A Modern Myth

[damiana]

~*~ Rayna's POV ~*~


The bell rang and I quickly got up and went to dump my tray.

"Who are you gonna bring?" Trsyts asked as he dumped his tray too.

I looked over my shoulder at everybody who was getting up from the table and smiled.

"Rem and Mase, I trust them and they're the least likely to attack the vampires unless they absolutely need to." I said

Tryst growled a little. "No, You're taking Lian and me" He clearly stated

I laughed. " I don't think so, if Valkyrie even looks at one of you wrong you guys would probobly attack her... and where would that get us, no where." I explained

He looked more serious now. "We're the strongest, if something goes wrong you will be safe"

I pursed my lips and looked down. "It's all about my safety now..." I laughed again and started shaking my head "You guys wouldn't even make it half way there without tearing off each others heads first, and plus I really don't want him there." I said

He sighed "Fine, then it will me Mase and I"

"I want Rem to go for my second choice." Rem came over when she noticed that there was some difficulty choosing.

"Yea I think i'm the better candidate for advice" she looked towards mase "No offense". H e shrugged and really didn't care.

"Well..." Tryst pasued "I just don't think you will be strong enough if something happens, I mean you're ...a girl" He finished.

Rem's mouth fell open. "Are you being sexist?!" Rem asked in disbelief

"What?" Lovella poped out of the moving crowd and came towards us giving Tryst a nasty look.

"Are you seriously putting girls down...WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!"Lovella shouted.

I tried to keep my amusement to myself but I couldnt help it, Lovella was attracting some people with her yelling and Tryst was trying to keep her quiet.

"Ok, ok Rem you can go just shut her up" Tryst said then grabbed my arm and went into the hallway where it was less noisy.

Now I couldn't help but laugh. He threw me a mean glare and I was automatically quiet, although giggling on the inside.

The end of the day came around pretty fast and I met Up with Rem and Tryst by the entrance doors.

Three figures were standing by Valkyrie's car and they didn't seem to make any move towards us so it seemed that we had to go to them.

As we got closer I didn't recognize the other male that was with her, he had bright blonde hair which seemed the exact opposite as her body guard Oni's hair hmmm maybe he was another body guard. Jeeze how many does she need.

"Remember Trsyt your here to be here that's all, let Rem and I do the talking" I said before we got to them. He ended up mocking me with a hand puppet, I rolled my eyes. I noticed a little smile of amusement on Valkyrie's face it was friendly yet creepy.

"Oh and don't forget to be on your best behavior, Rayna might give you a treat" Rem added

We came face to face with Valkyrie and the other vampires.

"I think we are all well aware of what Dr.Dartan is planning" I nodded "Well he's a full vampire now and a pretty strong one at that, and with his history as a doctor he as taken it to a new level." she explained

I didn't reply right away but tried to think of a way to tie them to the attacks, that is if they did it.

"We heard that he's been expirementing with mutations and he had some vampires attack other wolf packs not far from here... we only have record of one being kidknapped but there might be more than that.

I paused, figuring out my stradegy, but I was to late to do anything.

"What do you know about the vampires who kidknapped the wolves?" Tryst asked fiercly

Valkyrie seemed taken aback by his anger. "The only thing I know is what Nathan told me" she said then looked at the guy with blonde hair.

"What did you tell her?" Tryst asked "Nathan glared at him. "I told her what I know, that rogue vampires attacked the pack and many were killed, thats all." He said defensively

"And what about the Dartans, how do they feel about whats going on?" Rem tried to change the subject a bit.

"The dartans want to stop what he has planned, they came to us for help but it's still being decided by the council" Valkyrie answered.

Many people were starting to give us all weird looks as they walked to their cars.

"Maybe we shouldn't talk here" Nathan suggested Valkyrie nodded "We should go to my place there's less people"

"No" I was the one to object this time "My house, I 'd rather be at a place where I don't look like lunch... It's safe there too just follow us, don't worry we won't bite." I didn't wait for them to object as Rem, Tryst and I started walking.

"That's my line" I heard one of them say.

As we walked back to our cars I gave Tryst a mean look. "What?" he asked unaware of what he did.

"I told you to let Rem and I do the talking... No treat for you" I said loudly

"Oh c'mon Rayna, if it wasn't for me we may have never gotten to the bottom of it" he argued

I stopped walking and looked at him. "I was getting there, gah it takes patience, something you don't have!" I yelled

He sighed in defeat. "So I still don't get a treat?" He asked with a weird smile on his face. I rolled my eyes and walked to my car.

They got in their car and followed us on the backroads until we got to my house. "Wait out here I'll get my dad." I ran inside and Ralph was right there on the other side of the door, he smiled then walked past me. Lovella and Wyatt were wathing from the windows... glaring from the windows.

I went inside really quick to drop my bag off and by the time I was outside I guess it was decided that we all go to Valkyrie's house, my dad insisted. He wanted to meet and old friend again.

I sighed then ran back inside and got Mase, he would be coming with us this time.

Rem and I got in my car and Tryst, Ralph and Mase piled in Tryst's car.

Now it was our time to follow Valkyrie home...the irony.

[--Kyle--]

-~-~ Xian's POV -~-~

After the council meeting I suddenly became very twitchy and hyper aware of every single thing. A fly on the window even became a threat.

The council members were very intimidating. They were all very dark looking. Even breathing proved a problem in their presence.

When I got back to the apartment I sat on the couch running through the meeting again in my head. Suddenly there was a slight tap on the door and rattle of keys. My hearted pounded in delight and my face became hot with joy. Aurora was home.

Before she even opened the door enough to let herself in I ripped it open and grabbed her tightly in a large bear hug. She laughed and we fell to the ground as I kissed her.

"I see someone was lonely while I was gone." she said with another laugh as I kissed her more and more. I had missed her so much that I felt as If I had to make up for all of that I couldn't give her while she was away.

"You have no idea" I mumbled on her lips.

I heard a quiet cough as if someone was trying to get our attention. With lightning fast movements, Aurora and I were standing next to each other like nothing had happened, I was ready and nervous for who it could have been, but Aurora was calm as if she new who it was already.

"I'm so sorry Addy." Aurora apologized grabbing the suitcase from her hands. Aurora handed it to me and I just put it down on the floor. "Xian, this is Addy, our niece."

"Okay, nice to meet you Addy." I shook her little hand, she was about eight or nine, maybe ten. "Why is she here?" I whispered in Auroras ear.

Before Aurora could answer Addy answered fr her. "I am here because I and Auntie Aurora think that I am a very vital puzzle to this mess."

"I don't understand, how can you be vital. And how did you hear me-" I stopped noticing her Violet eyes. She was a Dartan.

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

It was probably the worst night of my life. I barely managed to get a wink of sleep due to the house smelling like garbage, laying on the lumpiest couch known to mankind, and there was the random scary noises too. The clock ticked, tocked, ticked, tocked... and you get the idea. I swore I could hear scrambling mice in the walls between the ticking and the tocking.

