Background: Not so sure if I said this or not but I am overly obbsessed (spell check please xD) with vampires and sometime near the end of first semester (freshman year) I started to write a story involving vampires, elves, fairies, and the like. So far chapter one is complete, and thank God I kept it on a thumb drive because I would not have typed this again! Chapter 2 is still in the works and will be up as soon as I finish it, make a picture for it, and type it on MS Word. Each chapter will be a decent 12 pages (according to the hand-written version) and cotain 2 pictures (the first picture will open the chapter and will appear on the second page of the chapter and the second picture will "summarize" the chapter and appear on the last page of the chapter).
Edit: All names have been obtained via name generators, I have asked my friends that wanted to be in the story and asked them for correct spellings of their first and last names then took those names to various name generators. Some of the names are in French so to pronounce the main characters name would be like so: Ho-zet Ol-i-ahn-der (that's all I could think of on the spot if anyone can think of something better I'd greatly appriciate it ^^). Some names I really can't pronounce so please don't ask me about certain names thank you.
Edit 2: I remembered that I have some quotes in Spanish and if any of you don't understand it you can ask me and I'll be happy to translate ^^
Now without any further dely I give you my story ^^
Blood
A Vampress’ Tale
Chapter 1: Problems
It was dark and windy; the scent of blood was in the air. I turned to see who was being attacked and who was attacking but it was too dark in the alley they were in to tell who they were. All I could tell from the screams was that the person being attacked was a female about fifteen years old, my age. I tried to make my eye focus on the attacker to figure out if I knew them, but it did not work. Suddenly a body dropped to the ground. I wondered if the attacker had finished or the victim was able to knock over the attacker and get away. I was going to find out; someone was emerging from the shadows. When I was able to see the person, better the attacker turned out to be my friend, Lana Keat.
“What are you doing in the mortal world?” I asked, even though I’m not allowed in the mortal world as well.
“I should be asking you the same thing Josette. Well I shouldn’t, because you break this school rule all the time,” Lana stated.
“Well are you going to tell me why you broke the rule?” I asked, more persistent.
“Okay, okay. I came here because my ‘feeling’ came a little early,” Lana explained. To tell the truth this is the first time the “feeling” came early for Lana.
“You still wanna know why I came here?”
“Sure.”
“I came here for two reasons. First was to find you. Second was to find, the Amulet of Demetre,” I whispered to Lana in case anyone was nearby.
“You and I both know that amulet does not exist!” Lana exclaimed in anger, rolling her eyes.
“Oh yeah…” I said as I held up the bright-red amulet by its whit-gold chain.
“Oh my God! How and where did you find it?!” Lana shouted as she held the amulet in her not bloody hand.
“I’ll tell you tomorrow. So let’s get back to the academy,” I said with a gentle smile.
“Okay,” Lana said.
“And take a shower when we get there! You look like a disaster!” I exclaimed laughing.
“Okay,” Lana said smiling.
When we got back to Bloodshed Academy our friend Serenity, a sorceress, was waiting at the main gate to let us in. By the expression on her face, I could tell she was mad. When we approached the gate Serenity let us in, and then she lectured us on how it was one in the morning when we got back and that I was only supposed to look for Lana and not the amulet as well and the fact that I was supposed to be back with Lana by midnight. Lana and I both apologized and we continued to walk back to our dorm. Then Serenity asked,” So, did you find it?”
“Yep,” I said as I took out the amulet for Serenity to see.
“The real thing is even prettier than from the picture in your book,” Serenity said still in amazement from the sight of the amulet.
After Serenity said that, we all had to be quiet because we got to the academy’s main entrance and if we said anything at this hour of night, in the school, the professors would think something isn’t right and have us expelled. Therefore, when we got inside we walked to our room to find Alana, a succubus, sleeping like a baby in her bed. After I hid the amulet, Lana went to go take a shower and Serenity and I went to bed.
When we got up it was 8:30 A.M., first period already started. Lana, Serenity, Alana, and I were discussing whether to go to first period or wait until the bell rings then go to second period together. Serenity suggested that she puts our first period professors into a trance until we got to our classes, then she would make our professors think we were there the entire time. Lana and Alan were first to go along with the plan, I took a while to say I would go along with it, because I knew there would be a catch. And I was right; Serenity said that we only had five minutes each so this way the trance could be released at the same time. Even though I had already agreed to go along with the plan I asked Serenity why she just uses a spell to give us colds for a couple days. She gives the “I don’t want weekend homework” look. I return the look with my “Sorry, I was just asking” look. Serenity looks at her watch for a few seconds to tell us when we can start heading to our classes. She said “go,” and we all left our room and into the hall. Lana and I were able to get to our class, History of Vampires, in less than two minutes because we used our ability to make us run faster to make it there quick enough to ask someone what we missed so far. Apparently, they watched a movie that no one remembers what it was about, so we really didn’t miss anything.
