Good news first! Exams are doneee!!! :D So happy! And to celebrate, here's another chapter of the new Legacy sequel!
Now the bad news.... my laptops broken... er, well, the cords broken. so my laptops dead and useless :( Luckly i sent this chapter to Ellen before my cord broke, so I could get it from the email and post it. Anyways guys, this chapters more of a filler, letting you get to know the character and stuff.. so i promise itll start getting better, don't worry :D
Enjoy guys!
II
When i awoke, it was mid afternoon. Cade was still fast asleep beside me, snoring lightly. I smirk, relishing the thought of rubbing that little fact in when he woke up. Me and Cade were best friends, as close as brother and sister would be, and I loved to tease him like a sister. He took it good naturally, throwing in a few jibes too. It was kind of our thing, teasing each other. We both new not to take anything the other said personally, and it became our stress reliever, our playful banter.
I watched him snore for a bit longer before silently getting up from the bed, trying my best not to wake. I walked from the room, nodding to the guards outside, and headed down the hall towards my room. I passed a few late wanderers on the way and nodded to them as they bowed.
It was really annoying, the bowing, but I couldn't do much about it. It was a sign of respect in the vampire community, and to let people not bow would most likely show weakness. Yes, my parents had changed a lot, but there was still much left unchanged. It took a lot to change peoples ways.
Like the need for a mate. I knew it killed my parents to force me to find someone so soon, and i knew that they wanted to give me time to fall in love and find the right guy, but unfortunately it was out of their control. They were struggling for control over the vampire community still, and needed to follow traditions as much as possible to avoid upsetting the community to the brink of mutiny. They were treading dangerous ground, and doing the best they could. It killed them, i knew, so I tried not to take my frustration out on them. Still, occasionally my anger would get the better of me, but my parents took it diplomatically. They new i was doing the best i could, and I knew they were doing the best we could, so we've kind of come to a silent agreement to avoid stepping on any toes. I appreciated my parents efforts, and new i was very lucky to have such understanding people taking care of me.
That's why, when i finally reached my room, guilt filled me at what i was about to do. I knew i had just been lectured on it, and told expressly never to do it again, I just couldn't obey them on this one thing. I had my reasons, but my parents refused to relent on this particular rule. It was nonnegotiable.
I walked over to my window, making sure that there were no prying ears, and slowly slid my curtains back from the window. The sun light, bright and blinding, didn't effect my hybrid skin like it did my fathers. I only felt a slight tingle where the brightness touched my skin, almost pleasurable. Cade was also able to walk into sunlight, but he burned easily, and chose not to go out without plenty of sunscreen. It was another thing i teased him about mercilessly.
Once my eyes had adjusted to the brightness, i silently slid the window open. The screen my parents had installed popped out easily enough, and I placed it quietly on my floor. I slid out the open window slowly, clinging to the ledge so that I had my feet planted on the small overhang and was crouched in the window. I sprung gracefully, the feeling of nothing in between me and the ground many stories below shooting icy adrenaline through my veins before my arms found to branch, my legs swinging up with the momentum and finding purchase on another branch. I allowed myself to catch my breath before maneuvering myself into a standing position. I then started climbing up the tall oak, the comforting feeling of rough bark under my fingers, carefully avoiding sap. The light peeked in through the leaves, illuminating my path up the tree, and i breathed in the comforting smell. Wood was deadly to my fathers kind, but it tended not to hurt any of the half hybrids then it would a human. In fact, I found being surrounded by the ancient wood comforting, as if being around something so ancient made me insignificant, a welcome break to the constant pressure and attention of my life. I often snuck out here during the day, finding solace sitting on the branches, surrounded by the golden green leaves, listening as they whispered in the wind, the suns rays sparkling. Some days i would climb up and down the tree, others just sitting was enough. Either way was peaceful, it just depended on how much steam I had to blow off.
Today though, was one of the rare day that confining myself to just the space of the tree wasn't enough. I was yearning to explore, to wander the forest and loose myself in its vastness. I wanted to become inconsequential for a few hours, become nothing more then a mere spec in the space of the forests life time.
I climbed down slowly, swing from one branch to the other, savoring the silence of the forest. Animals tended to avoided the forest this close to all the vampires ever since the new laws were past, or so I was told.
I finally reached the lowest branch, jumping the last five feet or so. I landed on my toes, bending my knees to absorb the impact. It wouldn't have hurt that bad anyway, but I couldn't turn off the instincts telling me to absorb the impact.
Being a hybrid-our short word for half human half vampire-I was as strong as my father, my senses were as strong as his, but my weaknesses were not. Wood, sunlight, holy objects, they all didn't effect me as much as they did my father, which was a good thing. The only way would could kill me was give my a fatal wound with it, like normal humans. The bad thing was, my skin wasn't as indestructible as my fathers. I had acquired his strength, and my mothers weaknesses. I wasn't sure if it was a good or bad thing. Other hybrids, like Cade, had acquired different things. None of us were quite the same. And yes, I say others.
When my mom and dad had discovered I would be born, they set out to see if there were any other hybrids, so they would know what to expect. They ended up stumbling over a whole community of hybrids that had been hiding out, afraid of what the consequences would be for having such a child. Most of these hybrids have come out of hiding now, and I have met many of them. Still, a few remain hidden, still afraid, and my parents are working on coaxing them out and convincing them that no harm will come of them. The idea of hybrids had unsettled many of the vampire community, but they had grudgingly excepted my existence and those many others existences. I like to believe that now they have no problems with me, but I know there's still a certain few who dislike the idea of me becoming the ruler, which is one of the reasons my parents are encouraging me to find a vampire mate. If a hybrid princess took a full vampire prince, the vampires would be put more at ease then any other option. My parents are eager to put me on the throne, with a king, to ease the vampires. They're afraid of what might happen if I wait to long, and my fathers people become to restless. I definitely see the logic in the decision, which is one of the reasons I don't fight back at the pressure. My parents continuously tell me how proud they are of me, and how grown up I'm acting about the whole situation. I understand the politics of it all, and understand that this is the best course of action for my father's people-my people-so I'm trying my best to find a suitable mate in such short time span.
As I glanced at the parts of the horizon peaking through the trees, I noticed how the sky had gone from a clear blue to a beautiful pinky orange hue.
Time to get back, I thought reluctantly, turning around abruptly. I used one of my dads gift, the ability to run fast, pushing my leg muscles past the average humans ability, and was at the wall of the castle in no time.
As I climbed back up the old oak, I felt reluctant to leave the nature and beauty. It was always so peaceful, my escape, and each time leaving was a difficult task. The castle, with the vampire community was hectic and demanding off me, but the forests demanded nothing. But still, as always, my duty to my people called me back. I silently, reluctantly, climbed back up the tree to the branch closest to my window. Taking in one last deep breath of forest air, I lept from the branch, my hands reaching out and grabbing onto the ledge. My feet hit the wall lightly, finding purchase on the stone walls and I slowly, quietly climbed up and rolled through the window. I landed louder then I'd like, and 'oomph' forcing itself out of my lungs as I hit the floor.
I cursed silently, standing up quickly and brushing myself off. Instinct told me to turn around, and I froze when I saw who was waiting on my bed.
"Oh," I said sheepishly, fidgeting with my shirts hem. "Hi Dad, Mom."
Teehee. Oops? was that a cliff hanger? Sorry guys, i couldn't resist. You should know me nd my love for cliffhangers by now :P nyways, comments and votes and ooo! Read this book called Fallen, by Lauren Kate <33 god im in love with it :P