I must have eventually passed out, because all of a sudden I woke up from voices coming from the kitchen. I stayed curled up for a while just listening to them chatter.

"Cecil, how much coffee have you went through in the last week? Man, you're gonna stain your teeth," the voice kind of sounded familiar, but it took me awhile until I realized it was Phil, the man I met at the weird shiny place, "Your house smells like rotten pizza."

"Are you done criticizing me?" Cecil snapped, finally interrupting Phil's ranting.

"I could go on... but then you'd be late for school" School. That didn't sound like very much fun. I wondered if maybe I sank back under the covers the world would forget about me and I could go back to sleep. "Can I wake up the faerie?" he sounded like a three year old asking for a cookie, especially when he added, "Pretty please?"

"Whatever thrills you" Cecil replied, in my imagination I could see him rolling his eyes.

I sat up and when Phil walked in his expression turned to one of disappointment, "Aw man, she's already awake," he came and plopped next to me.

"Why are you here?" I asked, immediately I realized I must have sounded really rude.

He didn't take it in a bad way, he just grinned and said, "'Cause, I gotta drive you and Cecil to school."

"Oh... okay," I mumbled giving him a weird look, "Why are you so happy about that?"

"Well," he giggled a bit and I'll admit it, the giggling creeped me out, "Cecil's dad won't let him drive anymore, because he got a ticket for reckless driving."

"Er, okay," I mumbled feeling dumb for not getting the joke.

"It's driving him insane," he cackled again. I couldn't help but laugh with him, he had one of those laughs that you couldn't help but join in with him. We shut up when "Winchester" walked in, it was weird how different he looked yet you could still see Cecil's annoyed expression under it all.

"Bathroom's down the hall to the left"

"Alright then" I mumbled. It only took me about 8 minutes to shower, change, and fix my hair. My sleepless night was getting to me already, there were dark circles under my eyes. I wondered briefly how much I would be sleeping in class today.

When I got into the living room Phil and Cecil were waiting for me.

"Hey, you get ready for school faster than Cecil does," Phil pointed out when I apologized for keeping them waiting. We slid into a dark blue car and I had no idea what kind it was. I asked and immediately forgot after Phil told me, cars didn't interest me much. Besides my sleep deprived brain wasn't holding information today.

The ride there was silent until Phil started flipping through the radio furiously, "All this music sucks!"

Cecil didn't reply and just softy banged his head against his window, "Yeah," I agreed, "They should play classical music."

"Or something not so... depressing,'" Phil muttered.

"Yeah," I agreed again, feeling the need to fill in the silence. We got to school early and Cecil followed me to a bench outside. I looked at him and smiled, "So, are you still gonna stalk me?"

"Yes," he was smiling now too.

"That's weird y'know," he just shrugged and I wasn't sure what I would have replied with either. We just sat there in awkward silence until the bell rang.

[Kàylà]

Valkyrie's POV~

I kept my eyes on the road as I drove to my home with the werewolves following. I had once heard about the rescue of my father from a wolf but I never expected it to be Rayna's father. I wondered if it was fate that we ended up at the same school or if it was just luck. I figured it was luck. Oni and Nathan were quiet in the car as they let my mind wander about the different possibilities. I took the turn that was my driveway and followed it up to the garage. Taking the key out of the ignition I stood outside of my car waiting for the wolves to park their cars.

"Try to be good." I told them as I opened the front door to my house. Rayna nodded and I understood that she would try to keep her people under control. "Mom, Dad can you come in here please?" I called in a normal voice.

In a matter of ten seconds they were in front of me, their eyes wide with alarm as they smelled one of our greatest enemies scent fill the room.

"Valkyrie what is the meaning of this?" My mother asked before I could explain. There was a slight bit of fear mixed with anger at them being in our home. I didn't blame her, I would be mad too.

"One of the wolves has been captured by the Dartan's creator I'm asking for their help with this along with the Dartans who are not present but if we want to defeat this monster we have to make new alliances with old enemies. Dad I'm sure you recognize Rayna's father. Maybe you should do some catching up." I nodded toward my father who still looked a little shocked to see Rayna's father standing in our living room. The very man who he owed his life too.

They shook hands and greeted each other and my father introduced Ralph to my mother and also to Nathan, Oni, and I even though we already knew who he was, but that was my father for you all about manners. The three of them left the room leaving us to talk. The wolves seemed a little of edge except for Rayna who didn't seem to tense considering the situation.

"Don't worry it's safe to talk here, no one will attack you unless you attack first and I don't think Rayna will let that happen. Also you do not have to worry about being overheard by unwanted listeners the only people here are you, my parents, Oni, Nathan, and I." I told all of them. I could feel Oni's and Nathan's tension beside me and I put a hand over theirs trying to calm them.

"So what are we going to do about this?" Tryst asked bluntly.

"Well actually we were hoping you would have some ideas." Nathan explained in his silky smooth voice. I shook my head, now was not the time to get wrapped up in Nathan's smooth Finnish ways.

"The wolves who witnessed the attack I need you to tell me everything you remember from it." I told them. "Did you get a good glimpse of the vampires that attacked you, and if so what did they look like?" I felt like we were on an old FBI show, trying to locate the local mass murder.

[--Kyle--]

---Xian's POV---

I was shocked that Addison was a Dartan. I had been told we were the only ones ever made. But apparently we had been lied to once again by Dr.Dartan.

Addy explained it all to us. Addy was the daughter of Dr. Dartan and the woman that he had made Dartan. She was the first test run. After she proved it was successful, he did it to himself and after a while fell in love and had Addy, who now looked 12 but in reality her actually age was the same as ours. But because she was born and not made, she goes through the same age slowing as us she looks younger. We were turned when we were around the age of 8 or 9. Its complicated and seems as if the 12 year old can explain it better.

"So you are our niece how?" I asked after she was done explaining.

"After Octavian, well dad, became crazy and had a ridiculous idea of becoming the ruler of earth with a Dartan army, my mother gave me to her brothers wife. Aurora's sister. My adopted mother." She explained "And you two are technically not married so you are not technically my uncle, yet, unless you plan on marriage."

"Maybe" I said with a smile. Aurora nudged my arm and stopped. She was never big on the wedding thing. She thought it was dumb. Why cant two people just love each other, she has always said.

"Anyway, I have to stay here with you and supposedly tell the vampire girl who I am and that Octavian is panning to create a Dartan army, making every human a dartan and have them kill every mythical creature that roams the earth." Addy said, her voice ice cold and high like a little girls should, just hers was haunting with the knowing of her true age, knowing that she has witnessed things some humans never have witnessed in a life time.

She was sitting on the couch, while she told us her stories, while Aurora and I were on the floor circling her there.

"The scary thing is, he already had over ninety humans turned to Dartan's. They are getting ready over in Canada. He wants to attack soon." She said with a lump in her throat, she looked like she was about to cry.

