Chapter 1: "Who is Tempest?"
This story begins in a very petite town called Redwood. The community has exceptionally nice and home-some residents where there hasn't been a robbery, killing, or assault for over 30 years… You can visualize growing up in the most tedious town in the universe without anything to do.
Now don't get the wrong idea, its not all nice. The adolescents of Red High are just like any adolescents anywhere. Here you have your preps, jocks, nerds, norms, and then there are the Goths…
Now this story isn't so much about the town as its about its oddball in it. I'm talking about a teenager unlike any of the other teenagers.
This teenager is the only adopted child in town for over 50 years. That's not what makes her the oddball though… She has naturally dark purple hair, almost black in certain lights, with natural crimson eyes and pale skin… Her eyes can seem to almost trance you if you look long enough.
She also can't seem to be out in direct sunlight for more than 3 hours at a time without getting burnt.
Now I told you all of this so you can better understand the life of Tempest Daratrazanoff. Tempest can't remember her real parents, she doesn't even know their names. She can only remember being in a church orphanage before being adopted by the Daratrazanoff at age 5. The only thing the nuns ever told her about where she came from was that she was given to sister Grace by her aunt and that her aunt relayed that her parents were both dead…
Her best friend Krystal has always liked the authentic Tempest, unlike all the others ,who seemed to judge how she should be by her looks…
Tempest has always been the type of person who detest violence but if provoked she would always be the victor. She's stronger than she looks.
Now to the story… Halloween has always been a special time for Sayrah because of her birthday being all Hollows eve, the 30th of October. This October though is even more extraordinary, it's her 18th. The nuns are finally allowed to inform her of everything about the night she was given to them. See they couldn't before because of some church regulation that they wouldn't explain to her…
Tempest has never told her adopted parents this fact and she decided not to tell them for fear of breaking their hearts.
Her 18th birthday was a chilly, rainy one ,so her parents had her party inside.
Tempest's adopted mother, Charlie, is a middle aged woman with brown hair, which is starting to grey, with blue green eyes…
Her adopted father, Jeffery, is a heavy-set, middle aged man with grey hair and blue eyes. They have no other family so her party was just her, them, and Krystal.
"So what do you want to do for your birthday Sayrah?" Mrs. Daratrazanoff asked.
"Well me and Krystal were hoping to go camping this weekend, if that's okay mom?" Tempest asked.
"Of course its okay honey." Mr. Daratrazanoff answered.
"Family portrait!" Krystal yelled, grabbing her camera.
Tempest stood in the middle with her mother on her right and her father to her left.
"Say Colby!" Krystal, being her normal peculiar self as she took the picture…
Her party consisted of cake, ice-cream, and her presents. Her parents have given her a car, but of course no driving until she gets her license…
After the party was over, it was getting closer to dark… "Well it's getting dark so I think we should leave before it gets too dark." Tempest spoke.
"That's okay with us. Make sure you bolt up your camper before you two go to sleep tonight girls." Mrs. Daratrazanoff said.
"That's hilarious Mrs. D! No-one has problems with people trying to come in on you in this town, but I know… We'll lock up just in case." Krystal said, first laughing until she saw the look Tempest's mom was giving her.
So with that in mind and wanting to beat the rain, Tempest and Krystal took off for the campgrounds, to the Daratrazanoff 's camper for a weekend of no adults…
They had to walk to the campgrounds, for the fact that neither of them had a license. It took somewhere around an hour to get there, so by the time they got there, it was absolutely dark.
Once they had everything settled and set up, it started to rain again. Instead of staying up half the night, they went to bed because early in the morning Tempest was going to talk to sister Grace and finally get her answers…
The morning was a sun shinning one as Tempest woke up before Krystal, so she decided to go to the church without her. Before going out of the camper door, Tempest grabbed her black umbrella she always uses when its sunny.
The church was in the next town, south of them called Reymondville, which was about 3 miles from the campsite.
By the time she got in Reymondville the church early morning mass was over, which was a good thing because now she could talk to sister Grace for sure.
The church itself was an old brown, with a grand black door that had one special window in the shape of a cross. There was an old metal gate all around the church and the church courtyard, with crosses on the tip of each rail… The gate has always gave her the creeps.
