Tea lives in a world where vampires run rampant. She is one of many chosen to destroy them. By day she is your average teen hanging out with her secret admirer. But when night falls Tea becomes an acrobatic vampire slayer with abilities unlike any human. Her mission is simple: destroy as many vampires as possible while obtaining information about the secret realm where they retreat by day. But one such night she runs across a peculiar boy who is vampire by night but human by day and insists he wants to escape from the vampires' clutches. Intrigued by his story and determined to help him, Tea embarks on an adventure like none other to save the world from vampires. But she wasn't counting on some of the things she didn't know about vampires coming into play.

Rated for Violence, a smidgen of Language, some Death, several scary scenes, and some Blood... ewww...

(darkness)

(a flashlight clicks on, shining on Toli's face)

Toli: (creepy voice) Welcome, strangers. (turns on lights) Glad you could make it! This is a scary story, which means not a whole lot of happy. I happen to be a big fan of vampire stories. They're so scary! So I decided to make one. I know I haven't completed our first story, Home And Not Alone, but I can do two stories at once, right? Mena had a hand in this, although not much, since this is scary from beginning to end. Speaking of which, where is Mena?

Mena: (comes in) Right here. I just had to get my equipment. My garlic, my cross, my four-leaf clover...Y'know, can't ever be too safe!

Toli: O.o Um...Can we just do the disclaimer before your insanity rubs off on a reader?

Mena: Sure! We don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, wua ha ha ha ha ha!

Toli: You better stop that--I told you I have Charter on speed dial!

Mena: Oh yeah! And we don't own the concept of vampires, but we do own the unique ones in this story! And if this copies any story, movie, scene in a show or whatever, WE DIDN'T DO IT ON PURPOSE!!! And excuse us if there are any typos, our computer refuses to leave us in typo-free peace.

PROLOGUE: EXPLANATIONS

When a person thinks of a vampire, they usually think of one off of some movie or show about the mutant bloodsuckers, sleeping in coffins, turning other humans into vampires, and transforming into bats. In truth, there are vampires like that. But we're going to focus on some different vampires.

You see, there is a place called Earth. This place is a wonderful little planet where billions of people exist pretty normally. But among these people are creatures called vampires. They are evil creatures that live off of blood. They murder hundreds of people every night to feed themselves. Seeing this as a problem, groups of people specially trained to destroy such monsters were formed. They were simply called vampire slayers. Most of the time they destroyed vampires, but on occasion they would hold a few prisoner in order to get information as to where to find others.

I, Tea Gardner, was a part of one of said groups. I became so when both of my parents were killed by a vampire inside a dark movie theater, along with the rest of the crowd. Determined to avenge them, I became a part of the slayers. I was one of the best, driven by revenge and hatred for the creatures and their evil ways. As with all slayers, I could jump long and high distances, run up to 70 mph on a good day, and sense where vampires where for up to twenty miles. I used a gun specially created to destroy vampires, and occasionally a sword made likewise when the gun wasn't handy.

Of course, nobody knew about this except for a few close friends. By day I was simply a normal teen going to Domino High School who was semi-popular. I gave off no hint of my profession. But when the sun went down I would dress in black and go out to destroy vampires. Sometimes I would team up with other slayers and destroy tons of the monsters. Often I was a lone wolf.

But as much as the vampire slayers killed, the numbers of vampires didn't seem to decrease very much. Noticing this, many of the groups started investigating. They interrogated vampires and found out from smidgens of information that there was a completely separate realm where the vampires went when the sun came up, dismissing the theory that they go sleep in coffins. Thus it became the mission of the vampire slayers to discover how to get into this realm and destroy it so they could exterminate the vampire population and make it safer to walk the streets at night. I wanted to find this out most of all, because I still sought out the vampire that had murdered my parents.

In my quest to destroy the race of evil bloodsuckers, I began one of the most amazing adventures in my entire life. There are many things no one knows about vampires, and all of these things came into play. The vampires were determined not to be wiped out, and the vampire slayers were determined of the opposite. On what seemed like a normal night for me, became one of the greatest wars in the history of vampires and slayers, all because of one person.

And that is where the story will begin.

END PROLOGUE

Mena: T-That was g-great, Toli...

Toli: I wanted to start you off in the story, so I decided to go ahead and post the first chapter with this. I really hope you like it!

Mena: We'll see you at th-the end of the ch-chapter...

Note: There will be a little bit of OOC for some of the characters, namely Serenity and Tea, but don't sue us, okay?

4 ANY1 WHO CARES...Tea's regular outfit after dark is a black sleeveless shirt, a short black skirt, black boots that come up a little higher than her knees, black fingerless gloves that go up to her elbows, a trench coat like Seto's during Battle City (except it is black), a black choker and silver hoop earrings. We think it looks so cool!

ONE: A Day And Night In The Life Of Tea Gardner

The alarm clock went off. Tea's looked up and she hit the off button. She put her school shoes on and headed out the door. She hadn't been asleep anyway, so she only used the alarm clock to remind her when she needed to leave. Grabbing her backpack off the couch, she opened the door and left her aunt's apartment.