"How do you know this?" I asked

"Because, un like you Dad gave me another gene that gave me the ability to see the future. I know when its going to happen and I saw him get ready for it and I saw him write a letter to my adopted mother telling her to send me away to a safe place while all this goes on. He explained when he was going to do it." she explained.

"When is he going to?" Aurora asked.

"In two weeks."

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

I wasn't sure whether knowing "Winchester" wasn't a creepy stalker was comforting or not. At least when I thought he was Winchester he was secretive about stalking me. Now I was more conscious of him being in almost every class as me, even though I slept through most of them.

At lunch he sat by Trudie and I, she would give me these weird glances and all I could do was shrug back. Winchester tried starting conversations, but now that I knew he was British accented Cecil everything he said seemed so fake. He did play his part well though.

Orchestra was too loud to sleep in, so I tried to play, it didn't sound too great though. I walked into Art and found my seat near "Winchester", he just sat there looking kind of bored. If I wouldn't have known his secret I knew I think he would gave greeted me with a warm smile and some stupid welcoming. Xian and Ace just ignored us as usual.

"Hi," I said while I took my stool.

"Hey," he replied his eyes not leaving his drawing paper. After a few moments he finally must have come to his senses because he cleared his throat and started talking to me. "So... why are you drawing leaves again?"

"Because, leaves are pretty and my other ones were ugly," I answered and then clamped my mouth before I could start singing. The art teacher still hated me.

"I thought they were fine, but I do agree these ones are more... pointy."

Conversation when on like that until the bell rang. I met Phil at his car the same place he dropped us off. "Hey!" he shouted out the window, "Jump in the front!"

"Won't Cecil be kinda mad?" I asked.

"Nah," he shook his head and patted the seat. I hopped in and threw my duffel on the floor by my feet. He fiddled with the radio until Cecil scooted into the backseat and slammed the door.

"Get me the hell out of here," he ordered. Phil grinned back at him through the mirror, I didn't see Cecil's expression but I was sure he wasn't smiling back.

"I thought you said he wouldn't be mad," I accused, feeling guilty.

"He's not," Phil assured me. "He's alwa-- Oh oh! I love this song!" he started singing and knew every word. The song sounded kind of complicated at first but near the end I actually found that I liked it. "Oh yeah," he remembered when we parked, "I invited some friends over. Your dad said you need a social life."

"Friends?" Cecil repeated, it sounded like he found the word foreign.

"Yeah, we're gonna watch a little football is all," he replied innocently, "I agree with your dad, you need friends."

"What about me?" I wondered, "Should I like go somewhere" There was no way I was watching football. I've never watched football in my entire life and didn't plan to.

"Nah, the guys need to meet Cecil's girlfriend anyways."

"Girlfriend?" Cecil and I both asked together. Me sounding curious and him sounding ticked off.

"Kidding, I'm kidding!" Phil said before Cecil could backhand him. "She's too pretty for you. I told them she was your cousin... not that you look anything alike."

The night was weird, there was lots of cheering and screaming. I mostly had no idea what was going on and attempted to do my homework. After everyone left, my head hit the pillow and I was out.

[Kàylà]

Valkyrie's POV~
The wolves explained to me what they saw and I put my head in my hands has I heard their story. None of the vampires they explained sounded familiar to me so I realized that the vampires outside of my clan might be working with Dr.Dartan. Nathan rubbed his hand along my back to try and calm me as my body tensed up from this news. His touch made my sense tingle.

"Well there are a couple of possibilities then. They are as you said rouge vampires or they are from a different clan that is also power hungry and thinks that Dr.Dartan will share his power with them. "I sighed my head still in my hands, rubbing my temples with the tips of my fingers to fight off an upcoming headache.

"Which would be worse?" Mase asked.

"The power hungry clan." Oni explained for me. Rayna nodded as she took this in and looked kinda lost in thought.

"So how would you be able to find out if it was another vampire clan or if it was just some rouge vampires?" Tryst asked me.

"It wouldn't be easy I can tell you that." I told him truthfully.

"What would be the easiest way to find them?" He pressed.

"I don't know!" I almost yelled. The stress was starting to build in me and I felt the wolves go on edge. I took a deep breathe to calm myself before I said anything else. "I'm sorry. It's just complicated."

They didn't say anything but they relaxed again. I looked at the time and saw that it was late. It wasn't until I looked at the time that I started to feel the days events start to wear on me. I stopped a yawn and forced my eyelids to stay open.

"Look it's late I think it's time for you guys to go. We all need to sleep on this and try to think of a way to find the vampires that attacked you. If they do happen to be from my clan, though I highly doubt that I just don't remember them they will be punished severely." My voice grew darker as I thought about one of my clan members attacking the wolves without being ordered to.

"Alright. When should we talk again?" Rayna asked.

"Tomorrow after school again. I need to talk to someone at school other wise I would say that we should just skip the day and talk then but it is important I talk to this person." I explained. They all nodded in agreement and Rayna called her father to leave.

"It was nice talking to you again Onyx and it was nice meeting you Skylla. I hope we can talk again soon sometime." Ralph smiled at my parents as he shook my father's hand.

"Yes it was nice meeting with an old friend. Take care Ralph." My father said sincerely. They all left and I collapsed on the couch between Oni and Nathan.

"I feel like crap. I need to hunt." I said after a yawn.

"Come on I'll take you." Nathan offered. He helped me up since I didn't want to get up from the soft comfy couch. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Oni glare at Nathan and I smiled to myself wearily. Boys and their jealousy.

Nathan led me to his car which was a black 1965 mustang with a silver strip running down the middle. It was my second favorite car besides my corvette and I didn't even argue with him to let me drive. He drove to the slums of town where most of the people were homeless and smelled like old beer. I stepped out of the car after he parked and sniffed the air looking for the nearest human.

I gave into my predator instincts and quietly followed the humans scent until I found her sleeping on the ground with a wad of newspaper as her pillow. She smelled like filth and alcohol but she also smelled really good. I could hear the blood in her veins pounding in my ears like a sweet lullaby calling to me. I knelled down so I could reach the vein in her neck, my fangs sliding out of their hiding place and sunk my teeth into the pulsing vein.

Her mind was clear to me as I drank from her, the sweet blood gliding across my tongue begging me to drink more. I commanded her to stay asleep as I drank not letting her make a noise. Finally the blood began to thin and I realized I drank her dry. Normally I only took as little as I needed but the thirst had overcome me tonight as I drank and I didn't have the power to stop. Guiltily I headed back to Nathan's car.

I met Nathan back at his car and he drove me home in silent. My thoughts racing I knew I had to talk to Kynaree tomorrow and ask her for the faeries support in this war. I just hoped that she would be able convince her people to help us.

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

I got up more easily the next day, I think it was because I was getting more used to the setting I was now in. Faeries adjusted easily and were easily distracted. Phil wasn't there when I woke up this time, it was just Cecil and I. We both got ready in silence and had time to spare.

