Hey! This is my winning poll story! I got my memory stick fixed and HERE IT IS! Hope you enjoy the first chapter/prologue :)
Summary: Stefan and Elena are on their quest in the Dark Dimension. After denying Bonnie offer to come with them, Bonnie storms off. When Stefan and Elena finally reach the Dark Dimension there have a surprise. Bonnie's there but she's isn't the Bonnie they know. Now she's a vampire and hates humans and when she comes across Stefan and Elena after giving an order for a slave to be murdered, she could potentially get them both killed. While they fight to find out what happened to her, someone unexpected turns up and could that person get the truth out of Bonnie while Stefan and Elena go and search for Stefan's humanity. A tale of fury, love, threats and broken hearts…
Chapter one,
Towering buildings as black as obsidian reflected the harsh orange of the sun on their shiny surfaces. The sky, always a crimson red with the huge, fiery orange sphere hung high in the sky for all eternity. If it wasn't hell, it was a pretty close. The burning sun always showering the Realm in sweltering heat, of course this only affected the slaves, the humans, who were lured by seductive vampires and other supernatural creatures into being sold as slaves and branded like cattle. The supernatural creatures weren't affected by heat unless it was an actually flame but even the dark and distant forests never seemed to become blazing infernos. The main city was a constant hub of activity as it never went dark. Slaves were frequently brought down in the Dark Dimension and the slave auction halls were always running.
Huge TV screens were dotted at regular intervals displaying the news and many wanted slaves who had escaped but not many had high rewards. Slaves were worked overtime on the streets, from clearing up to carrying the cots that carried their masters. It wasn't a nice place and any normal person would be horrified at the treacheries that happened here. Naturally, most of the supernatural here weren't nice and enjoyed torturing the humans whether they stepped out of line or not. It made the slave trade on Earth – which was started by vampires from the Dark Dimension – look innocent and positively kind. It was not the place for the faint-hearted and the weekly executions that took place in the square were totally gruesome with the slaves being tortured until they were begging for death and when they begged, it came slower.
Stefan and Elena were on a quest. To get Stefan the bouquet that would make him human. The one Damon stole from him. Stefan was still obstinate about turning Damon back and point blank refused, until he got his well deserved humanity. They'd ignored all the others' pleas to let them come along and Bonnie, for one, had been incredibly stubborn about it until she'd lost her temper and stormed off – which never happened – and everyone watched in despair as she'd walked away after telling them that she wasn't stupid, that she wasn't a kid and she wanted nothing to with any of them again. Not one of them was quite sure what to say to that but for once, she'd wiped all amusement off Damon's face – and he'd become quite upset and sulked in his room for ages – as she'd stood tall and strong against them. One short week later, Stefan and Elena had set off and during that time no-one had heard from Bonnie. Damon had moped around the boarding house with nothing to do, since it was Bonnie who was looking after him and helping him adjust to human-ness.
He now hardly ate and just sat in his room as if he was in a depression. He even yelled at Elena when she checked in on him after quickly slipping something under his pillow. She'd told Stefan and Stefan slipped into Damon's room and found a photo album under his cushion; it was full of pictures of Damon and Bonnie – not romantic pictures just friendly ones. Stefan slipped it back hurriedly and had lied to Elena saying it was just a book. Stefan had known Damon had a soft spot for Bonnie and she was the closest thing to a best friend that he had but he suspected Damon liked Bonnie. Elena had rung Bonnie's house and so had Meredith but they got the same kind of thing from her parents, Bonnie told us that she didn't want to speak to you. Everything seemed much more serious without Bonnie and Damon's constant teasing of the others.
Elena POV
The Dark Dimension looked pretty much as I remembered it. I was Stefan's slave and we travelled the streets looking for an empty travel cart. We'd been searching for about an hour when Stefan froze and pointed at one of the news screens. I looked up at the screen and to my horror there was a picture of Bonnie. Sweet, innocent, little Bonnie and I wondered how she'd ended up down here. I read the caption underneath…
Soooooooo... Please review! I know it isn't long and as far as I remember, these chapters do get longer :) Thanks for reading and please review! x
