Introduction

I'm about to tell you a story. One that has been kept secret from the rest of the world. The only people that know about it are the people it actually happened to, I am one of them.

My name is Lena Dashkov, I am a vampire and protector of my kind, well, I'm in training. We are the famous beings that hide in the darkness, our existence is a secret to the outside world.

You may have heard stories about my kind. I will start of telling you there is two kinds of vampire; the mortal vampire, a pure good soul who feeds without taking a life. Some of these vampires inherit powers from their bloodlines, I am one of them. These vampire are at a higher risk to the enemy.

The other kind of vampire is the immortal vampire. They are opposite to the mortal vampire. They kill when they feed, by doing that they become stronger and faster than a mortal vampire. If a mortal vampire kills while feeding, they will change to an immortal. Immortal vampires will kill without a second thought, they even kill mortal vampires, if they refused to change. Mortal vampires with powers like me have to be protected from the Immortals, that is where I come in. I am a protector in training, I have kept my powers a secret from my school so I can help my kind instead of bring a burden.

Chapter 1

I awoke to find that the ground was covered in snow.

'Great this is just what I need on my first day back.'

School had just started back after summer break, of course, you wouldn't be able to tell that it was only September by looking at the weather. One of the bad things about going to a school in the mountains. Training wasn't going to be easy today. Fed up and in a bad mood already, I pulled my hair back into a ponytail and put on my combats and a t-shirt and headed for the gym.

Making my way to class, I noted a few new faces in the grounds as well as the ones I already knew from the year below me and the ones in my year. The one face I was hoping to see that morning, but I never, was my best friend Lily Ivanski. We had been best friends since Kindergarten. She was the only one in the whole school who knew I had powers, and since my parents murder, she helped me hide them from the rest of the student body.

My class was mainly made up of boys since most of the girls were either royalty, like Lily, or more interested in looking good rather than helping their kind. As for me, I lived for the thrill of the fight.

Even with all my experience, nothing could have prepared me for class that day.

A new student had just transferred into our school and into our class. One of us would be chosen to show him around and give him extra training if he needed it.

"Lena," My head snapped up from my laces, it was my mentor, Darren Nenor, beside him stood a boy about my age with dark hair and emerald green eyes, "This is Romeo Rossovskaya, the new transfer student. Since you are my best student, I have chosen you to show him the ropes and train him up." Well this is brilliant, if my training and most of my energy being out into hiding my powers wasn't enough for me. Have you ever tried hiding your power to heal or use fire ? It isn't easy, neither is trying to hide your psychic. I really wasn't happy about this, but I do see Darren's point. I'm the only senior in the whole school who can wield a silver stake and penetrate the heart, but instead of showing my feelings I just smiled and replied, " No problem Mentor Nenor." I wasn't going to enjoy this, on the bright side I could do with the extra practise.

Class had finally started, unsurprisingly I was paired up with Romeo. He hadn't said anything while setting up, I wondered if he was shy. We started off with basic combat, but Romeo couldn't even do that. He should have been taught that last year, his skills were shite.

"Romeo how much fighting experience have you got?"

For a couple of moments he said nothing and then he spoke, " Does fighting in school count?" He replied, grinning. I wasn't impressed, the boy thought is was a smartass. I gave him a side look, his smirk disappeared from his face. I then realised I had my work cut out for me and it wasn't going to be easy, for either of us.

I had decided to schedule three training sessions a day, you have to admit the boy is useless there's no way he would be able to graduate at his current level. So it was going to be an hour before school, an hour at lunchtime and an hour and a half after school. Romeo didn't seem very happy but he didn't protest. I think he knew he needed help.

"So we start at 4 p.m. tomorrow. Meet me outside the gym and bring you running shoes." Romeo just nodded then left.

I needed to find Lily, I so badly wanted to see her. As usual she was sitting on a bench outside the library, reading. "Lily, its only lunchtime, you don't have to do your homework right away. She looked up from her book, her bright blue eyes stood out against her pale skin and blonde hair. The opposite to me, I had the usual pale skin, its hard to get a tan when you can't stay out in the sun for long, but I had dark brown eyes and long black hair.

" Yeah, I know, but if I was like someone I know my homework wouldn't be done until the morning of the class."

"That happened once and you know it. I'm not that bad."

She just smiled and closed her book. "So, who have you hurt today then, Lena?"

"Surprisingly no one. I've been to busy babysitting."

Lily looked at me confusingly, she obviously hasn't heard about Romeo.

"He's the new transfer student I have to train him. He needs it big time. I'm telling you his combat skills are worse than yours."

"Thanks a lot. I would have got your point without bringing me into it."

"Well, I was just trying to point something out. I thought it would be more effective."

"Some best friend you are."

"I know you just love me, don't you ?"

"You wish." We burst out laughing. Lily always made me feel better.

"I don't know how I'll be able to train him though. He never spoke the whole time we were in class. I can't train him unless he speaks to me."

"He was properly nervous or something, you know you are intimidating." I never replied, I just sat next to her, silent.

With ten minutes or so left of lunchtime, we made our way to the cafeteria. At least once a month, blood was donated to the school enough to keep us going. Taking some food and some blood, we grabbed a table and ate in silence until the bell ran for afternoon classes. I said bye to Lily and headed back to the gym, I always hated having different classes from her but I could never stand sitting in a class all day when I could be learning combat.