We sat on the couch watching the weather channel. I tried making sense of it, but to me it was just a lot of green and yellow flying all over a map behind a weird guy with a suit. Cecil just sat there staring at the screen sipping his fifth cup of coffee, "I don't get it," I finally said pointing to the TV.

"Huh?" he muttered.

"It's weird, how do you know when it's going to rain? The sky could change it's mind," I pointed out. He gave me a look at made me feel like a complete moron. Before he could say something sarcastic and mean Phil barged in.

"Cecil, we need you at HQ. There's been a break in and the place is completely trashed," he sounded breathless as if he'd been running.

I didn't ask questions as Phil drove us pass the school and stopped at the pawn shop. We went a different way instead of the Cecil showed me. This one didn't involve long dark creepy tunnels. Papers were scattered and wires from machines were hanging loosely everywhere when we got there. The shiny walls weren't as shiny either.

"Do you know what they were after?" Cecil asked.

"Yeah.. Whoever it was wanted to know how many mythical creatures are in the area. Good thing all the portals are closed, the only faerie on file that's not in their portal around here is Kynaree"

Cecil walked in a daze as he looked further into the room, he finally cleared his throat and asked, "Did you call my dad?"

"Um, no I left that job for you," Phil replied with a smirk.

"Thanks," he mumbled in return and took out his cell phone. After pressing a button, he let it ring a few times and I just stood there wondering how long this would take and how many classes I'd miss. "Hey, dad, um there was kind of a break in last night," I could hear buzzing on the other end of the line. "No... Yes, everyone's fine" I blocked out most of their conversation when a fly caught my attention. I wish I could fly right now, then I wondered how it got into this place and when it would die.

"Hey? Kynaree you alright?" Phil asked when it was time to go. "We got to get you two to school."

"Uh, yeah, okay," I mumbled when he ended my day dreaming.

I was happy I missed part of first hour and the rest of the day when by quickly until I was stopped by Valkyrie in the hallway, "Hey, Kynaree, can I talk to you?"

"Surely" I answered with a smile. I haven't talked to Valkyrie in a while.

"You know the whole Dr. Dartan power hungry thing?"

"Sure." I cocked my head to the side, wondering what this had to do with me.

"We were wondering if you could get some faeries to come help us out..."

"There's a tiny problem with that, my portal is dead. Well, dead for now, it's closed off," I explained getting in a bad mood for reminding myself.

"Wh- how?" She wondered.

"Ask Cecil," I practically growled.

"Cecil?" Oh yeah, I guess she didn't know about him.

"Present," a voice said from behind me and dropped the stack of books in my arms. Cecil is a good stalker, I noted even though I knew that for a while now.

[Kàylà]

Valkyrie's POV~
A weird looking kid walked up behind Kynaree startling her making her drop her books all over the floor. I helped her pick them up and then glared at the one called Cecil. He gave me a 'what' look which made me deepen my glare.

"Hey I need to talk to Kynaree alone can you please leave." I tried not to sound annoyed. Though I was becoming greatly annoyed at the human race.

"I believe what you have to say to Kynaree would be of great interest to me." Cecil insisted. I looked at Kynaree hoping for her to help me out with this but she looked to the floor refusing to meet my eyes. I sighed and motioned for them to follow me. I led them out to the parking lot where no one else was.

I leaned against my car and then sighed again.

"Okay first of all who are you and what do you know about anything, other than stalking Kynaree?" I asked Cecil.

"Well either I tell you or Kynaree will anyway plus you're a mythical creature so I guess you have a right to know plus I have some questions of my own for you Valkyrie." Cecil crossed his arms over his chest.

"Fine then explain who you are and what you know and then I'll answer your questions." I started to glare at him again. He returned the glare and he began to tell me about who he was, and how he was with the MMC. He began to tell me about the unexplained deaths that have been happening around the world that seemed like a mythical creature of some sort was behind them.

"I wonder." I said mostly to myself. The both gave me a curious look and then I began to explain mostly to Cecil who had no idea what was going on about Dr.D and how I was trying to get the vampire council to agree to helping the other two Dartans to help with the up coming war and also how we were trying to get the wolves to help. I also tried to convince Cecil to open up Kynaree's portal so she could try to get the faeries to help but he shook his head as soon as I brought it up.

"Why not?!" I asked frustrated, we needed all the help we could get against this guy. Humans always tended to complicate things.

"We can't risk something escaping into the portal and causing chaos in the faerie realm." He argued.

"If we don't get help from the faeries more than just humans are going to die." I argued right back. He did have a point though. There was no use risking the lives of the people in the other realms.

"More than just humans are going to die anyways. If this battle is going to be as big as you say it's going to be then well there is going to be a lot of deaths." Cecil said calmly. Oni and Layla came out then looking for me. I sighed thinking that I had finally ditched my body guards, of course though Oni was a madly skilled at his job and always seemed to know where to find me.

"Vampire guard meet MMC guy and you already know Kyanree." I told them not wanting to get into specific details about the human who I had just met five minutes ago.

"Valkyrie your not supposed to be without your guard you know that." Layla scoffed at me. I couldn't help but roll my eyes at her. She sounded like an overprotective mother.

"Hmm I don't see any danger out here there isn't even any wolves by me at the moment. I think I'm fine." I told them.

"Over protective vampires." I muttered to myself. I had said it low enough so they didn't hear me and then I looked to Kynaree.

"I understand if you don't want to get involved but from what your friend over here said you're already involved. If someone is looking for you no doubt its Dr.D wanting you in his army if you want I can get a guard on you but if it would make it uncomfortable for you. If it would be easier you can just stay at my home you'd be more than safe there." I suggested. I knew my parents wouldn't mind.

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

"She's fine staying with me," Cecil answered before I could say a word. I glared at him but he didn't seem to notice. Valkyrie just raised her eyebrows and gave me an unsure look, I just shrugged.

"Okay, if you change your mind my parent's won't care."

"Alrighty, thanks for the offer. Class is going to start soon so we better go back inside," we all headed inside and went to our classes. Now the day seemed to drag even more although my favorite classes were after lunch.

In art decided to talk to Xian and see what he thought about me helping them out. I just needed to get rid of Ace. When Cecil and I walked in together, which was a little different, I asked him for matches, "Why do you need matches?"

"Because.. I need to get rid of Ace," I pointed to the human next to Xian.

"And you need matches?"

"Yeah," I held out my hand and he rolled his eyes.

"I'm not carrying any on me, sorry. What were you planning on doing?" he didn't sound very apologetic.

"I was going to either catch Ace on fire... or frame him for catching the art room on fire," I wiggled my eyebrows, a huge grin on my face. He didn't reply, just shook his head and gave me one of those 'you're such an idiot' looks. "Hey, I thought it was a good idea," I said.

We took our now normal seats and I smiled pleasantly at Xian. "Greetings fellow classmate."

"Hello."

"I'm Kynaree!" I announced and held out my hand. He looked at it and shook it, "Since we've been sharing an art table I figured we should socialize," I told him in a cheesy commercial tone. Ace and him shared a weird look.