By the time, I was able to text message a thank you to Serenity our professor, Mr. Tussaud, was released from his trance and started to talk to the class about the movie.
“So, are there any questions about the movie?” Mr. Tussaud asked.
Luckily, someone raised their hand so Lana and I can find out something about the movie.
“Uh, yeah, what would happen if a vampire found Demetre’s amulet in this time?” By that instant my body completely froze. I tried not to draw attention to myself so I immediately texted Lana saying that we have to get a hold of that movie.
How are we going to do that? Lana replied.
I don’t know. Maybe we can ask Mr. Tussaud after class?
What if that doesn’t work?
Then we drag Serenity into this.
Okay. When the bell rang, Lana and I waited for everyone else to leave so we could talk to Mr. Tussaud privately. Lana and I walked up to Mr. Tussaud acting a little embarrassed at the thought that if Mr. Tussaud let us borrow the movie he might tell the entire class tomorrow.
“Do you girls have a question?” Mr. Tussaud asked as he wrote his next class’ agenda.
“Um… yes, Lana and I were wondering is we could borrow the movie we watched today?” I asked sheepishly.
“Ah good to see that a couple of my students are taking some interest in their heritage. Yes I’ll let you girls borrow the movie tonight, just come back here at the end of the day and I’ll have the movie for you. Oh, I’ll give you late passes so you don’t get counted tardy.”
Thank you Professor Tussaud. We’ll be sure to bring back the movie tomorrow,” I said in amazement of Mr. Tussaud’s generosity. Normally Mr. Tussaud is mean and says no to everyone. I started wondering what made him be so kind and generous. I decided to drop it on the way to literature, a mixed race class.
About halfway to literature Lana started to whine and complain about the class, then she called it “Engrish” instead of “English,” “Literature,” or “Lit.” Lana started calling the class “Engrish” after she found out that our teacher is a werewolf, which made no sense to me, and I never bothered to ask her because she’ll give me the dumbest reason possible, or she’ll just say “because” and leave me even more confused than before. We got to literature at least three minutes late so Miss Bloodtooth was still taking roll and that meant everyone was either talking, texting, listening to their iPods/MP3 players, or something else. Lana and I walked up to Miss Bloodtooth and showed her our late passes. She said “okay” and sent us to our seats. Miss Bloodtooth is and odd teacher, she doesn’t know any of the other races’ languages, she can only speak broken Werewolf and English. Everyone takes advantage of Miss Bloodtooth’s inability to speak the other races’ languages by talking to one another in their native tongues.
“Okay students, today we have a new student joining us from Vampire City today. Her name is Sarah Raven and she doesn’t speak English very well, so are there any vampires here that can speak Vampereese?” Even though Lana and myself only speak broken Vampereese we assumed that the new kid could speak Spanish, the vampires’ newly adopted language, so we raised our hands. “Ah! You can sit next to Josette Oleander and Lana Keat!” Miss Bloodtooth said in excitement. As the new girl started walking towards us, I began to wonder why so many vampires always transfer to this school and none of the schools closer to them.
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¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás?” I asked as the new girl sat down.
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Bien, ¿y t ú?”
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Mas o menos. ¿Cómo te llamas?”
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Mi nombre es Josette Oleander.”
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¿Quién es tu amiga?”
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Este es mi amiga Lana Keat.”
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Encantada,” Lana replied.
After Lana and I were finished introducing ourselves, we introduced the rest of the class to Sarah. She seemed very excited to meet everyone. After all of the introductions were finished, I asked Sarah to let me see her schedule. She gave it to me calmly. I was surprised to find out that Sarah and I had the same classes together. She was even the fifth member of my room! I started to wonder how that could have happened. I gave the schedule back to Sarah and she put it back in her purse.
I started to pay attention in class for at least ten minutes then someone texted me and I was stuck with texting for the rest of the period.
The bell rang and I told Sarah that I would help her get to the rest of her classes. Lana said, “see ya” and walked off to her next class. Sarah and I got our things together and we went to our next class, gym class. On our way there, Sarah told me ore about herself, her family, and her plans for the future. I told Sarah more about myself and the other subjects Sarah previously talked about.
