Had this story in my head for a while now, and finally got around to writnign it down haha

Enjoy~

gemma arterton - Lucy

I bend down unbuckling one side of the Greave and slip it over my lower leg, I do the same to the other leg and once both are in the correct position I redo the buckles and grab the knee/thigh plates, which came to a dull point in the middle of my leg.

Once the bottom half of me was armoured I moved onto the rest of my body. I walk over to my manikin, which holds my suit of armour, and take off the breast plate, open one of the buckle straps on the bottom of my plate and slide it over my head and re buckle the strap – locking it into place. I then add the gardbrace to my upper arms- this part of my armour was my favourite, it too came to a point that ended in line with my chin and had a couple of red diamonds encrusted in the design. I then slipped on my gauntlets that ended again to a point just above my elbow.

I look in the mirror to see my glistening black armoured self-staring back , emotionless. Today was the day, where we battled against the hunters, who had teamed up with some witches. I sighed and ran my metal covered fingers through my auburn hair wondering what the outcome of today will bring.

A knock is heard coming from outside my door and before I can answer a man, also dressed in similar armour, lets himself into my chambers.

"What is it Cain?" I ask.

"It's nearly time" he replied trying to stay emotionless, even though his hands shook and he couldn't look me in the eye.

I give him a small smile "Everything will be fine" I tell my dearest friend.

He nods his head in return and exits the room without saying anything else.

I walk into the war room, which is too small in my opinion as it was overcrowded with army Colonels and Majors, the three Lord Commanders stood around the only table in the room conversing about the plan of attack. Marcus, the kings right hand, looks up from the table and waves for me to approach, his ocean blue eyes were starting to age with the recent stress and today it showed.

"Lucy" he beamed as he came round the table and hugged me. When my parents died, by hunter's hands, Marcus took me under his wing and has been my sort of step farther as he never married or had children.

"Marcus, how are things going?" I ask, indicating with my head at the table with a map of the area.

"Good as can be, just finalising the plan and hopefully the outcome will be in our favour"

The two other leaders, Dimitri and Eleanor, turned around and faced the room.

Marcus nodded his head as a goodbye then stood in the middle of the other two and cleared his throat indicating the room to be silent.

"Today are actions will go down in history" Marcus addressed the room. "Today we stand and fight for our future. Today is the day we eradicate the hunters and all those who oppose us."

A few cheers could be heard around the room. Eleanor, a witch who was Marcus's second in command, raised her hand, the lights go out and a map is then shown on the wall behind them.

( I guess I should give you some history of our people and how the battle we are about to take part in started. As you all know vampires and hunters have never gotten along and to be honest it goes so far back that we don't even know how the feud started, all we know is that hunters hunt us and we hunt them.

Now here is the interesting part; in the last century hunters have been recruiting witches in the hopes of stopping us. You may think that it's not that interesting but it is when the Witches Of Old Council swore an oath to help keep vampires safe from the very beginning; they even enchant certain items for particular vampires allowing them to walk out in the sunlight. As I am a Colonel of a small battalion I have a ring enchanted, one that my mother gave me for my 210th birthday, it's very plain looking thing - a thin silver band with a tiny black diamond in the middle.

Because of these new age witches joining up with hunters it's been extremely difficult trying to live a 'normal' life. There are only two ways to kill a vampire; burned with fire and sunlight. If you stake us in the heart we only go into a coma and once the stake is removed we simply wake up. As fire is one of our main weaknesses it's very easy now for hunters to kill one of us, they simply team up with a witch who can control fire and yep you guessed it a pile of vampire ash. However we still have witches who fight the good fight with us. Now back to the present)

Marcus and Dimitri take turns in telling us the detailed accounts of how we are going to fight and hopeful win. After the de-briefing we all part our ways, as it was now our turn to relay the information to our battalions. Before I can walk out the door Marcus calls my name and I turn around to see him approaching.

"Be careful out there today" he says with concern.

"Do not worry so much Marcus" I say with a small chuckle "I shall be fine"

Marcus smiles, nods his head and walks back to converse with others. I walk out the door and to my surprise there stood Cain waiting for me.

"Walk and talk?" I ask as I didn't have enough time to stand still. Cain nods his head in acknowledgement and walks along side me as we make our way to the courtyard.

"Why did you miss the meeting?" I ask seeing as he was my second in command.

"I had some goodbyes to say" he replied

"Ahh" I say understandingly as Cain and his wife recently had their first child, so things will be a little tense for him. "Dont worry Cain, ill … protect you" I sniggered slightly trying to make the situations a bit lighter.

Cain simply rolls his eyes and playfully slaps the back of my head in response. "It should be me, who is protecting you. Seeing as you like running into dangerous situations so much" he chuckled.

By the time we finished this mini conversation we ended up in the courtyard. We both became very serious as we headed over to the men and woman standing, waiting for our instructions. I relaid the information I was told previously.

We all made sure our armour was on correctly and that out swords where sharp before we headed out, on horse back, to the battleground. Once we arrived 200 meters from where the fight would take place, we de-horsed and set up camp for ourselves. Making sure we got enough rest for the next day.

In the morning I gathered my battalion. "Now I'm not going to lie, this battle is going to be hard and some of us may not make it back, however this fight will determine the rest of our lives and the lives of the generations after. So lets give it all we have and win this war!" I yell the last part, in which my battalion replied with yells and screams of their own.

We armoured up and headed out onto the battlefield. I waited patiently for Marcus to give the signal as more and more people joined us. In the sun setting light I could see hunters and other witches gathering across from us, they where also waiting for a command. It would be interesting to see who made the move first.

The sun was nearly completely gone when the hunters made their first move, arrows dipped in oil and set on fire flew in our direction. As a unit we drew our swords and then we heard a cry "Charge", Marcus had given us the signal. We ran forward as the arrows passed over our head, straight into battle.

I swung my sword as hard as I could as I slashed my opponents neck open, the blood splattering my face, I turn around to see how my group was going, so far it was fairly equal. I see Cain deep in battle with a hunter, he didn't notice the witch behind him, her arms raised about her head and she started chanting an ancient language. I stop my fighting and run towards Cain, pushing everyone out of my way. Just as I reach him the witch let off a ball of black energy in his direction, without thinking I push him out of the way and I get hit with what ever she conjured.

It felt like I was falling in pitch blackness, I wasn't dead and i certainly wasn't alive, well as alive as a vampire can be. I wonder what spell I was hit with and if Cain was alright, I hope he is ok.

After what felt like a life time I could finally see a light, wind hit my face and the light was so blinding I had to raise my hand to cover my eyes. My back hit something hard and the wind died down, I slowly moved my hand down and opened my eyes. I was somehow in a forest in the middle of the day, a nice summer breeze caressed my face and messed my blood matted hair. I looked around forest, spinning in a circle, trying to figure out what my next move should be, before I can decide a hear a rustling from the left of me, my head snaps to the bushes and at the same time I draw my sword. Out stepped an old man, who wore grey robes, a hat and a long beard to match, from the looks of him I would guess he is a wizard. Once he straightened up he looked at me with shock crossing his face for a split second.

"Hello there" He says rather friendly.