"Okay..."

"Okay," I nodded back and then suddenly screamed, "There's uh, uhh," I hesitated, "Ginormous bug on your shirt! You need to go to the nurse!" I pointed at Ace's shirt. He looked down and stretched his shirt out to see if there was anything there.

"No there isn't."

"Yes, yes there is! It's the, um... kind that crawls under your skin and eats your organs!"

"Excuse me is there a problem here?" the teacher asked. I gulped and Ace told him what I said. "Kynaree, go to the office, you're disturbing the other students."

So, there I was sitting in the office staring at the ugly carpet floor, I was pretty sure it wasn't as ugly as Cecil's carpeting though. I was just waiting for school to end. I already went through the whole "My parents are out of town and you can't get a hold them" charade with the principle. School eventually ended and Cecil met me at the door. We walked to Phil's car.

"How come you didn't back me up in there?"

"There wasn't a very good argument on your part," he shook his head, "That was almost as stupid as the fire idea if not stupider."

"Hey, I think the fire plan would have worked."

We rode home just like the other evenings except we were a little more talkative. Phil told Cecil updates about the break in and I just tried to keep up with all the weird terms they used. When we got home we ate cheese pizza which turned out to be pretty tasty. Phil left early to go back and help at HQ. To make sure they retrieved all the files from the beaten up computers.

It was all normal, just Cecil and I sitting there watching some stupid sitcom on TV. Until something crashed through the window in the kitchen, Cecil flew on the couch next to me and flipped it over. I of course, let out a scream and fell backwards. My feet were dangling over the couch and my hair was covering my face.

I heard some clicks and when I got rightwards up Cecil had a big handgun. Ah-ha! That's why the couch was so lumpy. "What's going on?"

"Get down," he ordered, I scooted closer to the couch and pulled my knees to my chin. Before I could ask again he put his free hand over my mouth. He peeked his head over the top of the couch, "Huh, maybe I was just over-reacting," he finally said sounding embarrassed.

Then we heard an odd shriek come from the kitchen. "You can move faster in your faerie form," he didn't need to finish and I had already yanked off my necklace. It feel weird after not being a faerie for so long. I felt really short and my wings were stiff from not being used in such a long time. Now that I was smaller, I felt better, whoever was here had a less chance of harming me.

He took action my pulling out his cell phone, in one hand he held the phone and in the other he had the gun facing the kitchen. "Phil, we need you here now," he didn't say anymore and hung up.

"Why don't you go shoot 'em?" I suggested motioning towards the gun.

"Because, there's one of me, and from the sounds of it quite a few of them," I could hear the foot steps in the kitchen too. They sounded loud and boot-like. "They know were here. It's only a matter of time before they come out."

"Are they gonna eat us?" I flew up on top of the couch to get a better site and so he could hear me better.

"No... I think they're after you actually. They might be behind the break in and found your file. Although I don't really know why they want you," he sounded like he was talking to himself now.

"What if they eat us?" I whimpered.

"They aren't going to eat us!"

"You don't know that" I said biting at my thumbnail.

"Just shut up and lemme think," he said running a hand through his hair.

"I should have went with Valkyrie" I whined again.

[Kàylà]

Valkyrie's POV~
I was on edge all day as I waited for some sign that the war had started. I needed to talk to both the wolves and the Dartans at the same time. I knew the wolves were probably coming back to my house to talk again so I just needed to get the Dartans to come to. I waited outside in the parking lot as I looked for both of the Dartans. I saw them approaching their car and I quickly went over to them.

"Hey I need to talk to you and the wolves tonight. There has been a break in at the MMC and I think Dr.D was the cause of it. So I need us all to talk tonight." I told them not really giving them a choice.

"What is the MMC?" Xian asked while the Dartan bitch glared at me like normal. I knew her real name but it was a lot more fun calling her Dartan bitch, I chuckled to myself.

"I'll explain later all I know is that I need you guys to meet up with me and the wolves at my house so we can all exchange information and try to figure what is going on and how we can stop it." I explained.

"We know when the war is going to start." Aurora said bluntly.

"What, how? Did you get another call from Dr.Dartan?" I asked confused. I hated not knowing something.

"No we will explain that later also." Xian answered for Aurora.

"Fine. Tonight though, my house, if you need directions call me." I told them handing Xian a piece of paper with my cell number on it. He nodded and then we went our separate ways. I climbed into the driver's seat of my corvette and sped home.

"So how are you going to keep everyone under control?" Oni asked as I drove. Hm I hadn't really thought that over. Well no time like the present.

"Well the Daratans and wolves basically are allies since they both hate our kind so I have to be careful that none of us say anything to make them want to kill us." I explained as I pulled into his driveway.

"What time do you want me there?" His voice seemed to reveal how tired he was.

"Use your best judgment." I told him before I sped off to my house.

Nathan was waiting for me when I pulled into my driveway and he asked if there was any new news that I might have heard at school. I told him about the MMC and how they were looking for my faerie friend Kynaree and how I didn't trust the guy she was currently staying with. That was just me being cautious though, I knew from his mind that he had no intentions of hurting Kynaree, and though he hid it well he secretly enjoyed her company.

My parents were inside going over recent documents that had just come in. I said a quick hi and then went up to my room and plopped down on my bed with a huge sigh. Life had gotten so complicated since I joined human school. How in the world am I going to get us through this mess. I thought to myself and put my head in my hands.

[damiana]

~*~ Rayna's POV ~*~


After we left Valkyrie's house Tryst and Mase headed for his house while Rem my Dad and I went back to my house. It was getting late so I changed into some comfy close and plopped down on the couch with Rem.

After grabbing something to eat my dad was off to bed, I heard his footsteps make their way down the hall and open the door to my mom's bedroom. Ever since Ralph was back my mom seemed to be home more often than usual, the other day I over heard her on the phone canceling the date she had that evening, she was definentaly warming up to the situation.

"Hey Rayna, before we go to school tomarrow do you think I could get a ride to someone's house?" Rem asked

"Sure, what for?" I asked

"I'm picking up a truck I bought" She said

"Oh cool, what kind?" I asked enthusiastically

"Ummmm, it's a chevy I know that and uh..." she pasued to think for a moment, Rem has never been car oriented.

"To tell you the truth I really don't know but when I saw it I fell in love, ohhh uh it's black." she smiled

I laughed a bit then popped in a movie and in no time we were asleep.

The couch seemed to sink, I opened my eyes and Wyatt was sitting in the middle love seat flipping through the tv channels with the remote. I yawned and stretched out making sure my feet made their way to his face. He shoved them aside then made a gaging sound.

"Jeeze Rayna you need to give your feet a good scrub." My mouth dropped a little at his insult, "my feet don't stink" He nodded his head. I rolled my eyes and headed for the kitchen. "You can't deny the truth" He shouted from the living room.

I ignored him as I ate my breakfast and thought about the next meeting we are going to be having with the vampires, it's weird how everything is turning out this way werewolves actually having a decent conversation with vampires, it's hard to take in that fact.

