It was dark and gloomy day in the beginning of April, Cherry was reading a book until she got a message from her best friend Cathleen, saying 'Wanna come over?'.
"Hm..." Cherry hummed before shrugging and sending a text back. 'I've got nothing better to do, give me 10 minutes.' She then decided to get ready to go and went downstairs as her parents were watching TV. "Mom, Dad, I'm going to Cathleen's house for a little bit."
"Okay, dear, have fun." Michelle smiled.
"Be good." Bud added.
"Sure, Dad." Cherry hid an eye roll as she grabbed her bag and went out the door to see Cathleen.
Meanwhile, Cathleen was staying with her dad for a while since she needed her werewolf training. Her father, Patrick Ross was the alpha of the pack like his father before him and her older sister 27-year-old Patrina was helping out with the training as well. She was cleaning her room for her best friend to come over, her little nieces six-year-old Abella and three-year-old Angel came into the room.
"Play with us." Abella demanded.
"I can't, I'm having company over." Cathleen told the little girls.
Her nieces looked upset and pouted.
"We can play later, okay?" Cathleen told the little girls.
"Oookay..." Abella and Angel pouted and walked away from their aunt.
"Kids..." Cathleen sighed as she continued to clean up for Cherry's arrival. "Okay, now that's all done... Let's see if I can scare my dad..." she then laughed as she turned into a shadow and vanished to the kitchen where her father was, making lunch.
Patrick hummed to himself. Cathleen soon came right up behind her father to scare him.
"Don't even think about it." Patrick said without looking.
"Aw, man, Dad," Cathleen pouted as she soon turned back to normal. "How did you know that I was coming?"
"Baby Girl, I've been a wolf ever since I was Abella's age, it's gonna take more than that to scare your dad." Patrick smirked.
"Hmf..." Cathleen folded her arms with a small smirk/pout.
"I'm your father, I know everything." Patrick smirked back.
"Um, anyway, Dad, my friend Cherry is coming over." Cathleen said.
"The goth girl?" Patrick asked.
"She's a perky goth." Cathleen clarified.
"Still a goth..." Patrick shrugged.
"As long as you don't call her an emo." Cathleen replied.
"She seems different than most humans..." Patrick commented. "Does she know you're a... Well... You know?"
"Yeah, Dad, but there's something you should know about her; she's not exactly a human herself," Cathleen replied. "She's... A vampire."
"A vampire...?" Patrick asked.
"Yeah, Dad, she's a vampire." Cathleen nodded.
Patrick sighed a little. "Selene..." he muttered a bit.
"Pardon?" Cathleen asked.
Before anything else was said, Cherry soon came over.
"Oh, there's Cherry, gotta go, Dad." Cathleen said before going to her friend.
"Lunch will be ready soon." Patrick told her.
"Okay, Dad." Cathleen replied.
Cherry tapped her foot slightly as she waited outside and played on her phone. Cathleen tried the shadow trick again.
"Hey, Cath." Cherry said, unfazed.
"Damn it, how did you know it was me?" Cathleen groaned.
"You've done this before..." Cherry replied. "I think you even scared Atticus one time which you should be rewarded for since he's almost never scared ever since he started training with that Goku guy."
"Well, I'm still learning some shadowbending techniques." Cathleen said.
"Well, good luck against him, you know how he can get, especially when I prank him on Halloween," Cherry warned. "He can even bloodbend sometimes now..."
"That means I'm gonna get stronger than him." Cathleen replied.
"I don't think that's humanly possible." Cherry mumbled slightly since Atticus seemed to be stronger than just about anyone.
"Hey, I could try," Cathleen shrugged. "I've always wanted to go on adventures with you guys."
"Sorry, but you can't with both of us this time." Cherry said.
"Aw, why not?" Cathleen frowned.
"He's on vacation with his family." Cherry told her.
"Aw, shoot." Cathleen groaned.
"Maybe next time you can." Cherry suggested.
"I guess so..." Cathleen shrugged.
"So, what're we doing today?" Cherry asked. "Video games? Pizza? YouTube videos?"
"Actually, my dad is making lunch for us," Cathleen said. "It's Chicken Alfredo."
"I don't think I've met your father or sister before." Cherry replied.
