Hello everyone! So this is my first story so go easy. (:

Okay, the chapters! The title of the chapters are goin to be song titles. They're like little hints as to what's in the actual chapter. The hint is going to be either the song lyrics OR the song title so...enjoy (;

Disclaimer: I don't own the song! That belongs to Britney Spears or Universal Records? I'm not sure which

Chapter 1 : Till The World Ends

See the sunlight,

We ain't stopping,

Keep on dancing till the world ends,

If you feel it,

Let it happen,

Keep on dancing till the world ends

Britney Spears

Ireland

North Dublin

We crouched outside behind a bush. I really hated night raids. Finn would kill us if he knew we were on the surface at night. I understood why, but still it's not like I'm fourteen or anything.

And besides I had Rob with me. Good old Robbie, the good bad boy of the clan. He's no saint but he's trusted. And I love him to pieces.

I should explain. My name's Anna McGerald. I'm almost nineteen and I'm one of the few survivors of the human race, like that's a big deal.

Sometimes I think the ones who didn't make it are the lucky ones. The ones who sat on their couch with their roast dinner resting on their laps like a normal Sunday all of a sudden BOOM! They didn't even feel it, didn't even know it was coming.

The world's a bit of a mess. These, aliens, if that's what you want to call them came - no one knows how- and started picking off the human race. Except we're not dead exactly, we're converted into them. I think their proper term could be described as vampire.

Not the vegetarian, gorgeous and sparkly in the sunlight vampires. We're not that lucky.

In the daytime there are not-so-vamps. They walk around like humans. Only they have white flawless skin, the kind you would see in the airbrushed pages of a magazine, they're not in danger of sunlight and they seem completely normal.

That is until you remeber they took over the freaking human race. Really i don't think they view us as food. More of a planetary take over.

But at night, at night is where things get messy. There are real hard core vamps. The 'aliens' pets.

They send them out to hunt humans, they let them eat them, bring some back where they're converted into a vamp. Simple as.I've never had the misfortune to see one up close, so thank god for that.

I sighed and looked over at Rob. He was staring intensely at the house.

Fairly average on the outside, small front garden littered with flowers, two storeys, very homely but no car in the driveway. We staked this house out for a couple of days.

When the owners put two large suitcases in their mint blue vovlo and drove off, It was safe to assume they were going on holiday, the perfect time for a daytime raid.

I was staring at Rob, the big brother I never had. He looks out for me, as only a good big brother would. He's five years older and god is he good looking.

He 's the sporty type, the type who can run two miles and still look sexy in sweat stains. Even if i did give him a wonky haircut not two nights ago...

''Get ready. We're going in,'' he frowned. The muscles in his legs tensed and he shot straight out. I followed. Our footsteps were silent despite our speed. He worked on the lock. As it turned out lock picking was a noisy business.

''Be quite,''i hissed,''Do you want to get caught.''

''Shut up,'' he muttered,''If Leo hadn't of fucked up then we wouldn't have to do this. If we get caught and turned, it's on his head.''

''It's not his fault if he's clumsy Rob,''I whispered.''I thought I told you to shut up,'' he growled.

He was always too hard on Leo. They never did get on. They ruined so many raids because of their fighting. The Jacob Job was the worst by far.

To keep them from strangling eachother I jumped between them. Too bad I slipped and fell a storey and a half down. I nearly empaled myself on a replica of David, by Michelangelo.

Rob blamed Leo, Leo blamed Rob and things got nasty. When we got back to Finn, I had a broken collar bone and knee, Rob had a broken jaw and Leo had a black eye. We looked like the Adams Family.

''Stop being a dick,'' I muttered. Rob stopped picking the lock and turned to look at me with both eyebrows raised. If only looks could kill.

I pursed my lips and looked into the distance, watching our backs. Rob resumed his lock picking.

He could be so bossy sometimes. And why was the door locked anyway if Leo broke in?

The lock clicked open and we entered.''Come on and don't touch anything,''he grinned,''You have sticky fingers.'' ''And you don't?'' I snorted.

''Yours are stickier."

We heard a noise from upstairs. We glanced at eachother and made cautiously for the stairs. We knew Leo was up there, but better safe than sorry.

There were many pictures on the walls. They were the kind of pictures you would expect to find on the back of a cereal box. All smiles and happy faces, the lighting seemed just right, perfect skin, perfect teeth, perfect family complete with a white picket fence and golden retrievor.

"Typical American dream,"commented Rob, "Too bad this is Ireland."

We got to the bedroom door. Rob had his knife, I had mine. We opened it to find Leo on the floor in a pool of blood. A sword protruded from his arm.

''Hi,'' gasped Leo.''Why?'' asked Rob. "I was raiding...there was an emergency kit... on top of the wardrobe. Antiseptic spray, bandages the lot,'' he spluttered,''I pulled it down but there was also this fucking sword there... I lost my balance and slipped...and...'' ''Idiot'' snorted Rob.

I grimaced and punched his arm.

I went over to Leo and knelt down beside him.''Did you really find an emergency kit?'' I asked, hoping but doubtful. I didn't want to get my hopes up. So far in life, luck in general has been pretty crap.

He glanced beside the wardrobe. I scrambled for it and checked inside. Yes! everything was there. I turned back to Leo.

"Why was the front door locked?"I asked him. He looked at me blankly. "I didn't want anyone breaking in,"he rasped. Oh Leo, you are confused.

"Alright Leo, I'm going to take the sword out now,'' I said in a tone that I hoped comforted him.

