So here's the deal. I like so many of you I bet, have a ton of abandoned test chapters wasting away on my e-mail account, and since I don't feel much like wasting my time starting a whole new story I figure I'll let you read all of my abandoned "what could have beens" and see where I go from there.
Blue Bloods
Summary:Kory is surprised when she's invited to join an extremely prestigous club called the Blue Bloods Society. So imagine her shock when she discovers they are an ancient society of vampires, and oh...they want to suck her blood. Luckily for Kory the Eternals, the founders of the blue bloods, are not going to let that happen. Kory romance with one of its leaders Dick, threaten to tear apart her lost hope of survival.
Disclaimer: I think it's pretty obvious that I don't own teen titans
"Please." Kory begged her mother for probably the thousandth time that week.
Her mother shot her an annoyed glare from over the newspaper, and rolled her eyes from behind her glasses. She muttered something about liberal youths in America before returning to her article on China's One Child Policy.
Kory pouted and returned to pondering her soggy bowl of Rice Krispies. The sun illuminated the large windows and shone through the sheer curtains of their enormous dining room. Kory followed Margot, the house keeper, with her large emerald eyes. Kory was what any person with partial vision would call gorgeous. She was a super model without a cat walk. Fresh out of high school, well not officially until noon that very day.
"I fail to see how this is fair." Kory complained allowing her spoon to clank onto the table. "Have I not studied hard enough? I have not proved myself academically? I think I've earned just a little bit of freedom. I'm eighteen for God's sake."
"Kory watch your language." her mother warned, lowering her paper. "And I'm not disagreeing with you, but allowing you to attend some- Keg party is simple out of the question."
"It's not a keg party." Kory reasoned. "Some kids from school rented a warehouse in the Valley and there's going to be a graduation party. It's going to be a lot of fun, and all of the kids from school are going. If I don't show up I can say goodbye to the little social life I have."
Her mother sighed. "If all the kids from school were getting together to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge would you want to go as well?"
"If it was fun."
Margot chuckled from where she was refilling Mrs. Ander's coffee mug. Kory scoffed at how unreasonable her mother was being, and her father backing her up! She had been coddled and protected her entire life. Countless hours she spent at the library or studying, zero spent at a football game or dance. Hell she skipped out on junior prom because she had SATs the next day. This was the can't miss event of the century, and her last chance to break away from her book worm image. There was no way she could miss it.
Kory's sister Komi had been the it girl during her days at Sacred Heart Preparatory School. There was not one boy, girl, teacher, or nun who didn't know her name. Everyone knew it wasn't a party unless Komi was there. Kory was, to say the least, tired of living in her sister's shadow. Plus it was her last chance to impress Roy Harper, whom she had been pining for, for the last four years.
"Speaking of which," Mrs. Anders said glancing at her wrist watch. "If you don't leave now you're going to be late. It would be inappropriate for the valedictorian to be late to graduation."
Kory sighed. "Tara is picking me up." she answered bitterly.
Kory's phone suddenly began to vibrate on the table. Tara had texted that she was waiting outside. Kory pushed in her chair and stomped up the stairs. Kory grabbed the garment bag that held her cap and gown and examined herself one more time in the full length mirror. She straightened the hem of her sun dress and ran her fingers through her auburn hair. She could hear Tara honking the honk from outside. Kory rolled her eyes before jogging down the stairs and out the door.
Tara waved to her from the drivers seat of her 2007 Jaguar XK convertible. Tara wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed and had spent more night partying than doing anything else in high school. After showing up to her final exams with a hangover and wretchedly horrible SAT scores she had been (as they called in the upper class of Jump City) banished to a state school. Her parents punished her by getting her an older model, not that Tara minded.
Kory slid into the passenger seat and tossed her garment bag into the back. "Hey, Kory." Tara said pleasantly. Her face with anxious with anticipation. "So?"
Kory shook her head. "She said no."
Tara sucked her teeth. "Your parents don't expect you to have any fun anytime soon do they?"