"So, you wanna come in?" Cathleen asked.
"Yeah, besides, I love Chicken Alfredo." Cherry replied.
The two best friends then went inside, talking to each other, but only to be interrupted by Patrina who then grabbed Cherry by her collar and slammed her into the wall, growling.
"Sis, what are you doing?!" Cathleen yelped. "That's my friend!"
"Hello, you must be Patrina." Cherry said, unfazed by the sudden brute force.
"Sorry, Cherry, she gets a little nuts whenever she meets a vampire." Cathleen told the perky goth.
"S'okay." Cherry replied.
"So, it is true..." Patrina said to her.
"Yeah, I was bitten a while back." Cherry shrugged, showing she wasn't born a vampire.
"Just because she's a vampire doesn't mean that she's evil." Cathleen defended towards Patrina.
Patrina just hummed before leaving Cherry alone.
"I feel like someone isn't telling us something." Cherry said to Cathleen.
"I know, and my dad was talking about a woman named Selene." Cathleen replied.
"Selene, huh?" Cherry asked.
"You hear of her?" Cathleen asked back.
"I'm not sure, but that name sounds important..." Cherry replied. "Maybe it's in my library."
"I feel like she could be my dad's ex-girlfriend or something." Cathleen shrugged.
The two soon came inside to eat some Chicken Alfredo.
"Why'd she have to be friends with a vampire?" Patrina asked as she watched the two.
"Dad, my friend Cherry is here!" Cathleen announced.
Cherry itched the inside of her ear.
"So, this is Cherry, huh?" Patrick asked as he came towards the perky goth.
"Yes, sir, that would be me, it's nice to meet you for the first time." Cherry replied to the man of the house.
"Good to see you." Patrick nodded to her.
"Likewise." Cherry replied.
"I heard that you're a vampire." Patrick said to Cherry.
"Yes, sir, I was bitten." Cherry confirmed.
"Bitten, huh?" Patrick asked.
Cherry looked away, she didn't really like to talk about that story very much, but it was true. "Someone saved me from drowning after I was bitten... I'd rather not talk about it..." she then said softly and darkly, much like her personality.
"It's very sad, Dad; so it's best not to mention it." Cathleen advised.
"Oh, sorry, Cherry, I didn't know." Patrick said.
"It's all right..." Cherry replied. "Nice Chicken Alfredo by the way."
"Thank you," Patrick smiled. "I love to cook."
"You could be a chef, Dad." Cathleen suggested.
"Aw, you're sweet." Patrick chuckled as he went to get a drink from the fridge.
"So, Cherry, what was your latest adventure?" Cathleen asked.
"Eh, nothing too important," Cherry shrugged. "Atticus dragged us to Manhattan to see his little cousin. Apparently she's descended from the gargoyle clan over there."
"I hope one day I can go on an adventure with you and Atticus." Cathleen said to her friend.
"Eh, it's not that exciting..." Cherry shrugged before sipping her Sprite with a dull look in her eyes. "You wanna see my scrapbook?"
"Sure, lemme guess; you guys went to a different universe and met a group of superpowered teenagers?" Cathleen joked.
"We did." Cherry said.
"Wait, you did?!" Cathleen asked. "Seriously?!"
Cherry reached off-screen and brought out her scrapbook and pointed out the photograph of said adventure.
"No way!" Cathleen said.
"You name it, I've done it." Cherry smirked.
"That's so cool," Cathleen smiled. "I really want to be an adventure with you guys sometime."
"Why?" Cherry teased. "It's kind of a job, and more of a business."
"So? I like adventure," Cathleen shrugged. "It's cool to fight dangerous villains."
"How would you know?" Cherry smirked.
Cathleen just gave her a look. Cherry continued to sip her drink while staring out the window.
"Dad?" Cathleen asked.
"Yes, Baby Girl?" Patrick replied.
"Who's Selene?" Cathleen asked.
Cherry looked over while sipping her drink.
"I knew this day would come..." Patrick sighed to himself quietly.
"What?" Cathleen asked. "What's wrong, Dad?"
"Are you guys done eating?" Patrick asked.
"Sure." Cherry replied.
"Come with me..." Patrick said mysteriously to both girls as he walked out of the kitchen.
