Okay, this is the rewrite. I decided to do this over because it was too, Disney, bleh. And I felt as if I'd done a really shitty job connecting with my audience, so I'm gonna start taking votes on things. Starting now; vote opportunity, I was trying to decide if the school should be on an island or underwater. Review this story and vote please!!!!!!!! Or the evil mister mcfeely will make a speedy delivery to your soul. Muahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahh!!!!!!
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Blood Stained Fur
I sat on the edge of my porch waiting for the bus; today was the first day at my new school. Rockbottom, was Skyhigh's slightly less renowned sister school off the west coast. It was less funded, more public, and worst of all it was a boarding school. My parents had informed me last week that I was going; I hadn't said a word to them since. My father was old school; he wears a cape, one of those stupid masks that only cover his eyes, and he called himself the red hawk. I'd honestly rather be as far from him as possible anyway, considering all the lectures I had to sit through about justice, righteousness, honesty, truth, the American way? Does any of that even exist anymore? I don't know. It sucked, just because my real mom went rogue everybody else thought I would too, especially my dad's new wife Desiree. This whole thing was the bitches idea, I think it's just some huge scheme to get rid of me but the Red Hawk 'would have none of that talk in his house' as he put it.
I hate being labeled for something that wasn't my fault. My whole life I'd been treated with care. Trained when I should have been coddled, punished when I should have been hugged, and scolded for things that I couldn't possibly have known were wrong. The whole thing had me seriously fucked up. I was prone to fits of irrational rage over things that didn't matter, and I used sex like a weapon to get what I wanted. Sometimes I disgusted myself. It hit me just then, in their desperate attempt to push me away from the dark side of the super community they seemed to have me running toward it with open arms. I laughed, irony huh?
The bus pulled up to the curb and I slung my bag over my shoulder,
"This the one way to Rockbottom?" I asked around the toothpick I was chewing on. The bus driver looked completely normal, so this couldn't be it.
"Sure is," The driver winked at me, except his lids closed the wrong way. I snickered,
"Cool." I picked a seat near the back, away from everyone else. I stared out the window for most of the trip; we were heading toward the beach, picking up kids along the way. Luckily none of them seemed to want to talk to me, but just as I was getting into my worn copy of Twilight some girl with a really happy disposition walked up to me,
"Hey can I sit here?" she asked in an airy voice. I looked up to see pink, which was seriously the best way of describing her. She was tall for a girl, probably about five-ten, but nowhere near my height of six foot. She had subtle curves, high cheekbones, dark hair, and lightly bronzed skin. Overall, not bad, but like I said…PINK! Her Adidas had pink stripes, her princess shirt had pink letters, and her hair had a pink barrette. I actually wasn't sure whether to growl like the wolf inside me wanted or to vomit,
"No." I replied simply. She pouted and gave me cow eyes,
"Please, all the other seats are taken; I promise you won't even know I'm here." I didn't quite manage to suppress this growl but I moved my bag anyway.
"YAY!" she shrieked, "we're gonna be such good friends." She slid into the seat next to me, "my names Ashley, how about you."
"Damien."
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After sitting through three hours of Ashley comparing the pros and cons of pearl nail polish and the advantages and disadvantages of metallic nail varnish we finally took the off ramp toward the beach and drove straight onto it. We parked at the water's edge and the driver opened the door,
"Everybody out." He screamed back to us. The kids in the front of the bus did as they were told and began filing out. We were some of the last to exit and as I stepped out onto the beach there was an immediate onslaught of scents, sights, and sounds. The air was thick with seaweed, ocean mist, and dead fish. I crinkled my nose to it, disgusting as it was though; the fish reminded me of how hungry I was. It just came with the wolf nature, constantly ravenous. I could also hear the ocean, far more than most I'd wager. It wasn't just the waves that caught my attention, but the whales. I could hear them about a mile out singing to each other.
"Alright ladies and germs," the driver said addressing the group, "we gotta wait for step two of your transport. So take five and don't cause trouble." Now that was just bait. Didn't he know that telling teens not to cause trouble was like waving a bloody steak in front of a lion? I swear, adults could be really stupid sometimes.
