I don't own any characters apart from the unrecognisable ones. All recognisable characters belong to L.J.Smith. I'm just using them for fun.

The Rise of the Darkness

1.

"In the age of the human,

When Shadow has fallen,

Born vampires of four,

With powers greater than every before.

The first will become

When the new year has begun.

The second will appear

When the harvest is near.

The third will occur

Before the spring is over.

And as summer does draw near

The fourth will be here.

In the Millennium new,

When the great battle is through,

Four years will pass by,

Before the Darkness will arise.

The Powers will awaken,

When a life has been taken.

And only the power of four,

Can defeat the dark war.

However, the four,

Must be kept away from this shore,

And not know of their fate,

Till the power does awake."

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Three girls were sitting on the old wooden desks chatting as usual, about nothing particularly interesting, but that didn't matter. All of them were vampires.

"Where is Bonita? Do you think she is coming in today?" Fleta asked. 17 year old Fleta was the smallest and the youngest. She had short wavy light brown hair and eyes that seemed to change colour. Depending on her mood. At the moment they were brown, as they are when she is worried or stressed. They would flare to hazel when she was excited or up to something she shouldn't be. And they went brilliant green when she was angry or feeding.

"oh she is probably still with Ben!" Elizabeth blurted out. She had a knack of saying things before speaking and this got her into trouble. She also 17 but older than Fleta by a month and was a smallish girl, though slightly taller than Fleta, with longish fair hair and thoughtful green eyes.

"I don't like him. He is so weird and so possessive of her. He doesn't trust her going out with us in case she two times him." Ciara put in. She was just 18 and quite tall, taller than the other two, with long, naturally straight, black hair and dark brown eyes. So dark they looked almost black at time. She was a more curvy girl than the other two, and most of her wardrobe emphasised this.

"oh I know what you mean. he is a total creep. Remember when he tried it on with me?" Fleta added.

"Yes I do, and Bonita had to sort it out." Ciara said.

"I don't know why she keeps him. He can't be that much of a pleasure in bed." Elizabeth thought out loud.

"Lizzy!" Both Fleta and Ciara said at the same time absolutely shocked. But it wasn't anything new for Lizzy to come out with something like that.

"oops. Did I say that out loud?" Elizabeth said sarcastically.

All three of them started laughing.

"Ah here she comes." Ciara broke through the laughter.

Bonita arrived at the classroom door. She was tall, much taller than the others, with short curly dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. Bonita was the eldest at 19. She should have been a year above the others but missed her really important exams as she had been ill. And so had to redo the year, but she was already friends with Fleta, Ciara and Lizzy as they had all grown up together.

Their own parents had lived near each other and they had always been together, ever since they were born. The had gone to the same schools and always hung out and caused trouble together.

That is how they ended up here at East Meadow Independent day school for girls. Their parents had thought it a good idea after all the trouble they had caused over boys in their last schools.

Fleta ran up to her jumping around and hugged Bonita, as she normally did. Fleta was a very affectionate girl and loved hugs.

Fleta and Bonita came over to Ciara and Elizabeth and they all sat together and started talking.

"So why are you so late this morning?" Ciara asked inquisitively half a smile on her face.

"were you with Ben?" Elizabeth interrupted quickly

"No I wasn't for once. No I was out getting breakfast. It is after all the most important meal of the day!" Bonita replied, very relaxed.

"Well that's a first. You not with Ben." Fleta said secretly wanting her to actually not be with Ben permanently.

"I bet he hasn't been able to sleep all night with knowing you could be anywhere with anyone" Elizabeth put in.

All of them burst out into laughter at the thought of this as it was true.

"What are you going to do about him? He is so possessive. And you won't be able to…"

"Hello" came a small voice which interrupted Ciara.

"Oh Hiya Lucy." Ciara said half heartedly.

"what are you talking about?" Lucy Gregory asked. She was a human and tried so hard to be in their group. But to no avail. She was smaller than Fleta and had a slightly round face. She had mousy hair and pale blue eyes.

"not much, just Bonita's boyfriend." Elizabeth said with no tone of niceness at all.

The four of them stuck together as much as possible. But the humans were intrigued by them as the four were inhumanly beautiful and it was a bit off putting. But with being just with human girls, they tended to be jealous of them, and would say things about them but never to their faces. They were too scared of them. Then you got the ones who were just so fascinated with them that they followed them trying to be like them and liked as much as them.

Lucy had been tailing them for years, though it got to the point where they were so sick they wanted to say something but none of them had the heart to. They felt sorry for her. But Elizabeth did come close as she muttered something under her breath that Lucy actually heard and stormed off, and Ciara had to resolve it.

Fleta said she thought she was alright, but the problem was, was that she sneaked around and crept upon them and listened into their conversations. And it was very dangerous, as she might hear something that she wasn't meant to and not say anything.

They kept hinting that they just wanted to be on their own but she didn't seem to get it or able to read body language. They were also doing it for her own good as if she did discover anything she would be killed.

Luckily the bell rang and they all departed for lessons.

"See you two at lunch" Ciara called to Bonita and Fleta, as herself and Elizabeth headed towards Drama, whilst Fleta had History and Bonita had a study period.

