This is my first story. I really want you all to like it... if you don't feel free to criticize. I hope you do like it though. 8)

1. A Way To Live

I think that I may be dead. The last thing I remember is burning all over. The burning hurt, so badly.

I must be dead, but that isn't possible; for even now I am looking around myself. Everything is so bright and intense. Smells are so much more acute than before. My test my new found sense of smell. One particular smell throws me off guard.

The sent is so intense my mouth waters and my throat burns. It burns so much that I cry. Only, I'm not crying. My shoulders are shaking but no tears are coming from my eyes. I raise my hands to my face and am stunned by how they glint.

My skin is cold and hard. That is when I finally admit to myself that I am different. I get up and try to find someone that can explain what is happening to me, but no one is around.

I'm all alone.

I don't want to be alone. So I start to run, but as soon as I start I stop. I look back to see where I was standing, I have moved at least five yards. How though? I was never a really fast runner but even this is insane. I was only running for a few seconds! Impossible; yet, part of me is telling me that it is possible, that in this new body I can do anything.

I take a deep breath and the throat burning scent hits me again. This time I run toward it. Soon I stop in a gathering of trees. I'm on the edge of a campsite, there are people there. I take a step to see if maybe they'll be able to explain my state to me, but I stop.

The smell is coming from them. It smells so unbelievable good. I lunge forward but then I freeze. I am hit with an amazing vivid vision. A vision of what can only be me in the future.

I lunge into the camp, startling the humans. They smile at me, perhaps thinking that I am lost. I pounce on one of them and snap their neck, and then I continue on to snap all of their necks. Then I return to them and lower my mouth to their throats. I feel the blood faintly pulsing underneath and I bite in, sucking all of them dry.

By the end of the vision I am horrified. So this is what I have become, a blood sucking monster. I run away from the campers, determined not to be a killer. I run far despite the burning in my throat telling me to stop and go back.

I drop to the ground. I look around and see that I am still in a forest, but thankfully I am away from those campers. I tuck myself into a ball and wish with all my heart to be human again. The problem is I can't remember being human. Why can't I remember? Why is everything dark and blurry?

I sigh, and think hard. I think for what seems to be hours. Finally I remember a name, Alice; it appears to be my name. So I smile, pleased that I at least know that. However, soon I frown; because in spite of knowing my name I also know that I am a killer. There is no way for me to go on with my life especially this way. I close my eyes and when I open them I am hit by yet another vision.

There is a group standing before me. They seem to be of some relation to each other. Perhaps they are a family, and that is why they all look so comfortable is each other's presences. Then they are gone, no not gone, just running very fast. One passes through a beam of light and sparkles. That is when I realize that the reason why they are comfortable with each other is because they are all the same. A group of vampires is what they are.

The group stops in a field and they all smile at each other. They point at a large heard of dear at the other end. The big male, his hair is dark and he seems to be constantly grinning speaks; I am surprised to hear what he says, "Race you Eddie."

Another one, a male who has bronze hair and is less muscular than the first speaks, "Not my name." and with that he lunges into the herd leaving the big one stunned. The rest of the group quickly follows him, not wanting the deer to get away.

Suddenly they are all latched to the neck of a deer. That is when I realize that they are drinking animal blood. They aren't killing people.

My vision fades and I am left shocked. Is it possible that they could do that? Could a vampire truly survive on animal blood alone? I look to my left and see a deer in the distance. My throat starts burning as its scent wafts toward d me.

I launch myself at it and soon I am latched onto its neck. I drain it of all the blood it has. My thirst is sedated. I stand up and walk away from the corpse, happy that I don't have to be a monster, and determined to find the group of other vampires.

All uneven chapters are in Alice's point of veiw unless I state otherwise. Thank you for reading, and please review. 8)