A Modern Myth

[damiana]

~*~ Rayna's POV ~*~


On the ride home, we all decided to take the backroads to get home, they were longer but there was no traffic which is a plus for us. Rem and Lovella were riding with me in my car, Mason was riding shotgun with Tryst and Wyatt was driving Trysts other car his 2007 camaro in a dark lime green color with white racing stripes running down the hood and back, Lian was riding with him.

While I was following the respectful speed limit Wyatt started to speed up a bit...a whole lotta bit and passed me heading for Tryst's car a head of me, he was definently in a racing mood.

He made his way along side of Tryst and was probobly mocking him, egging him on to race, and of course Tsyst fell for the bait. Engines were revved and they both went speeding foward. A bit later my phone rang.

"Hello?" I asked.... it was Wyatt

"Oh what your not gonna race with us, too afraid I'd beat you... yea that's what I thought" He said with a cocky tone in his voice.

"You know if there ever was a cop on this rode you guys would be going to jail and I will be back here laughing my butt off, oh and I wouldn't bail you out either, any of you... except for Mase, he's done nothing wrong" I replied

"Just a minute someones on the other line" he put me on old, I can not believe he did that. I took the phone away from my ear and looked at it angrily. There was a click on the phone and Wyatt was back with Tryst on the line too.

"Yea she admitted she was to scared to race. ' oh there might be cops I have to be careful' those were her exact words" Wyatt lied

My mouth fell open. "I never said that" I yelled, Tryst was laughing in the background and I fell silent

"I can get her to race" he simply said then hung up ending both calls. I set my phone in the cup holder and watched up ahead. There was a big dust cloud as Tryst wiped his car around and started speeding towards me.

In a matter of seconds he was sweeping by my car with only a foot or less between us. He seriously can't be thinking of ramming my car, I was outraged. He flipped his car around again and I hit the gas, so did he. As we flew past Wyatt I could tell that he was laughing hysterically in the car.

On the race home we were neck to neck.... But I won, I think he let me though.

An hour went by since we all got to my house and everybody was getting hungry so I headed to the kitchen to fix something, not really sure what though.

"I want tacos dammit" Wyatt yelled into the kitchen then ran into here. "Did you hear me" he yelled again. "Yes I heard you!" I yelled back he smiled and kept mumbling about tacos. If he wants tacos I'll give him tacos or ratherly known as payback for lieing.

"Ok there done" I shouted and Wyatt was the first to get into the kitchen I handed him a plate with about 7 tacos on it, he didn't thank me but he did add a rude comment. "Hey Tryst I think your in trouble she gave me a lot of tacos and she keeps smiling at me, I think she's into me or something". Tryst just rolled his eyes. I grabbed a couple tacos myself and went to the living room to watch my master plan unravel.

I was on my second taco when he was starting his last one. He was all happy then his stomach started making funny noises. "Dude didn't you just eat like 7 tacos, how can you still be hungry?" Tryst asked

"I'm not, but my stomach hurts, maybe I ate them to fast" He thought

"It couldn't be that, I've seen you eat a whole pot full of mac'n'cheese, a bucket full of chicken and gulp down two liters of coke, and you didn't have a stomach ache then." Rem said

Wyatt ignored her then got this weird look on his face.... A look that had to use the bathroom.

He got up and ran to the door in the hall, and knocked on the door. "Love, get out I have to go" He shouted clutching his stomach "Your gonna have to wait, I'm busy" she said calmly.

"No you don't understand I really have to go....like bad" he was getting extremely impatient and is stomach continued to tie up into knots. There was no reply. He growled in frustrating them slammed the door open anyways.

There was a scream then Lovella was kicked out into the hallway, she must have just finished taking a shower because she was in nothing but a towel. She screamed again then pounded on the now locked door.

"GO AWAY!" Wyatt shouted, now we could start to hear a certain bodily function going on... and it was starting to smell. Lovella plugged her nose pouted then went to her room.

I got up and put my dishes in the sink then grabbed an empty bottle on the counter. "What did you put in his food?" Tryst asked I showed him the bottle and he started laughing his head off. Rem took the bottle from my hand. "You put a whole bottle of laxatives in his tacos.... that's genius" she started laughing too.

Through out the rest of the night every time Wyatt thought he was done, he wasn't and ran back into the bathroom. I think I might have to take the toilet out staralize everything and get a new one.

After a while I fell asleep on the couch and when I awoke in the morning I found Wyatt sleeping in the tub so I turned on the shower for him. His eyes snapped open and looked at me.

"You stink" I said then walked out. I walked back to the living room and Mase was fast asleep on the other side of the couch I opened the door to the guest bedroom trying to find Rem but she wasn't in there Lovella was getting ready for school while Lian was sleeping on Rem's bed. I shut the door gently, trying not to slam it.

Rem was in my room, I guess she couldn't stand them either I let her be then went to the kitchen where I found Tryst making breakfast. I walked to the stove and brabbed some bacon then went to go wake up Rem.

[×|{å†ìe×]

~<>~Kynaree's POV~<>~

I was about to exit the alley but a moan escaped from the wimpy guy that I rescued. I went to check on him, he was curled up on the ground from when the guy dropped him. I poked him with the toe of my shoe. "You okay?"

"Are they gone?" he asked in a hoarse voice.

"Yep" I answered and held out my hand to help him up. He scrambled for his glasses and slid them up his nose. He accepted my help and I pulled him up while shaking his hand, "My name's Kynaree."

"Win," he replied and took a tissue out of his jacket pocket to wipe away his bloody nose. The brown jacket was unzipped and underneath he was wearing a polo shirt with a checkered sweater-vest covering it. I scanned him from top to bottom and seen a geeky-nerd.

"Win? What's that short for?" I asked politely.

He seemed kind of disgusted, "Do I really have to say it?" I nodded. It took him a second to answer, probably debating with or not to tell me, he finally said, "Winchester."

"Winchester?" I repeated, no wonder why he got teased. "That's.. different."

"It's a family thing" was his response. Now it was his turn to ask the questions. The huge thick-rimmed glasses were covering a set of dark brown eyes. His black hair was shiny, like there was a layer of grease on it and it almost looked fake. "How did you scare them off?"

"I, er... What? It--um, I didn't do anything!" I practically scrambled, trying not to look guilty but failing epically.

"Er, okay" he didn't look as disturbed as I thought he would, "Thanks for the hand. I'll see you around school I guess."

"School?" I asked, keeping the conversation going. That horrible habit of mine made me a very annoying being to be around.