After I ate I woke Rem up and before school started we went to this guy who goes by the name of Bob... to pick up Rem's truck she quickly talked to Bob and he opened the garage for us. I was a bit amazed at the truck she picked out.

"Wow... they don't even make these anymore." I said as I examined the truck. Bob smiled and patted the truck "Yep she's a real beauty, ain't she, it's a shame I have to get rid of her but at least I'll know she'll be in good hands." He said with a deep southern accent. The truck was a 1985 chevy sidestep shortbed, very rare to see nowadays.

Rem gleefully took the keys and jumped in the truck, I got into my firebird and we drove off to school.

School was pretty normal but at certain times through out the day I noticed little conversations going on. One between Valkyrie, Kynaree and this one guy who always seem to be following her around. Can you say stalker.

Another conversation was towards the end of the day between the Dartans and Valkyrie.

When school was over I was climbing into my car when Tryst stopped me and insisted I ride with him, apparentally he feels as if we haven't been spending enough time together, well isn't that a shocker.

"What about my car?" I asked worried as I looked at my baby, he followed my eyes to the shiny red paint. "We'll pick it up after we meet with the vampires, k?" he asked, making sure it was ok with me. I sighed then walked away from my car.

I watched as Mase climbed into the passenger seat of Rem's truck and they left ahead of us. We were about to leave the parking lot but got cut off by another car, a viper.

Tryst was begining to get angry and I was starting to regret my decision to ride with him. I saw his knuckles go white as he gripped the steering wheel, I looked at him and he was glaring down the car that drove off, it looked that he might ram it.

"Calm down" I told him "I AM!" He ended up shouting. I stared at him then shook my head.

"Fine then drive, the faster we get there the sooner I don't have to sit with you anymore, so just go." I crossed my arms and stared out the window. A moment went by and the car was still, I was about to get out and drive my own car but then he decided to lay on the gas, like pedal to the floor, we were flying.

In a matter of seconds we were passing the people who cut us off, the driver of the other car looked familiar but I didn't have time to place his face before we were gone, Tryst even passed Rem and Mase.

He stopped the car in Valkyrie's rather large driveway, I got out and swayed a little bit.

"I've never been so happy to be on the actual ground before." I said as I sat down and tried to clear my head.

"What you don't like my driving?" he asked playfully. I couldn't even look at him. "Hey your the one who wanted me to go fast" He said

"I never said that, I said just go, and not at 100 either... Don't you listen?" I asked but before he answered Rem pulled up and the truck barely came to a stop before she jumped out.

"Holy Crap!" she shouted "You guys were like ZOOOOM!." I stood up then reached into the driver's side window and pulled out the keys.

"I'm driving home" I twirled the keyes around my finger

Tryst grabbed for them but didn't get them. "Hey c'mon, those are mine"

"I don't care who's they are your not getting them back." I laughed then was blinded by car lights pulling into the driveway. It was the viper that we passed and when the passengers stepped out I realized why I recognized them, it was the Dartans.

I heard growls starting to form in Trysts throat, I guess the Dartans are going to be at the meeting also, I bet this will go over well...

The dartans didn't say anything but seemed to ignore us as they walked to the door and knocked, Nathan answered and ushered them in, we followed slowly trying to keep some distance between us.

"It's nice to see you all here." Nathan said, "I'll go get Valkyrie so we can start the meeting." He left the room.

I glanced over at the Dartans and the female, Aurora seemed to scrutinize us. We were on the opposite sides of the room but still that didn't seem to be enough, for some reason it seemed that Tryst was more hostile towards them then he was the vampires, maybe that was just because of the road rage though.

A moment later Nathan returned with Valkyrie along with her body guards, she looked better than she did last night but still a little stressed out and once she notice that the Dartans and us had made a pretty fine line between us she was a bit confused.

"Aren't wolves and dartans allies?" she asked trying to figure this out.

"Not exactly" I said as Tryst sneered

"But you both despise my kind?"

"That doesn't make us allies" Xian said, "We're very different"

"How?" Valkyrie asked

"We are completely against feeding and killing humans, that's why our purpose is to make sure that doesn't happen, but with this Wolf pack if they believed in that then they would be hypocrites, well at least one of them would." Xian explained and looked at Tryst.

I looked at Tryst who was holding back so much anger and hate right now.

"How do you know this?" I asked anger rising inside of me also

"We keep death records of humans that were killed, mainly by vampires when they feed but when we got a certain record it was a little bit of a shock to see that it was a werewolf and not a vampire who killed a human, something like that hasn't happened in many years." Xian said

Aurora laughed a bit "Your boyfriend is practically at the same level of a Vampire."

"What I did happened years ago, it doesn't even matter now." He growled

"It will always matter, the fact that you killed a human is unforgivable, ecspecially if werewolves are supposed to prevent that from happening." Xian said harshly, but honestly

I thought back to the day when it happened, this was when our pack lived somewhere else even before Tryst and I were together. He came to our house to see my dad, I was the first one to see him, his clothes were soaked in blood and there was so much pain in his eyes.

My dad and Tryst talked over what happened and I was listening from the shadows, Tryst killed someone and he deeply regretted the fact that he couldn't control himself, My dad told him that it was hard to control the animal instincts inside and that everything would be alright, they didn't keep what happened from the pack and once we all knew we came to an agreement.

"Our pack doesn't get involved in what Vampires have for snacks anymore, but what happened is the past and it will never happen again." I was trying to keep my voice low.

"How can you be so sure he won't do it again?" Aurora asked trying to not sound rude.

"She doesn't know, she only has my word." Tryst answered for me. "Let's just leave it at that."

We all dropped it and Valkyrie started talking seeming a bit eager to get everything started, first she told us what happened with the MMC and the break in and that getting help from the faeries might not happen.

"Getting help from the werewolves might not happen either." Tryst mumbled quietly so they wouldn't hear, but I heard.

"Dr. Dartan is planning to attack in less than 2 weeks, w-" Xian was cut off by Rem "How do you know what time?" she seemed curious.

"Our neice is the actual daughter of Dr. Dartan, by blood she also has a special gift and predicted when he will attack." Xian explained

We all continued talking about what has happened what is happening now and what will happen, through out the whole conversation Tryst didn't say a word, he just sat in a chair not making eye contact the whole time, I was starting to get a bit worried.

"Let's meet back here in a couple of days, this will give us all some time to think and when we all get back together maybe we will have some good idea's about what to do." Valkyrie suggested

When we got outside it was dark, I completely lost all track of time when we were talking but I could tell it was really late.

The dartans left, and Rem and Mase didn't stick around around that long either. Tryst and I walked to the car and I handed him the keys, he silently took them and got in the drivers seat. He drove much slower this time as we made our way into the school parking lot where I left my car.

