The End Of The Beginning

Nice Little Bonfire

"He's got my brother! Ok, I officially hate him!" "Who who?!" Ruben asks. "Kyler." Zaiden fills him in as I start hyperventilating. "Vanessa, Vanessa! Calm down! It's ok!" Dalton says. "It's not ok!" I yelled back at him. "That son of a bitch is messing with my family! If he thinks he can get away with it, he's got another thing coming!" I stomp outside, searching all over for smoke over the trees. 

"Vanessa! Are you crazy? You can't go fight Kyler all by yourself!" Dalton says. "Then come with me." I said, still looking. "I can't believe this is happening." Ruben says. "Kyler actually wants to turn CJ into a demon?" Zaiden asks. "I'm going to kill him!" Dalton blocks me with his hand. "Honey, you go in like that, he'll beat you just by tapping you with his pinky. You have to have your composure." "Composure?! How can I possibly have composure?!" "You breathe." I squint. "If you go in all upset with no thought other than kill, that's what he'll do to you. He's dangerous. Don't underestimate him. Not even for a second." I tap my foot. "Are you done?" Dalton sighs. "C'mon, you two. We're gonna need as much backup as possible."

"Smoke! There it is!" I said, then instantly get nervous. "It's black. As black as it was with that boy in it!" I start running toward it. "V!" The boys yell after me. There Kyler was standing in front of a fire. But no CJ.

"I can't believe it actually worked." Kyler laughs and turns to face me. "Where's CJ?" I asked. "Not here. I don't need him. I don't want him. He's safe in his house." Kyler smiles. "But I got you here." His eyes drift behind me. "Oh, and your little boy toys!" He laughs wickedly. "What is this, Kyler?" Zaiden asks. "This is war. Demons aren't done with vampires yet. We won't stop until we've won, and every vampire, if not dead, is crawling on the ground, begging for death. But we won't give it to them. Death is a privilege for some. For others, it's the end. Which will it be for you, I wonder?" He asks as he gazes over all of us. "Why bring us out here? Just so you could tell us those lies?" Dalton asked. Kyler shrugs. "Lies, maybe, through your eyes. Right now. But very, very soon, you'll be thanking me for the warning." He smiles. "Beneath us right now, my father is putting together armies of demons, just dying to get up here and kill you all!" "Your father? Who is your father? And if you wanted us dead, why help me at the hospital?" Kyler smiles. "I wanted to make sure you were ok so I could kill you myself." He begins to turn.

"And as for my father..." He pauses, turns, and smiles wickedly. "He's the devil himself."

"We've been messing around the son of the devil?!" I asked when we got back home. "I didn't even think the devil was real!" "Oh, he's real, alright. And he's also real dangerous. We can't poke at the demons. They will kill someone. We're lucky Kyler doesn't actually have your brother." "Why would he lure us over there?" I asked. "Not us, V. You." Ruben says. I look to him confused. "Remember? He seemed surprised that we were there, but pleased." I remembered Kyler's horrible voice. "Why would he want just me?" I asked. "You're a new vampire. That's when we're most dangerous. He probably wanted you to think he had your brother, come down there all angry, then he'd kill you without you even being aware." My heart beat quickly. "I just became a vampire, why am I already on his list?" "A vampire's a vampire to demons. Zaiden? The story?" Ruben prompts. 

Zaiden comes forward. "It was said to have happened 3,000 years ago. A vampire girl and a demon boy fell in love and happily announced their engagement to their folks. But they didn't know of the horrible history between the two kinds. The demon's parents forced their son to kill the vampire girl. The boy was said to never have loved again, and forever went to darkness and hatred, like his parents. He has hated vampires ever since.

That boy's name is Kyler."