"No!" he gasped,"No no no no no. I'm fine, you know me, a brave little soldier." He attempted a light laugh but it resulted in a bloody cough. Poor lad.

"Now Leo," I said more forcefully. I didn't want to hurt him but I didn't want him to die.

It was Leo for Christ's sake. He was the same age as Rob , but a month older.

Though he acted much younger. He was really tall, really lean yet really strong. Really he was a big teddy bear. He even looked like one...a bit. With his chocolate brown curly hair, broad shoulders and strong arms.

He clutched the sword for dear life. "No wait, wait!" he crowed.

"Don't be such a baby. Take it like a man." Rob interjected.

He leaned casually against the doorframe, smirking slightly. He was enjoying this.

Leo opened his mouth to reply but that's when I pulled the sword out. I quickly grabbed a pillow and pushed it into Leo's face so he could scream into it. Don't want to be waking the neighbours.

Even from upstairs we heard the front door knock against the wall. We froze and for a moment I stopped breathing.

My heart skipped a beat. We heard the footsteps, echoing around the house. That's when we charged into action.

Silently Rob moved towards us. Leo got up off the floor, forgetting about his shoulder. I grabbed a bandage and pressed it to his wound. Leo grimaced, and took the bandage from me. We stood behind the door and waited.

Each footstep seemed like It was taking his time, almost mockingly. It must have smelled the blood, that's what they wanted, it was the reason they came out every night.

I hated hearing news of people that the vamps had killed...and turned. Even more than I hated hearing about it, I hated thinking about if I was the one who was caught.

Finally the footsteps were outside of the bedroom door. It opened the door with a came into the moonlight and I froze. I only saw the back of him but it was enough.

His skin was pale and flawless, looking as if it had been carved. His hair was brown and short, he was dressed in an old tracksuit that smelled like sweat and blood.

His hands were covered in blood, it dripped off his fingers and fell to the floor. The noise of it hittting the floor sounded defeaning in the silence.

I couldn't move. I just couldn't. I was scared and afraid that if i moved or even breathed he would turn around and rip into my throat.

I located his reflection in the window. The whites of his eyes couldn't be seen. There was only blackness. He had a small goatee and his mouth and chin were covered in blood. He seemed to be staring back at me...and smiling. Oh no.

He turned and threw himself at me with an inhuman roar. I could see his teeth perfectly. They were pointed, pointed and pointed. They looked sinister not comical. Less shark more wolf.

I was in shit, deep shit and I knew it. For sure I was going to die.

"NO!"roared Rob. He threw himself between us.

The vamp snarled and made a sound like a laugh. Rob rugby tackled him until he was on his back. The vamp snarled. He picked Rob up and threw him across the room.

He smashed against the dressing table and fell to the floor with a loud, hard thud. It sounded like it hurt.

The vamp charged at me. I ran towards him and with everything I could muster and kicked him in the chest. He fell backwards and so did I.

He got up but the wind had been knocked out of me from the force of the kick. He ran past me straight for Leo. Leo punched him in the face but the vamp barely winced. Leo did however.

He grabbed Leo, one arm pinning him up against the wall, the other making sure his head didn't get in the way of the feed.

Oh hell no. He was not feeding off of my teddy bear.

Rob was possibly hurt, by the sound of that thud but Leo was in life threatening danger and the one thing worse than watching someone you love get killed, was killing them yourself because they had been turned into a vampire.

I dragged myself up and jumped on the vamp's back. He roared and thrashed around, meaning to throw me off. I held on and covered his eyes, careful to stay away from his teeth.

Leo pushed us away from him. He staggered blindly and I couldn't help but feel really stupid.

Rob hauled himself up onto the bed. When he caught sight of me playing Blind Man's Bluff with a vampire, he couldn't help but give me a weird look.

He rushed over to the wardrobe and ripped the door off. He further mangled it until it resembled something like a stake.

Okay i was getting queasy. This vamp was not going to give up. He proceeded to thrash around but i had a firm grip and no way was I letting go.

He stopped for a minute then backpedalled, my back slapping hard against the wall. I fell to the ground.

Before he could get anywhere near Leo or anyone again Rob was in front of him. He smirked and cocked the stake. "Say goodnight motherfucker," he plunged it into the bloodsuckers heart. The vamp shuddered and shrieked. .

He fell to the ground, screeching like a banshee.

I bet he was a talented opera singer when he was alive, my eardrums were ringing.

His white skin became tinged with pink and life. The whites of his eyes became visible just before he closed them, and then with a final shudder he died.

I sank to the ground, Rob and Leo sat beside me.

My hands were shaking, I felt like I was on the outside, looking in on the dead vamp on the ground, and on us. Oh my god. I cannot believe that we just did that.

I cannot believe we actually survived. And for sheer disbelief, we began to laugh. We laughed until tears ran down our faces and we ran out of breath.

We have scraped out of a lot of scary shit before but never like this. Not against an actual vampire.

We were frightened out of our laughing fit by another howl. It was further away, maybe a block or so.

"Well shit,"Rob breathed. That was all the reminder we needed. Finn would be worried and when we got home he would kill us for being out on the surface after sunset.

Then kill us some more when he spots our cuts and bruises.

Slightly shaken, we got up and ran.

We ran as fast as we could and stopped once because of Leo and his wound. He lost a lot of blood and he was really pale but said he would live.

We ran out the back door all the way to the entrance of Survivors HQ. That was a good mile and a half but we didn't care. We just did not want another run in with a vamp.

Okay, so we survived that little run in, but that was mostly luck. And we new better than anyone, luck ran out.

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