Cathleen and Cherry looked confused and followed the Alpha.
Patrick clicked on a light and soon came to a box and opened it up to look through many books until he found the one he needed. Cherry stuck her tongue out as she played on her phone while standing with Cathleen.
"Aha, there it is." Patrick said once he found what he was looking for.
"What is it, Dad?" Cathleen asked.
"The answer to your question," Patrick said as he brought out a book and showed them a woman with long black hair and very pale skin in a silky black outfit who looked quite dark and serious. "This is Selene Gallio."
"Who's Selene?" Cherry and Cathleen asked.
"Selene was a normal, happy, vibrant child, born in the late 14th century," Patrick said before opening up a book to tell them all about the mysterious woman known as Selene. "The youngest of two daughters of a master mason and smith, Selene and her sister Cecilia were shown to love painting pictures, and playing games like 'Silly Goose'. At the age of nineteen, the untimely and gruesome deaths of her entire family completely broke her heart, as she had loved them all dearly, and left her an orphan."
"Hm..." Cherry hummed, almost indifferently.
"How do you know so much about her, Dad?" Cathleen asked.
"Oh, your old man knows a thing or two other than just being 'Alpha'." Patrick winked to his daughter as he handed the book to the girls.
"Was Selene your girlfriend or something?" Cathleen asked.
"You can read, can't you?" Patrick asked in slight deadpan.
"I read comic books." Cathleen smirked.
Patrick just rolled his eyes slightly at his younger daughter.
"May I see that?" Cherry asked, but then took the book without getting an answer.
"You two are very lucky to be around today," Patrick told them. "Werewolves and vampires were moral enemies back in those days."
"Really?" Cathleen asked.
"Yes, even your grandfather who was an Alpha before me had to fight the vampires with his pack." Patrick stated.
Cherry and Cathleen soon took the book and looked through it to find out more about Selene.
"Who knew that your dad knew so much about this Selene?" Cherry commented.
"I didn't know myself." Cathleen replied.
"Well, we'll find out more about her with this book." Cherry said.
"Right." Cathleen agreed.
Cherry and Cathleen opened up the book to find out more about Selene and about the war between werewolves and vampires which had been going on for centuries before the girls had been born.
"Wow, this war is a lot more worse than that war between the werewolves and the weredogs." Cathleen commented.
"Yeah, you werebeasts always gotta be at each other like rainbows in Equestria..." Cherry commented.
"Hey, what can I say? I'm pretty wild." Cathleen shrugged.
Cherry didn't say anything, but rolled her eyes.
"Hey, she's older than Forte," Cherry said as she read one part of Selene's biography. "It's said she was born in 1383. It also says that her father met a powerful warlord named Viktor."
"A warlord?" Cathleen replied. "Let me guess: he was a vampire too?"
"According to this he was the first true vampire, born somewhere in the early 4th or 5th century..." Cherry read. "Whoa, that's older than Atticus's family."
"So, does that mean that Selene is a vampire too?" Cathleen asked.
"Technically, yes." Cherry said.
"Yes." Cherry said, obviously.
"At least we don't have to worry about this war, right?" Cathleen asked.
"I guess so, unless we visit back in time..." Cherry replied. "And you know I have a way."
"Let me guess," Cathleen began. "Magic or a watch that travels us back in time?"
"I'm the deadpan one here..." Cherry told her.
"Sorry..." Cathleen smiled sheepishly.
"Depends on how you wanna go," Cherry said. "I've got links either way to time travel."
"Whatever's more easier for you." Cathleen shrugged.
"Well, since I'm not a witch or a Wiccan..." Cherry said mysteriously before doing a sleight of hand and made a watch appear in her hand after waving over her previously bare hand.
"What are you...?" Cathleen asked.
"A pessimist." Cherry smirked.
"Should we tell my dad before we leave?" Cathleen asked.
"If you want, but he won't even know that we're gone." Cherry replied.
"Are you sure?" Cathleen asked.
"I promise." Cherry replied.
"Well, okay... You haven't lied to me before..." Cathleen shrugged.
Cherry then set the watch and she took Cathleen's hand. Once the watch was set, there was a bright glow and the two girls were sent back in time.
