i liked to call it. The first was i was able to control the 5 elements. Set someone on fire by looking at them. Or make it rain in a drought. I could make a wind blow on a hot day, or create an earthquake when i was mad. I could even see, talk to, and hear spirits. And the second new power was i could take the shape of anyone or anything i wanted.
Joe showed me to improve my skills, but every day i was with him i grew closer to him and him closer to me. It was like that for 85 years. Then school started.

3. Mistake

On my last day of training with just Joe, training had started as normal in school. Joe woke me up at dusk and we went down to the training hall to start, well, training. He had told me that today would be different and that i wouldn't be allowed to use my powers. We were concentrating on armed combat. Apparently some vampires have the ability to turn your powers against you he said though he had never met one. I practised swordsmanship and archery that day. It wasn't until the end that it started to change.
He challenged me to a swords match to finish up with and i agreed - he usually won but that day i was feeling confident.
Drawing his sword he smiled at me. "Ready?" he asked. I bared my teeth at him and he let out a small chuckle. God he was so beautiful when he did that! He lunged at me and i quickly focused on his position. "Tired already?" he asked. He was asking a lot of questions. "You wish!"
Smiling he made a lung to my right but reading his mind i quickly dodged it and struck him in the chest. He yelped and collapse. "Joe!" i said my voice thick with worry. He was just lying there motionless. I quickly knelt beside him and flipped him over.
The next thing i knew i was on my back and Joe was sat on top of me. His face was just inches away from mine. "Never let emotions control you” he said. I kept my eyes away from lips and focused on his eyes. I followed them as they looked below my chin and realized he had a knife held at my throat. The next thing i realized was that the blade had pierced the skin on my neck and that Joe was watching the blood flow freely from the wound hungrily. I watched him warily as he removed the sword and moved his lips to my gash. My body jerked as his fangs pierced my skin but then the pain subsided and there was a growing pressure in my neck. I now understood why Joe moaned every time i fed from him. I gasped as Joe pulled me up and pinned me to the wall, pressing the left side of my face against the wall and feeding from the right side of my neck. Joe jumped back like he had just realized what he was doing and scrambled back. I collapsed on the floor and just lay there breathing heavily. "That shouldn't have happened!" Joe whispered. "Go to bed." i stared at him "W-" i started "Now!" Joe cut in. i ran to my room the fasted i ever had. "What had just happened?" was all i could think to myself.

4. School

I went straight to bed when i got to my room. I needed to think but i couldn't do that until i was well rested. Falling asleep was easy. I just turned off all my senses and let unconsciousness overtake me. It was keeping the dreams away that were hard. I dreamt of Joe and him biting me again and again and of how much i wanted him to kiss me.
I woke up suddenly when i heard an explosion outside my window. That stupid science club! Joe told me once that once i reached 100 i would be allowed to join regular classes and learn all about the sciences and laws of vampire-ism, and, if you wanted to, you could join a club and do experiments after lessons. Unfortunately for me, that day they were blowing up small bombs outside my window. I looked around my room and panicked when my eyes rested on the alarm. I was half an hour late to my first lesson! Joe was going to kill me.
Jumping up i rushed to my closet and pulled out the first set of cloths i could find and chucked them on. Just as i was about to leave i noticed a piece of paper struck on my door:

Dear Charlie,
I knocked earlier but you were asleep. I just wanted to let you know that you will have no more lessons for the next six weeks. Something came up i have to deal with and i need to attend to it.
Training will presume on the 30th of September.
From,
Joe

NO TRAINING FOR SIX WEEKS!! ! What was going on? Joe never cancelled training. Not even when Jane and Ben wanted to talk to him. He always said my well-being was more important. Out of curiosity i decided i would go and spy on him from a distance. I reached for the door handle and tried to turn it. It wouldn't open. I tried again and again but it was locked shut. Why would Joe lock me in? This was so unfair. I walked over and sat on my bed. What could i do? I have never spent the whole day on my own. In my i couldn't go back to sleep- it was too late, and i didn't have any books. In fact thinking about it, i hadn't even see a book since i got here. I would have to ask Joe about it.
I walked over to the computer and turned it on. I had never been one for computers but if i was locked in my room then i would have to occupy myself somehow. i logged on and typed in the name of a game sight i had played on when i was younger

(Arcade Yes)

i loaded the home page up then was stumped. What could i play? Most of the games where strategy games that i could solve in less than half a second. No this wasn't working. The next thing i tried was an old book site i had been of before

(bookrix)

. I spent the rest of the day on the computer reading books on there. It was a bit weird as my age came up as 97 but i looked like i was 15/16. It probably looked like i was a pedo or something!
I went to be at about 6am, which was early for me, as i was bored reading and hoped the quicker morning came the quicker i would be aloud out of my room.

