Prologue

A comet flew across the sky, one of the most magnificent things one could ever see. And now it flying slowly right by the moon. But then, right in view, came a hand. A black leather gloved hand, holding onto what appeared to be a magnificent amulet. As the comet drew nearer and nearer to the edge of the full moon, the amulet separated into three rings. Each inside the other. And each began to spin on its own. Soon all you could see was a red gem sitting in the center. And the man holding the amulet spoke.

"Ab ovo…in toto…nil desperandum…sine die…" The man's face is then revealed in the light of the moon. It was sharp and angled, like one without proper nourishment. He was also extremely pale. His eyes were red, and his lips blue from lack of blood. He was a vampire.

And he was not alone. Surrounding him was a group of vampires, all gathered with hope shining in their eyes. Directly at the man's side was a woman who's thick frizzy hair had been clumped into two large bunches. Beside her a boy, almost full grown, who's hair was long and had a rebellious look about his person. Next to him was a girl, who could only be twelve at most, her long blond hair pulled back with a silver circlet. They were all dressed in medieval clothing, jewels shilling from various crowns, collars, and necklaces.

But it was the boy on the man's right side that drew one's attention. He looked to be younger than the rebellious boy, but still old enough to have grown past the awkward teenage stage. One would guess he was about nineteen. His hair was such a dark brown that it looked black. It was shorter, but it stuck up in all directions. He was extremely pale as well, almost pasty really. But his eyes…his eyes were pitch black orbs, glittering with the seriousness of the ritual being preformed.

Just then the wind picked up, whipping about the hair and clothing of those present. A red light shot from the place where the comet crossed in front of the edge of the moon, piercing the red jewel in the center of the amulet the man still held. Everyone stood in expectation, waiting for something. Until a shout came from behind them.

"Vampires!" a gruff voice shouted. Everyone spun to see various torches and lanterns floating through the mist. As they came closer, they were revealed to be attached to a wagon, a man at the front whipping his horses to go faster and faster.

"Be careful! Watch out!" the first vampire said, pushing the amulet and his family out of sight behind him. The man in the wagon reined his horses to a stop, standing with what looked like a large wooden sword. He hopped to the ground, still shouting in anger. The wooden sword was revealed to actually be a large cross.

"Give me that stone!" the Vampire hunter shouted. He jumped at the head vampire, and they grappled for the amulet. The others shouted for him not to surrender it, to keep fighting, but the innermost piece of the amulet suddenly flew from his hand. Time seemed to slow down, and a blond vampire is seen watching the jewel pass overhead. And then it went right over the side of the cliff. The blond vampire didn't hesitate for a moment, jumping over the edge of the cliff to get the amulet back.

Far below, a girl sat in her bed, which had been floating in the sea at the base of the cliffs. She watched in silence as the amulet fell and plopped into the water not too far from her. At the sound of a shout she looked up again, only to see a vampire flying down directly at her. She shrieked and scrambled to get away, but she knew it was hopeless. She ducked under her covers, hoping to escape somehow in the comforting warmth of the blankets.

Chapter 1

Antonia Thompson shot up from her bed with a shriek. She clutched at her blankets, breathing heavily for a moment as she tried to get her bearing. She heard footsteps and two people opened her door, causing her to shriek again.

"Toni!" One of them shouted, and Toni clapped her mouth shut. It was only her parents…how embarrassing. "Honey, are you alright?" Toni gave them a smile and a nod.

"I'm fine Mom, it was just a dream."

"The one about the vampires again?" Her mom, Dottie, leaned against the doorway, swiping her sleeping mask from her head where it had bunched up her short blond hair. Toni's dad, Bob, just sat down the golf club he'd brought with a sigh, running his hands through is cropped grey hair. Toni felt bad already. Her dad had a tough job, and she had woken him up every night for the past week with her stupid dreams.

"Yeah." Toni admitted to her mom. She didn't say anything more. She hadn't told anyone about her dream outside of her journal, and wasn't planning on changing tactics any time soon. She flopped back onto her pillow instead. "But I'm fine, you can go back to sleep." Her parents looked at each other but didn't argue, simply shuffled back downstairs to the master bedroom on the lower level. Once they were out of hearing range, Toni sat up and flipped on the lamp next to her bed, grabbing her new journal. She certainly wasn't tired at the moment.

Antonia Thompson was a regular teenage girl from AmFlinta. Her blond hair brushed her shoulder blades, and her green eyes were more likely to sparkle with happiness than sadness. Everyone called her Toni, and the eighteen year old was happy with that. She played soccer and loved to drive too fast, and was looking for colleges and thinking of what she wanted her major to be.

Also, she lived in a castle. Despite her normality, Toni was anything but. Her dad had recently gotten a job in Scotland as a developer, helping some rich family to turn their land into a golf resort. Having been born and raised in San Diego, it was quite a change. The house the family had gotten was actually a remodeled castle. On the inside, it felt like any other house in the suburbs of AmFlinta, they just had a few balconies and tower.

Toni and her mom had painted the highest room in the tower a soft green color when they first arrived, designating it Toni's room. She had a balcony, large windows, and a bathroom of her own, giving her a bit more freedom to be a teenager without her parents breathing down her neck. She didn't need much space, just enough for a very large drafting table style desk and her queen sized bed. She'd started using a wardrobe as well, seeing as the castle didn't have closets. While normal in Europe, Toni missed something as simple as a closet.