"Not in this life time anyways."
Tara began to back out of the driveway and sped onto the main street. Kory typically hated having the roof of the car down, especially on the high way. It was windy and freezing, and always ruined her hair. But today was the exception. It was a sunny and warm May day in Jump City, California. She was graduating high school. Today she would enjoy the freedom of a topless car. It may be the only freedom she would see for awhile.
"You should go to the party anyways." Tara said as she turned onto the turnpike.
In Tara's world there was no such word as no. To her "no" meant don't let me find out. She had no regards for what her parents or anyone else thought, and advocated that, that was how Kory should live her life as well. If only she were that brave.
"I'd be grounded for so long my grandchildren would have to finish out the punishment for me." Kory yelled over the howl of the wind.
Tara shrugged. "So what? You're going to college all the way on the eastern sea border. Before you waste four more years of your life buried in a chemistry book you should take these last three months having the most fun possible. Those Brown (+) kids are going to think you're no fun."
Kory shrugged indifferently. She had a point. Come August she was moving all the way across the country, where she would have to focus on her studies even more so than she already was. This was her last chance to make an impression on her classmates. Tara smiled. She knew she would come around.
Kory Anders
Valedictorian.
Class Rank: 1
Academic Achievements:
Advanced Freshman English
Advanced Sophomore English
Advanced Language and Composition
AP English
Advanced Geometry
Advanced Algebra II
IB Math
Advanced Biology
Advanced Chemistry
Advanced Physics
AP Physics
Advanced World History
Advanced U.S History I
AP U.S History II
AP European History
Advanced Latin II
Advanced Latin III
IB Latin
G.P.A: 4.4
Extra Curricular Achievements:
Amnesty International Club
Debate Team
Freshman Executive Committee
Junior Executive Committee
Key Club (+)
Latin Club
National Honor Society
National Merit Scholar
President of International Club
Senior Executive Committee
Sophomore Executive Committee
Student Council
Varsity Swimming and Diving Team
Varsity Volleyball Team
Kory's cheeks flushed when she saw the pamphlet for the first time after the ceremony was over. The last thing she needed was having all her business put out there, especially after her nerve wracking speech. She stuttered at the beginning and finished rather abruptly. Somehow, in her humiliation, she managed to make it across the stage without tripping. The rest of the ceremony went smoothly. It took about two hours to graduate all three hundred students in the Senior class and by the time it was over the weather was sweltering. People were using the pamphlets to fan themselves and leaving as soon as possible.
Dean McCormick was swooning over Kory to her parents, hence the delay. Kory was standing in midst of the clutter of white fold chairs, that had been abandoned as soon as the ceremony had ended. Her cap was tucked under her arm and her gown was already unzipped exposing her hefty bosom and white sun dress to the world. She stood staring at the pamphelt and the two pages decided to her like some sort of mural. She wished the yearbook committee had warned her before publishing it and handing them out to all her classmates and their parents. It made her seem...pretentious.
She felt a sudden hand grasp her shoulder. Kory gasped in surprise and turned around to see Roy Harper smiling at her with that dashing smirk. Her heart lept. "H-hi Roy."
"Hey." he said casually. "Cool speech."
"Thanks." she said quietly. She could feel the blood rushing to her face again.
"What's going on with your sister? I heard she left UCLA?" he asked raising his perfectly manicured eyebrow.
"Oh, yeah. She decided to leave." And by "decided to leave" she meant to got kicked out. "Komi wanted to... explore her other options." And by "explore her other options" she meant she was in rehab.
Roy nodded. Kory suspected he was only partially listening. He leaned into her. She could feel his eyes burning into her green ones. Oh the way that aborable tusseled red hair flowed just so in the wind. Kory's heart was beating against her ribcage. Roy took her hand in his.
"There's something I've been meaning to tell you." he said matter-of-factly. He suddenly dropped her hand. Kory's stomach lurched. "Tonight at the party. You're going right?"
