Chapter 1:
Running. The black cape draped over her pitch black hair. Her feet pounding against the grass. The sun burning her back, smoke drifting up into the air. The men ran behind her, wooden stakes set firmly in their hands.
Trees. No more trees. No where left to hide. She was trapped. They gained closer. Her insides twisted and if she could breath at all she would be panting by now.
A wooden stake flew towards her. The sharp wooden end looking pointier and pointier as it grew closer. She ducked, the stake stabbing the bark just above her head. The men carried on running towards her. She has no choice, it was time to go out into the burning sunlight with out even the tiniest bit of shade to protect her.
The men didn't stop. They yanked out the stake and carried on running. Their feet crunching the leafs beneath them. They wern't giving up until that vampire was dust.
"Run Brie, run" murmured Vance in his restless sleep. His red eyes burst open as he shot up, banging his head on the door of his state of the arts coffin 2000. "Ow!" he moaned as the open the door of his coffin. "I have got to stop doing that" he told himself as he rubbed his forehead. With in a flash he was at his desk. As he snapped his fingers four small candles set alight, allowing the room to be dimly lighted. He rubbed his eyes as his eyes adjusted to the room. "Nightmare" He said.
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A black bat flew toward the castle like school. As it approached the window the the attic the glass slid open, letting it in. The bat landed on the blood red carpeted floor. Slow it began to grow, its wings turned to arms and its body became clothed. "I'm back" the bat (now man) growled.
The man ran over to a chair with abnormal speed. "How was hunting sir?" a servant asked hanging his head in respect.
"Quiet good, I got to help myself to a pint" The man smiled. The servant replied with a small nod of amazement.
The door to the dinning room swung open as Vance entered, His school bag over his shoulder and his yellow tie hanging by his neck.
"Did the Chosen One sleep well?" The man asked.
"Shut up dad" Vance sighed, though no air came from his mouth.
"Can't you call me Prince? It's a bit weird for the Chosen One to call someone dad isn't it" Vance's father said.
"I'm not calling you Prince dad and I don't care if its your name, you are my father and that's what I'm calling you" Vance said firmly.
"Fine" Prince growled. "Vance I don't care what you do in the day but at night you should be hunting with me. As a bat"
Vance's eyes darken with annoyance. He was not going to ever turn into a bat and he was definitely never going to drink blood, from a human or animal. "I'm never turning into a bat. It's weird and disgusting" He stated.
"Oh but there is no better feeling then soring above the city, wind under your wings and in you fur" Prince Said dreamily looking to the sky.
"You're a flying rodent"
"So? Next year when you become Grand High Vampire you need to be ready, and that means becoming a flying rodent some day."
Vance blinked and looked away. Everything always had to tie into him become Grand High Vampire.
His father picked up the paper glaring at Vance. He took one glance at the paper and shook in shock.
"What wrong?" Vance asked dryly "Bottles of blood prices gone up?"
"N-no" Prince stuttered "Our castle in Transylvania has burnt down"
Vance froze. They left Brie, His annoying older sister, there when they moved to the English countryside He blinked then ran to his fathers side looking at the paper in front of him. Prince of darkness's castle burnt to the floor by an angry mob yesterday afternoon. The Prince of his son escaped a week before but his daughter sadly went down with the rubble. It read in big bold letter.
"I'm so sorry for your loss" the servant hung his head in sorrow.
"I loved her Harry" Prince said looking at the servant "I didn't show it but I did, she was the best castle I ever set foot in"
Vance glared at his father. "He was talking about Brie you idiot"
"No I wasn't, I'm not sorry for her" Harry said dusting off his apron.
Vance looked from Harry to his father. "I had a dream that Brie was being chased by slayers" he said slowly.
"Either way shes dead. Oh well" Prince said folding up his paper.
"How can you say that" Vance spitted in disgust.
"She left you when you was this close to having a stake through your heart" he parted his thumb and index finger slightly "If I hadn't came along you would be dust by now"
Vance glared at his father. He had a point but still, Brie was his sister and her daughter and he wasn't going to let her die.
"I'm hungry" Vance moaned.
"Oh yes breakfast what do you want I have blood types from 0 positive to B negative" His father smiles opening a white door to show packets of ruby red blood. Vance began to twitch, his mouth craving the taste of blood, his eyes blinked fast and his fingers began to shake. "No blood" He manged to say "I'm going to lead a normal life"
"Vance, you're a vampire. We brought this school in the middle of no where to hide from slayers. What is normal about that?"