As Toni scratched in her journal, she had to sigh. Tomorrow was Monday, which meant it was time for yet another horrible school week. Toni wasn't a bad student really, but this school was bonkers. She was an automatic social outcast being a 'Crazy yank'. She'd moved only for her senior year of high school. The only two guys who really talked to her seemed convinced she was nothing but a slut and enjoyed bullying her whenever they had the chance. But she couldn't tell a soul about it. They were the grandsons of the richest man around, who also happened to be her Dad's boss.

And to top everything off, these weird dreams of the vampires on the cliff had been haunting her. She'd dreamt it every night since she'd arrived in their new home, and it was really starting to freak her out. Being a bit of an artist, she'd sketched out people in her dream. It was just her luck that someone had stolen her sketchbook at school. Everyone there now thought she was obsessed with vampires. The worst part was that they may be right. She couldn't stop thinking about them…

Toni finally tucked her journal between the mattresses on the bed; she didn't want her parents reading it. She then flicked off the lamp and flopped onto her pillow. She wasn't worried about the nightmare, it never came more than once in a single night. Instead, she was busy dreading school. She looked out the window at the brightest star there, wishing for a moment that there was someone on her side…and fell asleep.

Next morning, Toni almost slept right through her alarm clock. Thankfully, her mom came in to throw open the curtains. As the sunlight streamed into the room, Toni groaned. But rather than hiding her face from the brightness, she made herself sit up and roll out of bed. Still half asleep, and feeling rather undead herself, Toni took a shower and got dressed. In an effort to make herself brave, she put on some of her favorite clothes. A purple tank top with a jean skirt that went to her knees. She completed the look with brown clogs and by pulling her hair into a ponytail over one shoulder. Finally she went downstairs. She sat at the kitchen counter, grabbing some bacon from the plate her mom placed in front of her.

"Mom, do you like this place?" Toni asked then.

"It's a big change for you I know. New house, new school, new country." Toni smirked.

"You didn't answer my question." Dottie sighed, taking a seat on the other stool.

"I do like it here. It's a change, but I think it's a good change. We can go back to our roots, you know?"

"I suppose…"

"And Scotland is beautiful, isn't it?"

"If you don't have Vampires…" Toni muttered, pushing her scrambled eggs about on her plate.

"Honey, it's just a dream, and dreams aren't real."

"I know what a dream is, Mother."

"And there's no such thing as vampires either."

"Mom…" Toni groaned again, shoving a sausage in her mouth.

"Toni-" Dottie started and Toni rolled her eyes.

"I'm gonna be late, I'll see you later." She said around the sausage. She grabbed her long white sweater, sliding it on quickly and tying the ribbon at the empire waist. She then grabbed her brown corduroy satchel of a backpack and her keys, and left through the large front door.

Walking outside was refreshing. The early morning sun was warming the earth and dew drops still sparkled on their green expanse of a lawn. And on one side of the driveway sat Toni's pride and joy. Her silver convertible car. She was lucky, she'd been eighteen before moving to Europe, so she hadn't had to go through the difficult process of getting a European driver's license. And as an apology for making her move right before her senior year of high school, her parents had gotten her a car of her own. A new one to boot.

She eagerly hopped into her car and started the engine, starting quickly down the winding road to the main village where the school was. It was too damp and cold to put the top down, but not to open the windows and turn up her radio. And she did just that, a European techno song coming on. Toni had quickly become familiar with the band, they were called the Vengaboys. Back home the kids would have laughed at her for listening to techno music at all let alone liking it. But it had grown on Toni rather quickly.

The hardest part was remembering to drive on the left side of the road. It was hard enough with the steering wheel being on the right side of the car. She'd gotten cursed and yelled at more than once for being on the wrong side of the road. And most of the time she didn't understand a thing they said. An English accent Toni could understand just fine, but the Scottish accent could be completely intelligible sometimes.

Finally, she made it to school. Reluctantly she switched off the ignition and climbed out of her car. A part of her would rather spend the day driving around aimlessly in the countryside. Toni had always felt it was the closest she would ever get to flying. And it sounded much better than putting up with another school day. Though she wasn't stupid by any means, she was considered so. Even the teachers seemed to assume that she couldn't possibly be any smarter than their own students. And Toni, though she'd never been shy, closed up entirely. She never spoke unless asked a direct question, and even then she kept it short.

And the day started off badly. At the gate to the school stood two boys. Nigel and Flint McAshton, the sons of her dad's boss. Toni ducked her head and tried to just walk past, maybe they'd leave her alone today… No such luck. Nigel stuck out his hand, blocking her path.

"Hello girly." He said in his sophisticated Scottish accent. "Care to help me with my homework?"

"Do it for you, you mean?" Toni asked savagely. "I don't think so." Flint stepped forward.

"Oh come on, we know you just love to help the boys." He said. "We'll show you a good time later if you like." Toni just rolled her eyes.

"Just shove off alright?" she glared at them.

"Oooo, she's picking up the lingo, did you hear that Flint?" Nigel said in mock surprise. Toni gritted her teeth, pushing past them and into the school, their laughter ringing in her ears.

Oh yeah…a great start.

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Woohoo! Finally! It's time to really get this party started people :D I've been working on this story on and off for ages, and I figured it was about time I started posting it. After all, nothing motivated a writer more than the deadline to post =P

Note, you don't have to have seen the Little Vampire movie to read this! I explain everything, so you'll get the story perfectly fine even if you haven't seen the movie :D

So, as you can see..I made Toni a girl. And older. That's about it really...though i've added in a lot of other stuff on their adventure. I dunno if this has been done before...never even read any other Little Vampire fanfics before. So I haven't copied anyone on purpose!

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Whisperwings