Ashley moved by my side, and I looked over to see her staring at a dead bass on the sand licking her lips,
"Oh, gross! Don't even think about it." Her head snapped up and she looked rather embarrassed.
"I like fish." She explained with a crimson blush covering her cheeks. I tried not to smell her blood, I really did, but it was useless with my heightened sense of smell. I quivered, she smelled wild and feral. It was like running through the woods outside my mother's cabin on Lake Ottawa when I was five all over again, her comforting warmth at my back as she let my instincts awaken. I could almost hear the wolves howling again as the potent and intoxicating odor drew me in. I noticed I was staring and shook myself out of my trance,
"Please," I said through the fur cuff of my leather trench coat, "Back up. Your smell its…just please back up." Ashley looked down and blushed deeper, I choked on the delicious aroma, I wasn't sure whether to howl and slash her to pieces or rip her clothes off and fuck her until she cried. I ran to the other side of the bus and threw up the twelve-egg omelet I'd eaten for breakfast. I leaned against the side of the bus and panted, staring at my hands as the tremors I seemed to be experiencing subsided.
"Eat some bad pork or somethin'?" I turned to see a boy about my height with platinum bleach blonde hair and a cigarette in his hand,
"Soemthin' like that," I replied breathlessly, "Mind if I hit that?" He shrugged and passed the square to me. I nodded my thanks and drew a deep breath, burning it to the filter.
"What the fuck man?" he groaned loudly, "That was my last smoke." I threw the butt away and exhaled a giant cloud of smoke. That was better, now I wouldn't be able to smell anything but nicotine for an hour.
"Sorry, I'll owe you." I stood up and held out my hand, "My names Damien." He noticed my long black nails and smirked,
"Those are some wicked claws man." He took my hand and shook it, the muscles in his right arm flexing under his shirt with obvious strength.
"That's what she said." He broke out in a toothy grin and I noticed the dimples in his handsome face, it was an interesting contrast against his rocky jaw and hard cheekbones.
"Sebastian Stuedderik, but everyone calls me Stud." I ran my tooth over my fangs and tasted bile, shit.
"Hey you got anything to wash the puke out of my mouth?" Stud smiled that same toothy grin at this, and extracted a small bottle from the pocket of his denim vest. He opened it and passed it to me,
"If anyone asks that is medication, just like the scrip reads." Thorosine biproxate concentrate?
"What the hell is this?" I asked staring at the prescription that for all I could tell looked completely legitimate.
"Don't pay any attention to what it says, that's whiskey. But I can't rightly tell the school that now can I?" I shook my head and tipped the bottle back. The burn lit up my throat like a warm night and I savored the nectar that slid down my throat. This was good, really good. I could taste everything, the oak it was stored in, the spices, and every subtle taste it had been infused with during its production.
"Dear god! What is this?" I sniffed the amber liquid, wishing now that I could smell past the smoke I'd inhaled a moment ago. Stud took the bottle from my hand and sipped it himself,
"Declaration." He said, enunciating the final syllable to make the o sound long, "It's a 1776 French blend in honor of the American's Declaration of Independence. Incredible isn't it? They made it for one year but then the British threatened war for 'encouraging a civil uprising' or some such bullshit." Stud noticed me staring, "Sorry, my family is really rich, I'm expected to know this stuff." I shook my head slowly,
"How the fuck did you get thrown in this whole again?" Stud stared at nothing for a minute and then turned back to me,
"I'd rather not talk about it but let's just say the phrases 'dirty little tramp' and 'if I can't fix you I'll pay someone else to' were involved." I grimaced.
"Ouch." He shrugged,
"Hey, gets me out of the endless torture that is the cocktail party." We both laughed until we were blue in the face but when we heard a commotion we rejoined the group. I tried not to me Ashley's gaze but it was inevitable. She pouted and looked away, studiously ignoring me. Hells bells! Not even at the school yet and I'm making enemies. But before I could really kick my self, Stud pointed out toward the water; a huge freighter was anchored in the ocean, about a half-mile out and several smaller vessels were on their way to the shore.
"This is the boat that will take you all to Rockbottom boarding academy." The bus driver screamed over the commotion.
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