"Yeah, we go to the same school," I thought back trying to remember if I ever seen his goofy dark hair or his nerdy glasses. He rolled his eyes, "Yeah, big school. I doubt you remember me, I just know you because of the hair," he tapped on his head, as if I didn't know what hair was... "I sit behind you in Orchestra and two seats away in History. We also share the same Art class... nice singing by the way," he added the last part as if to prove he really was in my classes.

"Oh" I didn't know whether I should have found this flattering or scary. I just mostly felt bad for the freaky guy, he was most likely a stalker though. He laughed at my expression and walked out of the alley. Yeah, I decided on being scared.

The weekend went by at it's normal schedule from there and before I knew it I was back in school. Valkyrie brought some vamps with her, or that's what they looked like to me anyways. Throughout the day I felt like I was being watched and looked around for Winchester's freaky dark gaze watching me. I couldn't seem to find him, maybe he was just being polite and I took it the wrong way. Maybe he was socially awkward like me.

It wasn't until Art that I seen Winchester, I sat by the Dartan and his human friend. My chair didn't break this time, thankfully, and they ignored me again. It was all going well until another stool scooted up to our table. "Hi" it was Win.

Maybe he was a stalker. "Hi" I mumbled and my eyes turned back to my parchment which had a picture of a highly detailed leave falling to the autumn ground. I leaned on my elbow, covering my mouth with my hand, stopping me from singing.

"Hey, I just seen you over here and you looked kind of lonely" he told me. It was true I did feel kind of like an outsider sitting with the Dartan and his friend. It felt like I just kind of invited myself here just like Win was doing now.

"Uh yeah... Thanks" I muttered. He took out his sketch pad flipped it open, the drawing looks like sketches an architect would do, it looked too geometrical. Who mixed math and drawing together? I supposed it was better than Xian drawings whatshername over and over again. I sighed mentally, I was sitting by a regular human, a stalker human, and a guy who was supposed to be half human half vampire. What did I get myself into?

[--Kyle--]

~(~(~Xian's POV~)~)~

I walked up to the Art table hoping that the girl with purple hair wouldn't start singing again like Friday. Ethan was already at the table, and no one else was there. Maybe she isn't here today.

I sat down and grabbed my sketch pad and flipped to the page of my last drawing of Aurora was. I could never, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't draw her properly. Nothing matched up like they should be. Ethan always tells me that it looks exactly like her, but human eyes couldn't capture detail the way my Dartan eyes could.

The girl walked through the door and I left the table to get earplugs from the shop, just in case. But as she sat she said nothing, and sang nothing. Thank all that is holy.

"Hi" I heard someone say. I looked up and saw that it was a nerdy looking human that sat next to the girl. He was saying hi to her so I just kept to my work. I recognized the boy though. He looked familiar

The bell rang when that class was over and I went to my locker. I grabbed my chemistry book, notebook and then headed to my study hall room. It was a smaller room with only seven people in it. I usually just did my homework or drew. Today I had some left over Chemistry, so I did that.

When the bell rang, it was time to leave. I got to my car and waited for Aurora. But she never came.

When I went inside I saw her in a corner that was hidden by large delivery boxes, and the vampire, Valkyrie was talking to her. No, yelling at her.

[Kàylà]

~Valkyrie's POV~

As I left school that day I felt as if someone was following me, well besides the vampire guard that was surrounding me.

"I'll be right back I forgot something in my locker you guys go ahead and meet me in the car." I told them. They nodded and then gave me a skeptical look wondering if they should leave me by myself. "I'll be fine, just go and wait for me." Finally they started walking toward the exit, leaving me alone. Overprotective bodyguards I rolled my eyes.

I started to walk in the direction of my locker looking from the corner of my eye for anything suspicious. I reached my locker and started to dial in the combination, out of the corner of my eye I could barley make out a figure watching me from the corner, trying to hide behind some delivery boxes. A smile formed on my lips and making sure the hall was deserted I quickly turned faster than a human eye could blink and had my follower by the throat.

It was Aurora, I couldn't help but let out a small chuckle before releasing her from my grip. Of course the Dartan bitch would be following me, she would want to make sure I wasn't feasting on the blood of her precious humans.

"You might be half vampire but remember I'm full vampire, I'm faster, stronger, and I don't make stupid mistakes like letting the person that I'm following see me." I laughed again humorlessly. Dr.Dartan really must not have taught them very well and if they were going on instinct than they had a thing or two to learn.

"I'm glad I'm not a bloodsucking leech. To kill all those people, I don't know how I would be able to live with myself." Aurora spat back at me. I didn't flinch at her comment. She had no idea how we lived, only taking as much blood as necessary and only killing when we absolutely had to.

"Hmm your right, the thing is though I don't kill the people I feed on. I only take what I absolutely need to survive. Think twice before you follow me again Dartan, next time I will kill you." I threatened. I didn't' care that, for the moment we were allies, if she threatened me in anyway I would kill her. My survival and my people came before her. I turned to leave and saw the other Dartan, Xian watching us. He was glaring at me like he was about to murder me, obviously having seen the encounter and then rushed to Aurora's side making sure she wasn't hurt.

" I told you it was a mistake asking her for help." The Dartan bitch sent a death glare in my direction. I smirked to myself and headed to my car where my guards and best friend were waiting for me.

[<^>Krustine<^>]

~Trudies POV~

I left the lunch table after meeting Valkyrie and went to my next class. I had a feeling something was weird about Valkyrie. She was abnormally cold and abnormally pretty. I mean Kynaree is pretty, but Valkyrie was abnormally pretty. I thought I should probably forget about it saying that I would probably over think it like I do with everything else and I just tried to push it out of my mind.

It didn't work. I couldn't pay attention during any of my classes. But eventually I made it through the day. When I was leaving the school I saw Valkyrie holding someone I didn't recognize at the throat. I stopped and stared for a minute and then I saw her let go and she was laughing so I figured they were just playing around.

I finally got to my car and started driving home when I remembered I had to get to work in 5 mins when I was 10 miles away. So I got my cell phone out and dialed works number.

Shelly answered with her appropriate answering voice.

"Hey Shelly. It's Trudie. I'm sorry. I'm running a little late. I had to talk to a teacher after school." I lied. "I'm on my way now."

"Ok. Thanks for letting me know."

"Your Welcome. I will be there in ten minutes."

"Ok. Bye."

"Bye." I said hanging up the phone and dialing Drews number.

