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Chapter one
If you would have asked me a year ago, I would have never guessed that this would be happening. Out of so many things that could happen in life, like getting a job and getting married, all of those happy normal things that happens in an a persons life. This was never something I would have dreamed about. It's would have seemed so unreal and unbelievable a year ago, but it's happening.
"We can't stay here, Kellie ." I peered into the window alertly, my eyes gazing upon the dark and most violent shade of red in the streets. Blood. If I saw this a year ago I would be in shock and maybe even vomit from the horrid and obscene sight but this is just one of the many days of surviving in this new and transformed world. It isn't normal. They aren't normal. I shuttered and put my self on high alert of just thinking about them.
She forcefully nodded her head as her shiny platinum blonde undone curls bounced with the movement and then she swiftly ran to the kitchen knowing the drill. We would be leaving very soon.
I grabbed my large black duffel bag and started grabbing some clothes from a light wooden dresser that I have never seen in my life. Kellie was in the kitchen stealing food from this house that we were hiding in last night. We can't stay in one place for too long or they might find us. They can smell our fresh live blood running in our pulsing veins. Out of fear, our hearts race from trying to take as much as possible and cram it in those tiny duffel bags. The most dangerous part about the world being taken over by vampires is that no one seen it coming.
I grabbed a pair a jeans that were a couple sizes too small for me. These will probably fit Kellie with her size 0 waist. She's so thin and tall it's like she could be a model if any thing like that existed now a days. I can't waste anymore time thinking because I can do that when we're off to a safer place. I found other pairs of jeans that were a size or two bigger then what I wear. Those will work for me. I'll just find a belt or maybe a rope or something to hold them up, although running with them might be a challenge.
Of course in a world like this you have to work with what you get, or should I say steal. Most of the houses have already been raided but I was lucky enough to had spotted this little house nearby the woods. I shoved all of the oversized tee shirts in the duffel from the drawer.
There were the crazy ones in the beginning, like the ones who believed in the 2012 apocalypse, who said this day was going to come, of course they are the ones who are still alive and are out fighting at these very moments.
The only way to kill a vampire from what I heard at the training grounds when Kellie and I were in California a couple months ago was to keep them from getting blood, which is nearly impossible since there was a world full of humans with the blood vampires needed to stay alive. They taught many fighting techniques that can cause injury and that might put them at a disadvantage but other than that the only way for them to die is if they don't have blood. The humans would normally stab them with thick heavy metal silver stakes to cause them to be side tracked with the pain of the silver. Then they would try to take them to one of the many death cellars, but that alone is a great and dangerous challenge.
A death cellar is pretty much a huge hole in the ground with a silver floor and walls. It is also very cold in there. There are little rooms for each of the vampires, kind of like a prison cell, except without a door. It's just solid silver. They do not like silver. Period. It's one of the things that most vampires will give up on if you set it in it's path. Another thing vampires can't go by is water. Like cats, vampires don't like water.
Water's a reason why I choose this house to raid, it has a glistering sparkly lake right in the backyard by the woods, which is where the vampires hide during the day.
I packed my duffel up to the top with things we would need, like jackets, a blanket and some clothes. I was pushing on the jammed zipper of the bag when Kellie came in the door with her navy blue duffel bag stuffed up like a teddy bear with all of the food from the cabinets in the oversized kitchen. This house is humongous! It probably belonged to some rich family, I thought as I scanned the surgeon training certificates on the walls.
"Lucy, Come on," Kellie grabbed my arm and started to pull my down the hallway, " It's dangerous being here. Don't you remember last night?" She knocked me out of my dazed expression and brought me back to focus.
It is dangerous here she was correct, and staying here last night was horrible because vampires were coming out of the woods in the backyard of the house. They could smell us.
Luckily, before any of them could get themselves into the house, the protectors showed up and fought them. Protectors are the people who well, obviously protect the rest of the humans from the vampires. It is an extremely fatal task and an important job also. In the beginning there was just chaos because there was nobody trying to kill the monstrous unnatural vampire race.
That's when the people decided to create training camps for people eighteen and older to become protectors. It's pretty similar to the military system, except that they aren't government related. The people who lead the training camp were the people who knew that this day was coming and were preparing for it for a long time.
I'm not saying I was one of the crazy people who was believing in that this war of the races would happen. I'm just saying that right now I kinda wish I did. But who in their right minds would figure something like this would happen? If you would have told someone a year ago that the world would be taken over by vampires they would probably laugh in your face and think you would need to go to a mental hospital.
Well, back to what happened last night, Kellie and I were staring out of the third floor window watching the madness happen right before our eyes.
The battle was gruesome and bloody because some of the protectors died and then after the rest left, some other vampires dragged their scattered corpses back into the black woods for consumption.
