Chapter 1
Another Day, a New Dawn
With a slight and subtle flick of my wrist I wiped a pencil across the room at my friend Ben, as I had planned it to it landed next to his hand burying it tip in the notebook he was writing on. All the while the teacher not noticing a thing going on a she wrote on the dry-erase board. When he finally noticed it he spun around as if expecting someone to be standing behind him, as he saw me laughing he narrowed his eyes into slits wondering how I could have placed the pencil there without his noticing. After several moments he turned back around and pulled the pencil from the notebook with a bit of effort on his part. When the lunch bell finally rang I sat at my normal table and waited for my friends to show up, when they arrived I dived down on my sandwich and waited for a conversation to start. Once several minutes had gone by James started ask what we would be doing over the weekend being as how it was the second to last week before summer vacation, Jake said he would be going to Denver, Nick was going camping and, Taylor was staying home. I told them that I would actually be biking, which was when Ben walked up and dropped the pencil I had thrown, onto my sandwich, with a bemused look I asked him why there was a pencil on my sandwich, he then responded by asking how I had done what I had with pencil. "Well… let's see I put it in the pencil sharpener and turned the knob, then it was magically sharp isn't it weird how that works?" I asked in dry sarcastic tone, with a slightly disgusted expression Ben sat down and asked if anyone had some food.
Now that school was over for the year I intended to make my way down to Boulder. I called my mom and told her where I was going, after a brief conversation about me being safe I went and grabbed my bicycle. I had been in boulder for two hours and decided it was time to head home, so I road my bike to the bus terminal. I quickly pulled out my bus pass and loaded my bicycle on the front of the bus. After a half hour I arrived in Nederland, I quickly unloaded my bike and started to ride home when I heard a primordial sound come from the woods on my left. I slowly rolled to a stop and methodically brought up the hood of my hoodie. Cautiously and deliberately I stepped away from my bike, after several minutes of scanning the woods from a distance I walked back to my bike and continued on my way. When I was half way back to my house I heard the noise again, only this time it sounded angry and closer. I quickly shifted to a harder gear and pedaled the gearing causing me to go farther in a single pedal stroke. In the woods I heard crashes and noises I did not like it. If you have ever heard any dub-step ever you have heard a drop, that's what happened just before the animal jumped out at me it was something I had never seen it was like a black and orange fox (Think normal fox but were its orange its black and were its white its orange), it was easily the size of a fifteen passenger van, but that wasn't the weird part. No the weird part is that it was on fire, as in flaming. With what seemed to be a scream it lunged at me, for a second I was shocked and then I reacted. Jumping straight up off my bike I did a back flip and landed behind the fox. "Who knew I could do that!" I asked looking to see if anyone or even the fox had seen what I did. When the fox realized I was behind it, it got pissed. Whipping out with its tail trying to hit in a swift side-step I dodged the blow, but feeling the heat of the fox's tail. Suddenly with a snarl it grabbed me in its jaws and shock its head fiercely, I knew if I didn't get free soon I would be knocked out. My sight was growing dark as I clung to my last bit of conciseness. Suddenly I felt a weight in my pockets with the last of my strength I clawed at my pockets and attempted to grab what they had yielded, simultaneously I managed to grab the objects. I as I brought them to my face I realized that they were knives, with a rapid flicking motion I opened the blades and impaled them in to the fox with as much might as I could. After several seconds of struggling the fox burst in to a cloud of ash, gasping I stood up and looked at my bike and back-pack which lay several feet from me completely unscathed struggling over to them I picked them up and continued home as if nothing had happed.
Strangely when I got home no one was around and I had time to take a shower and eat. When I checked the messages on my cell phone I noticed I had missed a call from my dad, with a quick press of redial I was talking to my dad. "Hey what's up." I asked, acting like nothing had happened. "Were stuck in boulder the tunnel in the canyon collapsed." My dad said. "So you guys coming home or am I here by myself." I asked hoping for the latter." He replied "No we're here for the next two days and since schools out you could have a friend or two over." "Okay I hope you guys are alright. See you on Wednesday." I replied coolly and with that we hung up, I went over to the house phone and decided to call up Taylor and James. When I got off the phone with them I called up my girlfriend Alexa and, asked if she and her friends Hope and _ would like to come over.
When everyone got too my house we set up an Xbox system link and played some HALO: REACH matchmaking, after a while we got bored and decided to watch a scary movie. We all voted on what to watch and decided on 'Night of the Living Dead', both Alexa and I had seen this movie multiple times and were avid enjoyers of watching others scream in fear. Once the movie had started rolling Taylor and Hope cuddled in the satellite chair while James and _ sat in the loveseat leaving me and Alexa the coach. When the movie was over James and _ had looks of shear horror on their faces, whilst Taylor and Hope were staring at them with concern It was now about eleven o'clock and we were all tired so I suggested that everyone sleep at my place. When everyone had agreed, Taylor and Hope would have the guest room, James and _ would get my room on the second floor and, Alexa and I would get my parents bedroom.
Sleep did not come easy to me I lay next to Alexa trying to sleep but every time I would start to drift I would imagine that fox dragging Alexa in to the woods and I couldn't do anything.
When dawn came everyone sat at the table and ate cereal, suddenly there was a banging on the windows of the sliding glass door. Standing up to see who it was I walked over and moved the blind. Standing on my deck I saw my family they looked at me and everyone in the room. Next thing I know I am on the deck with my dad. "Listen, we don't have much time but you're the next in the bloodline and therefore the trait passes to you, w…" he was starting another sentence when I interjected "What do you mean?" "We are of an old bloodline our family, so old we can trace our roots to Greece. Last night you were attacked by a Hellfox, two knives appeared in your pockets and you used them, yes?" "Yes I did and what do you mean Hellfox?" "You're going to New York." "What" "Your friends are going with you so is your cat." "WHAT!"