"Hey Babe."

"Hey. I just wanted to let you know that I wasn't gonna make it home for a while. I gotta work. I'll be home late again, so don't stay up."

"Ok Babe. I can't promise you about the whole not staying up part though."

"Well whatever. I just wanted to let you know but I gotta go, I'm late."

"Ok, Bye."

"Bye." I hung up while I pulled into the driveway to work.



Work was done before I knew it and I drove home almost falling asleep to my stomach growling. I hadn't eatin anything since the weird lunch meeting Valkyrie. Which I'd rather not mention. So when I got home I ate the leftovers from what must have been Drews dinner and went to bed. Drew was lying there waiting for me. Like he said, he was still awake.

"Hey. Why arn't you in bed? It's already past midnight."

"I know I couldn't sleep. I havn't seen you since this morning.”

“Alright. Well we can go to bed now. Right?”

“Yup.” He said as I walked over, put on my night gown and laid down next to him.

“Night.”

“Night.”


When I woke up, he wasn’t up this time. I took a shower, then tried to cover up the bags under my eyes with cover up. It didn’t work.

Drew still wasn’t up when I walking out to my car to put my stuff in it. I came back in, fed the ferrets and put them in their cage so they wouldn’t wake Drew up and wrote a note to Drew.

Drew,
Now you know why I didn’t want you to stay up for me.
Cause then I can’t see you before I leave for school.
I miss you.
Trudie.

I put the not where I knew he wouldn’t miss it and left for school. When I got there I could see Valkyrie talking to her whoever those freaks where that were always with her were and Kynaree all by herself at the lunch table.

I walked over to Kynaree and asked. “Whats wrong? You always have people by you.”

“Nothing I just wanted to have time to myself to think.” She said.

“Ok. Well I guess I can leave you alone then.”

“No, I’m going crazy. I need to talk to someone.” While she said that she grabbed my arm and pulled my back. “Please.” She added.

“Ok.”

[--Kyle--]

~~ Aurora's POV ~~

I hated Valkyire, she was a bitch. I wanted to rip her throat out. Why was she always so ignorant about us Dartans.

Yes, she was a tiny bit faster, and a tiny bit stronger, but I could kill her If i needed to, or in this case WANTED to.

I walked with Xian until we got to the car. "I think Im gonna walk, Kay? Need to clear my head thats all." And follow that little bitch until she is alone and then I will rip her to shreds and burn her to ashes. I hate HER!!!

I didnt add that last part, because I knew that he would never let me walk by my self if he knew what I wanted to do, but of course I would never do that, for now.

"Yeah, thats fine I guess." He gave me a kiss that always sent shivers down my spine. After the kiss I didnt feel like walking, but I did anyway.

But instead of thinking about, the V word, I thought about Xian and I. Thought about what we are going to do about Dr. Dartan coming back to basically kill us all. I thought about just us too. I loved him more than he would ever know. I knew he loved me a lot, he drew my face all of the time, with great detail. But he would never ever, understand the way I felt about him.

I loved the way that he grabbed my hand in the middle of class, or at lunch during random moments, making Ethan feel awkward. I loved the way he kissed me, held me. I just loved him. No matter what I would.

When I got home, I gave him a long kiss, told him I was sorry, and that I loved him. When he asked why I was sorry, I just told him for eveything I have ever done to hurt him or anything.

The next day at school, I ignored Valkyrie, and went on my merry way. I hated school, it was the only time I had limited with Xian. I wanted us to leave and live on our own, maybe get jobs. I hated the whole high school thing. It would be much easier. But because we got older slower than the average human, we would stay looking seventeen for about five more years.

I needed a break from this. I needed to get away.But until this Dartan freak gets here, I cant go anywhere. But as soon as he gets here and we take him down, if we take him down, Xian, Ethan and I are gone.

Ethan had to come with us. He was Xians best friend and mine too. We could support him, and he could get a job to if he wanted. But until then I was stuck here in this hell hole, with the SHE-DEVIL herself.

And as if I called her name she appeared around the corner. I was walking to my next class and we had a good long glare at eachother before I entered my room and she walked the rest of the way down the hall with her 'bodygaurds'.

Stupid bitch.

[×|{å†ìe×]

~<>~Kynaree's POV~<>~

When I got to school the next day I stayed clear of Winchester and felt paranoid the entire time. For once I was happy I was abnormally short, it helped me hide behind people when I walked through the hallways.

At lunch I sat at a table, alone, wanting time to think. If this guy was a stalker what if he found out about me being a faerie?

Trudie walked up to me and asked. “Whats wrong? You always have people by you.”

“Nothing I just wanted to have time to myself to think,” I mumbled, poking at my salad lamely. I felt sick.

“Okay, well I guess I can leave you alone then.” she started walking away, and it was then I realized I didn't want to be alone.

“No, I’m going crazy. I need to talk to someone,” I whimpered and yanked on the sleeve of her shirt, pulling her back to the seat. “Please?” I added.

“Okay," she seemed kind of psyched out by my sudden outburst.

"Can you keep a secret?" I whispered, scooting closer.

"Sure, I guess," she answered not knowing what to expect from me.

"I... I think" I started and searched around the lunch room again, then I squeaked, "I think I got a stalker!"

She raised her eyebrows, "Okay..." she trailed off as if waiting for me to get to the point.

"I mean it!" I practically screamed and few people from the tables around us turned their heads in my direction. "He's like.. weird and has dorky glasses and greasy hair and--"

"Hey Kynaree" I heard a voice from behind me say, I gulped and turned to look at him. Trudie gave me a sympathetic look and I shot her a worried glance. "Is anyone sitting here?" I shook my head, kind of regretting it when he sat down.

"Hi, my name's Trudie" Trudie told him trying to be polite.

"I'm Win," he replied with a smile and turned to me. "Are you feeling okay?"

"Ehh..." I mumbled and then came out with an actual answer, "Okay." Although my stomach was churning from nerves.

"You look a little pale.." he started and then let out a squawk when I accidentally threw up on his lap. It was only a little puke, and it was mostly watery. He grabbed a handful of napkins and dabbed the nasty with it, not freaking out as much as I hoped. Trudie eyes were wide as she look from my face to his.

When we got there I burst out laughing, "Did you see his face?"

"That was disgusting!" she exclaimed. I continued giggling until the rest of the girls already camping in the restroom left from annoyance, "Are you really okay?"