We got to gym class about three minutes early, enough time to change into my gym uniform. I told Sarah to sit on the bench while I change, and she obeyed. I emerged from the locker room a minute later so I took Sarah to coach Táralóm, an elf. Coach Táralóm is probably the best teacher at Bloodshed, he is fluent in every races’ language, his exercises are fun and easy, and to top it all off, he’s young and handsome! Sarah and I found Coach Táralóm at the far end of the gym. I introduced Sarah to the coach and I told coach that Sarah does not speak English very well so coach made Sarah a new cadet addition to my flight. Coach Táralóm used to be in the air force so he will use many air force terms, but what coach meant was that Sarah is now a new addition to my group.
The bell rang and everyone was in their group waiting fro coach’s instructions.
“Hello cadets!” Coach Táralóm shouted. “Today we have a new cadet joining cadet Oleander’s flight. The new cadet can only speak Spanish so will all of my vampire cadets please step forward,” obediently all of the vampires, including myself, stepped forward. ”Okay, now would the cadets that don’t speak Spanish please sit down,” right away everyone that could not speak Spanish, including a couple vampires, sat down. “For those of you still standing up you will be helping Cadet Raven out, since you all can speak Spanish you can translate for her. Understood?!”
“Yes sir!” we responded. Coach Táralóm sent us back to our groups and told us what we would be doing.
“Okay cadets, today you will be playing Escape and Evasion in the mortal world!” we all cheered in joy, and then the coach silenced us. “The flight commanders will decide who escapes and evades first and who hunts first. So I would like the flight commanders to go into a corner and discuss while the rest of you can talk to each other unless your flight commander orders different,” I translated everything for Sarah and told her to only talk to the people she saw standing up earlier.
I walked to join the other flight commanders in the corner. Five minutes later, our group announced that Haldamir Ringëril’s group would do the hunting first while the other groups would escape and evade.
Coach Táralóm opened a portal for us to enter the mortal world. My group stepped through the swirling vortex first. When we exited the portal I realized that I was in the area where I found Lana last night, what was even funnier was that the area is also my hunting ground (I told Lana about that last night). By the time, the rest of the groups stepped into the mortal world I felt something come onto my neck. I pull the foreign object out of my shirt and I am in complete shock to find out that the foreign object was the Amulet of Demetre! I started to wonder if Serenity was messing with me, but I decided to ask her at lunch.
“Uh, ma’am?” one of my group members said.
“Yes cadet?” I replied.
“What’s the plan?”
“Since I know the area the only thing you guys have to do is follow me,” it did seem like a good plan, though I would divide them up into areas close to me. I noticed that coach was handing out necklaces to each of the group captains similar to the amulet I was wearing.
“I see you already have one cadet. Carry on,” coach said in bewilderment. “Okay cadets, there are two reasons for why each of the flight commanders are wearing these necklaces! First is to keep track of their flights’ cadets! Next is to make it harder for the flight commanders!” coach bellowed. ”Each flight has five minutes to prepare so use that time wisely!”
I told my group about the plan and follow it exactly. Then I had to it in Spanish for Sarah, she shook her head as if to say she understood. I told my group that they could talk until coach said it was time to start.
“Okay flights! Get ready... Begin!” my group and I took off to the northwest at great speed.
Two minutes later, we stopped at the exact spot where I wanted to be. I put my group into two groups of three and told them exactly where to go. I had Sarah go with the other vampire that could speak Spanish so she could ask questions and get answers without any translations. I stayed out in the open, because I wanted to toy with the hunters and lead them away from my group.
I started to hear faint footsteps about twenty yards away. I readied myself for battle, making sure my gear was sharp, tied down tight, and ready for me to grab it when I needed it. Everything seemed to be in order, I just had to make sure that my amulet would not fall off.
I heard some of the enemy stop about fifteen yards away from where I was standing, but I still heard one set of footsteps still coming toward me. It seemed like the group’s leader told his/her group members to stay behind so they can have an ambush or surprise attack. (I heard the other footsteps circle around areas the same length away from me, fifteen yards). The leader’s footsteps were now five yards away but for some reason I could not see them. I signaled my group to go to the other hiding spots as a precaution. I faintly hear my group members going into the underground passageways I told them about earlier.
I suddenly felt something as hard as a male’s fist hit the exact center of my back. I started leaning forward, my mouth opened enough to show my fangs, and my eyes immediately glow red. Before my body made it to the ground, I dashed off to a hiding spot before my attacker could land another attack.
I heard someone breathing heavy. I turned my head to see who was with me, and hiding in the corner was Sarah. I asked her why she did not go with the others when I signaled them and she said that the other vampire that could speak Spanish did not tell her to follow them. I told her to go into the other hiding spot with the rest of the group. She nodded her head as to say yes. I watched Sarah go into the tunnel to make sure she got away safely.