I woke up to a soft knock on my door and a burning sensation in my throat. “Who is it?” I asked tiredly. I wasn’t in the mood for talking to anyone. Not even Joe. I heard the door open and close “rude much?” I stopped talking when I sensed who was in the room. “That’s not very nice,” Bens familiar voice came from behind me “I’m a guest. You are meant to be nice to guests. Isn’t that right. I hear Joes a guest in this room quite often.” There was that evil smile. “Ben gets out of my room!” He walked over to me then grabbed a chunk of my hair. “Maybe I don’t want to,” he snarled “such lovely hair,” he said kissing it. “Shame.” He pulled me up so I was dangling in the air by my hair. It didn’t hurt but it was very uncomfortable. “Get. Off. Of. Me.” I said calmly. When I only got a smile in return I kicked him in the stomach called fire to me. But it was too late.
I felt his teeth pierce my skin then pain erupted down my neck and back. That bite wasn’t feeding it was injecting venom into me. I screamed and thrashed out but Ben had me on the floor. I cried out and he bit me again. The pain was too much. I could feel myself fading slowly. That was when I was sucked into nothing.


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BENS P.O.V

I felt her go limp in my arms. What had I done? I cursed under my breath. I really shouldn’t have done that, no matter what effect she had on Joe. She didn’t know. STOP! The voice in my head commanded. GUILT IS A SIGN OF WEAKNESS. SHE DESERVED TO DIE. SHE’S UNATUARAL. HER PARENTS ARE UNATROL. THINK ABOUT IT. SHES A KINIKY; SHES TOO POWERFUL. SHE COULD KILL YOU IN ONE BREATH. KILL JOE AND JANE IN ONE BREATH. YOU DID RIGHT.
“No. it doesn’t matter what she is or who her parents were. She couldn’t even fight back!” I whispered furiously back at my other side. I had to stop letting it make decisions for me. I HAD to. I looked at the lifeless girl beneath me. Even limp she looked in agony. Before I realised what I was doing, she was in my arms and I was flying down the stairs. Joe was the only one who could save her. This poor, innocent girl.
I crashed into the cancel room where I sensed Jane, Joe, and some of the other most powerful beings were.
“Ben. What is the meaning..” Jane’s hash voice abruptly stopped when she saw the body in my hands.
“CHARLIE! ! !” Joe’s voice screamed as he ran to my side. “what the hell happened” he demanded in my face.
“I was walking by. I-I smelt the blood,” I whispered. Joe took her out of my arms and cried silent tears. “we have to be able to do something!” I begged Jane. THERE’S NOTHING YOU CAN DO! The voice taunted in my voice. ITS OVER. DONE. YOU’VE KILLED HER. THE LAST OF HER KIND AND YOU KILLED HER. I trembled under the power in his voice. If I didn’t control him he would eventually take over my mind and body.
“There's one thing I can think of. But it depends on how she came to this . . . state.” Jane's voice pulled me back to the present.
“She was bit. When I came in there were bite marks on her neck.” I said in a rushed voice , very aware of Joe crying over a now very wet Charlie.
“very well. If you can get Joe off of her then I will be able to perform a healing spell.” I RAN over to Joe and tried to pry her out of her arms. A snarl from Joe was my only result.
“Joe give me her!” I snapped at him “if you want her to live then give her to me!” after a few seconds thinking about it Joe reluctantly handed her over to me. I could see the pain on his face. “ I promise she will live!” I said slowly “ you two are the strongest people I’ve ever met. Don’t give up on her when she most needs you.” I said “ she will pull through!
“she won’t if you wait any longer!” Jane snapped. I was quickly at her side. All the other magical beasts had formed a circle and Jane and I were stood in the middle. “lie her down so the back of her neck is on the red powder,” she said. “this will help clean the wounds.” I did as I was told and lay her body on the marble floor. “ you may go now,” she said to me. I walked out the circle quickly and stood by Joe. “hums-te way, tu vent ur way, lim start ur way, healovo!” Jane chanted in the old language. Slowly Charlie’s body started to twitch awake.

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Tag der Veröffentlichung: 16.11.2010

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