"I am now. I hope he stays away from me," I was glad I didn't get any puke on my shirt. Although that was a little drastic it was still pretty funny, but now I had a weird taste in my mouth and my breath stunk. The bell rang and the rest of the day went by fine until Art.

I'm sure you can guess what happened there. Winchester didn't give up as easily as I hoped and came over to ask if I was okay. "I'm okay now," I told him, then added grudgingly, "Sorry about throwing up on you..."

He grinned, and his smile wasn't brace filled like I expected it to be. His teeth were white and perfectly straight. The gesture made me look for some other good qualities in Winchester. Maybe if his face wasn't so acne-filled, maybe if he wore contacts, maybe if he controlled his hair... The thought was weird, but I concluded that if he were to change some things around. He wouldn't look so bad, he actually might be handsome. I stopped staring and went to my drawing.

Winchester talked, mostly about odd random facts that none of us needed to know. The Dartan and his friend kept giving us weird looks.

I was stuck with this nerd whether I wanted him here or not. Ugh, I was pitying myself.

[Kàylà]

Valkyrie's POV~

I sighed as I threw my bag on my bed and it landed with a thud. It had been another rough day at school with the Dartans constantly watching my every move whenever they had a chance. Even though we had a slight truce at the moment we didn't trust each other, not that I blamed them. Especially after the encounter with Aurora.

Nathan was still staying at our house, helping my parents with the politics that I refused to get involved in, like the execution of vampires who revealed there secret to a human who they fell in love with. Or just the injustice of crimes that vampires created who got off the hook, where instead of being punished they got rewarded for their wrong doing.

I turned on my stereo and flipped through my history book as I studied for a test on the Spanish-American war that was coming up. I tapped my pencil to the heavy beat of Metallica and read through the chapter quickly and then moved onto my notes.

I got halfway through studying my notes when my parents came into my room. In my mother's hands she held a small dark cherry wood box and my father had a smile on his face. Behind him standing in the door way was Nathan looking deep in thought. I recognized the box from my childhood. My parents had shown me what was inside of it when I was younger, showing me the family heirloom that would one day be mine.

"Valkyrie tomorrow will be your 18th birthday, which means that you will begin your official training of how to rule our clan." My father's voice shinned with pride. His never aging face frozen at the age of 27 smiling at me.

"Which means that it is time to give you the family heirloom." My mother said handing the box to me. I opened it carefully remembering that it was hundreds of years old and gasped when I saw the beautiful necklace, my memory did nothing to the actual thing.

I had only seen it once or twice when I was little and the beauty never diminished. There were two dragons clutching onto a heart shaped onyx gem with a diamond filled with the family blood inside of it, making it look more like a ruby, in the middle of the onyx. I fumbled with the clasp to put it around my neck, when Nathan gently grasped the necklace from me and helped me put it on as I lifted my silver hair to put over the silver chain.

I smiled a quick thank you at Nathan and then stood up to hug my parents. As much as I hated politics it was still an honor for my people to trust in me to rule them. Even if I was totally incapable at the moment.

"We know you will be a wonderful queen Valkyrie, we wouldn't give you this responsibility if we had any doubt in you." My mother told me the same pride in her voice as what my fathers had been. Tears started to pool in my eyes but I blinked them back.

"So do you have any idea what your first order will be once you claim the thrown from your parents?" Nathan asked after my parents left the room. A small smile formed on his lips as he asked me.

"Yes I do, but it's complicated so I'll have to explain everything before I present it to the council." I explained. Hell I was still confused by all of it.

"And what would that be." Nathan pressed leaning toward me. I figured that it wouldn't hurt to tell him, so I began to explain what the Dartans had told me. His face became grave as he realized the trouble that was starting to threaten us. The danger that was coming toward out clan.

"So the creator of the Dartans is now full vampire and some." Nathan echoed my words.

"Yea, and it sounds like this guy will do anything to get to power, so either we help the Dartans and take the chance of them betraying us, or we die." I explained.

"I think I'll take the chance of them betraying us. I'm to young to die." He joked. I couldn't help but let out a small laugh at his joke. In reality he was really about 97 but looked 17, while I was about to turn 98 in a 17 years old body. Since it seemed weird to be saying our real age with our young body we went with what the humans thought our age was since we aged much more slowly then them.

"Well then how old do we have to be to be old enough to die?" I asked him smiling.

"Older than us." he smiled back.

[damiana]

~*~ Rayna's POV ~*~

Popcorn and a movie, no guys around or Lovella, just Rem and I watching Hart's war, it's a movie about WWII but minus all of the fighting stuff more up to date and really good acting.

About 20 minutes into the film my mom entered the door followd by Mase, what was he doing here?

"Hey mom, have a nice day at work?" I asked "Oh it was pretty good, Brian told me that we had another customer today he bought a very expensive ring, black opal in a diamond encrusted silver band, beautiful." she said

"Lucky woman, who ever the rings for" Rem added My mom nodded in agreement

Mase seemed to get bored with the conversation so he headed into the kitchen for food, those guys always seem hungry.

"What's Mase doing here?" I asked

"Oh he called and sounded bored so I came and got him from Tryst's" She answered "I was getting sick of Wyatt." Mase yalled from the kitchen

"You never told me that Tryst lives in that big house all by himself, I guess his father really trusts him" She seemed amazed at that fact

I sighed "Yea but he barely lives there, he's always here which get's a bit annoying so right now I'm happy it's just us for once." I smiled and continued to watch the movie

A few minutes later there was a knock on the door Mason got up and asnwered it. There was an angry growl from him as he sat back on the couch and folded his arms.

Seconds later there was a breathing sound by my ear.

"Get away from me Wyatt" I said calmly. "Hey how'd you know it was me?" he came around the couch and sat down.

"I can still smell you" I replied

I heard Tryst shut the door then he walked into the kitchen without looking at any of us. A bit later I heard a susprising 'O MY GOD' from my mom.

I walked into the kitchen "What?" I asked Tryst was shoving something in his pocket and my mom was trying to hide an extremely large smile. "oh...nothing" My mom quickly replied. Ok now i'm really confused I took one last look at Tryst then went back to the movie.

A good half an hour after than there was another knock on the door. "Who could it be now" I was starting to get angry from all of the interuptions. "Do you want me to get it" Rem asked, I shook my head.

I turned the knob and opened the door. My mom came around the corner the moment the door opened and gasped, there was a man with black hair and dark eyes, It was my father... my supposufly(sw) dead father or that's what my mother told me.

