Hello everyone! Here's book 3!

WARNING: UPDATES WILL TAKE AN INCREDIBLY LONG TIME, BECAUSE SCHOOL IS LIVING HELL AT THE MOMEMT!

It is only these first few chapters that will be quick, but after that, prepared to wait a long time.

Enjoy!

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Chapter 1

Once he was certain his teammates were asleep, Private snapped his eyes open. He rose from his bunk, before sitting on the edge, and sighing. The facts about the small penguin's new life had only recently begun to settle in for him.

His highly developed senses had taken getting used to. He smiled and laughed slightly, remembering the weeks, months, he had spent amazed at every new little thing he was able to hear, see and smell. It was as if someone had hit a switch, and caused every part of his body to go to its maximum.

Private jumped off his bunk, landing noiselessly on the floor, before turning to a mirror in the HQ. His altered visual appearance was shocking at first, when Mina had showed him, but he had adjusted. His blood red eyes had caught most of his attention, and the fangs on his beak were a shock, and had been slightly uncomfortable to begin with. However, Mina had helped him adjust, and he quickly became quite used to it all.

Private smiled at the thought of the young vampire girl. She's so kind. She always makes time for me, and she's so supportive. Suddenly, the small penguin remembered something, and gasped, "Mina! I was supposed to meet her tonight!" he whispered.

He swiftly climbed up the ladder, and exited the penguin habitat. Private smiled, sighting the blonde seated on one the benches in the zoo, reading a book. He belly slid towards her at a supernatural speed, reaching her in seconds.

Mina smiled, averting her eyes from her book, "Hey Private" she said.

The small penguin replied politely, "Good evening Mina." His gaze shifted to her book, and he raised an eye ridge. Ironically, she had a copy of 'Twilight' in her hands.

She noticed him looking, and explained, "I wanted to see how good these books actually portrayed us," she wrinkled her nose, "Not that well. I mean, yeah, some of us do drink animal blood, and we do find humans fascinating, but we absolutely do not sparkle in sunlight."

The vampire penguin saw her shudder, and his expression softened further. Sunlight was a bad memory for her. It reminded her of when she had almost been burnt to death. Private jumped up on the bench beside her, and craned his neck to meet her eyes, "It's okay, you didn't die" he reminded her.

She whispered, refusing to look at him, "But…but I could have. At one point I wanted to. It was pure agony."

Her friend responded softly. "I know this is about more than just that," he placed a flipper on her comfortingly, "What's wrong?"

The blonde sighed and pursed her lips. "I…I'm just confused" she replied.

"About what?" asked the vampire penguin, his British accent laced with concern.

Mina answered, finally locking eyes with him, "I'm confused about that whole thing with Iris a few months ago. Why did she call me, 'Mistress'? Why did she treat me so weird?"

Private nodded, but remained quiet. For the past few months, Iris had been accompanying Faith, Mina, Leah and Aaron whenever they visited. She had been acting fairly reclusive and distant around everyone. She was, however, especially like that around Mina for some reason.

The blonde vampire suddenly spoke, breaking the silence. "I…I just still can't believe that she did all that weird stuff? I mean, as far as I know, I've never seen her before in my life." At least…I don't think I've ever seen her. She doesn't look familiar. I've never heard her name mentioned before.

Private gazed at her sympathetically, noticing her discomfort. All of a sudden, he noticed a few smears of something on her hands, and a few light splatters on her clothing. He could tell by the metallic smell, as well as the dark crimson colour, that it was blood. Fresh, from what he could tell. The small penguin asked, swallowing to control his own bloodlust, "You hunted?"

Mina, if she was able to blush, would have. She nodded shyly, "Faith has a headache. I had to" she said quickly, as if apologising.

He nodded again, attempting to ease the ache in his throat. He had learned to control his thirst, but his bloodlust was still occasionally a problem. He was no longer, however, tempted to drain his friends. He drank the blood that Mina would bring to him, since he did not have the heart to kill anyone or anything.

He turned to Mina, remembering their conversation. "You're sure you don't remember her?" he asked. She shook her head, and then sighed heavily, burying her face in her hands. Why did things have to be so complicated?

All of a sudden, Iris's voice came from behind them, "Oh, I'm sorry, am I interrupting?"

Private, after hearing Mina groan in her hands, turned to the girl. He replied, not wanting to be rude. "It's alright."

Iris walked up to them, her hands behind her back shyly. She resisted the urge to bow when seeing Mina, but instead merely smiled. The girl's mind was whirling, How is she still alive? I thought They killed her. Why doesn't she seem to remember?

The blonde vampire turned to her, "What do you want?" she asked, unable to hide the slight snappiness in her voice.

"Nothing. I just wanted to see if you were alright" she answered. The three fell into silence, and it lasted for a while, until Iris said politely. "I think I'll go" and walked away.

Private turned back to his friend, and put a flipper on her. "It's going to be alright. She's probably accidently got you confused with someone else" he said, as if he could read her mind.

Mina nodded, but then shook her head. "No. If she did, then why has she constantly been tagging along with Aaron when we all go to see the penguins? I swear she knows something about me" she replied.

The small penguin asked, "What?"

She turned to him, met his eyes, and answered. "That's just the problem. I don't know. All I know is that whatever it is, it's something that even I don't know about myself."