When she made it to school, Tea was greeted by her friends Joey Wheeler and his year-younger sister Serenity. "Hey, Tea," Joey said. "Glad you made it on time!"

Tea suppressed a laugh. "It is possible for me, you know," she said.

"The last week says othawise," Joey snorted.

Serenity slapped Joey on the arm. "Oh, cut her a break. You're often just as tardy, so you can't complain."

"What?" Joey cried innocently.

Serenity dropped her voice a little. "At least Tea has a valid excuse," she with a smile, making them all smile. "Speaking of which, how did you do last night?"

"I killed sixteen vampires last night," Tea said. "And get this. Three of them were in the middle of robbing a blood bank. Unfortunately, we're no closer than we were before to finding out about the S.V.H., if you know what I'm talking about."

Joey and Serenity nodded. "S.V.H." stood for "Secret Vampire Hideout", the secret realm that the vampire slayers were trying to find.

"So, d'you get breaks on the weekends?" Joey asked. "'Cause me and Serenity were goin' to hit the movies Saturday wit Tristan and we were wonderin'..."

Tea shook her head. "Sorry guys. I'll be spending most of Saturday asleep to catch up on what I've missed this week," she replied. "And when the sun goes down, I'll be going back to work. I told you it would be hard for me to catch any social events anymore. Remember what happened at Diana's sleepover?"

Serenity shivered. "I do," she said. "A vampire busted in through the window and tried to kill us all. Tea had to lure it outside and kill it there. I remember, because I was the bait!"

Tea nodded. "And then I had to chase down another one. I hate to say it, but I think helping get rid of a mortally dangerous race is more important than seeing a movie."

"Yeah, we know," Joey said.

Tea opened her locker to get her books and was surprised when a folded piece of paper fluttered out. "What's this?" she said, catching it in mid-air. She unfolded it. "It's a poem! 'Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, and I think you are too. Daises are yellow, and some Girls are thin, I'd like to go out with you, signed, Duke Devlin. I'll pick you up Sunday at 7:00 PM.'"

"'Some girls are thin'? What kind of Romeo came up widdat one?" Joey asked in disbelief.

"I think it's sweet," Serenity said.

Tea folded the note back up. "Apparently Duke has already decided when he wants to go out with me. Too bad I've already got plans," she said. She balled the note up and tossed it in the nearest trash can.

"Well, that's settled!" Serenity said. The bell rang just then, and they split up to go to their separate classes.

AFTER SUNSET

Tea watched out the window as the last rays of the sun disappeared over the horizon and let the moon take over the sky. She pulled on her fingerless gloves and lifted the lid of the box in her dresser. Inside was her gun. She pulled it out and put it in its holster. Then she opened the closet and parted her wall of hanging clothes to grab her emergency weapon, a long thin sword inside a sheath, which she strapped onto her back. Opening the window, she climbed out and leapt across the air to the roof of the house next to the apartment complex. Then she leaped up to the business office's roof next to that and kept going. She was already tracking a vampire.

Running faster than any normal person could ever manage, Tea stopped at the edge of a skyscraper's roof and gazed down at the street below. With her enhanced eyesight, she saw a person being chased by a vampire. She jumped off the roof and plunged to the street nineteen stories below. When she finally reached it, she landed on her feet only a few yards away from the vampire she was tracking. She chased it down and shot it. Seconds later, its form turned into dust dropped to the ground in a little pile. The person kept running. Tea ignored him. She could already sense another vampire, about five miles away. She turned and ran down the street.

In all, Tea destroyed seventeen vampires that night without even breaking a sweat. Her endurance was something to be admired. She had leapt onto a high roof, prepared to head home, as the sun was starting to come up, when she noticed a figure on the roof, staring at the sun. She could sense it was a vampire and figured one more kill wouldn't hurt anyone.

Tea pointed her gun at the figure and was just about to pull the trigger when she heard a laugh. "I wouldn't do that if I were you," a deep voice said. The figure suddenly vanished into thin air, leaving behind a small wisp of black smoke. Tea sighed frustratedly but vowed to get him next time. She headed for home as the rising sun began to light the city.

ELSEWHERE

He watched her leap across the roofs to her destination. Yes, that was her. The famous girl who killed more vampires in one night than some slayers killed in a week. She was his mortal enemy. He knew he could have destroyed her then if he had wanted to, but there were more pressing matters. He needed to find his brother first.

"To think that she thought she was about to kill me," he said. He laughed, but without any humor. "As soon as I find my brother, I'm going to kill her instead. Maybe, with her dead, my people can actually survive a little while longer."

Red eyes glowed in the darkness. "But this wouldn't be such a problem if a certain someone hadn't run away. I'll have to find him before he gets himself in trouble."

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END CHAPTER

Toli: So! How was that?

(Mena is huddled in a corner, clutching a blanket and trembling)

Mena: Happy thoughts...Happy thoughts...

Toli: -.-; It's not that scary yet.

Mena: Oh. (gets up and tosses blanket to the side)

Toli: We'll see you all next time!