"Ralph what are you doing here?" my mom gasped again

He walked in and silently closed the door behind him, everybody else looked shocked as well, besides Tryst now that makes me wonder, does he know something?

He was breathing deep then walked into the kitchen not acknowledging any of us. We followed and watched him as he got himself a glass of water then took a seat.

"Ralph, what are you doing here?" my mom asked again

He looked up from his glass and had a very grave look in his eyes. "Something's happened, something bad" he said with his deep tone of voice.

We all gathered around for what he was about to tell us.

"I've heard about the attack in the woods from a few survivors who have decided to move somewhere else on their own. I don't blame them. The vampires that attacked the packed seemed to be from around this area, rogues, but not entirely, I think they're working for someone." he explained

"What do you mean working for someone, like a human, not possible" Tryst said

"No, he's not human at all but something else not sure what though. One of the survivors said that somebody was kidknapped and taken with them."

I was getting confused. "Kidknapped one of us, by vampires, are you kidding?" I laughed a bit

He looked at me with those dark eyes, he wasn't joking.

"The most information that I could get was that they were taken away and were going to be used for some sort of experiment, something that will mutate our kind and bend us to the will of others... somthing that could be very dangerous in unknown hands."

"who are the vampire's working for?" my mom asked

"Not sure exactly but he used to be doctor, that's all I know" My dad said

Wyatt started to growl as he came up with a idea. "I bet they're in league with those vamps at our school."

"I bet your wrong" Rem looked at him. he glared at her then continued with his thoughts.

"They're the only vamps around, who else could it be. They're always walking around that school thinking they're so high and mighty, I can see right through their charade"

"It's not them, at least i'm pretty sure it's not. They don't smell that familiar" Tryst backed Rem up

"But Ralph said it himself, they are in league with a evil doctor dude, he could have switched the scent or something" Wyatt was trying so hard to prove he was right.

"Wyatt will you please drop it, we have bigger problems than pointing fingers at random people. We have to figure out what this guy is planning before it's to late, but now I must finish my movie, to many interuptioms." I said then stood up and walked to the hallway.

"They're not people, they're nasty blood suckers" he shivered "how can comeone drink human blood, that's just disgusting."

"Wyatt your such a retard, you say they're disgusting, we feed off of animal flesh, we practically fall in the same category, so shut up about disgusting" I called from the hall.

[×|{å†ìe×]

~<>~Kynaree's POV~<>~


This faerie realm can be awfully boring, I thought as I lounged around flower to flower. I thought about what I'd have to face tomorrow, ugh Winchester, the name made me shudder. I wondered why I hadn't noticed him stalking me beforehand. I guess there was nothing I could do now, maybe go to another human portal, but I didn't feel like learning a new language.

I eventually drifted away and woke with a start due to a tugging at my pant's leg. "Kynaree!" I heard someone call. I opened my eyes and blinked several times before the girl standing before me was clear. "Don't you need to get up and go to school?"

It was Quinn again, that little firebug. "Uh.. I think so" I mumbled back. I got up and realized I was going to be really late if I didn't get going. I hopped up and with a hard jump from the ground I flew into the air. I heard a faint 'bye' from Quinn and I waved back as well as I could, my wings were carrying me so fast I wasn't sure if she could see the gesture. Quinn was the only one that seemed to notice my absence when I was gone.

I made sure I didn't look like a complete wreak, and put on some clean clothes. I flew into the portal and I popped out on the other end. That was stupid due to the fact that gliding through the portal as a faerie meant that someone could see me if they were in the right place at the right time. With my necklace now hooked around my neck, I grew into the size of a human. I peered around the dumpster before I jumped out, you never know, I could be walking into another 'geek getting the crap beat out of him scene' again.

Unfortunately it was much worse, there in the shadows stood Win. I almost whimpered out loud, now I had to wait for him to leave. Minutes passed and soon enough school had started without me. I just sat there waiting for him to get tired and leave or maybe keel over and die. I was thinking about going back into my realm and calling it a day until he let out a long sigh.

"Kynaree, just come out" he sounded frustrated and definitely different. I peeked out of my hiding place again just to make sure it was him. It was and I hesitantly stepped out.

"Hey, shouldn't you be in school?" I asked before he could say anything.

He shrugged and asked a question of his own, "I know what you are," he stated simply.

It felt like there was wads of tissue crammed down my throat and I didn't know what to say. So, I went with "What are you talking about?"

"Kynaree, I work at the MMC" he told me seriously, I think I heard the name before, but I was too shocked to remember. I walked out of my hiding place and he showed me a badge for proof, "I need you to come with me for some questioning."

I spotted the difference in him, "Your voice, it's different," He didn't reply he started walking away and I followed, "What's MMC stand for?" I wondered.

"Ministry of Mystical Creatures" he answered and lead me into a small pawn shop at the other side of the street. It had a big "Closed" sign on it, but that didn't seem to matter because we walked inside anyways.

"Ministry.. isn't that supposed to be department?" I added, continuing to talk helped calm my nerves.

"In America it's called Department. In England it's called a ministry" he said sounding like a smarty-pants. England, that's what was different about him. He had an English accent, "I've been staying at Central High for some time now. There's been some unexplained occurrences near here and I've been trying to keep track of them," he explained as I continued to follow him further into the pawn shop. We went behind the register desk and into a backroom that was filled with more unwanted junk.

Win stopped and turned to what looked like an old ancient computer. He sat down at it and began typing insanely, at first I thought he was just typing nonsense but then I realized he was actually typing sentences that fast. After what looked like an online conversation with someone he said, "Alright, they're ready for us."

"Who?" I asked and he didn't answer, his whole 'not answering me' thing he had going on was not making me happy. He started rolling up the rug under our feet. I moved and let him uncover a trap door. With a grunt he lifted it the lid and motioned for me to go into the dark hole. I looked at him like he was crazy, but eventually I slowly lowered my legs to see if there was a bottom anywhere. I couldn't really tell because my legs were so short. I slid into the hole.

I know I probably should have just went back into my portal and disappeared, but I felt like I would be in a lot more trouble if I did that then just answer a few questions. My feet hit the bottom of the tunnel and loud echoes bounced off the walls. I moved to make sure Win didn't fall on top of me. When he slipped into the weird tunnel thing he felt around. When his finger tips touched my shoulder, he lowered his hand slightly and gently gripped my upper arm.

"Uh, Win, am I in trouble?" I asked getting scared. His hands were cold and made me think of a doctor's. Not that I'd ever been to a human doctor, only heard about them.