"Oh course!" Kory lied immediately.
He smiled coolly. He told her he'd see her there and they would talk. A sense of excitement built up inside Kory. She pulled out her cell phone and dialed in Tara's number. "Tara, I need you to pick me up tonight."
"Where did you say you were going tonight?" Ms. Anders asked Kory as she stuffed her cell phone and a tube of lip gloss into her purse.
Kory was dressed in a very nice dress suit and blouse. No reason to be suspicious. "Brown alumni are holding a special meeting to promote the Greek Council and I was considering pledging in the fall."
It was the lie she'd come up with their way home. Her parents had wanted to take her to dinner at Elite restaurant, but she had suddenly been invited to a college conference for incoming freshman and her attendance was imperative. They'd celebrate later. Kory said goodbye to her parents and left without offering them too much details. She practice her lines for later, but for now she was going to enjoy herself for the first time for...ever really. Kory climbed into Tara's car, it was already dark outside and the Valley was about a half an hour out of the way. Kory waved to her parent from the passenger side for reassurance.
Tara pulled out of the drive way. As soon as her house was out of sight Kory pulled off her jacket and the rest of her clothes. She had stuffed a tiny black dress and high heels into her purse. She tossed her other clothes into the backseat.
"Damn Kory, lace!" she said referring to her black panties.
Her cheeks flushed again. Yes, she had made a special trip to the lingerie boutique, but he had said that he needed to talk. If they were getting to second base she wanted to look good doing it. "Shut up and keep your eyes on the road." Kory grumbled struggling to get into her dress.
There was very little room for changing. She hoped the dress hadn't become too wrinkled inside of her bag. The dress was gorgeous. Silk, halter, slight slit up her thigh, and hugged all of her curves. Truth be told Kory did not have to nerve to buy something so sexy. She stole it from Komi when she had stayed there for Christmas break. The drive to the Valley was silent at best. Kory was going through her game plan. How would she approach Roy? Should she flirt? Tease? Get wasted?
Tara was too busy singing off key to notice her friend's distress. The warehouse where the party was being held was buried into the woods up a mountain in the Valley. Cars filled the dusty space around it and ran up the street. Tara refused to walk a quarter a mile and back, and suspected that by the end of the night she'd be too drunk to do so. She stalked around the area of warehouse. Kory was becoming impatiently. It was already past nine, she didn't want Roy to think she bailed. Finally after fifteen minutes Tara was able to snag the parking space of a couple that had just left. She carefully squeezed into the space and turned off the engine.
Kory catapulted herself out of the passenger seat. "Slow down Kory. It's not like this is the last party you'll go to."
Kory wasn't too sure of that. The rusty metal doors of warehouse were wide open, and the loud music vibrated the ground. She could hear the band playing Fall Out Boy's Dance Dance. Kory stood in the doorway mouth agap. She had seen places like this in the movies but had never experienced it firsthand. Kegs were flowing in every corner of the room. People packed the space that was presumable the dance floor. The strobe lights were blinding.
Tara immediately abandoned Kory to join the company of a few other kids dranking from one of the kegs. Kory straned her head over the crowd looking for Roy. She finally spotted him to the left of the stage seated on square ottomans laughing a few boys from the baseball team. Kory pushed through the crowd with much diffulty. She tried her best not to too any of their sweaty, dirty bodies. She intercepted a few people grinding, and was groped by several strangers. She finally stumbled out of the mass just as the song ended. Roy was bent over a table in front of him inhaling a thin white line. Kory frowned, drugs were not something she condoned. She was momentarly motionless.
Roy looked up from his line. "Hey it's Kory!" He was high, she could tell.
"Roy, what are you doing?" she said defeated.
"I jus-I just wanna hung out with you. You're so pretty."
Kory looked from him to the passed out blond girl, with her head in his lap. She wasn't sure she wanted to be there anymore. "Is there something that you want?"
