Hey everyone, this is my second story on fanfiction, my first was Teen Titans, but I kinda wanted to branch out a little bit. So here's my second story. I'm not even close to a great a writer as L.J. Smith but this was the best I could do, so mind your judgment please.

By the way, I've only read books 1-3 in the Night World series, so this story was after the third, not after 4 or 5 or however many there are.

Alex walked in the dark, gracefully scanning the area.

Alex was a shape-shifter (fox).

She walked in the woods, the thick, green woods, looking for something to hunt. She had her bow and arrow at hand, ready to fire at anything.

As the night went on, she got a few kills. But she got bored and went back to The House.

The House was where her and a few of her Night World friends lived.

Christopher was a male-witch, one of few in the area, but very well known to most Night Worlders. He was African-American; he has black hair, and is fairly tall.

Lissa, a vampire, has curly blond hair, very pale skin, and almost glowing blue eyes, but she was a little shorter than Christopher.

Zoey, the shape-shifter (cat), has very, very, very long brown hair, almost down to her knees. She also had brown eyes and was also fairly tall.

Jessica was a witch. She was very tall, being that she was older than most of us, has really curly light brown hair, and green eyes.

Charlie was a shape-shifter (tiger), she has curly black hair, kind of short, and blue eyes.

There were a few other people that Alex was friends with but they did live in The House.

As Alex enters The House, Jessica greets her. Jessica was a friendly girl, but can easily get mad. And when she gets mad, no one wants to be around.

"Alex, where have you been?" she asks as Alex puts her bow and arrow away.

"Hunting." Alex says.

"Well, you missed dinner." Jessica scolds.

Alex rolls her eyes and examines The House.

It was an enormous house, a bit fancy but not too much. When you first walk in there's two stair cases against the left and right wall, going up to the rooms and bathrooms etc. Under the staircase was a few doors, all the ones to the right were doors to entertainment, TVs, video games, computers, and more. To the left were doors to the dining room, kitchen etc. and straight ahead was the door to the meeting room/living room. There were couches, a TV, bean bags, and a huge table with chairs for meetings.

"Where is everyone?" Alex asks Jessica casually.

"Christopher is in the Game Room. Lissa and Zoey are watching TV in the Meeting Room. And Charlie is in her room reading." Jessica responds. Alex nods to her and she walks into the kitchen, leaving Alex alone. Alex decides to see Christopher in the Game Room.

Alex walks in, sees Christopher on a bean bag chair and takes a seat next to him.

"Did you get the message from Circle Daybreak?" Alex asks him as he plays his game Halo 2.

"Yeah, they've finally got all the Wild Powers." Christopher smiles.

"Yup, I wonder what Lissa must think. The vampires lost, so she's probably wondering what's happening to her people." Alex predicts.

"She must be confused, most likely. I mean, she came to us, betrayed her kind. She probably doesn't know what to do." He says, looking at the TV screen as he plays his game.

"Yeah." Alex agrees.

"Have you found anything on Bryan?" Christopher asks.

Alex feels a jump in her stomach. Her heart aches from the thought of Bryan. Bryan was a part of The House; one Alex had fallen in love with. Their relationship was off and on, but she always loved him. But since a vampire, and The House's biggest enemy, Liza, killed Bryan…well, things have been extremely hard for Alex.

Liza has always hated The House since their ancestors killed her family. She's been after every generation; sometimes she failed…sometimes she won. And now she's after this generation. And so far she's winning. How Bryan died…The House and Liza crossed paths and Bryan took it too far, enough said.

Now Alex was trying to find out more about him, hoping to find him still alive. Christopher was the only one who knew she was doing it, the rest had no clue. Alex never talked about Bryan; she never had the courage to do it without breaking down. She would be a vampire hunter, and she is, because she kills the occasional vampire whenever they run into one. But Alex keeps her vampire killing to a low level for Lissa's sake.

Christopher sees her eyes drop and her face sadden. "Sorry, bad subject. Um…did you get any kills on your hunt?"

Alex smiles, glad to be off that topic, "A few, slow day today."

Christopher smiles and gets back to his game, but Alex is still consumed in thoughts of Bryan.

God, I miss him, she thinks. He was amazing, brilliantly amazing. I wish he was still here…

She knew Bryan since she was a little kid; she always looked up to him. But finally a few years ago, she fell in love with him and found out he had too. They lived "happily ever after", fighting occasionally, which kept their relationship off and on. Back then Alex didn't know what she would do without Bryan, but now that she knew…she didn't like it.

So to get her mind off of it, she picked up a controller to Christopher's game and joins him.

Christopher smiles as they escape into the world of Halo 2.

LATER ON

Everyone was in bed but Christopher and Alex stay up, discussing Liza's next attack.

"Where do you think she'll make the attack?" Alex asks as they sit at the Meeting Room table.

"Probably here." Christopher says, looking at a laptop he brought from the Entertainment room, as he looks up a map of the area, Alex thinks it through in her head. Would we be able to attack at any moment? Any where? On the street? At night? Are we that quick thinking? Or is she too smart for us…, Alex thinks to herself. "But when we're most vulnerable, so we have to be on our toes at all moments. She hasn't attacked in a while so…it'll probably be soon."

"Right. So we need to barricade the House." Alex says.

"I can put a spell on the house to let us know when she's close." Christopher says. "Jessica and I will get right on that. You and Charlie are our toughest, so you two have to be ready for the worst. The rest of us will be back-up, but still fighting just the same. We can have a few surprise attacks at hand, set up a trip mechanism or something."

"Ok, we need a map of the house, including the outside, so we can figure out where to put all the set ups and things. Do we have one upstairs?" Alex asks.

"Mhm." Christopher says, too busy on his laptop.

Alex heads upstairs to get the map in the storage closet. As she retrieves it from the top shelf, she heads back out. As she passes Zoey's room she glances in and sees her looking out her window.

"Zoey?" Alex asks, walking in. "What's wrong."

"There's a girl standing outside, and she looks an awful lot like Liza." Zoey says.

I love cliff hangers, don't you? Next will be posted soon. Review please?