I started sensing someone coming. It seemed like my attacker from before. I prepared myself even more. I suddenly saw a pair of glowing, red eyes. I focused on the pair of eyes and realized the eyes were mine! For some reason I looked down and noticed that, my amulet was glowing! I started wondering what made my eyes, and the amulet, glow, but I noticed that I was becoming bloodthirsty I tried to control it, but it was overwhelming me too much. My mind was telling me to snatch up the nearest human and drink their blood. Ignoring those urges was extremely hard to do. I started to reach for my blood packet, but I remembered that I was under attack so the blood would have to wait until later.
I heard footsteps about five yards behind me I turned around quickly to see who was there but all I could see were a pair of glowing blue eyes staring straight at me.
“Who’s there?!” I yelled, wielding my sword.
No answer.
“Tell me who you are!” I commanded.
Still no answer.
“Answer or I will attack!” I threatened.
The glowing pair of blue eyes vanished. I felt a swift breeze as soon as the eyes disappeared.
“You finally got your eyes,” a voice said.
My eyes suddenly widened. I realized who had been hunting me down. Zedkiel Roussean, the only vampire in the entire school to be born with blue blood. Though it is not bad, it is just that vampires born with the rare blood are stronger than regular vampires are.
“What of it Zed?” I call Zedkiel “Zed” because of the fact that he is my boyfriend.
“I was wondering when you would finally get them Josie,” Zedkiel said.
I was now contemplating my attack. I started to wonder if I should use my sword or something else to attack with.
“Well are you gonna attack or just stand there with that blank expression on your face?” Zedkiel was now in front of me.
“How did you…”
“You’re forgetting that my blood can let me move faster than normal vampires,” Zedkiel said as he held one finger against my lips.
I decided to draw Zedkiel outside so I could fight him more easily. Though I didn’t know how I would be able to do that so I that I would be able to wing it.
I started to walk away and acted as if I gave up. I sensed Zedkiel behind me by about five paces. I started to wonder if he knew I was going to attack or if he actually that I was giving up.
Zedkiel started to come closer so I picked up my pace a little. I started to see a faint light. I figured it was a way out so I started to run for it. Zedkiel was five paces behind me, so I thought that he knew I was going to attack.
The gloomy light started to get closer. It was about five yards away so I went as fast as my normal speed could go and sped out the doorway into the open area. I had to squint for a little bit until my eyes got used to the “brighter” light.
I turned around to see if Zedkiel was behind me, but he was in the doorway just staring at me. I stared back at him, confused. I was why he didn’t exit the building. After staring at Zedkiel for about two minutes, I turned around and began to walk away. When I was about fifteen feet away from the door, I quickly turned around and threw a knife at Zedkiel at about fifty miles per hour. I knew Zedkiel would be able to dodge the knife, but I figured that while he was dodging the knife I would be able to run off and meet back up with my group.
“Better luck next time!” I yelled as I began to sprint off using “inhuman” speed.
I had my hand grasp the handle of my sword in case Zedkiel caught up with me. I was about twenty feet away from my group when I heard the horn that meant time was up and everyone had to meet back with coach. I found my group and told them it was time to go back.
“Did we win?” someone asked.
“I think so,” I replied.
It took us about five minutes to get back since we were running very fast.
“Alright cadets, good class today, very good team work. I saw some very good strategies today. Tomorrow I’ll announce which people are going to be promoted and we’ll talk about coming and current events tomorrow. So remember to be in the classroom unarmed tomorrow. However, I encourage ONLY flight commanders to come armed. And to answer a question yes I did call the flight commanders flight captains earlier, that was a mistake on my part so I apologize,” coach Táralóm said.
Coach let us talk until the end of class once we were all unequipped since everyone worked very hard today. He also mentioned that he would announce who won tomorrow as well. After coach said that, I walked up to him with a concerned look.
“What is it Miss Oleander?” coach asked looking concerned.
“I was wondering if you had any blood packets,” I replied.
“Well as an elf I normally wouldn’t, but as a teacher I have to look out for my students. So to answer your “question” I do have blood packets, they’re in the upper right hand corner of my desk if you need one,” coach replied.
“Thank you sir,” I said as I walked off to get a blood packet.
By the time I returned, sucking on a blood packet, the bell had rung and I had to get my things and be on my way, but coach stopped me so he could secure the blood packet on my arm. I thanked him and walked off to my next class, art class.
This concludes chapter one.
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