"You aren't in trouble," he said and then added, "My name isn't Winchester."

"Okay... Then why am I answering questions?" I wanted to keep a conversation going because these dark tunnels were really freaking me out.

"We need you registered so we can keep a file on you, and we're hoping you might have information about a case," it didn't take long until we made it to a brightly lit room, it was shiny and everything was a metallic color. There were a whole lot of people in front of computers and wires of every color snaking up the walls and on the floor. "Philip, I brought the faerie," he told a large man with dark skin, a black beard, and a bald head. The faerie has a name, I wanted to say but couldn't get myself to.

"Aha! Cecil I barely recognize you in that" Philip's voice was deep and when he laughed it boomed through the whole room. Cecil? That must have been his real name.

"Yeah, that's just totally hilarious, who's questioning her?" Cecil asked clearly annoyed.

"You can kid, I gotta leprechaun that I need to talk to" he laughed again. Cecil lead me down a hallway and into a room that looked like an interrogation room from cop shows. There was a big mirror on the left side of the room and I wondered how many people were looking through it. I sat in one of the chairs while he looked in the mirror and rubbed away his fake face.

I didn't watch because it was really disgusting, it looked like he was peeling off his skin. I waited until he was seated across from me and stacking papers neatly. With the Winchester mask gone he didn't have all the acne and huge glasses. It was like that one day in class, where I thought that maybe he wouldn't look so bad with a few adjustments. I guess I was right. His hair was a little crazy from the wig and had a mahogany caramel color. "Let's get started"

"So you were stalking me!" I said accusingly.

He shrugged, "Yeah, but not for the reason you thought."

"You don't even know what I thought, besides, you were still stalking me."

"No, more like spying" he replied, "Now just answer these questions"

"Okay, hurry up," I tapped my fingers on the table, feeling impatient. Annoyed that I was being lied to and freaked out for this.

"First of all, why are you attending a human school?" He read it in a monotone voice from a sheet of paper, he had a pen in his hand ready to write every word.

"Because," I grumbled, "I wanna be a pirate." Hey, it didn't work with Valkyrie but maybe this guy was stupider.

"I don't have time for your games. Just answer the question" his hand crossed the table and held my fingers that were tapping, silencing them. He gave me back my hand and I didn't tap anymore. I moved my hands to my lap and started twiddling my thumbs.

"Fine, because being a faerie gets boring after a while and I wanted to do something different. You happy?"

"Not particularly, now let's get to the point" he skimmed down the paper and asked "Do you know anything about these Vampire attacks?"

"Uh... no, but my friend might" I answered honestly, "You know, Valkyrie? You should question her and leave me out of this"

"I knew it was a waste of time following you," he exhaled loudly, "You can go, I suppose."

"Good," I said, now mad that he called me a waste of time.

[--Kyle--]

(~)(Xian's POV)(~)

How many times can you fall in one day, even if you have better balance than the average human? For me its about five.

I fell once down the stairs in the morning because I was so tired from not getting enough sleep so I forgot about the steps.

The second was coming out of the shower because of the loss of sleep, and also because I didn't see the wet spot on the floor that just happened to be right where I was going to step.

The third was when I was getting out of my car at school. I tripped over my foot step under the door of the car.

The fourth was me tripping on the sidewalk walking into the school.

The fifth and final fall was when I was leaving school and tripped on the same gosh darn spot on the sidewalk.

"Dang, stupid, good for nothing, blasted SIDE WALK!!!" I yelled as people stared while I got up.

I walked to the car and through my bag in the back. Aurora left to visit her sister, who was in her 30's now, they were only a few years apart, but now that were Dartans, we were left behind in the process of getting older.

I rammed on the gas and left the school grounds. I ran into the apartment and to my bed, ripped my clothes off and climbed into it. I pulled the covers over my head and stayed there until the morning. Not sleeping again.

I tripped about nine more times the next day. When Aurora was gone, I never acted right. I couldn't sleep or doing anything. I needed her.

After school the next day I went back to the apartment and I went back in my bed. I hated when she was gone.

[Kàylà]

~Valkyrie's POV~

I woke up to a sharp pain that exploded into my body. I looked around sleepily and noticed that I was tangled in my bedsheets...and on the floor. I groaned in frustration. I normally didn't fall off my bed but when I was in a really deep sleep my mornings mostly consisted of me finding out that I had fallen off my bed, again.

I stayed there laying on the floor until I remembered what day it was, it was my 18/98th birthday. It was also the day that the Dartans were supposed to meet with the vampire council. I quickly got up from the floor after struggling with the mass of blankets around me, running to my closet in record time I picked out an outfit and then again ran to the bathroom to take a quick shower. It took me about ten minutes to take a shower and get dressed and then I was out the door with a quick goodbye to my parents.

I started the engine in my corvette and headed off toward Xian and Aurora's place. Every vampire knew where they lived they just didn't go there since it was heavily guarded...yea you guessed it, a door man. I parked my corvette outside the building and laughed silently to myself when I saw the door man was asleep. I went inside and looked at the buzzer buttons, looking for the Dartan's room. Finally I found it after a couple seconds of searching and picked the lock to let myself in.

I rode up the elevator to the second floor and went down the hallway in search of room 205. I quickly found the room and knocked on the door, tapping my foot with impatience while I waited for one of them to answer the door. Finally Xian answered the door looking like a mess.

I knew that Aurora had been missing from school for a few days but I thought she had been back by now.

"God your pathetic." I told him stepping into the apartment.

"What are you doing here?" He asked ignoring my comment. I walked around the area checking out my surroundings looking for possible escape routes if needed and then walked into the kitchen and picked up an orange that was sitting on the counter. My hands needed something to do so I began peeling it even though I had no intention of eating it.

"Well it seems like both of you have forgotten what day today is." I smirked at him, dropping the bits of peel onto the counter. Obviously if Aurora wasn't back yet she had forgotten about the council meeting also. Either that or she no longer cared about all of this.

"What are you talking about?" He asked still confused. The confused look etched onto his face along with a glare of anger at me was kind of funny but I didn't laugh.

"Well Xian to jog your memory you have a meeting with the vampire council today or did you forget that your psycho creator is on the loose killing relentlessly trying to get to power." I snapped at him popping an orange slice into my mouth to see how it would taste. I hated when people forgot about important things.

"Wait it's been one week already?" Xian asked frantically finally snapping back to reality. I sighed angrily.

"Yes it has been." I told him.

"Well I can't go to that meeting without Aurora." He said mostly to himself. Dependent fool.