"...I'll see you tomarrow" he didn't reply so I softly shut the door and walked to my car. I didn't even open my door when I heard his door open. I turned to face him, his expression almost mirrored the one he wore the day he killed that man, he always hated talking about it, about the mistake he made.

I walked up to him and looked him in the eyes. "It's over, quit thinking about it."

"How can I not think about it when they shoved it in my face like that?" he asked frustrated

"If that ever happens again just think about something else, think about me."

"How can I think about you if your non-existant to me." he started to argue

I looked down feeling a bit crushed "I'm non-existant to you,... fine." I turned and took the few steps to my car door.

He took a deep breath. "I didn't mean it that way, I-" I wasn't stoping to listen to him I just kept going.

"ARGH!" he grunted in frustration. "Will you stop." he grabbed my arm and spun me around so I was facing him.

"What I meant was that you don't ever give me any signs of anything, I at least try to make this work, I do care for you Rayna, I'm not going to hurt you like Lian did." He said thoughtfully.

I stubbornly looked away from him. "You know that right?" he asked and leaned in closer to whispered in my ear.

I backed away, "yea I know, I really do, but I don't know how I feel about you, we've been together for a while and I still haven't felt any spark at all, I..I'm just not sure." I stuttered out

Tryst just smiled "If you don't know then why are we still together?" He asked.

I opened my car door and sat down in the seat with a aloud sigh. "I don't know that either" I shook my head then started the car. He laughed then bent down to my height. "Goodnight" he gave me a small kiss on the cheek then shut the door.

He followed me with his car until he turned off on his road, I watched the headlights disappear then focused on getting my self home.

When I pulled in something didn't feel right. I cautiously walked to the front door and was starting to turn the key in the lock when Lovella opened it from the other side.

Half of her face was black from what looked like soot, and she looked a bit shell shocked. She didn't say anything to me as she let me through the door.

Most of the stuff seemed fine but when I looked through the kitchen entrance the doorway was all charred up. That's where I found everybody, trying to clean the mess up.

"What happened?" I asked seeing that they were all ok

My dad looked up from what he was doing, "Stove caught on fire, don't know how though." He said while dumping some ruble in the garbage.

I looked around, the stove was all burned up as well as the surrounding walls and counters... my kitchen was now the kitchen from hell.

"How.." I didn't finish my sentence.

"We don't know." My mom said "But if Rem didn't get home at the time she did half the house might have been gone."

So first there was the break in at the MMC and now someone was trying to commit arson, great.

[×|{å†ìe×]

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

Before Cecil could tell me to shut it again Phil came to the rescue. He waved dorkly to us and Cecil started to creep out from behind the couch to meet him. Cecil crawled back behind our shield when one of the things came out from the kitchen.

"What is that?" I wondered, frightened out of my mind.

"I think it's a nymph," he sounded calmer now that Phil was here.

"Why does it have goat legs?" I asked trying to distract myself from being scared. Cecil didn't get a chance to answer me because we were interrupted by more loud shrieking and a yell that was more of a yelp. I looked back to where Phil was and he wasn't there anymore. There was a smear of red blood though, "Are they gonna eat Phil?"

"Will you quit asking me stupid questions?" I listened to him this time and just sat there quietly, listening for any sign of Phil, "I think they're gone."

"Yeah, I don't hear anything either," I felt the presence around us, the house was empty except the two of us. Cecil's aura struck me, because although he seemed so calm right now. His insides were twisted, he was worried and panicked. "The coast is clear, but I don't feel Phil anywhere."

He didn't ask how I knew instead a long string of profanities left his mouth and I won't repeat them. He basically said that the Nymphs probably took Phil for questioning and Phil wasn't coming back. I frowned, I kinda liked Phil, he was nice to me, "Why didn't he bring anyone with him?" he thought out loud.

"Well, you never mentioned that a group of psychos were raiding your kitchen, you just said you needed him here. He might have thought I threw up on you again and you were freaking out."

"Speaking of which, never throw up on me again," his tone wasn't jokingly, "That was disgusting..."

"What about Phil? Shouldn't we go after the goat-people?"

"No, it's too risky," he answered sounding disappointed, "He can take care of himself," he added probably to make himself feel better.

"What if more goat-people come after me? Should I go to Valkyrie's?"

"If you want to go ahead, it's probably safer anyways," he tossed me his cell phone. It was maroon and had a lot of buttons, most of the buttons didn't even have numbers on them.

"I don't know her phone number. Maybe I should wait until tomorrow. What are the chances that they'll stop here twice in one night?" he just shrugged and pushed the couch on it's right side. I remained a faerie until I fell asleep, which wasn't on the couch like usual, for safety measures Cecil and I switched sleeping arrangements. He would probably wake up more easily then me if there was another psycho attack anyways.

His bed was much more comfortable then the couch his bedroom smelled better than the rest of the house. It smelled like him, like coffee. I didn't know how, but it did. I woke up the next day not sure where I was, I soon remembered that I was in Cecil's room.

I walked into the living room and found him wide awake. Cecil told me they found Phil's body in a dumpster near where my portal was. Gross. "Is he..." I didn't know how to ask.

"He's dead. It looked like a vampire drained him dry, but I don't understand why they would just leave him like that. Anyone could have found his body, it didn't even look like they questioned him. There was no external injuries... Unless he just gave them answers which I highly doubt."

"So they did eat him," I said feeling victorious and sad at the same time.

"A vampire ate him, not a Nymph," Cecil corrected.

"If I wasn't here, he'd still be alive," I realized feeling guilty. Cecil didn't argue with me like I thought he would, he didn't even try and help me feel better. He just went and got ready for school. We didn't talk until we walked outside and I asked who was going to drive us.

"Me," he replied as if this was totally obvious.

"But.. what about your dad?" I asked worrying more about my safety then what his father thought.

"He'll understand. Besides, the reckless driving wasn't that reckless... I was caffeine deprived and drove on the wrong side of the road."

"Wrong side of the road?" I repeated looking at the battered car, which now strangely looked like a death-machine.

"Americans drive on the right side of the road," he told me as he slide into the driver's seat. I sat in the passenger's and gulped loudly. "You'll be fine, I'll do my best," he promised. I shut my eyes for most of the ride and only screamed once, it was when we stopped, "We're still alive, see?"

"Eh.." I mumbled feeling queasy. It wasn't that bad of a ride, I think I was just scaring myself silly, "We didn't hit anything?"

"Nope," he answered sounding like Winchester, "All your bags, well bag, is in the trunk. So when school's over remind me to put it in Valkyrie's car," I nodded back, I hoped Valkyrie had a better driving record.

[--Kyle--]

--Xian's POV--

Once Addy was done telling us that only two weeks would be all the time we had, I was frighten that we may never be able to win. We still had to see if the wolves would be able to help us. I was stressed. But knowing what Valkyrie was going through, my stress was nothing. She was basically the organizer of this whole mess.

I was still worried none the less. A few days later we were invited to a meeting at Valkyrie's house. Aurora didn't want to go.