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Lessons drawled on as per usual, and when lunch time finally arrived all four of them were very bored.

They sat down under their favourite tree in the school grounds.

"Oh god, I am getting so sick of this place and the people!" Ciara suddenly came out with.

"I know what you mean." Bonita replied "The girls are so spiteful and catty!"

"Especially that Sabrina Cartwell! What a fat little bitch." Elizabeth spat her name out.

"She thinks she is all that! And so popular! I'm like get a life!" Ciara declared.

"and she is so nasty!" Fleta stated.

Ciara got up and started doing and impression of her.

" 'Look at me! I'm Sabrina Cartwell! I'm think I'm popular but I'm not. I'm as thick as a plank. I think I'm a super model but I'm not as I'm too fat. don't mess with me as my daddy is a fashion designer and is so rich! I'm so rich I get everything. I say I have a boyfriend but I don't!'"

They were all rolling around in hysterics.

"The only reason any lad would go out with her is for the money!" Elizabeth said still laughing.

"Speak of the devil." Bonita said looking over towards the side door, where Sabrina Cartwell was coming out of, and heading towards them with Alexandra Huntingdon, Lucy Stepson, Gerry Martinson, Anne Harkens, Rashida Silas, Gerry Carlton, and Vivian Derma.

"Are you making fun of me?" Sabrina demanded with everyone behind her.

"Me? Make fun of you? No!" Ciara replied sarcastically. And turned to the giggling others and wiggled her eyebrows.

"You will be sorry you messed with me!" Sabrina said getting flustered that Ciara wasn't in the least bit scared of her.

Ciara turned to face her. "What are you going to do like? Run to daddy? As usual. Get daddy to buy you through education, jobs and boyfriends! And Hun, it should be you who shouldn't mess with me!"

"You think you are so big and clever and pretty and popular!" Sabrina half shouted, starting to lose her cool.

"No darling, that is you. Those are your assumptions of yourself. The only reason anyone hangs out with you is because they are either scared or just using you for your money." Ciara replied calmly and laid back.

"No they don't!" Sabrina shouted now red in the face she went to slap Ciara, but she was too quick and ducked and Sabrina ended up twirling and falling over.

Bonita, Fleta and Elizabeth where all laughing hysterically, and Ciara stood there smirking.

Sabrina got up and charged at Ciara, now wild with rage, and Ciara once again moved just at the last minute so Sabrina went into the tree and quick as a flash, Ciara had her pinned up against the tree.

"Now save your self the embarrassment and go. And don't you dare try to threaten me or my friends again because if you do you will regret it. Understand?" Ciara spoke in a very threatening and calm tone. She released Sabrina and spoke up to all of them "Now all of you get lost, and you've seen what will happen if you mess with us again. And next time I won't be as nice, and don't bother going to the head as she will tell you, you got what you deserved."

And all of them scurried off quickly.

Ciara turned and got an applause. She went and sat down with her friends. And they started laughing and reminiscing about what had just happened.

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It was very early in the morning and a young girl was walking to work to open up early and get a head start on some extra work. She was walking along the deserted street. It was still quite dark and she kept to the lit street. As she reached work she went to the main door, when she thought she heard something in the alley. It sounded like a kitten mewing. She went around to look and there in the dumpster was a kitten, which had obviously been abandoned.

"Aw there, there. Don't worry I'm not going to hurt you." she was reaching for the kitten, and didn't see the shadow come up behind her…

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All four girls were still laughing and joking on when suddenly they all froze.

"What's wrong Fleta?" Bonita asked

"I feel…funny." Fleta replied, "Like tingly all over." she looked at her hands.

"Yeah me too." Elizabeth put in.

"I don't feel to good either." Bonita confessed

"Me neither." Ciara admitted

"I wonder what it is?" Fleta said

"I don't know but it is something big. I know that." Ciara announced.

"I think we better mention it to our parents." Bonita suggested

"Yeah" they all agreed.

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The rest of the day past without any of them noticing. They were all too busy worrying about what had happened to them.

At the end of the day they all headed over to Bonita's. they found Bonita's mother in the kitchen and mentioned to her what had happened today.

"Weird." she said, however she looked as if something was troubling her.

The four girls headed up to Bonita's room and sat and talked.

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About an hour later, Bonita's mother called them all downstairs.

"Yeah food!" Fleta jumped off the bed and rushed down the stairs.

The rest of them followed an excited Fleta to the kitchen but when they arrived, there was no one there and there was no food on the table.

"Girls come into the sitting room will you please?" Bonita's mother called to them.

The girls headed to the sitting room and were shocked to find their parents all there looking at them.

"What are you doing here?" Elizabeth blurted out

"Lizzy please come and sit down." Elizabeth's mother said not answering her question.

"Please do come and sit down girls." Bonita's mother said softly.

Bonita's sitting room was quite large but all the available seats where occupied by an adult.

So the girls all sat on the floor in front of the fire.

"What is going on?" Ciara asked no one in particular.

"Yes what is going on? Why are you all here?" Bonita asked.

"well sweetie, there is something we have to tell you." Fleta's mother replied.