"I'll get breakfast in the school lunch hall" Vance murmured as he walked out the dinning room door and down the stair into the school below.
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Vance walked down the crowed stair case. Students rushed passed him. Despite all the noise all Vance could focus on was the pulse of all the breathers around him.
Vance felt hazy. His mouth watered as he though about the blood the breathers contained. His legs felt week. No, not here. Not in school he though. But all was to late as he fell to the ground and the school around him melted into a forest with few trees.
A girl ran through the forest. Slayers close behind her. Her face was a mess Vance could still tell she was his sister Brie. She screamed as the light hit her back as she ran. Smoke went into the air. By the time she reached shade she was week. She flopped onto the tree, trying to tame the fire that danced on her back. She couldn't run. The slayers caught up to her and pined her against the tree.
"Where is your brother?" One man asked. Brie could just let out a small whimper of a laugh.
"All this time I though you liked me" she smiled.
"Where is he?" said the other.
"I don't know! and as if I would tell you if I did" her smile grew wider.
One man drew a stake from his belt. He pointed it at her.
"Vance?" Brie said, her glance looking behind the men. The slayers turned and in a flash, Brie was gone. She was at another tree.
"Vance?" a voice said. Vance's body shook. "Vance!" the voice sounded familiar. It was Miss Russel. "Vance are you okay?" She asked searching Vance's eyes.
"Yeah miss I'm fine, just a little hungry. Must had felt wheezy because of it" He smiled and walked away.
"Vance!" She called to him "my doors always open if you need to talk" she said before walking in the other direction.
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"Master Vance, where are you going?" Harry asked as he walked into Vance's room to find him packing a rucksack.
"To save Brie" Vance replied dryly.
"But she's dead" Harry said confused.
"No she's not, I had a vision and she was being chased by slayers"
"You had a vision?"
"Yes"
"I must tell your father, he will be so proud!" Harry clapped his hands.
"No you won't!" Vance spit.
"Okay master" Harry hung his head. "How are you going to save her? It light outside, you will get burnt!"
"UV protector cloak" He said pointing to his back.
"Oh okay"
"Bye Harry!" Vance said as he zoomed down the stairs and out the door. He was going to save Brie. No matter who tried to stop him.
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Brie was trapped. The only thing protecting her from the sun was the small wooden roof over the shelter at the end of the forest. The slayers came from either side of her, both holding a wooden stake. They slowly came closer and closer. Brie inched her way away from them both. As her body left the shade of the roof he cried out in pain.
"Ha ha, don't forget your suncream" One slayer said. Brie hissed at him, she hated a joker.
The sound of car tires skidding again tarmac filled the air behind them. A girl with ear length blond hair and a button nose opened the door of the red mini. "Get in if you want to live!" she shouted to Brie. Brie ran to the car and jumped in, slamming the door behind her. The car raced off leaving two slayers behind.
The slayers smashed their stakes to the floor and got into their van. As they turned on the engine the tracking device booted up. "Come to papa" both men said with a smirk.
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Brie squirmed in her seat. Pulling the cape over her head and looking back she panicked.
"You can relax" The girl next to her said "I'm one of you" she showed Brie her neck. A fresh vampire bite was clearly there. "We need to stick together if we are going to keep away from them slayers, the names Eve"
"Brie. How come we arn't burning up in here?" Brie choked out.
"UV filter" Eve smiled tapping the glass. Brie looked around nervously. "You can chill, we have lost them" Eve told her calmly. "What happened to your skin?" Eve said taken back. Bries skin had turned a yellowy brown colour.
"Bit two teenagers. Must had gave me blood poisoning or something" Brie whispered pulling the cape closer around her body.
Eve looked in the side mirror. "Slayers" She mumbled.
"You said we lost them!" Brie hissed.
"Yeah and they found us!" Eve hissed back. "I don't know how but they have"
The black van behind them grew closer. Eve stepped on the pedal and they zoomed a little faster.
"No don't do this to us!" Eve yelled banging the steering wheel.
"Don't do what?" Brie asked.
"The car, its breaking down" Eve replied. Just as the words left her mouth, the car rattled and slowed down. "I'll turn off" Eve told Brie before turning the wheel and heading back into the forest.
"Do you think they saw us?" Brie asked.
