I woke to their screams and the smell of smoke. The fire hadn't reached my room yet, so I grabbed a cloth to cover my mouth with and headed to the door. I ran down the hall to Lara's room. I went to open the door but it was locked. Luckily there is more then one way to open a locked door. I took a step back, gave the door one big kick and it went crashing down. There was a lot of smoke in Lara's room, but for someone like me it was pretty easy to see. I stood in the door way for a bit trying to find her, there, she was over in the corner.
"Lara we have to go!" I yelled as I ran over to her.
"We can't the stairs are on fire, we can't get out." Her voice sounded like she had inhaled a lot of smoke. Not good.
"Well we can't stay here. Come on we'll go to my room." I helped her up off the ground. I gave her the cloth to cover her mouth with; she needed it more than I did. We ran to my room at the other end of the hall. I went over to my fridge and came back with a bottle of water.
"Here drink this, I'll be right back." I was going to look for her parents.
"Wait where are you going? Coz wherever it is I'm coming with you," she said.
"You can't. Just stay here and I'll be back!" I told her. I started to walk to my door; I was almost there when Lara grabbed hold of my wrist.
"What are you doing Lara?" I didn't need to ask, I already knew the answer.
"Please Skye, don't leave me here. If you're going I'm coming with you!" See I told you.
"No you're not! You're going to stay here and wait for me to come back and get you, ok?" I snapped at her. I was wasting my time arguing with her.
"They are my parents!" she yelled at me.
"I know that, you can't come though it's too dangerous for you. You not as strong as me and you've inhaled a lot of smoke. I can't let you die Lara," I had to take a breath because of the smoke and to study her face. I grabbed hold of her shoulders. "Lara, I swore to the elders that I would protect you and your family but I can't do that if you're dead, now can I. Please Lara just stay here and I'll be back!" I turned to leave.
"Skye, here take this, you'll need it if you're going down there," she said. I looked over my shoulder at her.
"I don't need it; I don't intend to be down there for that long." After that I took of down the hallway.
Lara was right the fire had destroyed the stairs. Damn, now what the hell am I going to do? I had two options; I could go back to my room and hope that Lara's parents got out, or I could jump over the rail.
"SKYE!" It was Lara's mum, Tracy, whose voice called out for me. Ok time to jump. I put my hand on the railed and jumped. Four seconds later my feet hit the ground below; I whipped me head up when I heard her scream again. I stood up, trying to find a safe place to go, and that's when I saw him, I don't know where the hell he came from but as soon as I saw him I realised that I'd seen him before, but I couldn't remember where, maybe I had seen him at school before or maybe even at-
"Skye get back here!" It wasn't Tracy's voice this time, it was Lara's. I looked up at the top of the stairs, the fire had gotten bigger. I realised then and there I would have to make the hardest decision of my life. I had to choose between helping Lara's parents or leave them to help Lara. Shit. Ok let's just think about this for a second. If I went to Lara's parents we could climb out the window and I could run back around the other side of the house to my bedroom window, jump up and get Lara.
Ha yeah, easier said than done with this much smoke and fire.
"What do I do?" I asked myself. I looked back over to where the guy had been standing, but he wasn't there. Where the hell did he go? "Jesus Skye, don't worry about some guy and worry about what you have to do," I told myself.
While I was trying to figure out what to do, the fire had gotten bigger and it was getting closer. It was enough that I could feel the heat on my face. There was too much fire that I couldn't get to Tracy and Eric. I took one last glance over at the back door, just to make sure the guy wasn't standing there. Nope. He's gone.
"Skye, help me!" screamed Lara. I reached out with my mind and as I did I noticed two things, first, Lara wasn't the only person in my room and second….I couldn't feel her parent's minds anymore. Great. The smoke was stinging my eyes now and I could hardly breathe. I was running out of time, I need to get out of here and back to Lara.
Lara can you hear me? I thought to her. There was a long pause but she finally answered.
Yeah I can hear you. Skye I need help, there's a guy here and he said you were dead and that I needed to go with him. Please Skye, help! She thought back.
I'm on my way, just hold on Lara.
I jumped back up to the top of the stairs and ran as fast as I could to my room. I got there and the door was shut and it was locked. I reached out to the mind of the other person in my room…it was him. The one that was downstairs before. That can mean a very good thing or a very, very bad thing. I punched a hole in the door and reached in to unlock it, but someone grabbed my hand and pulled, they pulled so hard they dislocated my arm and pulled the door down. Thwack. I landed on the ground hard and it hurt like hell. I picked myself up, popped my shoulder back into place and kicked into battle mode. My eye sight and hearing sharpened, my strength, speed and reflexes got stronger, I could feel two sharp fangs push into my bottom lip and out of the corner of my eye I could see my hair turning from black with dark blue to silver with metallic blue. The whole process took less than six seconds.