Most vampires though, were taken to a death center were they can go crazy from thirst. I have never actually seen one of those things even though I sound like I have before. I would normally hear most of the information going on about the vamps from the street but I asked about death cellars from a pro.
I asked a protector how they got a vampire in the solid silver room without a door and he told me that it actually has a door but it's just wielded shut after a vampire has been placed into it. That means that there is fire involved. Another thing a vampire can not touch is fire.
During the first few months of the outbreak, there were mobs of people trying to leave, even though they didn't know where they were going. I was one of the few that stayed hidden because once my parents were bitten and drained of their blood, I knew that I was on my own. That's when I met Kellie.
Vampires were scavenging the streets while all of the scared humans were rampaging out of town trying to escape the madness. The first few months of the attack was like a living hell. There were so many soulless bodies in the streets with blood smeared everywhere that the people around were never surprised when a fresh body was added to the pile on the hot humid ground.
I saw a group of ten or twenty people attacking three vampires and Kellie just so happened to be in that group of people. But unlike the others, she had a stake.
She was going for a surprise attack on one of the vampires by running up to it from behind but the pale redhead vamp heard Kellie's feet as she stomped on the ground and then the vamp turned around with his teeth bared at her. Then, he grabbed her by the throat digging his nails into her fragile human skin and her face was turning blue. I was so frightened by this because she looked like my best friend who tragically was one of the first people to die from the vampires. Seeing Kellie like that made me pissed and I had an intense urge to shoot something with my dad's gun that I stole after he died.
So, I went up to that son of a bitch and shot rapid fires at his mangy little head, laughing the whole time. Let's just say I used more ammo then I should have. Even though I didn't kill him,because silver bullets can only do so much damage, he passed out and his thick gross sticky blue vampire blood oozed out of his deformed face.
Kellie looked at me like I was crazy but she did thank me from saving her life. What can I say, when some cuckoo girl armed with a gun shoots at something that's killing you, you just have to be best friends from there on.
And that's how I met my best friend. Seems kinda crazy that you meet the best people in the worst kind of ways, but that's just how life works most of the time.
Kellie dragged me down the hallway and down the dark shiny wooden steps and descended down two staircases, since it is indeed a three story house. I lifted the heavy duffel that was falling down from my shoulder and brushed my hands through my dirty short dark brown hair.
"So...where to?" I gave Kellie a sarcastic smile, both of us knowing we have no idea where we are headed for like always.
It was a sweaty hot humid day in the used to be busy city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Even if it was civilized I still wouldn't have a clue of where to go. Kellie and I have been traveling around the southwest for months trying not to be discovered by the vampires. I originally lived in Arizona where the sun never dies and there is little rain.
Kellie on the other hand, was born in Oregon, where every single day is rain. Maybe that's why she's so pale? She's not as pale as a vampire, obviously, but she is pretty pale for human standards.
Kellie and I walked down the sidewalk of Albuquerque with caution because even though the safest time to be in the city is during the day, you are never safe these days. Just last week, Kellie and I saw a gang of vampires waiting in alleys between buildings for an innocent human to walk by so they can snatch them up and drain them of their blood.
With a stake in Kellie's pocket, we passed a couple of houses when I see her in a coffee shop on 5th street. No way. It can't be her. She's dead! That is so not her...but it looks exactly like her, with her wavy dark brown hair and deep brown eyes. I knew Kellie and her looked alike! She looks like a brunette version of Kellie. Their eyes are practically the same shape and size but Kellie's are a crystal light blue and her's are a deep warm brown.
"What are you staring at, Lucy?" Kellie looked at me in wonder and waved her hand in front of my face, "Lucy? Are you there?" She turned her head to face what I'm looking at. Trying to guess what I was thinking she said, "Yeah, I know, people trying to make things the way they used to be while the rest of the world gets killed." She sighed as she gazed upon the flashing Coco's Coffee sign. "But really, you shouldn't pause in front of an alley like this. What if there was a vamp lurking in there?" she pointed her thumb down the black alley.
"It's Evelyn." I started to walk closer to the window to get a better view. Evelyn Hugh turned around facing the window of the booth. That is definitely her! I thought she was dead. When I called her when the war started she didn't answer and when I tried to escape to go to her house, it was burned down. And...I saw all those burnt black bodies...I could have sworn that she was in that mess of the charcoal people.
Evelyn had the same reaction when she saw me. "Lucy?" she mouthed through the window. I smiled like was queen of the world. Finally, something from my old life. Seeing her there makes me feel normal again, minus the vampires. She looked alone as I peered at the empty booth she was sitting in with a blue blanket around her shoulders. Maybe she could come with us. If we have nowhere to go then maybe she doesn't either.