"Huh? Oh right, talking." God, he could barely keep a sentence together. "You see it's like this Charles said bet me twenty bucks that I couldn't get you to this party. She's here that's twenty bucks bro." His baseball buddies started giggling like little girls.
She felt like such an idiot. Kory pushed back through the crowd, and tried to sort out her humiliation. She didn't feel sad or like crying, she felt enraged. How dare he humiliate her like that. Kory sighed. It wasn't really worth getting upset over such a tool. She shrugged. Fuck him, it was graduation night and she was at an amazing party. She wasn't going to let Roy Harper ruin her evening.
Kory made her way over to the keg, and poured the chilly amber liquid into a plastic red cup. She almost gagged as the bitter taste of alcohol congested her taste buds. I was her first time having alcohol that wasn't served in a champagne flute at a wedding. After a few seconds she got use to it. She felt suddenly much more calmer, like the edge was coming off. She downed the rest of the cup and poured herself a second serving.
She had the sudden urge to dance. She stumbled onto the dance floor and take up a stranger's offer to dance. Her hips gyrated to the beat in unexpected sexual charge. She felt cold fingers grasp her waist unexpectedly. The iciness of the touch startled her out hypnosis. She opened her eyes and was briefly met by a startling pair of red eyes. She blinked in shocked fascination but when she looked again there was only the usual crowd of drunk high school teenagers.
Kory became concerned that maybe she had, had too much to drink. What if someone had slipped a roofie in her cup when she wasn't looking and now she was hallucinating. She shook her paranoid thoughts and tried to find her beat again. There was a high pitched scream. Now she was hearing things. The sudden shift of the tension of the crowd told her otherwise. There was a moment of confusion where part of the crowd had stopped dancing and their eyes darted around the room. The band was still playing and the other half of the crowd remained unaware. It was hard to see what was happening in the darkness of the room, the strobe lights from the stage the only source of light.
The crowd further parted. Under the flash of the light a girls limp body could be seen dangling from the arm of a person for lack a better word. This creature was clearly not human. It's menacing red eyes pierced into the darkness, and a river of blood ran from it's mouth and down its chin and the front of its shirt. The girls presumably dead body dropped to the floor. The creature stood up perfectly straight. Upon the realization of the very real possible danger screams errupted simutaneously and people began a mad dash to the door. The music stopped abruptly. People pushed past one another in a tangled mob.
Kory was briefly paralyzed by fear. She was standing no less than twenty feet away from the murderous thing. Its body was still bent over the dead body. It slowly stood up perfectly straight and licked the blood off of its lips. It appeared to be a man except pale of snow and blood red pupils. He sniffed the air around him and his glaze landed on Kory. He smiled a gruesome smile, and look her staight in the eye and licked his lips.
Kory breath got caught in her throat and her stomach lurch. Her wobbly legs finally got the message from her brain to run like hell. Without another thought she turned and scrambled for the door. The door was jammed with people trying to push their way through. Kory allowed herself to be taken away. She was crushed against stranger and completely unable to move. Gradually she was pushed closer to outside like the tide. She stumbled through the other side of the door. Her feet became entangled and she fell. Her hands caught her.
The screaming and panic continued. Kory pushed herself up, lest she be trampled by the stampede of people. She looked around wondering what to do. Many others were scrambling into their cars in no established order. Some people ran down hill on foot. She spotted Tara's car and remembered she didn't have the keys. She felt a warm hand grab her arm. She jumped startled.
"Kory!" she heard Tara's voice yelled over the frantic screaming.
Kory relaxed a little. She grabbed Tara by her skinny arms and began to pull her towards the woods. "We need to get out of here." she yelled.
"We can't drive my car in boxed in." Tara yelled.
Before Kory could come up with a proper response, the screaming got louder. Standing at the entrance of the warehouse was the figure of the creature. It huffed madly and blood dripped from the tips of its fingers. It began to sniff the air again. His red eyes darted in Kory's direction and he began to slowly stock her way. His movements were oddly fluid and featherlike. He grabbed onto to the head of the closet person, and twisted their neck with a sickening crack. He continued to move towards Kory, not even looking back as the body dropped into the soil completely lifeless.