Once inside, finding sister Grace wasn't hard at all. "Hello sister Grace, its me Tempest." Tempest said to the 40 year old nun.
"Tempest?… Dear child, you've come to find out your past, haven't you?" Sister Grace asked.
"Yes I have." Tempest answered.
The nun smiled sweetly. "I'll tell you dear, but not here, where the others can overhear. Follow me to the rose garden." Sister Grace said laying her hand on Tempest's shoulder and showing her the way to the rose garden.
Once they were in the rose garden, sister Grace closed the ivory door behind her. The rose garden was a stunning site, looking at it you could tell it was used to pray and relax…
"You're the first person I have ever told the whole story to. Our lord knows the truth of course, and now so will you." Sister Grace paused. "On the night you were born, it was a very stormy one, as if god was crying. A young woman came up to me as I was heading into the church. She had you wrapped in a blanket and both of you were crying." Sister Grace explained, walking around the roses.
Sister Grace smiled sadly. "What she told me, I don't think I'll ever forget… 'Please sister… I have killed this child's parents… I have killed my father, my brother, by orders of our father… I cannot kill the child… Please take her before my father finds out I have not killed his only grandchild. I just have two requests, call her Tempest, after her mother, and please don't tell her this until she is 18. She was born on this night, all hallows eve…'" Sister Grace finished with a tear going down her check.
Tempest could not believe what she just heard. Her own aunt killed her parents? Her own grandfather ordered the killing of them and her? "What kind of family do I come from?…" Tempest asked with unchecked tears going down her face.
"I asked you aunt the same question. She told me to never repeat what she was going to tell me, except to you. Honey you come from a family of vampires. Your father's family are truly vampires, your mother was human." Sister Grace answered.
"Are you sure? I thought vampires didn't exist." Tempest asked.
"She showed me her fangs and she stabbed herself in the hand with our gate. I watched her hand close up in front of my own eyes…" Sister Grace answered.
All kinds of thoughts raced through her mind. It all seemed to finally make perfect since. Her red eyes, her hair, the reason she couldn't be in the sun more than three hours… "Vampires… why would my grandfather want me dead?" Tempest asked thinking.
"In a book we have on vampires, it is said that vampires aren't suppose to mate with… their food. That its against their rules… There is no talk of a child ever being born with that kind of pairing." Sister Grace answered.
"So because of me being half human, he wanted me dead…" Tempest said, taking everything in.
At that moment another nun opened the door to the rose garden. "sister Grace, a young woman named Krystal, is here looking for Tempest." The nun said.
Sister Grace looked at Tempest. "She can come in." Tempest said with a weak smile. The other nun went to get her.
Krystal came in. "Why didn't you wake me Temp?" Krystal asked, sounding hurt.
"I'm sorry Krystal, but I just felt I had to do this on my own…" Tempest responded.
"Tempest, just remember one thing. Just because you now know who your family are, doesn't mean you'll become them." Sister Grace told her as she left the rose garden…
"So you know what she kept from you now?" Krystal asked.
"Yeah and I wish I didn't know…" Tempest answered, starting to cry.
"Come here. It can't be that bad… it's not like your family is the mob or something…" Krystal said, trying to comfort her. Tempest cried louder… "Okay maybe it is bad… But you aren't your family, you're your own person Temp."
"I know…" Tempest said, calming down.
"Come on, I got an idea…" Krystal said, leading the way out of the rose garden and the church itself…
Tempest kept playing the events of the night she was born over and over in her mind until she got a headache. Tempest wasn't even playing attention to where Krystal was leading her to.
It wasn't until she started getting a headache that she even looked around her. When she did, she knew exactly where she was…
Tempest was at their gangs party house in the middle of the woods, between Redwood and Reymondville. The house belongs to the only guy in the gang, Krystals boyfriend, Keith, who is older and rich.
Keith is the one always supplying the beer at every bonfire. He's tall, black hair, blue eyes, with his tongue, lip, nipples, and bellybutton pierced. He never has a shirt on for two long.
There's only two others in the gang, Sabrina and Kansas. Sabrina has golden hair and blue eyes with her nose and under her bottom lip pierced. Kansas is Krystal's cousin, which she and Krystal are black. She has black hair and blue green eyes. The only piercing Kansas has is her tongue and ears…