Eve looked behind them. There was the black van. "I know the saw us"
"Lock the doors!" Brie yelled. Eve obeyed. With in seconds the tires on the black van where burst and two slayers stood their amazed. "Come on come on come on!" Eve banged harder, and suddenly the engine started. "YES!" they both cried together as they started off.
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Vance ran. He didn't stop. He knew where Brie was, but how would he get there? It was too far to run. By the time he got there she would be dust. Then a wild idea popped in his head. It was small and black and it rhymed with cat. Vance shook his head. No bats.
"Its the only way of getting there" a voice said in his head. "Its the only way you can save Brie" Vance gave in. He was doing it for Brie and then he was never doing it again.
He stood still. His mind turned black and then an image of a bat appeared. Slowly his arms turned to wings and he grew smaller and smaller. With a little squeak he flew off. It was time to save Brie.
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"Okay so we got about five miles" Brie said "What now?"
"I'll try and fix it let me just turn on the head lights" Eve replies fiddling with my buttons.
"Who sold you this piece of junk anyway?"
"My brother and sister" Eve scowled as the lights flashed on. "AH!" Eve jumped as she saw a figure standing there a couple steps away from the car.
"Speaking of brothers, that ones mine" Brie said angrily climbing out of the car. Night had fallen and Brie was beginning to feel safe.
The two sibblings walked closer, neither of them smiling. "You got old" Brie said looking up and down Vance.
"You got sick" Vance replied.
"I can look after myself thank you"
"Really? Why not in Transylvania then?"
"I got bored"
"More like burned"
"So? Is that why your here? To rub it in my face that I failed?"
"I'm here to take you home"
"A little to late to play happy families isn't it?"
"We will protect you from the slayers"
"I can handle them" Brie spit. She hissed as she showed her fangs "I can use these"
Vance stepped forward and hissed back at her showing his fangs and a ring of fire surrounded then in a bang "You will lose!" he replied in a husky voice his eyes glowing red.
"Bye Vance, stay out of trouble"
"There is a blood tracking device on you by the way" Vance pointed out. He took out a peice of metal that was tangled in Bries hair.
"How did that get there?" Brie remembered when they pinned her up against the tree. "Oh never mind"
"They are looking for me. They must had know I would come find you" Vance said annoyed,
"Great so I'm the bait?"
"Yeah sorry. Hey girl take her to Blueberry hill school would you? I'll catch you up" he turned to Eve.
"Okay." Eve replied getting Brie into the car.
"Time to throw theses slayers off the sent." Vance said shooting up into the sky.
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The slayers van was catching up to Eve and Brie. Vance had to do something. He flew around the van with the tracker.
"They are teasing us" One slayer said looking at the tracking device.
Vance landed on the van, shook it around the threw the tracker in the other direction before taking off. The two slayers where left all jumbled up in a van that was about to fall to pieces.
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Vance, Brie and Eve fell through the door to the dinning room. Prince stood there glaring at all three.
"Well, well, well look what the cat dragged in a stupid little vampire and a total stranger that could be a slayer!" he spitted.
"Leave Brie alone, she is sick" Vance stepped forward
"I'll put her out of her misery" Prince hissed.
"You lay a fang on her"
"Don't answer me back boy or you will regret it!"
"Bite me then" Vance challenged. His father stood down. "Okay so Brie is staying"
Eve looked around, she shouldn't be here. "I should go" she choked before fast walking out of the dinning room.
Vance raced out to her. "Stay, for the night. Get some rest" he told her with his hands on her shoulders.
"Um okay" Eve shrugged "just for the night"
"Great" Vance smiled a wide smile "Harry!" he called for the servant.
"Yes Master?" Harry popped his head around the door.
"A coffin please. Eve is staying the night" Vance ordered him.
"Yes sir. Oh and your science homework is edited by the way" Harry smiled as he went down into the basement.
"Coffin?" Eve asked confused.
"Yes? You are a half fang right? I guess since you saved Brie and you have vampire bites of your neck" he pointed to Eve neck.
"Oh yeah, sorry. I'm kind of new to this" Eve blushed.
"No worries"
"So must be nice to have someone to edit your homework"
"Yeah. Can that stay between you and me?" Vance asked with a worried smile.
"Don't worry, I can keep a secret" Eve replied. And maybe it was her tone, or maybe it was just her eyes but it almost seemed like she, had a secret.