Kory still hanging onto to Tara's arm began to pull her towards the street. Suddenly a black Mercedes-Benz pulled in front of Kory and Tara's path. The drivers side window was rolled down to a reveal a mind bogglingly beautiful raven haired woman. She violent eyes were piercing and her skin was like paper. She was the type of girl who was so beautiful she'd make you never want to look in the mirror again. Kory didn't have time to tread on her looks.
"Get in if you want to live." her lyrical voice said, unreasonable calm given the circumstances.
Of course Mrs. Packerman's, Kory's kindergarten teacher, voice rang through her head about not getting into cars with strangers. However given the severity of the situation Kory decided to chance it and deal with whatever consequences later. She ran to the passenger side of the car, while Tara piled into the back. Her eyes caught sight of the creature. It had frozen mid way up the path, almost as if it were frozen. Its face was contorted with almost fear and panic. Kory's eyes fell on the woman driving. She was glaring at the creature in a scolding way. The creatures face twisted into anger before it turned around and ran into the woods and out of sight.
The women shifted gears and swung the car around. The tires crunched under the gravel and squealed as the car jetted down the street. Kory's mind was racing. How was this all happening? Who was this woman? What was that thing that had killed those people?
Kory's heart rate was beginning to return to normal. She looked out the window. The passing buildings and trees sped by in unattainable blurs. It was then she realized how fast they were driving. Kory's eyes glanced at the speedometer. The needle bounced between 108 and 110 mph. The woman's eyes flashed towards Kory, and as if she were reading her mind the car started to slow down.
"Wha...who are you?" Kory said finding her voice. She regretedly the harshness of her tone, but she was still in a state of rightful shock.
The woman was silent for a moment. "My name is Raven. Raven Rot...Roreck."
"Well-Raven do you mind telling me what the hell that thing that just tried to kill me was?"
Raven's long thin finger drummed the rim of the steering wheel. "He was not trying to kill you, he was trying to recieve you."
"Receive me? But-why?"
Suddenly the roof of the car caved in under the sudden weight of something. The creature crawled from the roof of the car onto the windshield. Tara began to scream blue murder. Raven
"It will all be made clear in time. The hour of the reckoning is upon us."
Kory sat back and wondered why the hell this woman was talking like that. She was beginning to think maybe she was crazy. She shrugged. At least she wasn't dangerous or at least she didn't appear to be. Kory twisted around and looked at Tara's passed out body draped all over the back seat. The alcohol and excitement of the night had been too much for her. Kory was suddenly grateful being inebrated was nothing new for Tara. It would make it easier to explain to her parents. Kory rejected the idea of asking more questions. Her head was pounding and drowsiness took over her.
The car pulled into Tara's house. Kory was about to ask the woman how she knew where she lived but the words failed to form in her mouth. She pulled Tara under her shoulder and dragged her to the front door. Her father answered with an unsuprised scowl and thanked Kory before promptly closing the door. Kory slid back into the passenger seat as Raven smoothly slid out of the drive way.
"I live at 326 Forester Ave." Kory said rubbing her eyes with her index finger and thumb.
"I am aware, Kory Anders." Raven said amused.
Kory's head shot up. "How do you know who I am? How do you know where I live? How do you know so much about me."
Raven was silent. "In time it will all make sense. Please do not be frightened. We are here to protect you."
They pulled into Kory's darkened house. "We?"
Raven reached across Kory's lap and pulled open the door. Kory hesistated before stepping outside. Raven didn't wait for her to get inside before backing out of the driveway at break neck speed. Like a ghost she was gone. Kory was left standing in the middle of the driveway her head filled with confusion and mystique. This night had been too much for. Mother was right: she shouldn't have gone to that party.
End of chapter one of Blue Bloods. Let me know what you think.
Next chapter: Kory does some investigating and receives an invitation to a very reowned and prestigious