"Well if that's the case then I guess your not going to have a meeting with the council at all. If you have to miss your appointment that they actually gave you for a stupid reason then your not going to get another chance to talk with them. Grow up Xian just because your mate is gone doesn't mean you have to mope around and be worthless, while you wait for her to come back." I spat at him.

"I'm not moping around being worthless." He mumbled. "Fine I'll be ready in five minutes."

"Good." I glared at him, and then sat on the couch in the living room as I waited for him to get ready. Five minutes in vampire time was a long time so I ended up going through their Cd's to see what music they listened to. There was some pretty good stuff in there but a few things that I had to cringe at when I saw the artists.

"I'm ready." he called. I looked at my watch and smiled five minutes exactly. I saw him reach for his car keys but I shook my head and held up my car keys. He didn't seem to pleased with the fact that I would be driving but he followed me out the door anyways.

We passed the still sleeping guard and I thought I heard Xian mutter "They really need to fire him". Pressing on the gas we zoomed back toward my part of town and took a back road to a place that looked sort of like a human court house except it was run completely by vampires. It was the meeting place for the council.

"Just to warn you they probably wont agree to help you but today I have the power to overrule them as long as my parents don't overrule me." I explained to him.

"Why do you have to power to overrule the council?" He asked as the car came to a stop and I turned it off.

"Today I turned 18 and I officially start my training to take over my clan but since I am not the ruler yet my parents still have the power to overrule me." I told him.

"Oh."

We got out of the car and Xian followed me inside the building. When we were inside I instantly bowed before my elders and pulled Xian down to copy me so he didn't offend the Elders with his idiocy.

"Well Valkyrie you may begin on why you have brought our most hated enemy in our midsts." One of the Elders began.

"My family we are in danger by this man's creator. Not just us but the mythical people in general even the humans that we call our prey." Instantly I could tell that they didn't care about the others they just cared about the other vampires being in danger.

"Go on."

"The one that we know of as Dr. Dartan has stumbled upon an Immortal who bit him and changed him from his half human, half vampire state to a full vampire. The Dartan that is behind me other wise known as Xian received a phone call from Dr.Dartan saying that nothing will get in his way of coming to power and taking over everything. Xian and his mate Aurora came to me a week ago and asked for the vampire's help to stop this force." I explained in a strong voice.

They looked interested in what I was saying but I couldn't be sure, I could only hope they listened to me.

[damiana]

~*~ Rayna's POV ~*~


After getting dressed for the day I went downstairs for something to drink. When I walked in the kitchen Tryst and My father were having a conversation about the past events that have taken place.

"So you say the vampires and dartans have been speaking to one another at your school?" Ralph asked

Tryst nodded his head. " It doesn't seem right that that has happened, they're supposed do be enemies and not all chatty with eath other. I wonder whats it's about... what they're talking about" Tryst thought

"Maybe it's about the dr. dartan thing, I mean the dartans seem very invovled it what evers going on so maybe it has to do with that" I told them as I hopped on the counter top.

"Or they're teeming up with the vampires who attacked the pack and scheming against us" Wyatt walked into the room and it was such a perfect moment to add his nonsense in.

"Or not" I said

He glared at me then continued talking.

"Rayna let me explain something to you, you weren't there when we were attacked, the vampires that attacked us could be rogues but we know how good of actors they are, it could have all been an act to mess with us, now the only vampires within a hundred miles of this place are the ones' at our school, put the puzzle together it's not that hard." Wyatt finished and smiled proudly because he actually sounded right for once.

I sighed, loudly. "You can have your opinion and I can have mine, and mine is that I don't believe that those vampires had anything to do the attacks" I argued "Did you recognize any of them as the ones who attacked you, no you didn't" I began to get frustrated

"He might have a point, Rayna..." Tryst turned towards me.

"Well the ones at our school, Valkyrie mainly, she's royalty that's why she has so many guards and people like her wouldn't attend attacks like that they would send other vampires, vampires that are expendable." he explained.

I glared at him "Traitor" I simply said then looked away

"Valkyrie?" My dad questioned the name

"Yea, she's the one who goes to our school." Tryst said

Ralph turned his look away from everyone and thought about the name for a moment. "Daughter of Onyx and Skylla...onyx" His voice fell low

"Aw let me guess you had a run in with her pop back in the day?" Wyatt assumed. "So who won, I mean your both still here so the fight must have been close."

Ralph shook his head. "It wasn't that kind of fight, we weren't fighting against each other. I found him holding his own against a demon, he wasn't doing so well I could have let him die being a vampire and all but... I saved his life that day, and neither of us have forgotten it, It's something you remember forvever." He chuckled a bit

"So you two are friends?" I asked

"It's almost impossible for vampires and werewolves to become friends but in a certin manner I'd say we are, but we haven't spoken to each other for over 50 years, I moved away from the area after a saved him or else he would have been severely punished by the vampire council." He explained

"That's a lovely story and all but we still haven't figured out what side everyone is on" Wyatt shouted

I looked at the clock. "We're going to have to do that later, we're late for school."

Everyone grabbed their things and ran out to the cars. We made it to school in record time just when the first bell rang, a little late wont hurt anything.

For the first couple hours of the day I realized that The dartans and Valkyrie were missing, I brought it up to Tryst and Wyatt at lunch, Wyatt was rejoicing because they were gone and Tryst just pushed it aside.

I frowned then started thinking about Wyatt's theory, how they could be working together. I thought about it and added my own thoughts in.

They could be working together for better... or for worse.

[×|{å†ìe×]

~<>~Kynaree's POV~<>~

"Mr. Cooksley" was called out of the room, by a man who's hair was graying. Philip lead me to an elevator, he pushed Top Floor and wished me a nice day and said that he hoped to see me again soon. The elevator lifted and when the doors opened I found myself behind a bookshelf inside the pawn shop. Note to self: pawn shops aren't always what they seem. I checked the time and decided it wasn't worth going to school now, although it wasn't even lunch time yet. I guess I just needed a day off.

I walked up and down streets, making sure I never lost track of where my alley was. There were stores I entered and browsed, it wasn't like I had any money to spend. As evening came I grew more and more bored, I was glad when the sun began to set and headed towards my alley.

I got to the dead end and hopped into my portal. I didn't feel my stomach leave behind me or the tight feeling in my chest. Instead I felt my head hit the wall and my butt hit the ground. I reached out my hand to see if I could feel it nearby. There was nothing.