"I don't understand why we have to go. We can just deal with this through phone or other means of communication. Why THIS!" She yelled when we got in the car and started driving off.

Aurora's yell made me jump and I skidded the car into the road instead of just pulling out. I saw that I cut off a car. I would have felt bad but I realized it was Tryst's.

Aurora was completely unaware of the fact that Tryst had just went over 100 miles an hour to pass us up. She was too busy with her ranting.

When we got to the house, the wolves were getting out of there vehicles and went silent when we arrived. Aurora and I just ignored them and walked to the front door and knocked. The wolves followed.

After the uncomfortable and silently tense meeting, Aurora and I left to get back to Addy. When we got back to the apartment, Aurora went straight to bed. But not mine. She went to he guest room and slept by Addy. She was probably mad at me for making her go to that meeting. That was fine with me. As long as she was here.

In the morning we made breakfast for Addy and went to school, leaving her at home. We were thinking of enrolling her into school, but it was to dangerous with the Vampires and wolves there. We didn't want something to happen. Although she would be in the next door Middle school. We just didn't want to risk having her in public areas without us.

Aurora was ahead of me when we got to the school. She was walking faster than I could. She was in the school, before I was even near it. My first class breezed by and so did the second third and fourth. Lunch however was very quick.

I walked into the lunchroom, to find that there were many silent arguments going on. Valkyrie was talking to her vampire buddies nervously. She looked like she was freaking out and about to rip someones head off. The others were whispering so low that I couldn't hear, but I could tell they were arguing.

Another argument was at the wolves table. It was just as quiet, but less noticeable. The table was split in two. A few on one side, and the majority on the other. No one looked happy.

The purple haired faerie that I just learned about, was talking to a guy that was in Art with Ethan and I. Neither looked happy too.

And then at my table. I was greeted with a glare from Aurora and a warm smile from Ethan.

Aurora left as soon as I sat down.

"Whats with her?" Ethan asked. "Shes been like that ever since she got to school."

"Its very complicated." I told him.

"Ah, things not doing so well?" He asked with sincerity.

"No, not so well at all." I told him and then left to catch up with Aurora.

"Okay, I guess Ill just sit alone. Again!" he yelled after me as I ran to her.

I grabbed her arm and pulled her to a stop. "Let go of me!" she said through her teeth.

"Why are acting like this? I thought you wanted to help. Wanted to help the others and the humans and Addy? Not even for Addy?" I asked her.

"No. Not them. Not the vampires. I wont. I decided that I'm not going to do this anymore. They are the ones we need to hate. They are. We cant just become allies with them. I wont be apart of that. I wont!" She pulled away from me and swiftly pulled the keys from my pocket. Before I could call to her or even grab the keys away. She was gone. And through the window I saw the viper pull away.

The day was even longer. Now that I had a lot to worry about. I hated this. I was personally going to rip Dr. Dartans's head off for all of this. I hated him. Though at first he was like a father to me. But that was a long time ago.

When I got home, no one was there. And the viper was no where in sight. I saw on the kitchen counter that there was a note from Aurora.

Xian,
I am sorry for this. I know that you need me here, with you. But I cant do it. Like I said they are our enemy. I cant do this. I have taken Addy back to her mothers and I will stay there until this is over. Good luck with the vampires. I really do want this to work out. I'm sorry once again.
I love you. You know that. I love you.
Ror.

I dropped the note on the floor.

[Kàylà]

Unknown POV~

My thirst was almost uncontrollable, almost. I knew the job I had to perform, he had told me in great detail what I was to do. What I needed to do to help him so that he could help me. I waited outside the MMC guy's apartment waiting for the unreliable nymphs to do their job and let me drain the human dry. He hadn't told me why this particular human had to die I was just following orders, I also didn't really care. I mean what was another human? It was how could you say...nothing personal.

When my mind was free to wander I wondered why I was betraying her. The love of my life since I had seen her, no other could compare to her. She never understood why I hadn't gotten another mate after her and I were no longer together. Of course that only lasted as long as her interest in me lasted...not very long. I could handle it, live with it, until now, until I saw her look at Him the same way she used to look at me. It killed me inside, ripped me apart and all I wanted to do was snap his neck and claim her for my own.

He said that I could get her back like this, he said I could kill the other one with my own bare hands and then sweep her off her feet so long as I followed him and his orders. I knew that I would do anything to get her back. He knew that to. If I knew it would get her back I would even take my own life, hoping she would be in so much sorrow that she would follow me, join me in death.

That was the problem with her, she trusted me to well, thinking she knew me through and through, that there was nothing that she didn't know about me. She trusted the wrong vamp, she thought it was the other one that she couldn't completely trust but yet she was falling for him making her unsure of whether she should listen to her heart or her mind she just wasn't sure. She just knew that there was someone close to her who wasn't completely trust worthy.

My thoughts were interrupted as the nymphs came out laughing mockingly at the human that they dragged behind them, hands tied behind his back and mouth gagged so he could no longer make a sound. I looked at the nymphs in disgust with their goat legs clicking along the sidewalk as they brought the human down the ally where I was waiting.

They continued laughing as they set him down in front of me waiting for me to quench my never ending thirst. He tried to struggle but his hands and feet were bound not letting him do much to defend himself. I bent down to his level so I could let him look into my eyes and let him know true fear. He tried to scream but the gag stopped him from creating nothing more than an odd gurgling noise.

"Well done." I told them nymphs and threw a small bag filled with diamonds and other jewels at them. "Your pay." The nymph that caught it nodded and then with the rest of them following started cackling again as they disappeared back to Dr.Dartan.

"Don't worry your death won't be painful. It's nothing personal, you just got involved with the wrong thing at the wrong time." I mocked him, as much as I wanted to see the fear in his eyes it wasn't there. The MMC obviously trained them not to show fear or he was just trying to be brave...what an idiot.

She was waiting for me to get to the meeting soon so I knew I was going to have to make this quick and not be able to enjoy my meal as I bit into the pathetic humans neck and drank blissfully. After the human had nothing left in him I threw him in the nearest dumpster not really caring if he was found or not. They wouldn't be able to trace him to me. Even if they did it would be very hard for them to find me.

I got back in my car and headed off to Valkyrie's mansion. I don't care what she says that house is not a house it's a mansion. A car going even faster than me passed me and before I could step on the gas to see if I recognized the driver or car it was gone. I got there quickly not wanting to miss anything knowing that I would have to get all the info back to Dr.Dartan, he was not one to accept error. I got out of my car and saw Nathan waiting outside for me or maybe just getting some fresh air.

He glared at me as I walked inside. I could tell from the look on his face that somehow he knew and I knew that the first chance he got he would tell Valkyrie. At first she probably wouldn't believe him saying that there was no way I would betray her, but then she wouldn't be able to get it out of her head and she would start to watch my behavior more closely. I would have to step carefully now if that was the case. Try and make her believe that I was still with her.

She would pay attention better to what I was doing and she might even follow me a couple of times to see where I was going. Nathan could not stay alive much longer.