Kellie had an innocent puzzled look on her face like she was trying to solve a difficult equation. When she saw the connection between me and Evelyn she exhaled an, "Ohhhh" and smiled. "Don't just stand there. Go inside!" she laughed at me, "I'll be waiting outside the window."
"Why wait outside? You can come in." I then added, "If you want to." Kellie shrugged,
"I just didn't want to interrupt the reconnection, you know. Meeting your old friends. I guess I could come inside."
We walked into the coffee shop and sat in the booth with Evelyn. "Is that really you? Lucy Tucker? The same smart ass who went to St. Henry High School with me? Whoa! Did you cut your hair?" She laughed quietly. Evelyn was a riot. The party followed her.
"Ha ha, same old Evelyn, and I cut my hair because it's easier." I quickly brushed my fingers through my now shoulder length hair. Before, my hair used to be to my waist. It was something I cherished and never wanted it cut. It seemed inevitable to cut it because of all the running. It just got in the way. "By the way, this is Kellie." I gestured over to where Kellie was sitting, probably feeling awkward.
"Kellie Mathews." she put her hand out and smiled innocently. A waitress walked by our booth and brushed me on the side as she walked by. "Lucy's accomplice." She smiled at me.
"I remember when we were younger when we would be pranksters. Ha hah! Do you remember the prank we pulled on that one girl at that one time?" Evelyn turned to me with a roar of laughter. I looked at her confused for the slightest second and then started to laugh with her recalling the memory.
"Yeah, and our nicknames from around the school would be 'double trouble'." I grinned and remembered whenever we would pass by a group of people they would always say, "Here comes double trouble." and all the teachers knew better than to sit us next to each other in class. We were quite the class clowns.
"Figures you would be, Luc, you're a crack up." Kellie lightly punched my arm with a crooked smile. "So, are you going to come with us? You seem kind of lonely." Kellie asked the question that has been burning in my mind for the last ten minutes.
Evelyn looked startled, "Yeah, that would be fun. I don't have anywhere to go because...um...my parent's died in our house fire." She stared at her hands on her coffee cup. A haunted look crossed her face that anyone would notice.
"Aw, that's horrible." Kellie put on her cute compassionate face, "our parents died too from the vampires." Her baby doll like face looked so hurt even though she tried to hide it.
"That's what happens in world like this." I sighed, wishing if I could only go back in time and saw my parents faces one last time and instead have a happy last memory of them instead of the haunting scary one of them lying broken and dead on the blood red stained carpet. I shuttered forcefully.
"So," Evelyn had a scheming face, " I heard there's a death cellar nearby and it's in the middle of the day so there probably won't be vampires being loaded in. Do you want to check it out?" She looked up at me with hopeful eyes knowing that we did all kinds of mischievous things that could get us in trouble back in the old days.
Kellie winced at the thought. Before the world got attacked by vampires, she was a cherubic and faultless girl who was loved by everyone with no dirty schemes that Evelyn and I used to do. She was also a worry wart.
"I-is that safe?" She looked up at me with wide fearful eyes. I kind of felt a little queasy at the idea myself. Death cellars equal death, for both species. It's a wonder of how many protectors died trying to get a vampire in one of those dark metal contraptions.
"I don't know about this, Evelyn. I know we used to do some really crazy and exotic stuff before, but it could be...horrifying. What do you think a death cellar is for? It won't be sunshine and rainbows, I can tell you that."
"Aw, Lucy," she looked up at me with a really good puppy dog face, "It won't be that dangerous. There will probably be some protectors around there guarding it and stuff. They'll probably want people to learn about death cellars because with us being sixteen, they could use some people wanting to be protectors when they're old enough with the killing rates."
Evelyn did put on a convincing show. There probably will be protectors surrounding the place. Kellie looked like she was about to cry when I said, "Ok, why not?"
"no. no. no. NO!" Kellie put her head in her hands, "Why don't you kill me now. It's too dangerous. I thought the point of this traveling thing was to keep ussafe."
"Kel, it's the middle of the day, vampire's only come out at night because of the sun, remember?" I tapped my head with my index finger and did a sly smile.
"Fine, get yourself killed. I'm not going." Kellie crossed her arms and turned her head. I started to stand up and Evelyn followed.
"Ok, have fun sitting here and trying to come looking for us when it's dark because we aren't coming back." I said that hoping she would follow.
"Dammit Lucy!" We were already out the door when she came chasing after us. I knew how she thought and if anything at all, she hates being alone. My plan succeeded.
"Lead the way," I gestured to Evelyn as the three of us walked down the dry sidewalk not knowing what was ahead of us.
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