I tried to convince myself I was in the wrong alleyway.

I was just lying to myself, the portal to my home had vanished. Where was I going to go? What was I going to eat? All these questions and more filled my head, until I lost track of time. It seemed like all of sudden Cecil appeared, although it was probably just me and my panic-attack. His head was covered with a baseball cap, it looked out of place. I still wasn't sure how long I sat in this alley sulking, but the sky told me night had come.

"What do you want?" I was almost positive he had something to do with this. I sounded upset even to me.

"I was just coming to inform you that we've shut down your portal for the time being" Like I didn't figure that out by now, stupid British accented idiot, my mood surprised me. I usually wasn't the sour-type. "It's because of the attacks, we don't want the perpetrator escaping into one of the faerie portals"

I glowered at him, "Where do you expect me to live?"

"If I send you back to your realm I don't know how long it will be until you're able to come back."

"But I need to go to school, I have friends there and I need to learn stuff..." I mumbled knowing it was useless.

He just shrugged and didn't seem to care about my life being ruined. "However, if you do stay in here... we're required to offer you a place to stay."

I sighed, what was the point of going back? Maybe it would be easier just to stay here. Yeah, stay here with barely any powers available, no wings, and a ton of humans instead of family. I could eventually go back though, I wouldn't be stuck here forever. None of my family would notice me gone anyways, except Quinn maybe. It's all good, you change your mind, you change your mind , I told myself.

"I'm staying here then" I finally said. He exhaled loudly and I realized he was holding his breath. He didn't sound very enthusiastic. "What about clothes?" All of my stuff was back home.

"We're required to give you money for that too" he muttered as I followed him out of the alley. He had a taxi waiting for us, so on the way to our destination we couldn't discuss anything supposedly mythical. I had no desire to talk to him anyways, I was still grouchy. I just kept my gaze out the window and neither of us said a word. "Here?" he cab driver asked. Cecil nodded and handed him the money.

"Here's where you'll be staying" he told me as he exited the cab.

I got out of the car too and followed him up the stairs and onto the porch. When we stepped inside I did a 360 and walked around a bit, being kind of snoopy. Right when you walked in was the living room, to the left was a corner kitchen that looped into the dining room and back into the living room. Between the dining room and living wall there was a hallway with two doors, I assumed one was the bathroom and the other a bedroom. In the spaces of flooring that wasn't covered in junk was an ugly speckled carpeting.

"You're expecting me to live in a complete dump?" I asked after looked around the house.

He cleared his throat "Actually this is my house."

My stomach dropped, no wonder why he didn't like the idea of me staying. "Why you?" Like this was going to get my mood any better.

"Why me?" he agreed, but then answered my question. "The guys back at HQ picked straws. I'm stuck with you now."

I didn't feel any sympathy for him and asked another question, "Where am I sleeping?"

"The couch."

"But there's garbage on it," I complained pointing to the empty chip bags and banana pills.

"So, push it off," he didn't wait to hear anymore of my complaints, instead he walked through the hallway and entered the door on the right. I huffed loudly and threw all the trash on the floor. When I sat down the couch was lumpy, I let out a whimper. I laid my face against the pillow and wondered, how do I get myself stuck in these kinds of situations?

[Kàylà]

Valkyrie's POV~

I walked out of the council meeting with Xian he looked as exhausted as I felt. Of course that could also be the fact that I hadn't hunted in a few days but I still felt like crap. The council had told us that they would think about what we had said and that we were to meet back here in two days. I dropped Xian back at his apartment, allowing me to drive to school back in peace. I would be getting there around lunch time but I still felt like I should attend for the rest of the day.

I arrived at the school quickly and i got out of the car and saw Oni standing in the doorway of the school looking for me. I ran up to him and he gave me a puzzling look.

"I know its your birthday and all but I didn't think that meant you got to sleep in." He chuckled.

"I didn't sleep in Oni I had to attend a council meeting about whats going on with this Dr. Dartan guy. Which is why I was a little late for school okay." I explained.

"Okay well you look like crap so I suggest you hunt tonight."

"Thanks Oni I appreciate your concern for my looks." I said sarcastically, smiling tiredly at him.

"Thats what I'm here for." he grinned as we walked into the cafeteria. I scanned the room looking for Kynaree but I couldn't find her, nor could I spot Trudie. I did see the wolves at their normal table and an idea hit me. Even if the vampire council did agree with me there still wouldn't be enough people for this fight. Confidently I walked over the the wolves table ignoring the glares that I got from most of them and stared at Rayna.

"What do you want leech." The female with blond hair sneered at me.

"I need to talk to you." I ignored the blond and spoke directly to Rayna. Desmond, Layla, and Oni all stood behind me waiting for things to get ugly. Never had we approached one of them so rashly.

"Not here and not now." She said.

"I agree with the not here but I need to talk to you now." I said putting emphasis on the now.

"No." This time I was spoken to by the one that I sorta recognized seeing as he was with Rayna the whole time but still didn't know his name. I could tell though that he was protective about her.

"I wasn't talking to you mutt."I glared at him. He started to rise and Rayna pushed him down. "Fine how about after school, somewhere where it is at least half way public." I grumbled.

"Why someplace public? Need to be near your prey so if you have a sudden hunger you can just take them then and there." The male on Rayna's left growled at me.

"Wyatt for once in your life shut up." Rayna told him in a commanding voice.

"And no not so I can be close to my dinner but rather so that if things get a little heated between me and your alpha we don't rip each other's throat out." I smirked at him. "Also bring two people that you would take advise from with you and also the least likely to attack my people. You might want their say on what I have to discuss with you." I told her. She simply nodded and I turned and walked away as the bell rang signaling the next hour.

"What was that all about?" Oni asked not knowing what was running through my mind.

"The need for more backup." I vaguely told him.

"Do you really think the wolves are going to ally with us after everything that has happened between our races." Oni scolded. "Do you realize what your getting yourself into. What your getting the clan into?" He continued.

I sighed.

"Oni there people are as in much of danger as ours, I think given the right information and a little motivation they will fight by our side until this threat is over and then we can go back to hating each other." I explained.

"Who are you going to bring with you?" He asked in a defeated voice.

"You and Nathan of course." I told him right as I entered my next classroom. His face shown surprise when I mentioned Nathan's name. I guess he hadn't picked up on the subtle hints that I thought there might be something more between Nathan and I.

"Why Nathan?" He asked, a hint of jealousy shown in his eyes.

"Because I trust him." I simply stated.